30y mortgage rates in the US just hit 3.85%

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View post on imgur.com https://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/mortgage-rates 30y mortgage rates in the US just hit 3.85%: that’s 1pp higher vs Feb 2021. The new marginal buyer’s real salary has shrunk, but let’s say he wants to pay the same $2k/month. He can now afford a $350k house versus $400k 1y ago. >10% less.   h/tĀ Patriot_King

Almost a year later, entire City of Austin without drinking water again

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Sounds like somebody stirred up the shit. “A release from Austin Water says Austin Waterā€™s Ullrich Water Treatment Plant is out of service due to an ā€œinternal treatment process issue that resulted in high turbidity within the plant.ā€ https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/boil-water-notice-issued-for-austin-water-users/ “It appears this will be over in a couple of days,ā€ Austin Mayor Steve Adler said … Read more

Goldman Sachs Rushes to Buy Up One Precious Metal in 2022

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Via Birch Gold Group ā€œGolden Lion Statueā€ byĀ Maxwell HamiltonĀ is licensed underĀ CC BY 2.0. This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Goldman Sachs recommends buying ā€œthe defensive real assetā€ gold; Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio recommends a greater allocation to gold; and the … Read more

Inflation: What The Fed Sees (3%) Versus What Main Street Feels (18%) Bare Shelves?

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byĀ confoundedinterest17 Inflation is literally burning a hole though the pockets of Americans. The Flexible Price CPI is raging at 18% YoY. The Dallas Fed has their preferred measure of inflation, the trimmed mean CPI, is growing at only 3.05% YoY. The classic measure of inflation, CPI YoY, is growing at 7.12%. That is of course … Read more

FLASHBACK: GoFundMe supported Antifa-occupied ā€˜CHAZ/CHOPā€™ even after people were murdered

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GoFundMe, the crowdfunding platform that recently seized over $10 million in funds intended for the Canadian truckersā€™ Freedom Convoy, financially supported and promoted the illegal ā€œCapitol Hill Autonomous Zoneā€ or CHAZ/CHOP in Seattle, Washington during the height of the summer 2020 riots that broke out in the wake of George Floydā€™s death. As detailed by … Read more

Lindsey Graham wants to read all your communicationsā€¦ Every text, every comment you makeā€¦

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Itā€™s Back: Senators Want EARN IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages   People donā€™t want outsiders reading their private messages ā€”not their physical mail, not their texts, not their DMs, nothing. Itā€™s a clear and obvious point, but one place it doesnā€™t seem to have reached is the U.S. Senate.   A group of … Read more

Current List of State Attorneys General Investigating

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https://twitter.com/NewsAlternative/status/1490043480525062146 DeSantis Announces Florida Will Investigate GoFundMe After Company Shut Down Freedom Convoy Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis announced Saturday morning that he will work with the stateā€™s attorney general to investigate GoFundMe after the company shut down a fundraiser for the Canadian truckers participating in the Freedom Convoy. ā€œThe fundraising effort had raised C$10 … Read more

Watch how noodles, rice and burgers are prepared and delivered by robots at the Beijing Olympics Village.

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Watch how noodles, rice and burgers are prepared and delivered by robots at the Beijing Olympics Village. https://t.co/b2FN00hFC1 pic.twitter.com/kh6iEIwWCk — CNN (@CNN) January 13, 2022 Forget about using ice cream scoops! This robot at the Olympic Village in Beijing is serving ice cream to visitors. #Beijing2022 pic.twitter.com/6ueld3zBkZ — Global Times (@globaltimesnews) January 30, 2022 ā€œPlease … Read more