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🚨🇺🇸 The number that should be making the White House nervous: 55% of Republicans now blame Trump personally for high gas prices. His own base. Trump survived two impeachments, an indictment, and a bullet. Gas prices might be the thing that actually hurts him. You can spin a… https://t.co/vvN7E2YFtq pic.twitter.com/8MHjRXmxpv — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May …
🚨HOLY COW: Sen. Rick Scott is now working to SUSPEND all paychecks for members of Congress during a Govt. shutdown. "We shouldn't get paid if we don't do our job." Do you agree with Sen. Scott? pic.twitter.com/yyNDcCqWnE — Carter Hughes (@itscarterhughes) October 27, 2025 FLORIDA, USA — “If you don’t show up and do your …
HYG and JNK have been weak for the last 2 weeks. There is stress in credit and financials have been weak. — Will O'Hara, CMT (@WillOHara131) October 11, 2025 Foreigners have not even started dumping UST. Japan has not even started raising rate to lower 12% inflation. You have seen nothing yet folks. This is …
Tariffs began as taxes. First to raise revenue. Then to protect local industries. Later to enforce reciprocity. Three goals. One blunt tool. It never worked smoothly. “Looking at several centuries of tariffs, we can summarize their impact through three R’s: revenue, restriction, and reciprocity.” https://econlife.com/2025/01/the-three-rs-of-tariffs/ Push tariffs too high and imports collapse. Revenue drops. Push …
My mouth hurts from laughing at the big boy presser last night. — Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 12, 2024 Zelensky is President Putin! 😂🙎♀️ Kamala Harris is “Vice President Trump” pic.twitter.com/WoPkuYeDKg — Rosy (@rose_k01) July 11, 2024 The world laughingstock and national embarrassment is getting his big scoop of karma. pic.twitter.com/zhJqf4fql1 — Catturd ™ (@catturd2) …
The findings challenge the common perception that cell-in-cell events are largely restricted to cancer cells. Rather, these events appear to be common across diverse organisms, from single-celled amoebas to complex multicellular animals. The widespread occurrence of such interactions in non-cancer cells suggests that these events are not inherently “selfish” or “cancerous” behaviors. Rather, the researchers …
via Mike Shedlock: Trump wins Iowa easily. Results declared with only 3% of the vote in. Surprisingly, immigration, not the economy is the top concern. The above clip from the Wall Street Journal. Live Stream Trump was declared the winner with only three percent of the vote in. This is how it looks with 99% …
Javier Milei explains why printing money hurts the poor the most pic.twitter.com/ZQPs4R8lsc — DutchLibertarian (@LibertarianDuty) December 31, 2023
by confoundedinterest17 US personal savings are being exhausted as The Fed raises rates to fight inflation. I call this phenomenon “low riding” where consumers are being punished by The Federal Reserve and Biden Administration. Meanwhile, large bank loan volumes are shrinking. With money-market fund assets hitting new highs, and banks’ usage of The Fed’s emergency funds facility at …
I don’t understand these kids. I call them “eBeggers”. How can you have that many followers and 444 million likes but no money and no medical insurance? AC
HOW IT STARTED: Kamala… They Are Coming for You. If Biden is set to go, Kamala Harris must go first. A half century ago, when the Republican Establishment thought Nixon’s days as president were numbered, they decided they didn’t want VP Spiro Agnew around. So Agnew pled no contest to a felony charge of tax invasion. Gerald Ford …
by confoundedinterest17 Biden Press Secretary KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: “The American people are beginning to feel Bidenomics” Prices are up 16.6% and real wages are down 3% since Biden took office. Well, at least Jean-Pierre didn’t claim like her boss Joe Biden claimed that he “ended cancer as we know it.” But getting back to Jean-Pierre’s claim that …
by confoundedinterest17 Biden loves to brag about Bidenomics, or should I say selective stats like the labor market. But the mortgage market hurts so bad. Mortgage applications decreased 1.8 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending July 21, 2023. The Market …