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Nearly $1 billion in land purchases by a mysterious company near a California Air Force base is raising national security concerns. A group called “Flannery Associates” has invested more than $800 million on almost 54,000 acres of land surrounding the Travis Air Force Base since 2018, zoned for agricultural use, public records show. Legal representation …
The Omaha-based conglomerate’s operating earnings totaled $10.043 billion last quarter, 6.6% higher than the figure from the same quarter a year ago. Net income totaled $35.91 billion, compared with a $43.62 billion loss during the second quarter last year. Berkshire’s massive cash pile grew to $147.377 billion at the end of June, near a record …
by confoundedinterest17 Inflation under Biden has been very painful for the US middle class and low wage workers. That inflation has resulted to surging mortgage rates thanks to The Fed’s counterattack. The result? Mortgage rates are up 134% under Bidenomics, while mortgage purchase demand is down -45% since Biden was selected. And mortgage refinancing demand …
Florida has seen a huge surge in leprosy cases, with rising evidence suggesting the disease is becoming endemic in the southeastern United States. Leprosy, which is scientifically known as Hansen’s disease, is a chronic infectious disease that primarily affects the skin and peripheral nervous system. The number of reported leprosy cases in the southeastern states …
Nearly half a million Americans have developed a red meat allergy after being bitten by a TICK – and majority are completely unaware of the link, CDC research says Reaction, called alpha-gal syndrome, caused by sugar carried by ticks When it gets in body it triggers immune overreaction and body learns to fight it Nearly …
via End Time Headlines: Nearly 100 bank branches are set to pull down their shutters for the final time in the next few weeks. The closures come as a number of major high street banks move more of their banking services online. Data from LINK, the UK’s largest cash machine network, reveals dozens of banks …
People assume the Federal Reserve will cuts rates well before a market crash like they've done for the past 40 years However, during the last major inflationary cycle of the 1960s & 70s the Federal Reserve was slow to act, only cutting rates when market crashes were almost over https://t.co/ZI6BH3GOSO pic.twitter.com/2MFZAb4Lgk — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) July …
Nearly No Video’s of Epstein’s VH1 Billionaires Episode Exist Anymore. Here’s all his clips cut together. “What does he need a commercial sized airliner for?” They just skim over the part where he goes from math teacher to multi billionaire. He just “made the switch.” Without help from any foreign government, of course. VH1 & …
his employment status: Beggar It is a practice normally employed by the unemployed and people down on their luck. However, begging is turning out to be a lucrative job for one individual in Mumbai, India. Local media is reporting that beggar Bharat Jain has bagged himself $890,708 by panhandling on the streets of the tech …
Ht @RealEJAntoni And the longer that rates stay at this level, more and more debt matures and gets refinanced at these higher rates. So the debt interest expense is going to keep going higher. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/WDEUlt9EFd — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) July 13, 2023 Every time US tax receipts have tumbled this much, the US …
by mystic_swole View post on imgur.com I heard this statistic from RFK jr on the Lex Fridman podcast and literally didn’t believe it at first. Absolutely crazy. Praying for all those lost souls. We truly live in some crazy times.
The average 30 year mortgage rate just hit 7.22% That rate was about 5% a year ago Yet the median sale price has only slightly decreased This housing market is strong pic.twitter.com/jlJvl4DAKZ — Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) July 6, 2023 With the increase in mortgage rates from 3% to over 7%, a $400k house will …
The IRS data showed that in 2021, New York State lost adjusted gross income worth $25 billion. Read more: https://t.co/RLnJmCQTDQ — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) June 12, 2023 Lost of people from NY are heading to Florida
by Simian_Stacker NYC Democrats will replace one incompetent diversity hire with another, then wonder why crime keeps spiraling out of control. via NYPOST: Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell abruptly announced Monday that she was stepping down after nearly a year and a half as the first woman at the helm of the NYPD — with sources saying her sudden departure caught City Hall …
Nearly one-third of Generation Z says they’d be just fine with government-installed surveillance cameras in every household under the guise of reducing domestic violence and other illegal activity. “Would you favor or oppose the government installing surveillance cameras in every household to reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity?” asks a new survey from …
Thieves in black ski masks are caught on camera robbing Chicago family at gunpoint on their doorstep in broad daylight – as cops warn locals that same crooks have carried out nearly 50 armed robberies in five weeks A brazen group of thieves in black ski masks were caught on video robbing a family at …
Nudity and private information – like social security and credit card numbers –were redacted from the photos A trove of photos from Hunter Biden’s laptop has been made available to the public through a new website that launched Thursday. The website – BidenLaptopMedia.com – will house almost 10,000 photos spanning from 2008 to 2019 and took months to …