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Empire Fed Manufacturing index drops to 0.2, biggest fall since May 2023. I predicted this last month when it went ridiculously high for one period. A couple of things on PMI reports: First, don’t take any new print to mean anything significant. It’s a jagged sawtooth because they don’t do backward revisions. Just follow the …
President Joe Biden leaves office in 36 days not with a bang but a resentful whimper, an opinion piece in the Washington Post argued Sunday. The op-ed by Cleve R. Wootson Jr. is headlined “Biden touts his legacy, but frustration seeps through.” It looks back over Biden’s years in office and posits that for all …
There is no end to the pit of evil that Joe Biden has fronted for. Mayorkas was sending planes to 50 airports around the world, filling them with illegals, flying them to the USA, and faking the documentation that they had ‘sponsors’. …rampant fraud in a program created by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro …
Netflix employees LOSING benefits, Village Roadshow can’t pay their bills, and a set construction company goes OUT OF BUSINESS!
NOW do you understand just how corrupt the Democrats have been for the last 16 years? Anyone who supported this nightmare must be shamed anytime they appear anywhere in public. Being that stupid, and swallowing all of those lies makes them a danger to humanity. pic.twitter.com/Drev3PWuzx — Vincent Au (@VincentAuGondor) December 15, 2024 h/t Flying …
A woman from northern Manitoba with no criminal charges spent a month in jail after public health officials ordered her detained to treat her tuberculosis, even though she wasn’t infectious at the time. Geraldine Mason, 36, was arrested under the Public Health Act on Oct. 27 and initially ordered to spend three months at the …
It’s happening — Yep Its Spicy (∞/21M) HODL (@yep_its_spicy) December 15, 2024 Honestly I share your sentiment that BTC isn’t worth this value it’s trading at. It’s fueled by momentum only. Pretty soon it will cycle down hard I feel. Just after the exhaustion — Matt (@TradersParadise) December 15, 2024
Memecoins like Fartcoin are riding Trump’s victory to huge valuations. Experts say it may have only begun. The carnival-casino era of cryptocurrencies has come back with a vengeance. Yes, it’s called Fartcoin. Yes, it is totally useless. And yes, it has nevertheless tripled in value over the past week to a market capitalization of more …
Chris Rock made a brutal dig at Bill Clinton while also slamming liberals worried about the incoming Trump presidency during his Saturday Night Live monologue. In what was hailed as one of the funniest opening monologues in recent times, Rock placed comedy above politics as he took swipes at both sides of the political spectrum. …
Dartmouth implements policy of ‘Institutional Restraint’: Dartmouth College has joined the growing list of elite universities to enact institutional neutrality protocols. Dartmouth College has joined the growing list of elite universities to enact institutional neutrality protocols. On Tuesday, the Dartmouth Office of the Provost shared the policy update concerning “Institutional Restraint.” The statement notes that …
On Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024, at about 10:22 p.m., officers from the Boston Police Harbor Patrol Unit arrested 42-year-old Robert Duffy of Charlestown and 32-year-old Jeremy Folcik of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, on Long Island, part of the Boston Harbor Islands. The arrests followed a hazardous drone operation near Logan Airport’s airspace. Both face trespassing charges, with …
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) was hospitalized and underwent hip replacement surgery after being injured in a fall during an overseas visit marking the 80th anniversary of a World War II battle. Pelosi, 84 years old, was traveling with a bipartisan congressional delegation in Luxembourg when she sustained the injury, said her spokesman …
🚨MAINSTREAM MEDIA’S OBSESSION WITH RACE: DIVIDING AMERICA ONE ARTICLE AT A TIME A closer look at outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post shows an explosion of racially charged buzzwords—“systemic racism,” “white privilege,” and more—dominating headlines over the… pic.twitter.com/j7VuNEue9m — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) December 15, 2024
This meme is about as accurate as it gets. pic.twitter.com/tH3AFBxQch — Bruce McGonigal (@bruce_mcgonigal) December 15, 2024
When BBC host Martine Croxall spoke with Palestinian-American reporter Mariam Barghouti about Israel’s operations in the West Bank, she wasn’t expecting to be challenged and accused of serving as a mouthpiece for Israeli propaganda. And yet that’s precisely what happened, as Barghouti explained how Croxall’s reflexive defense of genocide was just one small part of …
And then die bankrupt from medical debt. h/t TonyLiberty
Jim Cramer asked the SEC Chair Gensler if politicians could be investigated for insider trading. Here is his answer. Unusual Whales has worked tirelessly at highlighting unusual plays and trades by politicians. More incoming. pic.twitter.com/xqVtLnHikE — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) December 15, 2024
At least five people have been killed in shootings in and around a migrant camp near Dunkirk, France. Two of the victims were migrants, killed at the Loon-Plage camp, and two further victims are understood to have been security personnel. A 22-year-old, handed himself in at a nearby police station, and admitted carrying out other …
Go ask the Democrats. Be warned, once you detach from regular people in America, you will pay a price Fox Sports analyst Colin Cowherd has claimed the NBA and the Democrat party share an issue when it comes to losing supporters. Despite signing a 11-year, $76 billion TV deal with Disney, NBC and Amazon this …
It looks like Luigi Mangione and Sean “Diddy” Combs have more in common than orange jumpsuits and ankle shackles. Karen Friedman-Agnifilo, the high-powered lawyer hired by UnitedHealthcare murder suspect Luigi Mangione, is married to none other than Marc Agnifilio, who has been representing the rapper as he battles sex trafficking charges. Friedman-Agnifilo is a former …
A group of female thieves were caught on camera stealing from a TJ Maxx in Brooklyn NYC. Shockingly, they were armed and started an altercation with a security guard on their way out of the store, revealing that even after passing legislation to curb retail theft, NYC’s shoplifting problems are far from over.
Update on T-bills. Last week’s wild auctions repeated this week, only with flipped maturities. Other related data confirm the sharp demand as well as dealer participation in it. We discuss the implications plus dig into the reason why collateral is so important to begin with, and also why we don’t know nearly enough about what’s …
Microsoft has confirmed plans to delete passwords for a billion users. “The password era is ending,” it says, warning those users that “bad actors know it, which is why they’re desperately accelerating password-related attacks while they still can.” The company now “blocks 7,000 attacks on passwords per second… almost double from a year ago.” It …
Lord & Taylor is looking to reclaim its position in retail with a sweeping new strategy that will see it blend nostalgia with modernity. The iconic department store is launching a rebrand to bring back what was old as new, with plans including to reinstate its iconic cursive logo. The storied retailer is determined to …
