What Inflation? Home Price Growth Almost Doubles After Fed Printing Bonanza, Used Car Prices Up 36%, Lumber Up 149%, Copper Up 43%, Food Up 70%

by confoundedinterest17 The way that The Federal government measures inflation shows that there is little impact from the dramatic increase in M2 money supply. US Personal Consumption Expenditure Core Price Index YoY is only at 1.41%. Yet a number of commodities and housing have increased along with the massive expansion of Federal Reserve M2 money stock. … Read more

Patient Zero of the Bubble Pandemic: Alan Greenspan

By Matthew Piepenburg Below, we consider two well-known names in modern markets, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, and current value investing legend, Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of GMO Investment Strategies. Years ago, I sat down with Jeremy Grantham in an office overlooking Boston Harbor to not only consider an investment in his fund, but to absorb the … Read more

Sexual assault across #NYC up 322% from same time year, Rape is up 400% in Times Square.

Sexual assault across #NYC up 322% from same time year, Rape is up 400% in Times Square. #BillDeBlasio Has A Plan to Fix #Manhattan & NYC. With $30 Million From Defunding The #NYPD Police. Watch #NYMayor's Plan & Share! https://t.co/mjHJg1EHqR pic.twitter.com/4OdjfTxkL6 — Planet Ponzi (@PlanetPonzi) April 23, 2021 You certainly do not live in NYC, … Read more

You can really feel the panic buying.

You can really feel the panic buying. $SPX is at a new record high. pic.twitter.com/L7lj685aom — Brian Chappatta (@BChappatta) April 23, 2021 told ya, it got bought viciously . The market is brain dead for now, too much liquidity and stupidity. If I release a fart-coin this weekend, it will be bought like a gold … Read more

A BILLION HERE, AND A BILLION THERE, AND SOONER OR LATER, YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT REAL MONEY: Seven Wild Examples of Congress’s Corrupt 2020 Earmarks, Exposed.

A fight is raging in Congress over proposals to restore the practice of spending “earmarks,” small provisions slipped into spending bills quietly authorizing millions for local projects and special interests. But a new report reminds us that despite a “ban” on earmarks being implemented in 2011, the practice never fully went away. Published by the … Read more

OPEN BORDERS ARE ONLY POPULAR WITH THE RICH:

Politico: The border turned out to be a better attack on Biden than even Republicans thought. Business gets cheap employees, well-off individuals get cheap servants. Everyone else gets lower wages. In interviews with a dozen Democrats and Republicans — including GOP strategists, Biden advisers and immigration advocates who work with the White House — a picture emerges … Read more

Ice Age Farmer: OREGON BILL TO BAN LIVESTOCK – STUNNING WAR ON FARMING/RANCHING

Oregon Bill IP13 would criminalize raising food animals in the state, and reclassify animal husbandry practices as “sexual assault.” The bill specifies that animals can only be eaten after dying of natural causes (at which point, aged/diseased meat is not good). Oregon’s 12,000 beef producers raising about 1.3 million head of cattle are slated for … Read more

15 months apart

https://twitter.com/MWStory/status/1385509047806271488 UPDATE: Vox: It turns out we were wrong about the utility of travel bans to stop disease. “The easy angle here is hypocrisy but I think the real story is actually more interesting and more revealing about the way journalists at Vox and elsewhere channel the views of researchers and experts into firm conclusions only later to admit … Read more

Know your customer’ – Banks deploy AI systems to monitor customers & employees

A number of US banks have unleashed AI-powered cameras capable of both facial recognition and general behavioral pattern analysis, hinting at a wider rollout in retail stores and elsewhere – and a big drop in customer trust. Speaking to Reuters earlier this week, City National’s chief information security officer Bobby Dominguez tried to put a … Read more

AOC Slams GOP for Using ‘Statistics and Studies’ to Oppose Her Green Agenda

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D‑NY) celebrated Earth Day by accusing Republicans of using “statistics and studies” to fear-monger about the potential nightmares associated with abandoning fossil fuels in favor of so-called “green energy” produced by windmills. “Happy #EarthDay!,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a Thursday Twitter post introducing a video of her defense of the increased costs that … Read more

Virginia Cop Fired for Donating $25 to Kyle Rittenhouse

By Chris Black Do you remember our boy Kyle Rittenhouse? That 17 year old kid charged with first degree murder after he defended himself from antifa goons? Kyle shot and killed 2 antifa members in Kenosha Wisconsin with an AR -15 rifle, while a third attacker has had his arm blown off. https://twitter.com/AntifaWatch2/status/1298649108585099264 One of … Read more