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After massive pushback from Republican lawmakers, community banks and everyday Americans, the Treasury Department announced Tuesday it has increased the threshold for the IRS to monitor accounts from $600 to $10,000. “Having this summary information will help flag for the IRS when high-income people under-report their income (and under-pay their tax obligations). This will help … Read more

by riotofmind In my view, NFTs are nothing more than an attempt by crypto bros to legitimize and push blockchain to the masses. It is a fabricated use case to pump investment and nothing more. It reeks of all the culturally draining aspects of the internet/social media, which are, faux exclusivity, the flex, and synthetic … Read more

by five-acorn This is obvious when you think about it. All actual $$$ (real money, you know, stuff you can buy cars with) in the entire Bitcoin ecosystem – has come from someone who has bought a Bitcoin at some point. A bitcoin investor. If you bought BTC at $3k and now its sitting at $60k. … Read more

‘Institutional Investors’ that admitted to lying to banks to open bank accounts, allegedly sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Tether executives who are under US DOJ Criminal Investigation for bank fraud. To buy Tether. To buy Bitcoin. Instead of just buying Bitcoin. 'Institutional Investors' that admitted to lying to banks to open bank accounts, … Read more

by Aegidius25 The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) put out its most updated report on the unemployment situation recently. I’ve long had a problem with the numbers this government agency publishes. Over the years they have been brazenly manipulated and much of the data it purports to show isn’t much more than a glorified guess. The report … Read more

The executive director of California’s largest labor union resigned after the state Attorney General’s Office this month charged her and her husband with multiple counts of tax fraud, embezzlement, perjury and failure to pay unemployment insurance taxes. The office filed its charges against SEIU California Executive Director Alma Hernández and her husband, Jose Moscoso, on … Read more

COASTAL CAROLINA SUSPENDS PROF FOR NOT BEING OUTRAGED ENOUGH ABOUT SOMETHING MISTAKENLY DEEMED RACIST. CONWAY, S.C., Oct. 20, 2021  —  Theater students study the principle of the “willing suspension of disbelief,” meaning that in order to enjoy a show, audience members must suspend their critical thinking and believe that the performance onstage is really happening. To … Read more

Flagging for Joe Biden and the Democrats, even Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls “packing courts” “anti-democratic.” pic.twitter.com/PxXmfjc0fv — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 20, 2021

Gas prices are way up, but they’re shutting down the Keystone pipeline. Inflation is way up, but they want to print another $3.5 trillion worth of funny money. The labor supply is way down, but they want to keep paying people not to work. The border is being overrun, but they’re tearing down the border … Read more

A broad majority of Americans — more than 6 in 10 — believes the Supreme Court bases its decisions more on the justices’ political views than on the Constitution and law, a national survey released Wednesday shows. The new data, which came from the polling firm Selzer, appeared to reflect a growing disappointment with the … Read more

WASHINGTON — The quickening pace of Democratic retirements in the House may be the clearest indication yet that the party’s hopes of maintaining its narrow majority are fading amid President Biden’s sagging approval ratings, ongoing legislative struggles and the prospect of redrawn congressional districts that will put some seats out of reach. In recent days, … Read more

by WallStreetPoopStain Sauce: https://www.digitaljournal.com/business/troubled-developer-evergrande-to-resume-trading-warns-of-financial-obligations/article ​ For those not wanting to click the link here is a copy paste: By AFP Published October 20, 2021, Chinese developer Evergrande will resume trading in Hong Kong on Thursday, it said in a filing, but warned there was “no guarantee” it would be able to meet its financial obligations. The company … Read more

A pair of highly paid Atlanta government employees took hundreds of hours of paid time off to consult for Sen. Raphael Warnock’s (D., Ga.) political campaign, a double dip that saw them rake in nearly $100,000. According to campaign finance records, Phillana Williams and Erica Pines received a combined $97,500 from Warnock during the Georgia … Read more

PITTSBURGH — Twenty years ago, Paul Carson said he never would have hesitated to speak out at a school board meeting about any issue affecting his children’s education. But one day, that changed. “I just don’t do it,” Carson told me. A physician who practices medicine in an urban Pittsburgh hospital, Carson said it has … Read more

by Chris Black The stock has priced in 75 million cars delivered per year.  They were just a bit off that number.  You can’t be valued as much as every other car company on Earth combined, unless you sell more cars than every other car company on Earth combined.  Plus Ford makes more profit off … Read more

by Chris Black Part of the labor shortage is indeed that a lot of people have more money now than before the pandemic, but I think the main cause of the labor shortage is people realized during the lockdown that spending time with your family is better than working like a dog all year to … Read more

by Chris Black Look at those trannies bully this nerd. The right is pathetic.  Either go full fascist or do nothing.  If we were worthy we would be having protests outside those labs where they do transsexual experiments demanding they be shut down and all doctors inside put in prison. 🚨#BREAKING: Dozens of Netflix employees … Read more

by Chris Black Don’t be fooled.  The FBI is responsible for every police officer killed by black criminals due to hesitation to act.  The threshold is very low to trigger an FBI “civil rights” investigation when the suspect is black. As we saw with Derek Chauvin, you will not only be arrested, but also railroaded … Read more

by Chris Black A common misconception about the world I’ve noticed among Vaush and Destiny-type people is the belief that IQs have been rising for the past 200 years and continue to rise to this day.  In reality, Western IQs peaked during the Victorian Era.  World IQ has been dropping since 1950 and is projected … Read more