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A proposal to create a new $20 fee on most passenger cars to help pay for Trump administration priorities may already be in danger thanks to Republicans loathe to create a new fee. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Sam Graves (R-Mo.) released the details Tuesday of his committee’s contribution to the larger GOP megabill …
Oh look everyone, exactly what I told you would happen is happening, except now its on CNBC. Who's the fucking "doomer" now? pic.twitter.com/E1uVX2tI31 — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) April 28, 2025 I'm eating this shit up, there's so much more risk than anyone realizes pic.twitter.com/6TPCNBHSL1 — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) April 27, 2025 BREAKING: The number of …
$1M 30yr mortgage at 2.50% (covid time frame) = $3,951/month payment $1M 30yr mortgage at 6.85% (current national average) = $6,553/monthly payment Annualized that is a $31,224 difference. If you took out a mortgage or refi'ed with a mortgage that begins with a 2 percent, why… — Heisenberg (@Mr_Derivatives) April 26, 2025 The cost of …
It’s hard to get excited about the rally in equities when Dow Transports look like this. 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/fVnd7juFbL — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) April 25, 2025 🚨US bankruptcies are rising as if there is a CRISIS: 188 US large companies declared bankruptcy in Q1 2025, the most in 15 YEARS. This is up 35% from …
FED'S KASHKARI: I'M WORRIED THAT AMID UNCERTAINTIES BUSINESSES WILL DO LAYOFFS || SAYS NOT SEEING UPTICK IN LAYOFFS YET || SAYS SOME BUSINESSES SAY THEY ARE SCENARIO PLANNING FOR POTENTIAL LAYOFFS IF UNCERTAINTY LASTS — First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) April 24, 2025 FED'S KASHKARI: ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENT WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS — First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) April …
Alphabet reported Thursday that Waymo, its autonomous vehicle unit, is now delivering more than 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in the U.S. That figure is up from 200,000 in February, before Waymo opened in Austin and expanded in the San Francisco Bay Area in March. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said Waymo is building partnerships …
via Mike Shedlock The unknown meet the unknown discussing the unknown. Let’s discuss Schrödinger’s Cat vs Schrödinger’s Trump. Identities Unknown CNBC reports President Trump says U.S. met this morning with China, declines to identify individuals involved “We may reveal it later, but they had meetings this morning, and we’ve been meeting with China,” Trump told reporters on …
BREAKING: The White House press secretary says “there will be no unilateral reduction in tariffs against China.” Trump is putting the ball in China’s court. — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) April 23, 2025 BREAKING: White House Press Secretary Leavitt right now: There will be a fair trade deal with China, there will be no unilateral …
Gold just hit another all-time high, silver demand keeps breaking records, and Judy Shelton wants to bring back the gold standard. Some say it’s a rally. Others say it’s only the beginning of a historic trend… Are we ready for the next phase of monetary history? By Peter Reagan Your News to Know rounds up …
Elon Musk: “What’s happening, it seems to me, is they’re being fed propaganda by the far left, and they believe it. It’s really unfortunate.” byu/ImageDifferent9756 inCattyInvestors “The real problem is not the people — It’s the people pushing the propaganda. Those are the real villains here — The ones providing the money, the ones pushing …
2/ The Fed had been on an unprecedented hiking cycle Taking rates from near 0% to 5.5% in just 1.5 years Ensuring tight monetary policy in the process pic.twitter.com/s8OvQS8I6C — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) April 21, 2025 4/ During the recent hiking cycle, 30-year mortgage rates broke out a key downtrend line It rose from 2.65% …
The two parties are just hairy cheeks on the same stinking bunghole: predatory crony capitalism. Both are on the make and on the take, with no real convictions. Just a hunger for another term at the trough, serving globalist oligarchs and puppet masters. h/t Boo_Randy_II
JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 President Trump says he's had nice conversations with China and it's going very good. pic.twitter.com/VW2w2yCVwX — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) April 18, 2025 JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 President Trump says he's had nice conversations with China and it's going very good. pic.twitter.com/VW2w2yCVwX — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) April 18, 2025 🚨 BREAKING: President Trump says we have …
It's all about Japan now. pic.twitter.com/k6qEvqWrY7 — Guilherme Tavares (@i3_invest) April 17, 2025 Japan's Ministry of Finance admits they sold foreign bonds during the market turmoil last week https://t.co/oaPYAF8vEX — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) April 17, 2025 Japan's Bond Market is Flashing a Serious Warning Japan's government bond yields dropped sharply today, marking another critical signal that …
The automotive industry is facing unprecedented challenges, highlighting five major trends that strongly indicate a significant price correction is on the horizon. With total auto loan debt reaching an all-time high of $1.7 trillion, vehicle inventories accumulating, and looming tariffs on imported cars threatening to inflate prices further, consumers considering vehicle purchases in the next …
🇺🇸 TEXAS TO LAUNCH ITS OWN DOGE — AND YES, IT’S ELON-INSPIRED Everything’s bigger in Texas — including government efficiency. A new bill modeled after Trump and Elon’s federal DOGE initiative just passed both chambers of the Texas Legislature and is headed to Gov. Greg… pic.twitter.com/8iY4VqLgIB — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 16, 2025 Texas is …
#StackDiddler is a perfect representation of what is wrong with the Bitcoin community. Once apon a time Bitcoin was about stateless, permissionless, decentralized digital cash with a promise of empowering the individual to have a more self-sovereign hyper-individualist future. -> https://t.co/V0PlaIapXc — Sold At The Top (@soldatthetop) April 16, 2025 Bitcoin was a great experiment …
Famed hedge fund investor Steve Eisman, famous for predicting the 2008 financial crisis, now appears to be two-for-two. In an exclusive interview with Daily Mail, hours before President Donald Trump announced a pause on new global tariff hikes, Eisman said he expected ‘cooler heads to prevail’. At least for the time being, they have. On …
Markets are moving like nothing’s wrong, but the signals underneath are flashing in every direction. In just two hours, we had the White House deny any tariff delay, labeling headlines as fake, and Trump floated another 50 percent tariff hike on China. On paper, this should have sent markets into a tailspin. Instead, the S&P …
JOE ROGAN: IT’S CRAZY PEOPLE ARE BEING PAID TO PROTEST TESLA “If I was 21 years old and someone said, hey, they’re gonna pay $400 to go to a Kamala Harris rally, would you go? I’m like, f**k yeah, I’d go. I’d hold that sign up, I’d probably vote for her. I heard you get… …
Reminder that 4chan is always right. Most of the time. byu/External-Noise-4832 inconspiracy
If receipts are real, legal action must follow, no more empty words. The actual number of non-citizens receiving US government benefits is much higher than 1.3M. That number is just what has been found so far. https://t.co/PVP4DK12x3 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 4, 2025 DOGE Discovers Giant Social Security Fraud. Another day, another leftwing scam discovered …
Argentina’s poverty rate dropped from 52.9 percent to 38.1 percent during the second half of 2024, according to new data by the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina (INDEC). Local outlets reported that INDEC, a decentralized entity within the Argentine Economic Ministry, observed a nationwide decrease in poverty and indigence (extreme poverty) rates …
By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist I warned that the Fed was going to break something. Well, things are starting to break. The latest round of economic data was disastrous. Consumer confidence collapsed to its lowest reading since January 2021. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the Expectations Index, which is based on consumers’ …
It's a bear market, ya know. $SPY pic.twitter.com/Pl6avZCdza — Steven Strazza (@sstrazza) March 28, 2025 BofA Fund Manager Survey reports largest drop in US equity allocation on record Time for a sentiment check… 1) Back in early March, the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) survey showed over 60% of investors were bearish. That’s only …
Layoffs spiking byu/Easy-Markets inEconomyCharts Consumer Confidence outlook plunged to a reading of 65.2, the lowest level in 12 years. An 80 has historically signaled a recession ahead byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts Seriously? Retail traders plough $67bn into US stocks while investment giants flee
My personal policy (family of 4 at the time) went from $305 per month, and a $1,500 deductible the year before ACA to $960/m with $6,500. Today, just wife and I, are at $1,600/m with $9,500 out of pocket. Yeah, thanks for ‘free health care’ — Mike Kole (@kolemichael) March 24, 2025 It also destroyed …
Is This the Real Reason the Left Is Freaking Out About the Department of Education? The NEA sent $420,000 to Sixteen Thirty Fund, between 2019 and 2021, for example. Sixteen Thirty Fund, one of the nonprofits established by the for-profit company Arabella Advisors, helped fund other activist groups that staffed and advised the Biden administration. …
Left-wing Axios is positively depressed about the future of the Democrat party, listing no less than 21 reasons why it's doomed ✌️https://t.co/zpJU8DGlbF — Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) March 24, 2025 🚨 Jasmine Crockett is ONCE AGAIN inciting violence against Republicans Crockett says you should “punch” your opponents, then says Senator @tedcruz “has to be …
