On Wire

by Blindghost01 An unelected judge suddenly becomes pals with the ultra elite. He takes trips worth millions of dollars and his wife becomes pals with powerful politicians. He doesn’t report his gifts and decides cases in his pal’s favor that increase the power of his benefactors. By any scale, it’s an outrageous breach. But before … Read more

“The principle of a 15-minute city should be pursued.” – Sergey Sobyanin, Mayor of Moscow Moscow is striving for the “15-minute city” principle, but currently implementing another program – “My District”. The announcement was made on June 4 2021 by Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin on the Rossiya 24 TV channel. Answering the host’s question about … Read more

CHANGE: Walmart says 65% of its stores will be serviced by ‘automation’ in the next three years – as it lays off 2,000 warehouse workers. It wasn’t immediately clear if the move would lead to more layoffs at the country’s biggest private employer, with about 1.7 million U.S. workers and another 60,000 abroad. The company did … Read more

PRIVACY: Google will soon restrict loan apps from accessing users’ photos and contacts. Google will implement a new rule for apps providing personal loans starting on May 31st that could help protect users from abuse and harassment. The tech giant has updated its policy (via TechCrunch) to prohibit cash lending applications from being able to access … Read more

by Chris Black Elon gave the State-affiliated media badge to the NPR, and journos are absolutely SEETHING over it. Based Elon, I hope he does it to the NYT next. NPR is not state affiliated media. It is public media. The NYT is not propaganda. It is the most robust news organization in the English … Read more

by Chris Black It’s amazing how much I can miss Trump, and how a pack of puzzled golems (Biden, Warren, et al) can change the whole world for the worse so quickly. It’s absolutely unbelievable how incompetent Biden and his team are. They literally destroyed 250 years of American dominance in less than 2 years. … Read more

holy shit pic.twitter.com/wuUC15YQrX — Tim Pool (@Timcast) April 6, 2023 PR Expert: ‘Bud Light Lit Brand on Fire, People Pouring Beer Down Their Sink.’ Gareth Boyd, the marketing & PR director at Forte Analytica, says Bud Light lit its brand on fire and has lost touch with its core audience with the ad campaign. “I … Read more

The IRS hopes to increase tax audits on the wealthiest taxpayers tenfold under the Biden administration’s plan for the agency, according to a senior administration official and the IRS’s new strategic operating plan. IRS and Treasury Department officials said Thursday that they will use $80 billion in new funding for the tax service to claw back unpaid … Read more

KJP: "It's not for us to decide" if a transgender lunatic shooting up a Christian school and killing 6 people (3 of whom were children) should be classified as a hate crime. pic.twitter.com/SoJYx4zD16 — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 5, 2023

A Great win for Democracy and the Rule of Law. Democrats are not without consequence for their actions. Glorifying a Murderous, Child-Killing TG is the last straw for many of us. The Tennessee Statehouse Insurrection was a dark and sad day in American history. The greatest attack on our democracy since 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. … Read more

April 4 (Reuters) – Short sellers made a whopping $848 million in paper profit by betting against beleaguered First Republic Bank (FRC.N) in March, financial data company Ortex said on Tuesday, making it the most profitable short trade last month. https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/betting-against-first-republic-short-sellers-made-848-mln-march-ortex-2023-04-04/

by Gofighting777 $TD the Canadian bank has 3.7 billion short positions right now for 4 reasons: The bank is in a deal to buy US regional bank First Horizon ($FHN) with $13.4 billion. As First Horizon is current trading at $17 (32% below the acquisition price $25 pre share), investor think TD overpaid for the … Read more

FDIC chose BlackRock to handle securities portfolios worth $27 billion and $87 billion from recently failed banks Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Valley Bank. Similar to how in 2008 the US government chose BlackRock to handle toxic assets from Bear Stearns and AIG, and in 2020 when the US government chose them to handle the … Read more

MOMENTS AGO: An ambulance right in the White House. https://t.co/7pcWFfGdPD — Simon Ateba (@simonateba) April 6, 2023

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by Simian_Stacker I can almost guarantee that the people who drink budlight are the same people these idiots pissed off. Why do these companies to this rather than stay neutral? Are they being compensated, tax breaks? It makes no sense. Imagine selling beer at a basketball game and you’re wearing one team’s jersey and booing … Read more

I have been puzzled last few months as to why China started reporting its gold purchases after remaining silent since 2019, and why they were relatively small purchases.Perhaps they have as much gold as they need and are now content to let the price move higher? https://t.co/JHDth73KWP — Frank Giustra (@Frank_Giustra) April 5, 2023

CHARLES HUGH SMITH: Global Bankruptcy Already Baked In Scrape away the complexity and every economic crisis and crash boils down to the precarious asymmetry between collateral and the debt secured by that collateral collapsing. It’s really that simple. In eras of easy credit, both creditworthy and marginal borrowers are suddenly able to borrow more. This flood of new cash seeking … Read more