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via Mike Shedlock: This phony budget crisis will end the same way it always does, with a Republican cave-in. But a House Speakership is on the line this time. That ups the popcorn rating index a bit more than normal. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Proposal 8% spending cut for domestic agencies Resumption of border wall …
Well would you look at that!!!👇🏻 Look who it is on the house floor talking about Agenda21 30 FUCKING YEARS AGO!!!!! pic.twitter.com/hzpUoCYOIM — SaltyGoat (@SaltyGoat17) September 14, 2023
Washington State has been trying to deal with their homeless problem, but they haven’t had much success. A program designed to close down tent communities and get homeless people into housing has already spent $143 million dollars to house less than a thousand people. That’s a horrible ratio. And now they want more cash, because …
via alphanews: “Not only has our country become more polarized, the press has become more polarized. When I was press secretary, the press was always liberal. Everybody knew it. They were liberal and you sort of just had to do your best and deal with liberal reporters. But they held themselves up to a standard …
This is a reminder to the ‘journalists’ that their salary comes from Operation Mockingbird. via dailymail: “The Biden administration has been blasted over plans to send out a letter to major news organizations demanding they probe the ‘lies’ of the House GOP’s impeachment inquiry. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced an official impeachment inquiry on Tuesday …
via townhall: “As it turns out, the Biden White House relied on foreign “disinfo” activists to pressure Facebook to censor Americans. Worse, it turns out the group supposedly targeting disinformation had their facts wrong. Facebook knew it, too.” Those “independent” activists are just a smokescreen for laundering hit jobs. And yeah, I know that’s a …
Food costs 13% more under Biden than it cost under Trump. Everything is more expensive. That’s Bidenomics. pic.twitter.com/Xi01c7w3qk — Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) August 25, 2023 "[The public is] focused on how to pay for food. Gasoline costs. Nobody is buying a house. Nobody talked about that last night." Democratic presidential candidate @RobertKennedyJr reacts …
We saw on Thursday how Jean-Pierre was left stammering and disturbed when asked about Biden’s biographer saying Biden admitted to being frequently “tired.” Jean-Pierre also had blown off the question of why the doctor was with Biden the day before, claiming that she wasn’t aware of the situation. If it wasn’t a scheduled visit, that …
‘.@RepRoKhanna misleadingly claims, “There is not a single shred of evidence that a single payment went to President Biden.” Hunter Biden paid his father’s phone bills, house repairs, and monthly expenses and told his daughter that he “paid for everything for this entire family for 30 years… But don’t worry unlike Pop I won’t make …
The average monthly payment for a new-car loan hit $733 in this year’s second quarter, compared with $562 in 2019, according to Edmunds. pic.twitter.com/G2JwxDSjo7 — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) August 28, 2023 https://twitter.com/diegosegui9424/status/1695894948929749441 According to the affordability index, we are officially in the least affordable housing market ever. Median new mortgage payments are nearing $3,000/mo and rents …
Joan Meyer, the 98-year-old co-owner of a storied Kansas newspaper who died the day after police served search warrants on her home and office, appears on newly unveiled surveillance video shouting at officers to get out of her living room! Don’t you touch any of that stuff,” she says at the start of the minute-long …
via thenevadaglobe: The Globe received a scoop this morning that a complaint was filed by a Douglas County resident with the Vacation Home Rental (VHR) Advisory Board against billionaire climate investor Tom Steyer, owner of the Glenbrook mansion that the First Family is renting while on a nine-day vacation in Lake Tahoe. The complaint reportedly cites that …
On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jared Bernstein acknowledged that it’s “fair” to point out that prices are still elevated and things are still expensive even though the rate of inflation is going down, but said that questions about inflation hurting President Joe Biden’s job approval numbers …
‘The owners of the red-roofed ‘miracle house’ in Hawaii believe adding a new roof and cutting foliage helped it survive the devastating wildfires. The $4 million seaside home remains unscathed as it stands alone amid the rubble of its neighbouring properties in Lahaina, on the island of Maui. Its owners, Dora Atwater Millikin and her …
New York City officials want to ease pressure on overcrowded homeless shelters by housing migrants in a federal jail that once held mobsters, terrorists and Wall Street swindlers before being shut down after Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide. The proposal, suggested in an Aug. 9 letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration, came as New York struggles to handle …
China’s Housing Slump Far Worse Than Reported; Half Of State-Owned Builders Warn Of “Widespread” Losses Earlier today, Goldman’s head of hedge fund sales Tony Pasquariello observed that “to this point in the sequence, I’d argue the slowdown in China had been a net positive for US equities — with specific regard to the disinflationary impulse and the flow …
🚨#BREAKING: A Intense Standoff is currently underway as SWAT Teams Dismantle a House of a Barricaded Suspect Who Shot 3 Officers in Last 24 Hours⁰⁰📌#Houston | #Texas⁰Currently Multiple Law enforcement agencies, including SWAT teams, are dealing with a chaotic standoff in… pic.twitter.com/Kcl98yi6oU — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) August …
#China suspends youth jobless data after record high readings. The decision announced shortly after the release of weaker-than-expected factory & retail sales data sparked rare backlash on social media amid growing frustration about employment prospects in the country.… pic.twitter.com/KSsSdOIxM7 — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) August 15, 2023 Cutting rates because they are about to experience a …
Expressing his condolences, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said this was “certainly a sad, sad day and a sad, sad time” for the community. He praised the support for Plum from surrounding communities: “It just shows what people in southwestern Pennsylvania do when there’s these types of incidents.” Imbarlina said the investigation into the cause …
Claim: Bidenomics is working because prices are going down. “Bidenomics is indeed working when – when we say that — you look at the data, right? Cost is going down, right? We think about inflation,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in an interview this week. Verdict: False. In general, products and services purchased …
BREAKING: Rep. James Comer says House Oversight will subpoena Hunter Biden: “This was always going to end with the Bidens coming in front of the committee. We are going to subpoena the family..” pic.twitter.com/J7nqf2OIEI — ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) August 10, 2023 House Oversight and Accountability Committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) said Thursday on Fox …
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has transferred five Iranian Americans from prison to house arrest in exchange for billions of dollars frozen in South Korea, US and Iranian officials said Thursday, in a deal that comes after months of heightened tensions between the two countries. Iranian officials at the United Nations confirmed the …
House Democrats introduced legislation Friday that would place a 1,000 percent excise tax on AR-15s and other firearms that they refer to as “assault weapons.” https://t.co/byC0BjhlT8 — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 7, 2023 House Democrats introduced legislation Friday that would place a 1,000 percent excise tax on AR-15s and other firearms that they refer to …
President Trump: "The Senate needs to step up. The House is doing a lot of things. They have something on Mitch McConnell. There’s no way he’s doing this. They got something on Mitch McConnell." pic.twitter.com/OXjmuldOGy — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 6, 2023 STACY MCCAIN: Everybody Keeps Indicting Trump, Without Regard for Consequences.
by betsharks0 > In September 2022, adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) made up around 9% of all new home loan applications to lenders, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) So are these people basically f***ed? The median house payment in the US is now at $2,605/month. This is up 19% compared to 2022 and the most expense median …
The UK housing market sees weak activity caused by rising interest rates, pushing mortgage rates above 6 percent for home buyers and existing mortgagors looking to refinance. British house prices fell by the most since 2009 in the 12 months to July, according to mortgage lender Nationwide, as the drag from rising interest rates on …
Any day now… pic.twitter.com/1gFEo8vjCW — Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. (@RudyHavenstein) July 27, 2023 h/t Simian_Stacker
Zillow has gone full-blown housing bull. Zillow expects U.S. home prices to rise 6.3% between June 2023 and June 2024. Among the 200 largest housing markets, Zillow thinks 48 markets will see a jump of 7.0% or greater pic.twitter.com/ibsa0ivR3V — Lance Lambert (@NewsLambert) July 28, 2023
