An interest rate cut right now won’t save them. There’s a lag effect in both directions. A hard landing is baked in. Americans worry more now than during the Great Recession

https://twitter.com/GayBearRes/status/1816446012275229105 Do you remember how painful the Great Recession was?  2008 and the years immediately following were definitely a very dark chapter in our history, but a new study has actually found that the percentage of Americans that worry they won’t be able to pay their bills is actually higher today than it was back …

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Apple expected orders to jump by 10%. And let me guess, in two months they’ll be reducing them. Every. Single. Year.

Apple expected orders to jump by 10%. And let me guess, in two months they'll be reducing them. Every. Single. Year. https://t.co/cSOUi8xfDj pic.twitter.com/hnieKIiIuj — Kakashii (@kakashiii111) July 10, 2024 $AAPL rallying on a Bloomberg report that it "expects" a 10% jump in iPhone shipments in the second half of 2024. Buried at the end of …

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Reportedly, Numerous Redditors, At Least 39 of Them, Pledge to Commit Suicide if Trump Wins the Presidency

39 different Redditors have now written su*cide notes referencing "Project 2025." Fearmongering has consequences. pic.twitter.com/6Yk00WZjPi — Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) July 2, 2024 View post on imgur.com Redditor who is a husband and a father is considering k*lling himself over climate change. pic.twitter.com/wdCs2MKNaw — Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) July 2, 2024 h/t dr0id

Can’t blame them: China sold a record amount of Treasury and US agency bonds to buy gold in the first quarter

Smart considering how much US #credit there is already, and how much more will need to be created to fund all those wars, politician slush funds, rising interest expenses, roll over of maturing debt, and never mind the great state of the Union, versus physical #gold.#Gold is… — Jaime E. Carrasco (@IJCarrasco) May 16, 2024 …

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“It’s very hard to have people come back and invest when you’re arresting them.”

Yeah, now do New York City. Amb. Rahm Emanuel discusses Xi's business crackdown on ChinaTalk. "It's very hard to have people come back and invest when you're arresting them." "China's quite an entrepreneurial culture, and he [Xi Jinping] crushed their entrepreneurship. And in crushing their… pic.twitter.com/GNcR6keCK3 — Jordan Schneider (@jordanschneider) April 1, 2024 h/t chrisdotgordon

Their current boss is embarrassing them.

Border Patrol Union Slams Biden, Praises Trump. Even as Joe Biden finally pays a token visit to the border amidst his increasingly disastrous border crisis, the Border Patrol Union had a few choice words for the senile meanderer-in-chief, especially compared to his predecessor. While the National Border Patrol Council (also called Border Patrol Union on …

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Oh, how democratic! Democrats generously considering a nationwide initiative to make elections more exclusive. How inclusive of them!

It’s Not Just Trump: Democrats Are Moving to Bar Republicans From Ballots Nationwide As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election work their way through the courts, a new filing in Pennsylvania seeks the same “ballot cleansing” by barring Rep. Scott Perry. It’s only the latest effort targeting congressional candidates as …

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If America Supports Them, We’ve Got Problems

And I mean REAL America, not the fake posers like people who support celebrities and worship technology. And here’s a leaked video to show you all evidence that this was explicitly Netanyahu’s plan. pic.twitter.com/cETSm8zhyh — Firas 🇵🇸 (@FirasPalestine) October 18, 2023 They’ll never receive true patriotic support. The less stripes in the flag, the more …

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EVEN THE REPUBLICAN SQUISHES ARE BAILING ON THEM: Huntsman family, longtime Penn supporters, will halt donations to ‘unrecognizable’ University.

via thedp: “In an email to Magill obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian, Huntsman — a former University trustee, governor of Utah, and United States ambassador — said that the Huntsman Foundation will ‘close its checkbook’ on future donations to Penn. Huntsman, whose family has donated tens of millions to Penn over the course of three …

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Tesla whistleblowers filed a complaint to the SEC in 2021, but the agency never interviewed them. Here’s what the complaint said

In 2021, a Tesla employee and a tech industry researcher filed a whistleblower complaint to the SEC with concerns that Elon Musk’s car company may have violated securities law and flouted accounting standards. The complaint contained detailed allegations about Tesla’s financials and business practices, including that it improperly categorized repairs and had poor control over …

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ED MORRISSEY ON 20 Years in the Blogosphere, and the Danger Ahead. “The real crisis didn’t come from professionalization. It came from Big Tech platforms, which first partnered with bloggers and independent voices — and then worked to curtail or even silence them.”

via hotair: The real crisis didn’t come from professionalization. It came from Big Tech platforms, which first partnered with bloggers and independent voices — and then worked to curtail or even silence them. The first iteration of this came with Facebook, whose vast audience attracted many independents and some corporate bloggers to commit to that platform, only …

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“Ten years ago, people who were stealing were hiding products in their jackets or down their pants. These days they’re filling up a trolley and pushing it back out the front door and they don’t care who sees them.”

Cost-of-Living Stress Fuels Crime Wave in Australia, New Zealand (Bloomberg) — A man strolls out of a New Zealand supermarket carrying bags stuffed with nine stolen legs of lamb. Another pushes out a shopping cart stacked with NZ$1,500 ($896) of pilfered corned beef and mayonnaise. Yet another smashes a security guard in the face with …

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WHAT CHANGED? NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s migrant U-turn: Video reveals how Democrat welcomed asylum seekers ‘with open arms’ in 2021 — but today she tells them: ‘Go somewhere else.’

New York governor Kathy Hochul welcomed asylum seekers with ‘open arms’ and pledged to house them just three years before telling migrants to ‘go elsewhere’ because the city is at its limit. The Democrat addressed the migrant crisis on Wednesday, warning that asylum seekers who arrive in New York City will not be housed in …

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Who are the idiots who keep voting for them?

“Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell were only worth $4.4 million when elected to Congress. Today, they are worth a combined $360 million. So, with an annual salary of only $193k, how did they increase their net worth by a staggering 8081.82%? They abused their authority as the most influential members of Congress to solicit insider …

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USA Today’s ‘fact check’ is dishonest from the start. Although the ‘fact check’ presents several images, the tweet being attacked is not one of them. The tweet is merely linked and quoted.

USA Today doesn't like my tweet from last month👇and tries to 'fact check' it. https://t.co/IXx41wcNwX Let's walk through USA Today fact-checker Kate Petersen's effort. 1/ pic.twitter.com/8QbMtAiebp — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) August 8, 2023 The USA Today 'fact check' reports that the satellite data among NOAA and NASA program vary. First, all satellite temps are processed …

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French people defend themselves; Macron abandons them.

“French people have now begun to defend themselves. Macron has abandoned his people.” French people have now begun to defend themselves. Macron has abandoned his people. https://t.co/VvvXgXJBTq — Real News Éire (@real_eire) June 30, 2023 “The French police are probably afraid to engage now that the rioters are armed. If they fire back and kill …

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Yeah, no flights for us, only for them. Democrats love private jets on our dime:

“The United States Secretary of Transportation has a clearly preferred mode of transportation. “Planes are always the most magical, ever since I was a little kid,” says Pete Buttigieg, who has worked on infrastructure legislation and a climate action plan since assuming office in early 2021. “There’s nothing more remarkable than human beings being able …

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Banks f*ck up in 08. New laws get adopted, but delayed and slowly implemented. Banks complain because the new laws, designed to prevent collapse, will cause collapse, because, we waited until the next banking disaster to implement them. You literally can’t make this shit up

by BoatSurfer600 WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) – U.S. banks are pushing to soften a major regulatory proposal to hike bank capital requirements, worried it could prove too onerous, especially for lenders still reeling from the March banking crisis, according to six people briefed on the matter. Bank regulators led by the U.S. Federal Reserve are …

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Bidenomics! US Public Debt Breaks $32 TRILLION Barrier, Up 200% Since Obama/Biden (And Unfunded Liabilities At $192 Trillion With No End In Sight) Our Money Belongs To Them!

by confoundedinterest17 Money makes DC go around. Particularly when there are no effective constraints on the Administration or Congress’s ravenous appetite for insane spending (like Biden bragging about the US funding a large solar energy in Angola while he leaves the southern border wide open). After all, Biden, Schumer and McConnell all believe our money (along …

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