Multi-year declines in stocks are unusual. When they do happen, the declines tend to accelerate in year 2 and 3. Could this be the markets 2022-2024?

by silvertomars   Elon Musk Predicts “Serious Recession” in 2023, Announces Plans for Twitter and Tesla Elon Musk, the billionaire head of Tesla, Space X, and Twitter, on Thursday predicted a “serious recession” in 2023 and promised not to sell Tesla stock next year “under any circumstances.” Speaking in a Twitter Spaces audio forum, Musk … Read more

Storm Cuts US Oil, Gas, Power Output, Sending Prices Higher

via theepochtimes: Frigid cold and blowing winds on Friday knocked out power and cut energy production across the United States, driving up heating and electricity prices as people prepared for holiday celebrations. Winter Storm Elliott brought sub-freezing temperatures and extreme weather alerts to about two-thirds of the United States, with cold and snow in some areas to linger through the … Read more

U.S. lawmakers unveil bipartisan bid to ban China’s TikTok

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Senator Marco Rubio on Tuesday announced bipartisan legislation to ban China’s popular social media app TikTok, ratcheting up pressure on owner ByteDance Ltd amid U.S. fears the app could be used to spy on Americans and censor content. The legislation would block all transactions from any social media company in or … Read more

Border Is Deteriorating Even Before End of Title 42… Open Borders of America Will Lead to Our Downfall… McConnell Funding Border Security Overseas, Defunding at Home

via washingtontimes: Border authorities nabbed 233,740 illegal immigrants at the southern border in November, setting a new record for that month and underscoring the chaos of the situation even before the end of the Title 42 pandemic border expulsion policy. Homeland Security announced the numbers in a holiday weekend Friday evening data dump. Significant surges of … Read more

Socialist Christmas: Venezuela Gives Users of Its Social Credit System Card $2.67

Venezuela’s socialist regime distributed a “Hope is Reborn” Christmas bonus stipend this week to users of its Chinese social credit system-inspired Fatherland platform. The “generous” gift of 44 Venezuelan Bolivars was worth $2.84 on Monday and is now worth $2.67 as of Friday’s official exchange rate. The $2.67 is far short of being able to … Read more

Department of Insecurity: Feds Failed to Collect Thousands of Security Cards From Ex-Employees

While it was dabbling with disinformation offices and censorship projects, the Homeland Security Department failed to follow its most basic safety procedures and terminate the security credentials for thousands of its ex-employees, its internal watchdog disclosed in a stinging report Thursday that rebuked years of inaction. The revelation from the DHS inspector general means that … Read more

BOOM: DISNEY’s $185 drink…

A Disneyland visit is more expensive than it’s ever been, but as guests prove time and time again, if the company puts an exorbitant price on something, someone will pay it. Many someones, actually, if the new $185 drink is any indication. What might surprise you about this libation is that it’s actually in line with market value. Every holiday … Read more

Wisconsin’s ‘We Energies’ Company Warns Customers to Lower Thermostats to 60 Degrees After Natural Gas Pipeline Malfunction as Subzero Temperatures Hit State

Wisconsin Energies (WE Energies) asked customers on Friday to immediately lower their thermostats to 60 to 62 degrees on Christmas Eve. The gas company is experiencing a significant failure in equipment that is limiting the amount of fuel it sends to its customers. WE Energies serves more than 1.1 million users in Wisconsin. Temperatures are expected to … Read more

‘It’s Called Day Drinking’: Twitter Reacts to Speaker Pelosi’s Embarassing Gaffe in Final Speech as House Speaker

You would think with a title called “Speaker” of the House that a politician could, you know, actually speak. But that proved to be a nearly insurmountable challenge for Nancy Pelosi, who many political observers suspected of being ‘three sheets to the wind’ in her final speech as House Speaker. While casting her vote for the … Read more

Musk Says Twitter’s New CEO Could Be MrBeast, World’s Biggest YouTuber

Elon Musk has said he’s open to the possibility that Jimmy Donaldson, the world’s biggest YouTuber known as MrBeast, could become Twitter’s new CEO. After earlier suggesting he would eventually quit being the chief executive at Twitter after taking over the social media platform in October, Musk ran a poll recently asking if he should … Read more

Wall Street lobbyists are frantically trying to kill a federal rule that requires banks to follow the law & not commit egregious crimes that get them criminally convicted on felony charges. This is happening RIGHT NOW

by BoatSurfer600 Amid a financial crime spree and spate of corporate convictions, federal regulators recently floated a proposed fix: strengthening an existing rule designed to bar criminal banks from managing — and profiting off — trillions of dollars of retirement funds. The idea seemed simple enough: Banks would be deterred from committing crime by the … Read more