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via aier: In the post-pandemic period, the Fed expanded the money supply significantly to support a swift economic recovery. It did so by purchasing vast amounts of US Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities. While those assets seemed like good investments at first, they are now a major hole in the Fed’s financial position. When the bulk … Read more
https://twitter.com/burningplat/status/1647921054923526146 Brazil's President says the EU only wants war, weapons, and NATO expansion, while BRICS nations want a peaceful resolution: "How can we achieve peace between Russia and Ukraine if no one is talking about peace? Everyone is talking about war, talking about providing weapons to… pic.twitter.com/wOrioShjzE — KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) April 16, 2023 Oh look … Read more
by DefinitelyNotJasonB The M2 money supply is contracting, unemployment is super low, we are in a deep protracted yield curve inversion, and the Fed is in a tightening cycle. Every time these things have ever been true at the same time we’ve gone into a very deep recession. There is 1.5T in office real estate … Read more
Based on this, it would be safe to assume that the US Gov still has complete access to our DMs and activity on other social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, and Google. — Chairman (@WSBChairman) April 16, 2023 The Deep State is real. Another "conspiracy theory" we were right about. We were right about … Read more
Prepare for unemployment. In news no creative wants to hear, a Chinese media and public relations giant has ditched human copywriters and graphic designers in favor of artificial intelligence. In an internal staff memo seen and reported(Opens in a new window) by Bloomberg News, Bluefocus Intelligent Communications Group Co. says it will use ChatGPT-like generative … Read more
NASA will receive $25.4 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2023. This is roughly $1.3 billion more than NASA received in 2022, an increase of 5.6%. High inflation and growing labor costs will mitigate the purchasing power of this increase. The President’s FY 2023 budget request for NASA proposed nearly $26 billion, an 8% increase. Though the … Read more
And Californians fall for it and bend over and submit! via fortune: The Colorado River is in dire straits, and as it becomes clear that the river does not have nearly as much water as it once did, states that have relied on it for over a century are fighting over what remains. AC
via yahoo: A second man’s body was pulled from Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, in two months, fueling fears a serial killer is hunting the city’s downtown social hub. But Austin Police say the recent drownings are coincidental, and there’s no evidence of foul play. The community’s speculation was discussed openly during Thursday’s city … Read more
(AP) “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” scored the best second weekend ever for an animated movie in North American theaters with $87 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The family-friendly Universal release dropped a slim 41% from its record-making opening weekend. With $94 million from international showings, “Mario’s” global total now stands … Read more
Google‘s CEO Sundar Pichai admitted he doesn’t ‘fully understand’ how the company’s new AI program Bard works, as a new expose shows some of the kinks are still being worked out. One of the big problems discovered with Bard is something that Pichai called ’emergent properties,’ or AI systems having taught themselves unforeseen skills. Google’s AI program was … Read more
New signs of stress in the ballooning trillion-dollar U.S. auto market are pointing to an impending collapse as storm clouds continue to gather in the economic and financial landscape. Serious delinquencies in auto loans — defined as behind on payments by 90 days or more — jumped the most since the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis, … Read more
Pete Buttigieg tells Al Sharpton that minorities are more likely to die in car crashes for a variety of reasons including: "The way roads are designed and built." pic.twitter.com/9ADW5IFFti — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 16, 2023 To be fair, not everybody has access to the same level of transportation that Buttigieg enjoys: Climate Be Damned! … Read more
Best Buy Co. is cutting store jobs across the country, as the electronics and appliance retailer works to lower costs and shift its business as more sales happen online. This week, many store workers that specialize in selling more complex products such as computers and smartphones, dubbed “consultants” inside the company, were told their jobs … Read more
https://twitter.com/_/status/1646958880654516226 The new Budweiser Clydesdales. pic.twitter.com/9QvPvE9FGK — masonbo (@masonbo) April 15, 2023 Trying to inoculate yourself with this ad will work about as well as the mRNA vax. — PhotobombingCow (@PhotobombingC) April 15, 2023 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/is-the-horse-trans-now-budweisers-attempt-to-win-back-public-goes-horribly-wrong-as-social-media-obliterates-new-clydesdale-horse-ad-in-epic-fashion-video/ h/t Dan
via alarabiya: Economic sanctions imposed on Russia and other countries by the US put the dollar’s dominance at risk as targeted nations seek out an alternative, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday. “There is a risk when we use financial sanctions that are linked to the role of the dollar that over time it could undermine … Read more
by Michael What did we think was going to happen? We allowed liberals to run most of our major cities for decades, and now those cities have degenerated into drug-ridden, crime-infested hellholes. Forty years ago, my elderly grandmother lived in one of those major cities, and she would take us on very long walks through … Read more
The United Nations discreetly issued a report in March encouraging members of the UN to decriminalize sex between minors and adults. The report is titled “The 8 March Principles for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Criminal Law Proscribing Conduct Associated with Sex Reproduction, Drug Use, HIV, Homelessness and Poverty.” On page 22 of the report, … Read more
https://twitter.com/_/status/1647640113349033984 h/t Coorslightly
Stephen Hawking warned that artificial intelligence could end mankind, in an interview with BBC correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones. The opinion came after the physicist detailed some of the concerns he felt after using a computer to help him communicate that was designed to predict what he would say and he went on to voice concerns over … Read more
Starbucks reportedly claimed $181 million in revenue from money on gift cards and loyalty accounts that customers didn’t spend in fiscal year 2021 — a figure that amounted to about 1% of its sales and 4.3% of its net income during the year. The amount of unused credit claimed that year was up from $145 … Read more
As the federal government escalates its efforts against TikTok, it’s coming up against a stark reality: Even a politically united Washington may not have the regulatory and legal powers to wipe TikTok off American phones. A few weeks ago it looked like the company’s days in America were numbered. President Joe Biden’s administration had just … Read more
Twitter CEO Elon Musk will join the Fox News host in a two-part sit-down debuting Monday, April 17, and Tuesday, April 18. pic.twitter.com/BilzqLGZsC — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 16, 2023 h/t PURA SANGRE
* Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, needed money to support his family and searched online for a job as a hitman in mid-February on rentahitman.com, a parody site. * Garcia submitted an inquiry to the website to work as a hit man with the website owner then forwarding his information to the FBI. [link to http://www.msn.com … Read more
