Biden Signs Bill Without Ukraine Support

by Chris Black This looks like the end. It doesn’t seem likely that the government would skip a Ukraine funding bill and then come back with another big one. I’m thinking it’s over. RT: US President J… Continue reading by …

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AccuWeather’s Excellent Reporting Articles On Tropical Storm Idalia – Hundreds Of Thousands Without Power

LIVE: Hundreds of thousands remain without power in Idalia’s wake Tropical Storm Idalia moved out over the Atlantic on Thursday morning, but it continued to unleash life-threatening conditions in eastern North Carolina. Ended Aug. 31, 2023 3:00 PM CDT https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/live-news/live-hurricane-idalia-makes-landfall-in-florida-as-category-3-storm/1574324 …

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History: In 1947 Canada raised the price of chocolate bars from 5¢ to 8¢ without much notice. Children protested against this 62.5% increase throughout the country, and approximately 200 stormed the legislature building of British Columbia.

via wikipedia: The candy bar protest, also known as the 5 cent chocolate war, the 5 cent war and the chocolate candy bar strike,[1] was a short-lived 1947 protest by Canadian children over the increase in price of chocolate bars …

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UK: If a second financial crisis broke today, we could not put the public balance sheet behind our banking system without expecting a run on the pound.

We cannot live with a decade of more of the same. Britain is extremely vulnerable to any mishap – a crack in the housing market, a crisis in the financial markets, another energy crisis. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/13/uk-stop-kidding-ourselves-rich-nation-gone-bust  

How To Stop Inflation Without A Recession? Slow Federal Spending And Shrink The Fed Balance Sheet (Return To Demand Economy From Obama/Biden’s Command Economy)

by confoundedinterest17 Inflation is a killer to the middle class and low-wage worker. Yet there are always apologists for terrible Federal spending and Federal Reserve monetary policies. Like Alex Bereson with his “How we stopped inflation without a recession (hint: by …

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