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via Mike Shedlock: The Philadelphia Fed GDPplus measure, a blend of GDP and GDI, is flashing a signal that recession has already started. Data from Philadelphia Fed, chart by Mish GDPplus is a measure of the quarter-over-quarter rate of growth of real output in continuously compounded annualized percentage points. It’s a blend, but not an …
by Chris Black Well? 🇺🇦 Why are we sending $200 BILLION to Ukraine when American looks like a ZOMBIE WASTELAND? pic.twitter.com/e9c8wLHO3s — Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) August 28, 2023 America’s greatest threat is inside our own borders. Every single major USA city has miles of tents and shanty towns with begging drugged out homeless. Drive …
The AirBnB Bubble Popping Will Pop The Housing Bubble Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, This is how bubbles collapse: the “vital few” 4% sell at whatever the market will bear, pushing prices down, and the 64% awaken to the rapidly narrowing window for locking in bubble capital gains. Here’s how we can …
https://twitter.com/FinanceLancelot/status/1694106466838258145 Notice how all the ratings agencies suddenly decided to do their job & downgrade at the same time. Seems coordinated don't you think 😉 https://t.co/TDdTFR5SHQ — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) August 22, 2023 After SPAC values cut in half, Chamath Palihapitiya responds to critics A catastrophe on the stock market is about to happen… Interest …
How did this get past CNN censors. Jim Acosta looks defeated.pic.twitter.com/teqFOgXIXs — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 20, 2023 “It’s a problem… “Trump was right… Biden was wrong.” From CNN, no less 👀 pic.twitter.com/88Dz3jKgNO — Raheem J. Kassam (@RaheemKassam) August 18, 2023
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman revealed a startling new look Saturday that had some social media users likening him to Walter White, the infamous meth-cooking chemistry teacher played by Bryan Cranston on AMC’s “Breaking Bad.” “Lost a bet with Karl,” Fetterman posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, with a selfie showing off a blocky pair of eyeglasses, a …
by Dismal-Jellyfish Borrowing from the Bank Term Funding Program hit a NEW all time high–the 11th consecutive week above $100 billion! What we are monitoring: Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) Discount Window/Primary Credit “Other Credit Extensions” I hope to shed light on the recent uptick in borrowing due to an attempt to offset the initial …
by DesmondMilesDant Goldman Sachs Blames Zero-Day Options for Fueling S&P 500 Selloff Options speculation was the reason the market got run up in the first place, not sure why they are surprised when it also drives it down. FINRA ‘discipline’ Alert! Between July 2018 & September 2021, Goldman Sachs failed to report, or inaccurately reported, …
"I am bearish on Real Estate" Well, as everyone else.. Thanks to @topdowncharts for flagging it! pic.twitter.com/Koo6Xw0sFd — Andreas Steno Larsen (@AndreasSteno) August 15, 2023 A Record 8% of U.S. Homes Are Worth At Least $1 Million. In 2020 only 4.8% of homes were worth at least $1 million What happened?Money printer goes brrrr 🔥 …
UKRAINIAN NORTHERN FLANK IS ON THE VERGE OF TOTAL COLLAPSE https://t.co/aw4j0nggdC — The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) August 12, 2023 UKRAINE’S DEFENSE MINISTER CALLS RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE MOVEMENTS AT KUPIANSK A “NIGHTMARE” SCENARIO; UKRAINIAN DEFENSES ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE — The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) August 11, 2023 Russia-Ukraine war live: Moscow says it has destroyed 20 drones over Crimea https://t.co/CIXNJ8gMLS — …
by Chris Black I hate that it’s come to this, but it must be said: autistic people are a threat to our democracy. They’re not who we are. We’re not a bunch of autistic freaks. An autistic girl was dragged out of her home by multiple police officers Her crime? Telling a cop that she …
Video Credit: lei_dubzz on Instagram — Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) August 9, 2023
https://twitter.com/_/status/1689176155562143744 https://twitter.com/_/status/1689364820145958912 h/t Cannabis Kills People!….
by EuphoricTrilby In the past couple months, the DOJ has consistently indicted Trump or his associates the day after Biden gets bad legal news- whether it’s bank statements detailing Biden taking bribes or Hunter Biden’s plea deal collapsing. The DOJ already has indictments lined up for “in case of Biden scandal”. The next one will …
by Chris Black This is how it is going to be for these companies. You can’t let hyper-left activists have decision-making abilities and expect to make profits. You can take a position. Consumers don’t have to buy your products. We’ve watched this unfold time and time again. NASCAR banned the Confederate flag and people just …
The runway for equities looks limited Retail investor sentiment has cycled from extreme fear to euphoria in just 10 months pic.twitter.com/wCJiJux29B — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) July 27, 2023 Faceplant has round-tripped back to the level it was at when it imploded in 2022 when it pulled back on virtual reality. Lost in the mass layoff …
This kind of thing partly explains the appeal of Bitcoin. Our freedom to transact and save should not be at the mercy of political enforcers. No payment platform should be allowed to discriminate against people for exercising their right to free speech. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 26, 2023
Leftist prosecutor booted from office gets $210,000 job at UC Berkeley: ‘If Boudin was hired to relate his experience, the only take could be how to destroy a city’s criminal justice system piece by piece,’ critic says. Plus, a reminder: “The new law center director is the son of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, who both …
How the establishment Left embraced government control of digital speech. “Even Joe McCarthy’s anti-Communist frenzy encountered strong opposition from elements of the political and media establishment. The new censorship seemed to rely on universal elite conformity. No debates had been held, no enabling laws passed. The federal government’s standing legal authority had been used to …
It’s a bunch of kids out of college running the models Maybe they have a shot at figuring it out h/t B3stAuD1t0rofA11tiME
Another conspiracy theory comes true. “The European Union will join an international effort to assess whether large-scale interventions such as deflecting the sun’s rays or changing the Earth’s weather patterns are viable options for fighting climate change. The bloc will announce a framework Wednesday for assessing the security implications of a rapidly warming planet… according …
Prominent corners of St. Paul are owned by an out-of-state pension fund. Some are bustling. Some are empty. When management consultant Sherry Johnson co-chaired a neighborhood task force looking at all the vacant properties on St. Paul’s popular Grand Avenue business corridor, she was taken aback to discover how many spaces were owned by the …
Weatherman accidentally admits military is altering weather. pic.twitter.com/jeOEdy0V9M — Stew Peters (@realstewpeters) June 20, 2023 h/t Little Lost
by Chris Black I mean, listen: we have had the Hunter Biden laptop for years now. That has all of this pay-to-play stuff on it. It would have been very easy to bring charges from that. But then all of a sudden – “oh, actually, we’ve got this guy from the Ukraine who is going …
The claim is that there is an audio leak where Trump acknowledges he has a document that has not been declassified while he was President. Even if this was the case how will they know or prove which one it is? Trump has full authority on declassification. Man … to go after a former President …
https://twitter.com/_/status/1665517427965194243 Only weeks after approving revamped guidelines that allow gay men to donate blood without previously-required screening for AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases largely prevalent in the LGBT community, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sounded the alarm for a potential outbreak of monkeypox. In an ominous assessment issued late last month, the …
New York City currently. pic.twitter.com/9PZFEiAK2n — Intel Doge (@IntelDoge) June 7, 2023 FAA: Departures grounded at New York City's LaGuardia Airport “due to low visibility” until 2pmET — Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) June 7, 2023 https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1666509713788346368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Looks like Mars… https://t.co/ZaP3PZQhUk — EndGameWW3 🇺🇸 (@EndGameWW3) June 7, 2023