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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9AFvjGMXYw Speculative bubbles are pushing the U.S. middle-class to the brink of financial ruin, as the cost of living continues to soar, wages have been on a persistent downfall, and debt just keeps on accumulating throughout the current economic recession. Over the past year, more than 8 million middle-class workers have fallen straight into poverty, … Read more
by David Brady via Sprott Money When it comes to FOMC meetings, I always say “Don’t trust the first move” immediately after the announcement and the follow-up press conference. Yesterday was no different. The initial response to the announcement was that the Fed was “uber dovish.” Bond yields eased back from their peaks earlier in the day, the … Read more
President Biden was elected on a promise that he would not raise taxes on people earning less than $400,000. The administration’s recently announced tax hike on “big business” will break this promise in practice, if not under the letter of the law. Remember, there’s a difference between who owes a tax and who actually bears … Read more
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/3/8/elon-musks-tesla-building-giant-battery-to-plug-into-texas-gri https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/report-tesla-is-secretly-building-a-giant-100-mw-battery-in-texas/ https://abc13.com/tesla-batteries-battery-storage-facility-angleton-location-texas-power-grid/10407112/#:~:text=Electric%20carmaker%20and%20energy%20company,Street%20and%20Murray%20Ranch%20Road. 7 acre site packed with LION batteries. 100 MW capacity. (It would have been more useful if they stated the watt-hours of energy it can hold). Just a drop in the bucket compared to the actual power used in the region. Seems pointless but mildly interesting. A super high voltage DC power … Read more
It was all part of her political games… h/t Cool sounds
The White House revealed that a handful of staffers were let go over past pot use, even though Vice President Kamala Harris has publicly admitted to smoking weed in college. Then-senator Harris, who was also a 2020 presidential candidate, supported legalizing marijuana at the federal level in 2019, saying that she smoked pot in college during an interview with a radio … Read more
Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat joins ‘Influencers with Andy Serwer’ to discuss the possibility of a global minimum corporate tax and what it would mean for Google
MOSCOW — The Taliban warned Washington on Friday against defying a May 1 deadline for the withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan, promising a “reaction,” which could mean increased attacks by the insurgent group. The Taliban issued their warning at a press conference in Moscow, the day after meeting with senior Afghan government negotiators and international … Read more
via theguardian: These days Democratic politicians lean on anyone with power over platforms to shut down the propaganda of the right. Former Democratic officials pen op-eds calling on us to get over free speech. Journalists fantasize about how easily and painlessly Silicon Valley might monitor and root out objectionable speech. In a recent HBO documentary on … Read more
Yahoo Finance’s Jared Blikre and IBD Multimedia Content Editor Alissa Coram discuss Tesla’s drop in price and why it may be worth considering skipping purchase of the stock.
From Birch Gold Group Is the market going insane? Is an enormous “everything bubble” – inflated with cash flowing into overvalued investments – headed for a historic explosion? Is the market in a “mania” phase right now? With every passing day, it’s getting more challenging to answer “no” to any of these questions. “Hyper-speculative,” “blindly courageous” stock market … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith Oops. Looks like the Fed’s magic (and our luck) have finally run out. Now that we’re teetering on the edge of the cliff, it might be a good idea to retrace how we stumbled down to this crumbling, precarious ledge. As I’ve discussed for the past 15 years, there are a handful of … Read more
by Adam Taggart For any problems they face, governments all over the world are now conditioned to simply deficit spend or issue new $trillions in ‘thin air’ currency. So how in danger are we of that recklessness leading to a breakdown of the entire system? Respected financial analyst Michael Every suspects we’re closer than most realize. As … Read more
Beijing Biden Has Made Parts of the US Infrastructure Vulnerable to the Chinese Communist Party Charlotte, NC — Sometimes, a government official does something so blatant that it really boggles the mind. Considering that Hunter Biden has some serious accusations against him concerning some extremely favorable treatment that he has received from the Chinese, one might … Read more
Huge concentration of power: 18 NATO ships in the Mediterranean – The Russian Fleet sailed under the sounds of war raids (video) Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The Russian Fleet is in a state of warhttps://t.co/rc1h0roDz3 — EndGameWW3 🇺🇸 (@EndGameWW3) March 19, 2021 https://warnews247.gr/terastia-sygkentrosi-ischyos-18-natoika-ploia-stin-m-thalassa-ypo-tous-ichous-polemikon-emvatirion-apeplefse-o-rosikos-stolos-vinteo/ About a week NATO has been trying to find the Rostov-on-Don … Read more
https://twitter.com/ilDonaldoTrumpo/status/1372992194500517892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Probably due to the high influx of new Biden memes.pic.twitter.com/2PMvO7lxWt https://t.co/Khb7rw4KeV — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 19, 2021 #Viral | #BIDEN TROPIEZA AL SUBIR A SU AVIÓN Y LOS MEMES NO SE HICIERON ESPERAR.#JoeBiden, presidente de Estados Unidos, tropezó en varias ocasiones mientras subía al avión oficial Air Force One, para luego saludar a … Read more
