Hospitals Pushed to Financial Ruin as Nurses Quit En Masse…

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Across the country, hospitals are buckling under the strain of nursing shortfalls and the spiraling cost of hiring replacements. For Watsonville Community Hospital on California’s Central Coast, those costs became too much to bear, and contributed to the facility’s bankruptcy this month, according to a person familiar with the situation. The shortages are most acute … Read more

Most Americans can save $2,000 a year from little-known tax break

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Americans looking to tuck away some extra cash next year can take advantage of an oft-overlooked tax break recently updated by the Internal Revenue Service to reduce their liability next year. The retirement savings contribution credit – frequently shortened to the saver’s credit – provides up to $1,000 in credit to low- and middle-income Americans … Read more

Inflation Peaking? Watch These 3 Charts!

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by Kimble Charting Over the past 18 months, I’ve penned several articles about traceable commodity breakouts and rising commodities prices… and inflation risks. With each breakout came more inflation pressures. And today, we continue to battle high energy, food, and housing prices. But what if I told you there was a chance that inflation is … Read more

The Great Supply Chain Collapse – Jim Rickards

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Global supply chains are facing a very chaotic crisis that only seems to get worse. While some bottlenecks ease others are just starting. With each passing day, new shortages emerge around the world due to delivery delays, shipping disruptions, and a record congestion of cargo ships at ports. The network of world trade is also … Read more

Chris Hedges: “It’s the Slow Motion EXECUTION of Julian Assange”

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https://youtu.be/FTVnv5NWkKU On the show, Chris Hedges discusses The Trial of Julian Assange, a new book by Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture. Julian Assange, the founder and spokesman of … Read more

Biden administration announces plan to plug the gaps in Trump’s wall after stopping construction”

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DHS announced Monday it’s taking over filling and fixing border wall gaps from the Pentagon after the Biden administration halted construction on Day One   Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says there’s a need to address ‘life, safety, environmental, and remediation requirements for border barrier projects’ Comes as migration continues to surge at the southern border, reaching 173,620 in … Read more

California Governor Gavin Newsom to REFUND the Police With Over a Quarter of a BILLION Dollars to Battle Retail Crime Smash and Grabs

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View post on imgur.com Governor Gavin Newsom introduced a new plan to fight and prevent crime in California as the state faces a spike in organized smash-and-grab thefts this holiday season. Called the “Real Public Safety Plan,” the new legislation includes $255 million in grants for local law enforcement over the next three years in … Read more

Prepare Now for “Shock and Awe” Inflation – or Suffer the Consequences…

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by: David Smith The Producer Price Index (PPI) is a measure of inflation expectations by industry producers. Most investors keep an eye on the Consumer Price Index (CPI). However, the CPI gauge is not only incomplete, it is, as U.S. Global’s Frank Holmes likes to say, “backward looking” …and, as Graham Summers pointed out, “gimmicked … Read more

Fed Reverse Repo Usage Rises to Record for Fourth Straight Day As Turkish Lira Volatility Hits All-time High And US Current Account Balances Rise To 2006 Levels

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by confoundedinterest17 (Bloomberg) — The amount of money that investors are parking at a major central bank facility climbed to yet another all-time high as supply-demand imbalances continue to dog U.S. dollar funding markets.  Eighty-one participants on Monday placed a total of $1.758 trillion at the Federal Reserve’s overnight reverse repurchase agreement facility, in which counterparties like money-market funds … Read more