Stagflationary pressures are building in the US manufacturing sector. Powell: “Energy hasn’t even peaked yet, and we’d want to see the backside of that and progress on tariffs before we even thought about reducing rates”

ISM manufacturing prices paid index spiked to 84.6 points in April, a 4-year high. Over the last 3 months, prices paid have SKYROCKETED over 20 points, marking one of the biggest spikes in history. Meanwhile, the employment index dropped to 46.4 points, the lowest level in 2026. Employment has now been contracting for 15 months …

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If We Measured the Economy by Quality-of-Life Instead of GDP, We’d Be In a Depression

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, GDP is like collecting data on passenger satisfaction with the dessert cart on the Titanic and declaring everyone is delighted as the great “unsinkable” ship settles into the icy waters of the Atlantic. That Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is an outdated and misleading metric of the economy is widely …

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Matt Hancock – “ If we’d have locked down three weeks earlier, we’d have saved many more lives”

Why would anyone believe any of these people? Matt Hancock says with hindsight if the government took his plan into action then we would’ve locked down on the 2nd March saving many many lives -3 weeks earlier Hugo Keith – you have been heard loud & Clear Tory arses be squeaking#CovidInquiry #ToryCovidCatastrophe pic.twitter.com/HVANljB2G6 — kerry …

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