Hope I’m not the only one who thinks something could go wrong…

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Giant VIX options trades bet that the stock-market calm won’t last https://t.co/nLT8uGu0uQ — Elena Popina (@lena_popina) April 8, 2021 https://twitter.com/farrisbaba/status/1380247823631986692 BlackRock's Larry Fink calls for private companies to also make ESG disclosures. If he is serious, he'll champion the #TransparencyLabelInitiative as it provides investors the leverage they need to force these disclosures. https://t.co/1NgyjERD74 — Richard … Read more

Executive Action Spree Continues: Biden Takes Shots at Gun Violence

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By Chris Black Motto: I bet Madison’s original wording was: “shall not be infringed, mofo”. CBS: Washington — President Biden unveiled his first attempts to curb gun violence on Thursday, announcing a set of modest moves designed to begin revamping federal gun policy by tweaking the government’s definition of a firearm and more aggressively responding … Read more

Mapping the Highest Paid Professions in Each State

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by howmuch Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it can make your life easier. That’s why a lot of young people immediately think about future earning potential for a given career path. This map can help frame the choices by identifying the most highly paid occupation for every state in the U.S. Use this visualization Dentists in … Read more

The Market is Near Screwed at This Point

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by blaclaureate There are a few outliers that have particularly showed up today that causes me some concern. ⁠We had a slew of great data on the economic front. Record high job momentum. Possibly new spending on infrastructure. A populous looking to spend money. All of this is a positive but the market tanked over … Read more

Laptop evidence ‘strongly indicates’ Joe Biden is ‘compromised’ on China

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New York Post Columnist Miranda Devine says evidence on Hunter Biden’s laptop indicates “strongly” that President Joe Biden is “compromised” through his family with President Xi Jinping. “One night I’m sitting at home in this apartment in New York that I live in and I get a text message with some very curious photographs on … Read more

Trade Deficit Grew to Record $71.1 Billion Biden’s First Full Month in Office… Biden Releases Details of $2.5 Trillion in New Taxes

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The U.S.’s trade deficit widened 4.8 percent to a record $71.1 billion in February, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. Economists had forecast a trade gap of $70.4 billion. The January gap was revised down from $68.2 billion to $67.8 billion. Both imports and exports fell in the month but the pace of the decline of … Read more

“The entire DeceptiCon wing of the professional political class is going to come out advancing the case for Nikki Haley to be the standard-bearer of the GOP. Haley is the Mitt Romney of John McCains.”

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by Sundance  Reviewing FEC reports for Nikki Haley’s Political Action Committee (PAC), Stand For America, reflects the professional DeceptiCon is in the money gathering phase with no expenditures.  [LINK]  This is predictable in the extreme and CTH again issues a warning: Beware Nikki Haley folks. After staying silent on critical issues until after the polling is complete, Nikki Haley now … Read more

Winning: Arizona Legislature Passes Resolution Opposing H.R. 1, the Federal Government’s Power Grab to Control State Elections…. Lawsuit Forces Pennsylvania To Take 21,000 Dead People Off Its Voter Rolls

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Lawsuit Forces Pennsylvania To Take 21,000 Dead People Off Its Voter Rolls The state of Pennsylvania has removed over 20,000 deceased voters from being able to vote following a settled lawsuit filed by The Public Interest Legal Foundation. The suit, filed in November, alleged that at least 21,000 deceased individuals were still on voter rolls during … Read more

Stephen Miller Launches MAGA-Minded Legal Network to Counter Democrat Lawfare Group

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by Sundance This is long overdue, and worthy of support.  Most CTH readers are now aware what the Lawfare group is all about.  Inside the Lawfare network the far-left political ideologues organize and launch attacks against anything they view as adverse to their interests.  The Lawfare network is made up of Obama ideologues and former DOJ … Read more

ICE gave $87M no-bid contract to business with Biden ties, raising conflict of interest questions

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The Biden administration did not solicit bids for a multimillion contract to house migrant families in hotels and instead gave the massive contract to an organization whose leadership has ties to the White House, including one official who was on the Biden transition team. In its rush to stand up facilities to hold families who … Read more

Peter Thiel: China may be using bitcoin as ‘financial weapon’ against U.S.

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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-may-be-using-bitcoin-as-financial-weapon-against-u-s-says-peter-thiel-11617837743 https://news.yahoo.com/peter-thiel-suggests-bitcoin-may-214400523.html Thiel said China would like to see two global reserve currencies, rather than the dollar being the default reserve currency. But China doesn’t want its renminbi to fill that role, and in the past has used the euro “in part” as a weapon against the dollar. That hasn’t worked, so now China is … Read more

Texas Governor Greg Abbott Orders Texas Rangers to Investigate Joe Biden Detention Facility for Sex Crimes Against Children

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by Sundance  There is no reasonable doubt illegal alien children are being transported across the southern border to engage in the illegal act of child sex trafficking.  We saw the same issues in 2014 during the previous Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) influx.  The massive surge of child trafficking in the past three months is directly the result of … Read more