Month: May 2023

WHY IS CNBC DEFENDING GEORGE SOROS?

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CNBC asks Musk: Why criticize George Soros rather than make money? Er … why not? It’s possible to do both, at least if one doesn’t treat a massive political player as somehow sacrosanct and above criticism. On Monday, Elon Musk took a potshot at George Soros, which prompted an exchange with Brian Krassenstein over Soros’ impact … Read more

Annual inflation on supermarket own-label budget items in the UK stepped up to 25% in April and I bet that’s underreported

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via theguardian: Some meat and vegetable lines at supermarkets have almost doubled in price over the past year, research has found, prompting fresh calls for the government to intervene as food industry figures gather for summit in Downing Street. Annual inflation on supermarket own-label budget items stepped up to 25% in April, according to the … Read more

S&P 500’s forward 12m operating margin has started to roll over this month

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S&P 500’s forward 12m operating margin has started to roll over this month, but hasn’t yet cut below its recent April low pic.twitter.com/to4WkIJeiM — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) May 17, 2023 #Earnings alert!To say something about the direction of company earnings, using bottom-up data only, will likely give you a biased view as analysts tend … Read more

Rental and wage inflation are still on the rise

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NYC rental inflation hits fastest since 2005, per Bloomberg: pic.twitter.com/F4mTZkZrGx — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 17, 2023 Atlanta FED median wage growth tracker Updated for April pic.twitter.com/hRJ65VgZXj — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) May 17, 2023 Rising inflation is increasing anxiety among Americans. The high cost of — everything: Rising inflation rates are ramping up anxieties among some groups … Read more

US Housing Starts In April Crash -22.3% Since Last Year, 12 Consecutive Months Of Negative Growth (But Up 2.19% From March) As Fed Crashes M2 Money Growth

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by confoundedinterest17 More bad news about the economy and housing sector under Biden/Yellen/Powell’s Reign of Economic Error. US housing starts are out for April 2023. The bad news? Housing starts tanked -22.3% year-over-year (YoY). The good news? US housing starts were up 2.19% from March to April. 1-unit detached starts were up 1.56% MoM while … Read more

The U.S now spends more money on servicing its debt than national defense….Medicare spending has almost reached $1 trillion

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Good Morning Everyone! The U.S now spends more money on servicing its debt than national defense. Let that sink in. pic.twitter.com/VrDjjnRzXp — Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) May 17, 2023 Medicare spending has almost reached $1 trillion pic.twitter.com/sn6WEqLaDG — Cheddar Flow (@CheddarFlow) May 16, 2023 🚨 The Treasury General Account fell an astounding $52 billion on … Read more

Journalism is dead in our country.

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pic.twitter.com/g3ieUR0znc — Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 17, 2023 Trump: "They spied on my campaign" Leslie Stahl: "There's no real evidence of that" Has she apologized yet?pic.twitter.com/MO5GSmE1RR — Dog Faced Pony Soldier™ (@D0gFacedPony) May 16, 2023 Now that President Trump has been 100% exonerated by the Durham report, when will Adam Schiff be held accountable for … Read more

Texas Governor Greg Abbott Urges Nation’s Governors to Help Combat Biden Border Invasion… DeSantis Deploys Police, Florida National Guard to U.S. Southern Border in Texas

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via gov.texas.gov: Governor Greg Abbott today urged the nation’s Governors to help support Texas’ unprecedented border security efforts in the wake of President Joe Biden ending Title 42 last week and his continued refusal to enforce federal immigration laws. In letters sent to each of his fellow Governors, Governor Abbott requested support in responding to the ongoing … Read more

Is this the market top? Growth expectations continue to remain week, but the market has rallied strongly…

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The U.S. Federal Reserve will hold its key interest rate steady this year despite an expected recession, according to a Reuters poll of economists, who also said the risk of a U.S. default over the debt ceiling was higher compared to prior stand-offs. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 17, 2023 Pessimism pic.twitter.com/3Glo9FgSU2 — Win Smart, CFA … Read more

REPORT FROM THE BLUE ZONES: County chair backed sex offender, scolded his victim for being uncomfortable.

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via mynorthwest: According to Publicola, he was convicted in 2010 of harboring a 13-year-old runaway with whom he was having a sexual relationship. He was 25 at the time. In 2012, Publicola reports he was charged with raping a 15-year-old girl but ultimately pled guilty to communicating with a minor for immoral purposes. It reports … Read more

Massive Resistance To Bruen In Maryland…

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Maryland governor signs gun-control bills tightening requirements, NRA sues. “Moore said the measures he signed into law demonstrate that the state won’t back down from the challenges of addressing gun violence plaguing the nation.” Well, except that they won’t do anything about urban gangs and lawlessness, or the corruption and incompetence of the Baltimore city government, … Read more

George Soros has been so uniquely destructive to law & order in American cities that there’s a name for the carnage he’s wrought: “Soros DAs.”

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His organization described its strategy to Politico in a 2016 article: it would change the law, not by going through legislatures, but rather by buying under-funded DA elections. His DAs would then change the law through the abuse of prosecutorial discretion. Soros’ strategy worked because few were paying attention to hyper-local DA elections. No one … Read more

Durham Report: Foreign Government Planned to Donate Money to Hillary Campaign in Exchange for Protection when She Became President

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Here’s another nugget from the John Durham Report. A Confidential Human Source (CHS) for the FBI reported to the FBI alleged foreign election influence efforts targeting the Clinton Campaign back in November 2015. Jon Herold from Badlands Media posted this on Monday. The Durham report shows that the classified Annex outlines that a foreign government … Read more

Austrian train plays Hitler speech over loudspeaker

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Travellers on an intercity train in Austria were startled on Sunday when a recording of an Adolf Hitler speech was played on board. Instead of the normal announcements, a crowd could also be heard shouting “Heil Hitler” and “Sieg Heil” over the train’s speaker system. The operator said there had been several such incidents in … Read more

THUGOCRACY: Schiff Aide Threatened Researchers Who Refused to Investigate False Trump–Russia Links.

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via freebeacon: Staffers for Democratic congressman Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Senator Jack Reed (R.I.) threatened two university researchers to force them to help with an investigation into former president Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, the researchers told Special Counsel John Durham.   The researchers, from Georgia Tech University, told Durham that they were invited to … Read more