Little Caesars raises price of Hot-N-Ready pizza 11% – Transitory inflation

(CNN) – The third-largest pizza chain in the U.S. is raising the price of one of its most popular deals. Little Caesars says its signature $5 Hot-N-Ready pepperoni pizza will now cost $5.55, an increase of 11%. https://www.wilx.com/2022/01/03/little-caesars-raises-price-hot-n-ready-pizza/ But, don’t forget, Biden saved you $0.16 for your ‘cookouts’ https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-boasts-cookouts-are-16-cents-cheaper-this-year-internet-isnt-impressed-1606210 h/t HEADSPACE FOR RENT

INFLATION IS THEFT: Pressure grows on Boris Johnson over energy bills: Prime Minister is urged to treat soaring prices as an ’emergency’ and act now to solve the cost of living crisis.

Boris Johnson was urged today to tackle the cost of living ’emergency’ and save families from soaring energy bills. He is under growing pressure from his backbenchers to scrap the green taxes that make up a quarter of electricity bills and cost households as much as £200 a year. He is also facing demands to … Read more

DESANTIS ON AOC: “If I had a dollar for every lockdown politician who decided to escape to Florida over the last two years, I’d be a pretty doggone wealthy man.”

DESANTIS ON AOC: "If I had a dollar for every lockdown politician who decided to escape to Florida over the last two years, I'd be a pretty doggone wealthy man." pic.twitter.com/kyMX2pkVHY — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 3, 2022 Related: Ron DeSantis takes aim at AOC’s maskless Miami brunch as he blasts ‘lockdown politicians’ who call for … Read more

JW sues FBI for Garland’s CRT memo

Judicial Watch on Monday announced it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to obtain records about a memorandum from Attorney General Merrick Garland instructing law enforcement to “address the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel” following heated discussions about Critical Race Theory. The conservative watchdog sought Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) documents related … Read more

Tech, finance firms buying up homes doesn’t bode well for everyone else…

Zillow, the nation’s biggest digital real estate company, announced recently that it would shut down Zillow Offers, its iBuying plan. The company attributed this decision to challenging labor market and supply chain conditions during the coronavirus pandemic. The iBuying, or instant buying model, is predicated on buying and selling homes through a digital platform: Buyers … Read more

TESLA accused of ‘support for genocide’ with new showroom in China’s Xinjiang region… MUSK NOW WORTH $304 BILLION…

Beijing — American activists are appealing to Tesla Inc. to close a new showroom in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, where officials are accused of abuses against mostly Muslim ethnic minorities. Tesla on Friday announced the opening of its showroom in Urumqi, the Xinjiang capital, and said on its Chinese social media account, “Let’s start … Read more

Motorists trapped overnight on I-95 as winter storm causes icy, snowy havoc… 53 miles closed…

(CNN)Drivers have been stranded for hours on a major interstate in eastern Virginia — some from Monday into Tuesday morning — because of a severe winter storm that has sent authorities scrambling to clear a path. The vehicles were stuck on portions of a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 95 in the Fredericksburg area, between Richmond … Read more

Fiscal and monetary tightening globally in 2022

https://twitter.com/edwardnh/status/1478355470800859137 With the Democrats struggling to pass another stimulus bill, and the Fed beginning to “taper” their bond purchases, liquidity will reverse next year. The annual rate of change in the S&P 500 compared to our “measure of liquidity”, suggests some risk ahead.https://t.co/9fe72OuaL8 pic.twitter.com/8vn0tmaXjl — Lance Roberts (@LanceRoberts) January 4, 2022 Fed officials have begun … Read more

FinTech Startup Revuto Makes History With The First Native Cardano Token Listing on KuCoin and Gate.io

Image source: Revuto Subscription management sounds so simple, and yet why has noone come up with something like this sooner? We are talking about the ability to manage all (we mean ALL) your subscriptions in one place. Revuto have successfully managed to club all of your subscriptions together, from Shopify, Netflix, your newspapers and digital … Read more

NO more woodburning, laws coming.

The days of having your home heated with a wood furnace may be going away in New York State. There’s a pending law in New York that will begin to outlaw heating devices that create carbon emissions. This bill known as the New York State Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act was signed in 2019 and will start … Read more

What Will Surprise Us in 2022

by Charles Hugh-Smith What seemed so permanent for 13 long years will be revealed as shifting sand and what seemed so real for 13 long years will be revealed as illusion. Magical thinking isn’t optimism, it is folly. Predictions are hard, especially about the future, but let’s look at what we already know about 2022. Viewed … Read more

Apple hits 3 trillion market cap, becoming the first company to hit the mark

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-hits-3-trillion-market-cap-184825195.html “Apple (AAPL) officially has a market capitalization of $3 trillion. The tech giant passed the $182.86 mark Monday, making it the first publicly traded company in history to hit such a market valuation. Shares were bouncing above and below the number during the day. Apple’s rise to a $3 trillion market cap, which is … Read more

Devin Nunes Resigns from Congress

GOP Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) officially resigns from Congress to become CEO of former President Trump’s media company. pic.twitter.com/h45SjLxIu0 — The Recount (@therecount) January 3, 2022 https://thehill.com/homenews/house/588000-nunes-formally-resigns-from-congress

Pending Home Sales Are Crashing

Pending home sales are crashing which could lead to a crash in home prices. With the end of fiscal stimulus, the Fed reining in their easing program, high prices, first-time home buyers disappearing pending home sales are crashing. With affordability at the lowest level since 2008, it should be no surprise pending home sales are … Read more