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Biden: I’m not going anywhere pic.twitter.com/MqHDW7mkdl — Acyn (@Acyn) July 4, 2024 President Biden is facing calls to step aside from some wealthy Democratic donors following his poorly received presidential debate performance, with at least two saying they’ll pause contributions while he’s still a candidate. The big picture: Biden campaign officials held a call with …
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Between prices rising faster than earnings and now higher interest rates drastically pushing up borrowing costs, the typical American family has gotten crushed financially – it's the equivalent of knocking about $7,800 off their annual income, compared to Jan '21: pic.twitter.com/VoUU3aRyqr — E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) June 12, 2024 Inflation Impact: Inflation has indeed surged, …
Inflation increased 3.2% in February 2024 from a year ago. Understanding what inflation is, why it matters and how to handle it can help when making financial decisions. The current U.S. inflation rate is 3.2% for the 12-month period leading up to February 2024. The rate of inflation was up 0.4% in February from the …
North Sea oil rigs threatened with shutdown unless they start running on green electricity. Currently, more than 280 platforms extracting oil and gas from UK waters produce 3pc of the country’s total emissions, the equivalent of about 17 million tonnes of CO2 a year. However, UK oil and gas fields also account for half of …
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador warned on Sunday during an interview with “60 Minutes” that unless the United States complies with Latin America’s requests for aid, the tide of migrants will continue. In January, Obrador issued a series of demands for what the U.S. must do to stop the flow of migrants to the …
(Bloomberg) — China must fix its economy and let Hong Kong run itself if it wants a better future for the financial hub, former Morgan Stanley Asia Ltd. chair Stephen Roach said, after a pessimistic column he wrote sparked an uproar. “The most important thing Beijing can do is, number one, fix its own system,” …
by Chris Black Why would Russia want to attack the West? What purpose could it serve? The only explanation is comic book evil. That is the logic of the entire American Empire: everything is a comic book. If they even art doing a troop buildup – and they’re not – they would be doing it …
View post on imgur.com Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump FROM THIS POINT FORWARD, ARE YOU LISTENING U.S. SENATE(?), NO MONEY IN THE FORM OF FOREIGN AID SHOULD BE GIVEN TO ANY COUNTRY UNLESS IT IS DONE AS A LOAN, NOT JUST A GIVEAWAY. IT CAN BE LOANED ON EXTRAORDINARILY GOOD TERMS, LIKE NO INTEREST AND AN …
It’s infuriating! The hard-earned savings of Americans are being decimated. Biden’s policies are a disaster! The average retirement account lost $33,200 in buying power — one quarter of its value — since Joe Biden took office. This could delay millions of Americans retirement by years — up to a decade according to one economist. What …
by DesmondMilesDant The issue with macro is. When stocks go down because of macro they will at some point revert the move because of the same macro. War starts stocks drop and war ends stocks go up. Rates go up stocks go down and rates go down stocks go up. It’s a null sum game. …
OPENAI WAS IN open revolt on Monday with more than 600 employees signing an open letter threatening to leave unless the board resigns and reinstates Sam Altman as CEO, along with cofounder and former president Greg Brockman. Altman was controversially fired by the board on Friday. “The process through which you terminated Sam Altman and …
Of note, Senator Markwayne won the US Senate GOP runoff in 2022. He then took Jim Inhofe seat. Jim Inhofe was accused of insider trading. He sold $400,000 after non-public Covid hearings in Jan 2020. He was cleared by the DOJ. See more: https://t.co/iZcT1t0LgF — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) October 13, 2023 h/t Simian_Stacke
by DesmondMilesDant Imagine 5% 10yr bond yield.
Governments are failing to cut greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to meet the goals of the Paris agreement and to stave off climate disaster, a major report by the UN has found. Meeting the goals will require “phasing out all unabated fossil fuels”, the report says, in an acknowledgment that some oil-producing countries may find …
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has demanded that taxpayers in the United States and European Union send the country even more aid if the West wishes for elections to be held next year. In an interview published by the president’s office on Sunday evening, Zelensky said that he would be willing to hold elections despite the …
via thenevadaglobe: The Globe received a scoop this morning that a complaint was filed by a Douglas County resident with the Vacation Home Rental (VHR) Advisory Board against billionaire climate investor Tom Steyer, owner of the Glenbrook mansion that the First Family is renting while on a nine-day vacation in Lake Tahoe. The complaint reportedly cites that …
This whole thing is a shit show. This is a politically motivated indictment in order to stop Trump. https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1691835503966904707
https://twitter.com/_/status/1689669408820477952 Gonna call BS…. The Ukrainian Army is obviously becoming strained but we are still months away from a collapse, there is still a lot of dying left to do before this is over. The real problem is in DC. Democrats KNOW they cannot win the 2024 elections while still handing a billion US Tax …
In the wake of a global lockdown, young professionals are entering the workforce having taken at least a semester of their college education online. The lack of hands-on learning might have left Gen Zers lazy or clueless when it comes to completing basic tasks on the job, some managers (said). “They’re not looking to be …
Australian politicians are losing their minds. “Billions of people dead by the end of the century” unless we address global boiling. pic.twitter.com/LU78nYg0rr — Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) August 1, 2023 Never mind 60 years of failed doom day predictions that are always just a few years away that never happens. h/t Mason Firefly
Global elite told at London’s Savoy hotel of real risk of ‘civil disruption’ if more is not done to help struggling millions At an investment conference organised by Spear’s wealth management magazine, members of the global elite and their financial teams were told by progressive advisers that there was a “real risk of actual insurrection” …
by 2201992 If not for double standards, the left would have none.
