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Kamala wanted first time home owners to get a $25,000 tax credit. Trump wants first time home owners to take out a 50 year mortgage. MAGA! — Kid Riles (@kid_riles) January 30, 2026 Trump bragged he would bring home costs down 30-50%pic.twitter.com/b9TZCKWq5l — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) January 30, 2026 It’s a K-Shaped economy. The well …
The offer reflects the radical transformation in the Scandinavian country’s once open attitude to newcomers Over the years, my mother and I have developed a system for handling whatever political storm is blowing through Sweden. She calls me — often breathless, sometimes panicked — after seeing a news segment or reading a headline about a …
by Michael There are all sorts of signs that the relentless pressure that has been causing an enormous amount of stress on our financial system is starting to break things. Do you remember how bad things got in 2008 and 2009 when home prices fell dramatically? Well, as you will see below, it is beginning …
"Rent is throwing money away!" Meanwhile she pays $5,155 a month for a mortgage and $3,241 of it VANISHES into interest and taxes.pic.twitter.com/NZq2A4SX1P — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) January 23, 2026 There is no such thing as home price appreciation outside of inflation. Its a wealth transfer from young to old via interest rates.pic.twitter.com/GrK2AVg8LM — Darth …
Pending Home Sales Plunge across the US. Midwest Sees Worst Sales on Record, Northeast 2nd Worst.For the US overall, worst sales for any December on record. The housing market took a bad turn, from already low levelshttps://t.co/sKbLut3JA8Here's the situation in the Midwest: pic.twitter.com/LGgCgrr3U9 — Wolf Richter (@wolfofwolfst) January 21, 2026 Pending Home Sales fall to …
BREAKING: US Pending Home Sales collapsed -9.3% month-over-month, missing expectations of -0.3% forecast. This marks the steepest decline since 2020. pic.twitter.com/nz69fmYVmQ — Hedgeye (@Hedgeye) January 21, 2026 The only thing that matters: More M2=higher stock prices. Keep printing those trillions. 🧻 https://t.co/8m362hlg4m — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) January 21, 2026
Federal immigration agents bashed open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press. MORE: https://abc7.com/post/chongly-scott-thao-us-citizen-says-ice-removed-minnesota-home-underwear-warrantless-search/18438764/ ⚠️ Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to …
Boy Mayor says life in Minneapolis has been hurt by ICE. Says a ‘huge percentage of the shootings taking place in Minneapolis this year have been by ICE’. Tells protestors to go home and don’t take Trump’s bait. https://t.co/D7m1XxFeXl — SteveAustinWI (@SteveAustinWI) January 15, 2026 Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey slammed ICE officials for ‘creating chaos’ …
When most real estate agents sold nothing and layoffs are popping everywhere, anyone saying the economy is fine is either lying or too dumb to notice what’s right in front of them. 🚨US layoffs have surged to recessionary levels: US employers announced 1,206,374 job cuts in 2025, up +58% YoY, the highest since the 2020 …
How's this for freedom of speech and democracy? "F.B.I. agents searched the home of a Washington Post reporter on Wednesday, as part of what officials said was an investigation into the possible sharing of government secrets, according to people familiar with the matter. The… pic.twitter.com/MnCZWQrOv4 — Tom Tudor 🇪🇺 (@TomTudorXIII) January 14, 2026 Is sending …
NEW YORK (AP) — John Forté, the Grammy-nominated musician known for his work with the Fugees and the Refugee Camp All-Stars among others, has died at age 50. He was found dead Monday afternoon in his home in Chilmark, Massachusetts, according to police. Chilmark Police Chief Sean Slavin said in a statement that there were …
A 550-pound bear that had been living beneath a California man’s home for over a month has finally left, after a bizarre strategy ended a long streak of failed removal attempts by state officials. The male black bear was reportedly removed from the crawl space Tuesday after bear-removal experts from Tahoe traveled to the Altadena …
A customer approaches the checkout lane with power tools and building supplies. The shelf tags promised competitive prices. But as each item scans—beep, beep, beep—the register displays higher amounts. Sometimes fifty cents more. Sometimes five dollars more. By the time the receipt prints, that customer has paid more than advertised, unaware of the difference. Home …
Suspect Arrested After Windows Damaged at #JDVance 's Cincinnati Home Cincinnati officers arrested a suspect early Monday after finding several front windows shattered at Vance's residence on William Howard Taft Drive.(Video/ Picture courtesy : X) pic.twitter.com/SyZz3l7FE8 — Deccan Chronicle (@DeccanChronicle) January 5, 2026 One person is in custody and an investigation is under way following …
Woman loses her home in fire. She asks insurance to rebuild the same home — no upgrades, no expansion. Insurance says NO. byu/TonyLiberty inFluentInFinance
They’re not “refugees fleeing danger” if they vacation in their home country https://t.co/B50PR0TDCC — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 21, 2025 TERROR IN SWEDEN: There is WAR on the streets – Just this month, 30 BOMB ATTACKS https://portal.research.lu.se/en/activities/terror-in-sweden-there-is-war-on-the-streets-just-this-month-30-b/
A Texas family is seeking answers after their infant daughter’s body was transferred to a funeral home without her organs following the baby’s sudden death at a Fort Worth hospital. Samaria Bates and her fiancé, Kenneth Sauls, welcomed premature twin girls on October 23, 2025, when they were born at 29 weeks at Texas Health …
A Los Angeles County pet owner is desperately searching for her cat after an Amazon delivery driver was seen on surveillance video carrying the animal away last week. In the video, posted to Facebook and shared with KTLA, a person wearing an Amazon vest places a package on the front porch of the home in Lakewood before …
A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been fatally shot at his home near Boston and authorities say they have launched a homicide investigation. The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office says Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old professor of nuclear science and engineering, was shot Monday night in Brookline and died Tuesday.
Thirteen charged in a nine-state Home Depot theft ring accused of stealing $2.2M from 128 stores; they face 780 counts, including grand larceny, conspiracy, and possession of stolen property. pic.twitter.com/71Jvz3ZWtQ — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 15, 2025 NEW YORK – New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced charges against over a …
Rob Reiner allegedly got into a very heated exchange with his 32-year-old son Nick, who has now been charged in his parents’ murder, the night before the Hollywood icon and his wife Michele Singer Reiner died. According to TMZ sources, the three attended Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party on Saturday, December 13, and Rob and Nick …
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Former University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore barged into a former lover’s home and threatened to kill himself, telling her that his “blood is on your hands,” prosecutors said Friday. Moore, 39, was charged with alleged home invasion, stalking and breaking and entering, following his shocking arrest and termination from …
Jerome Powell on the housing market: – “The housing market faces some really significant challenges and I don’t know that a 25-basis point decline in the Federal Funds Rate is going to make much of a difference for people.” – “Housing supply is low, many people have very, very low-rate mortgages from the pandemic period.” …
by Waiting_for_Exit “You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy” – From Davos Summit 2016 I see people searching for big foot or looking to find lizard people and laugh my head off. The greatest conspiracies, the most deviant acts, the most merciless massacres are all being done in front of the whole world because the …
Forget 2007. The US consumer today is facing a worse crisis. It's not Systemic Leverage; it's Household Arithmetic. My new memo breaks down the structural squeeze: why the 2026 economy faces a consumer solvency crisis, not a liquidity crisis. — Craig Shapiro (@ces921) December 3, 2025 This Black Friday, shoppers paid 7% more for electronics, …
Homebuyers’ demand just dropped again in late 2025 – showing that the U.S. Housing Market downturn is getting worse. NAR’s pending sales index just dropped -1.2% from last year, and is down -27% from the long-term norm. Homebuyers are on strike, and the market has gotten so bad that sellers are now quitting. The …
by confoundedinterest17 Roll out the barrel! As in Fed money printing. How can the current housing disaster be fixed? One answer is to build more homes (made difficult by local government zoning and building policies). Another is increase household income. But Fed money printing is the easiest way to increase home prices. Since the Federal government …
Volodymyr Zelensky has announced the resignation of his chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, after an early morning raid by anti-corruption investigators on his home and office. The Ukrainian president said, in a video posted to his Telegram account: “Russia really wants Ukraine to make mistakes. There will be no mistakes on our part.” He added: …
by confoundedinterest17 There was a rush from the northeast US to Florida, now we are seeing a reversal in home prices. Punta Gorda FL, a suburb of Ft Myers, leads the nation with a -20.4% decline from its peak. Austin TX is second at -17.3% from peak. And Fort Myers FL is third at -15.0% …
Hundreds of gallons of home heating oil were mistakenly pumped into a basement on Linwood Street in Medford, Massachusetts. WBZ-TV’s Paul Burton reports.