https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDszwj9S1co The pandemic has created a real estate sales boom. People confined to their houses or apartments and working from home wanted more space, and historic low interest rates helped to drive prices through the roof. But tens of thousands of Americans found themselves on the losing end of a bid because Wall Street firms … Read more
The Fed’s official balance sheet is up another $104 billion in the last week and now up to over $8.2 trillion in total.
via commonsenseinstituteco: Despite tax revenue to the state’s General Fund rebounding to more than $2 billion above pre-pandemic levels[i] and a surge of more than $65 billion in federal funds to Colorado, the 2021 legislative session, which ended June 8th, resulted in an additional net tax burden of $302 million (in FY23) on individuals and businesses. New fee-based … Read more
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/democrats-praise-lawmakers-who-broke-biden-mask-mandate/ h/t Glenn
The media made them villains, but despite its best efforts, police are seeing the beginnings of a rise in approval numbers the media continues to be one of the most distrusted entities in the country. According to a recent Gallup poll, confidence in the police has risen three percent from last year to now, putting … Read more
Victoria has recorded six new cases of coronavirus on the first day of its fifth lockdown of the pandemic. The lockdown was announced late on Thursday and will restrict Victorians to a 5km bubble around their homes, with a few exceptions, and effectively limit trips to solo visits to the shops for essentials and exercise. … Read more
After Obama left office, illegal leaks of classified intercepts became commonplace. Many, including the famed January, 2017 leak of conversations between Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak, were key elements of major, news-cycle-dominating bombshells. Others, like “Russian ambassador told Moscow that Kushner wanted secret communications channel with Kremlin,” or news that former National Security Adviser … Read more
by Michael Snyder Many Americans tend to talk derisively about less civilized nations, but the truth is that we have now become a “less civilized nation” that other countries are mocking. Yesterday, I discussed a number of different signs that the fabric of our society is unraveling all around us, but today I would like to focus … Read more
https://youtu.be/hcmL5o2BL9I How to protect your property in south Africa | #Oil in #mall to save shops looting from thieves #South_Africa
DETAILS: Residents of an apartment building evacuated in #Miami, #Florida after partial roof collapsehttps://t.co/bwVZaxWQA8 — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) July 15, 2021 https://insiderpaper.com/residents-of-miami-apartment-building-evacuated-after-roof-collapse/
The city is launching a two-part ‘alternative response’ pilot program this fall that takes a more public health approach to responding to mental health 911 calls A mental health professional and a paramedic will be dispatched to mental health-related calls instead of police officers Mental health professionals will also be stationed inside 911 call centers … Read more
4 officers shot and wounded, barricaded suspect in Levelland, SWAT on scene by: Staff | newsweb@everythinglubbock.com Posted: Jul 15, 2021 / 03:39 PM CDT / Updated: Jul 15, 2021 / 04:13 PM CDT This is a breaking news story. It will be updated frequently. LEVELLAND, Texas –Four officers were shot and wounded in Levelland as part … Read more
From Glenn Greenwald’s Substack: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is the sixth-richest member of Congress, according to the most recent financial disclosure statements filed in 2019. As the California Democrat has risen through party ranks and obtained more and more political power, her personal wealth has risen right along with it. Pelosi “has seen her wealth … Read more
BY JOHN RUBINO Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s biggest investment company, just went on CNBC to commiserate with today’s savers. You may need to work longer, ramp up investment risk to afford retirement, BlackRock CEO Fink says “Unquestionably, as central banks keep rates low, or negative in Europe, the savers are getting slammed,” BlackRock’s … Read more
Even before he became President, Donald Trump was no stranger to courtrooms. And he continues to fight a barrage of lawsuits, many of which seem to revolve around the First Amendment. But maybe the weirdest lawsuit yet has just been resolved: the former POTUS was sued for retweeting a “fake news” meme on his account … Read more
Very briefly and simplistically, more $USD #liquidity disappearing into the #Fed #RRP, counteracting #QE and tightening financial conditions. — Invariant Perspective (@InvariantPersp1) July 14, 2021 Around 675,000 AMC puts changed hands today, surpassing # of calls traded for the first time since MARCH $AMC #OptionsTrading pic.twitter.com/kd775vtt9g — Gunjan Banerji (@GunjanJS) July 14, 2021 #AMC $AMC … Read more
Do you feel the fear of missing out? This is evident in stocks and real estate today. Real estate continues to increase in price right now as we see low interest rates keep this going. There is upward pressure on markets right now globally because of the inflation of the money supply. As a result, … Read more
by confoundedinterest17 (Bloomberg) — Applications for U.S. state unemployment insurance fell last week to a fresh pandemic low, indicating that dismissals are easing as business conditions improve and firms look to increase headcounts. Initial claims in regular state programs decreased by 26,000 to 360,000 in the week ended July 10, Labor Department data showed Thursday. The median estimate … Read more
Indian govt has reportedly withdrawn a letter written to Apple regarding compliance with the country’s new IT rules. The IT ministry has reportedly refused to consider Apple’s iMessage service as a ‘significant social media intermediary’. Experts say that If iMessage is exempted, rules related to the ‘identification of the first originator of the message’ would … Read more
Campus Reform, a project of the Leadership Institute, is America’s leading site for college news. As a watchdog to the nation’s higher education system, Campus Reform exposes bias and abuse on the nation’s college campuses. Our team of professional journalists works alongside student activists and student journalists to report on the conduct and misconduct of … Read more
After enduring a 10-day bout of hiccups, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalised. The cause of hiccups has not yet been confirmed but his son Flavio Bolsonaro confirmed that his father has been moved to an ICU. In 2018 while on the campaign trail, Bolsonaro was stabbed in the intestine and nearly died. The current … Read more
Via The Federalist Papers It sounds like a scene out of a political potboiler: Mysterious duffel bags of cash, often full of hundred-dollar bills, being brought in to bail out protesters. Sometimes, the amount of cash can exceed $50,000. And the locked-up protesters don’t need to call a single person. It’s not a work of … Read more
by Tom McClellan The text of this article originally appeared in our July 13 Daily Edition issue, and I thought that readers of the Chart In Focus series would appreciate knowing about this relationship as well. The charts presented here have been brought up to date as of July 14. The VIX Index is making higher … Read more
