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US #Congress Approval Ratings Collapse. Listen To This Insanity. pic.twitter.com/FhFszngRvC — Planet Ponzi (@PlanetPonzi) October 2, 2021

Via Birch Gold With inflation on the rise, manic market behaviors, and market volatility that doesn’t seem to be ending soon, retirement savers already have enough to think about. But even if things were more normal, your retirement game plan should still be built on a solid foundation. Without that foundation, the above-mentioned uncertainties can … Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris flew to Southern California on Friday for a quick trip but the White House was mum about the reason behind it, according to a report. Harris departed Friday afternoon from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland and flew to Palm Springs, a resort town about 107 miles east of Los Angeles, The … Read more

Special Counsel John Durham has issued a new set of subpoenas, including to a law firm with close ties to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, an indication that Durham could be trying to build a broader criminal case, according to people briefed on the matter. So far, Durham’s two-year probe into the FBI’s Russia investigation hasn’t … Read more

Democrats are having major issues in passing both the approximately $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and the near $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill and the reason for it is infighting among Democrats. Both bills are important parts of the Joe Biden agenda. Progressives have signaled that they will not vote for infrastructure unless reconciliation is passed at … Read more

Donald Trump has asked a federal judge in the US to force Twitter to restore his account, which was shut down after his supporters attacked the US Capitol in January https://t.co/7UrivW6A9n — Sky News (@SkyNews) October 2, 2021

Pelosi’s Little Big Horn. Democrats have discovered something worse than having a septuagenarian as president: having an octogenarian as House speaker. Nancy Pelosi just suffered a week from hell. (Unkind people would say a taste of her future.) First, Joe Manchin stopped if only temporarily her party’s Only Fans donors spendathon. In response, the AOC … Read more

Public domain photo via Federal Reserve From Birch Gold Group The “drop-dead date” for raising the debt ceiling is quickly approaching… That’s a quote from a recent article: The Treasury now estimates that the “drop dead date”, i.e. the date at which the Treasury will exhaust all of its extraordinary measures if Congress has not acted to raise … Read more

A familiar face is returning to Foxboro this weekend. Yet when Tom Brady spoke to the media on Thursday afternoon, he did not have a familiar voice. The 44-year-old quarterback gave his weekly press conference for the media in Tampa, and immediately, his raspy voice was startling to hear. Brady has had some on-and-off rasp … Read more

Translation: Our children grow up in a sanitary dictatorship. If they see their parents, they’ll shut up If they don’t complain, they’ll take it dictatorship as something normal. And in time, they’ll cease to be anyone’s children… Деца нам одрастају у санитарној диктатури.Ако виде родитеље да ћутеда се не буне, прихватићедиктатуру као нешто нормално.И временом … Read more

No one likes losing money, but Tuesday’s stock-price fall worries me more than the headline of a 2% fall in the S&P 500 should. In itself, 2% is no biggie: three days this year had bigger falls, and on average we have had seven worse days a year since 1964. What bothers me is that … Read more

A new study suggests that the Canadian government is vastly underestimating changes in food costs, and that the real prices increases may be double what has been reported. Statistics Canada has reported a 2.7 increase in food prices over the past year, but new research is now showing that it may be actually five percent … Read more