Two Easy Predictions: Wealth Tax and Windfall Tax

by Charles Hugh-Smith Looks like we need another $500 billion or so. Hum baby! Predictions are hard, especially about the future, but two predictions are easy: 1) governments that do not yet impose wealth taxes will do so within the next five years and 2) governments will impose windfall taxes on all outsized unearned gains, from any source, … Read more

Pelosi intervenes on Brexit with fresh warning to UK after flying to Ireland for talks

Joe Biden ally Nancy Pelosi has once again intervened in a Brexit row despite hopes of a resolution between the UK and EU. The Speaker of the US House of Representatives flew to Ireland to hold talks on the Northern Ireland Protocol https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1671659/nancy-pelosi-brexit-warning-uk-northern-ireland-protocol-latest Brit-hating Biden and his sidekick, old lush Pelosi, deliberately interfering in other … Read more

Problems being caused by Fed hiking: wider credit spreads, rising default risk, shrinking bond-market liquidity, and growing currency turmoil. Uh-Oh…..

via Bloomberg: Excerpt: Strategists are looking beyond the key issue of inflation for other potential market metrics that may cause the Federal Reserve to slow its aggressive cycle of interest-rate hikes. An ugly August reading for US consumer prices last week cemented bets on a third straight 75 basis-point move when the central bank hands … Read more

British Columbia posts highest rate of unaffordable housing as ownership declines across Canada

“According to the Canadian Housing Statistics Program, over three-quarters, more than 77 per cent, of the condos in B.C. and more than two-thirds, almost 70 per cent, of those in Ontario that were not being lived in by the homeowner were owned by individual Canadian investors.” https://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/b-c-posts-highest-rate-of-unaffordable-housing-as-ownership-declines-across-canada-1.6077092

FOX: “North Dakota man free after admitting he mowed down ‘Republican’ teen over politics, records show”

View post on imgur.com https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-dakota-man-freed-50k-bond-fatally-striking-republican-extremist-car-records-show A person murdered a teen in McHenry, North Dakota, accusing him to be a right-wing extremist. Cayler Ellingson, 18, called his mother for help saying he was being pursued. He was found dead. The suspected killer, Shannon Brandt, is held on $50k. https://t.co/XqZTJtmVLf — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) September 20, 2022 … Read more

Forget Self Driving Autos….you are going to have to have an Interlock

NTSB says all vehicles need alcohol detectors and the law will soon require them https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/ntsb-vehicles-alcohol-detectors-law Uncle Joe Biden doesn’t want you driving drunk. NHTSA is already working on the topic as the infrastructure bill signed into law by President Biden in 2021 included a requirement for all vehicles to be equipped with passive alcohol interlocks, … Read more

Trans teacher with such huge prosthetic breasts is distrubing the kids so much they are skipping “her” class

The Halton District School Board said it would be against the Ontario Human Rights Code to criticize Oakville Trafalgar High School teacher Kayla Lemieux The transgender teacher went viral over the weekend when she was pictured wearing huge breast prosthetics in the middle of shop class Some students are reportedly skipping class over the incident, … Read more

Russian airlines have been ordered by the Kremlin to stop selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65

According to journalist Amir Tsarfati, Russian airlines have stopped selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65 unless they can provide evidence of approval to travel from the Ministry of Defense. All flights from Russia to available foreign destinations were sold out Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin declared a “partial” mobilization of the country’s … Read more

Nobel Prize-winning physicist urges Italians to cook pasta with the stove off to save 8 minutes of gas and reduce soaring energy bills

Expensive energy bills have pushed Italians to cook pasta with the stove switched off. Some chefs reportedly said pasta “will cook really badly” and turn sticky if the heat is turned off. Europe is currently facing an energy crisis as Russia chokes supplies to the continent. Some Italians are cooking their beloved pasta with the … Read more

SEC Alert! SEC Charges Cheetah Mobile’s CEO and its Former President with Insider Trading.

Executives Sold Securities through a Purported 10b5-1 Trading Plan FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2022-169 Washington D.C., Sept. 21, 2022 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the CEO of Cheetah Mobile Inc. and the company’s former President with insider trading for selling Cheetah Mobile’s securities, pursuant to a purported 10b5-1 trading plan, while in possession … Read more

Germany’s BILD (biggest daily newspaper): PRICES EXPLODE! INFLATION SOON IN DOUBLE FIGURES!

The German sheeple elected globalist Quislings. They’re getting exactly what they voted for, good & hard. I have no sympathy. Oh well i read the other day from an italian report "Default en mass starting by October" — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) September 21, 2022 That was Moscow, this is St Petersburg. People marching through the city … Read more