Looks Like Trump Is Allowed a Second Term

by Chris Black Sheldon Adelson, Jared Kushner, Steve Mnuchin and Rothschild agent Wilbur Ross enter the chat. Michael Cohen is in the waiting room. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”- …

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Dropping Like a Stone: ON RRP Take-up in the Second Half of 2023. Liberty Street Economics detail the recent drop in ON RRP take-up through the lens of the channels identified in the recent staff report driving its initial increase.

via dismal-jellyfish: Source: https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2023/12/dropping-like-a-stone-on-rrp-take-up-in-the-second-half-of-2023/ Background: Liberty Street has a paper Treasury Bill Supply and ON RRP Investment based on the Staff Report Banks’ Balance-Sheet Costs, Monetary Policy, and the ON RRP. TLDRS: The authors call out the increase in Overnight Reverse Repurchase (ON RRP) …

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7th Circuit: AR-15s Not Protected by Second Amendment

7th Circuit: AR-15s Not Protected by Second Amendment ⁦@BreitbartNews⁩ https://t.co/oG1hniUUDR — AWR Hawkins (@AWRHawkins) November 4, 2023 On Friday, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit overturned an injunction against Illinois’ “assault weapons” …

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Fed’s Beige Book August 2023: “Some Districts highlighted reports suggesting consumers may have exhausted their savings and are relying more on borrowing to support spending.” “Many contacts suggested “the second half of the year will be different” when describing wage growth. Ruh-roh…

by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/BeigeBook_20230906.pdf This report was prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City based on information collected on or before August 28, 2023. Highlights: “Some Districts highlighted reports suggesting consumers may have exhausted their savings and are relying …

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