Rick Scott wants to freeze congressional pay during the shutdown, and Ro Khanna wants to ban politicians from owning crypto. Finally, someone is aiming where it actually hurts.

🚨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 …

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Owning government bonds may be risky in debt supercycle

Link to article:https://t.co/DaTG9QsIvo — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) August 20, 2025 It's official: The US has now seen 446 LARGE bankruptcy filings in 2025, officially +12% ABOVE pandemic levels in 2020. In July alone, the US saw 71 bankruptcies, marking the highest single-month total since July 2020. What's happening? Let …

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There was a time when the American Dream meant building wealth. Owning a home, raising a family, maybe retiring early. Now? Just staying afloat is the new fantasy.

Elon Musk didn’t mince words: “The dollar will be worth nothing if the US doesn’t do something about its national debt.” That wasn’t hyperbole. That was a warning. A new study confirms what many already feel in their bones. Most Americans can no longer afford even a minimal quality of …

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Why Owning a House is MAKING YOU POOR

Owning a home is still touted as the number one goal that Americans should strive for. The American dream. However that American dream is costing people serious money because the cost of owning a home is going up substantially along with that equity.

The Cost of Owning a Home Is Soaring

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, The soaring costs of home ownership are changing the metrics of unaffordability in important ways. We all know that buying a house is now unaffordable, but owning a house is increasingly unaffordable, too. Gordon Long and I have laid out the sobering explosion of the costs of homeownership, …

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UK 19yr old woman visited by Counter Terrorism Police for owning patriotic memorabilia. – told to bite her tongue before tweeting

Tweet reads: 19-year-old woman visited by Counter Terrorism Police for owning patriotic memorabilia. Told by Thought Police to bite her tongue before tweeting. We all know where the biggest risk to terrorism comes from. Our Establishment is complicit in its inability to address the problem. https://twitter.com/_/status/1832693983912354010 h/t Little Lost

Got to replace the money lost on the gas tax! Drivers hit with new $178 fee just for owning an EV – hybrids face charge too as officials insist it’s a ‘temporary fix’

AMERICAN drivers with electric vehicles and hybrids will be hit with a $178 surcharge as a part of a new transportation bill. Vermont EV and hybrid owners are hit with a fee implemented to make up for a loss in revenue from gas tax money. The payment for car owners …

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Germany’s parliament just voted to lower penalties for distributing or owning chiId p*rnography.

WTF???? Germany's parliament just voted to lower penalties for distributing or owning chiId p*rnography. The slippery slope remains undefeated.https://t.co/QYigQE7Q5b — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 21, 2024 https://reduxx.info/pro-pedophile-activist-group-celebrates-as-germany-decriminalizes-child-porn-possession/ This is nonsense. The bill could have given amnesty to people who report CSAM rather than "lowering the sentence." pic.twitter.com/3fpDTaATtX — Reddit Lies …

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The hidden costs of owning an EV.

EV owners love their cars. But an 8 News Now Investigators’ examination of insurance costs and other money associated with ownership of electric vehicles shows the bottom line might be a lot higher than consumers realize.

Until the Glass-Steagall Act is restored, barring the Wall Street trading casino from owning federally-insured commercial banks, the U.S. banking system will lurch from one crisis to the next, until its reputation as a first-class financial system is relegated to the dustbin of history.

  Lobbyists Grab Control at House Financial Services Hearings, Backing Jamie Dimon’s Push to Gut Higher Capital Proposals We’re very sorry to have to tell you this, but if you’re not watching Senate Banking or House Financial Services Committee hearings when the topic is about increasing bank capital or any …

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46% of renters struggle financially, 36% have more debt than emergency savings. Owning a home has become a luxury

About 46% of renters in the U.S. are currently struggling to make ends meet, according to Harvard University researchers — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) August 9, 2023 The cost of both buying and renting a house in America has skyrocketed since 2020. Buying a house now costs $2,700/month on average, up an …

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ULEZ: Confirmed!! Pay-Per-Mile WILL HIT EVERY Motorist in the UK! Forget Driving or Owning a Car

  More details on the future cities (also dubbed C40 cities) below: https://www.arup.com/perspectives/publications/research/section/the-future-of-urban-consumption-in-a-1-5c-world Heres a snapshot of there referenced C40 document above. 0 private ownership of vehicles by 2030 https://twitter.com/_/status/1599715948046749699 h/t Little Lost

John Kerry, a multimillionaire unelected climate bully, denies owning a private plane, blames his wife for his bust, and demands trust from climate bollocks.

https://twitter.com/_/status/1680479725624369153 John Kerry family private jet sold shortly after accusations of climate hypocrisy FIRST ON FOX: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s family quietly sold their private jet to a New York-based hedge fund following intense criticism of the plane’s carbon footprint in light of Kerry’s work fighting global …

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James Bosco: Chicago on the Cusp of Owning Levers of the Economy

Guest Post from James Bosco via chicagocontrarian.com There are perils to empowering the state to pick economic winners and losers In August 1923, with the unexpected death of President Warren G. Harding, Vice President Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States. At that time, the gregarious Harding’s presidency was …

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