Daniel Lacalle BOND BUBBLE Alert: Central Banks Still Purchasing 100% Of Net Debt Issued By Indebted Governments!

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Daniel Lacalle, Released on 9/12/21 Daniel Lacalle, PhD, economist and fund manager, is the author of the bestselling books Freedom or Equality (2020) and Escape from the Central Bank Trap (2017). He is a professor of global economy at IE Business School in Madrid and Chief Economist at Tressis SV. Ranked as one of the top twenty most influential … Read more

Why the Fed Is So Desperate to Hide Price Inflation

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by Thorsten Polleit via Mises Speaking at the Jackson Hole meeting on August 27, 2021, Federal Reserve (Fed) chairman Jerome J. Powell indicated that he supported “tapering” toward the end of this year and hastened to add that interest rate hikes are still a long way off. The term “tapering” means that the central bank reduces its monthly purchases … Read more

Social Security Administration disbursed $125.2 million in benefits to deceased beneficiaries

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This week’s Golden Horseshoe goes to the Social Security Administration, which paid $125.2 million to more than 2,500 deceased beneficiaries because agency employees failed to add death dates to its records, according to a final audit report by the agency’s Office of Inspector General. The internal watchdog performed the audit to determine if the SSA … Read more

How Equipment Left In Afghanistan Will Expose US Secrets

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The ultimate winner of two decades of war in Afghanistan is likely China. The aircraft and armored vehicles left behind when U.S. forces withdrew will give China—through their eager partners, the Taliban—a broad window into how the U.S. military builds and uses some of its most important tools of war. Expect the Chinese military to … Read more

Sign of things to come…

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It's happening… pic.twitter.com/JjDPuCkREw — Callum Thomas (@Callum_Thomas) February 11, 2021 !!!!! pic.twitter.com/CFbX75UFDR — Callum Thomas (@Callum_Thomas) February 19, 2021 Another rate hike. Started this thread as a sort of half-joke, but then did some work on smaller cbanks: yes they have their idiosyncratic issues, and if it was only 1 then that's one thing, an … Read more

Thomas Massie on fire… Telling great stories, ripping on Pelosi…

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https://youtu.be/3sH_wt0uMXY Massie appears with the legend Tom Woods. It’s a long clip, and I’ve only watched the first 21 minutes — but it’s just fantastic so far. Great stories, including Pelosi docking $500 from his Congressional paycheck because he wouldn’t bow to the Great Deception and don a zombie mask on the House floor. https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/thomas-massie-on-fire-telling-great-stories-ripping-on-pelosi/

Salesforce to pay employees to leave Texas..

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Salesforce committed to helping employees and their families relocate if they’re concerned about the ability to seek reproductive care, after a Texas abortion law went into effect. Lyft and Uber previously offered to pay legal fees for drivers who face potential lawsuits related to the new law. Salesforce told thousands of employees in a Slack … Read more

Wealthiest U.S. Colleges would see tax break from Democrats…

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(Bloomberg) — A tax on the richest private U.S. college endowments would be curtailed under a plan by House Democrats, provided the schools address tuition costs. The provision would reduce the tax through a calculation that weighs revenues from undergraduate tuition and fees against undergraduate financial aid, according to Liz Clark, a vice president at … Read more

After eighteen years of active duty service in the US Army, my lieutenant colonel husband has resigned

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After eighteen years of active duty service in the US Army, my lieutenant colonel husband has resigned He’s walking away from all he’s worked for and believed in since he was an ROTC kid at UGA He’s walking away from his retirement His resignation memo: pic.twitter.com/u1QU488fmI — Katie Phipps Hague (@AtTheHague) September 9, 2021 He … Read more