BY JOHN RUBINO Financial history includes plenty of extreme years. That’s not surprising, since we’re emotional beings with short memories. Combine those two traits and you get cycles, many of which end with a bang. Even so, this one stands out. A full accounting of the ways in which today’s financial markets have exceeded previous bounds … Read more
Merseyside Police outside an Asda store today. “Being offensive is an offence.” Staggering. pic.twitter.com/VBeCJsDS2s — Paul Embery (@PaulEmbery) February 21, 2021 A 48 sheet poster, printed and promoted by the police, that contradicts UK law. It’s no wonder people are being harassed on the streets for eating a sandwich, when we let these away with … Read more
by Michael Snyder Even if we weren’t facing an apocalyptic future of our own making, humanity would still be doomed due to the nightmarish reproductive crisis that we are now facing. Just about every measure of human fertility that you can measure is dropping precipitously, and this is particularly true in the western world. As … Read more
by Ron Paul of Ron Paul Liberty Report Americans have clearly lost their way. The same failed ideas are being played out in all the various aspects of our lives. Fortunately, the way back is not complex, but actually very easy. Americans must (once again) discard the disastrous belief in top-down government central planning and one-size-fits-all policies. They … Read more
Spring is springing: and with it a sign that lockdown measures will start to be eased. Care home residents in England will be allowed one regular visitor from the 8th of March – and reports suggest that people could be allowed to meet each other outdoors by Easter.
Press conference h/t Tcan61
They can’t pump fuel without electricity. Truck drivers stranded, shelves will empty out as a result in other states, I’m already seeing it. There is no popcorn anywhere. Any of our other Southern state members stuck without gas other than Texas? https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Power-outages-causing-gas-stations-to-close-15957194.php https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-19/gas-stations-still-dark-as-texas-emerges-from-big-freeze https://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/news/some-texas-gas-stations-run-out-of-fuel/vi-BB1dNLsa h/t chasity
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1363522279141826560 https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1363522293876461569 https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1363522310183944193 Biden Refused Abbott’s Request That He Sign Major Disaster Declarations For 177 Texas Counties After Refusing To Allow Texas Power Plants To Operate At 100% Capacity Resulting In Massive Power Outages h/t KiT
The Quad rejected Biden’s vision and even in the first meeting of the G7 leaders at the Munich Security Council, where he tried to regurgitate his rhetoric of ‘America being back,’ wasn’t well received. Watch to know more.
British surgeons have carried out the world’s first transplants in children using dead hearts that were brought back to life. Using a pioneering machine, NHS medics have been able to reanimate hearts from donors whose hearts had stopped. 14-year-old Freya Heddington first complained of shortness of breath and feeling faint in 2019. She was diagnosed … Read more
The food was taking too long to come out, and customers started to trash everything. AC
https://twitter.com/michaeljburry/status/1363383141168128004?s=21 “Speculative stock #bubbles ultimately see the gamblers take on too much debt. #MarginDebt popularity accelerates at peaks. At this point the market is dancing on a knife’s edge. Passive investing’s IQ drain, and #stonksgoup hype, add to the danger.” There’s been a lot of talks about the current market being a bubble, that could … Read more
by Jason Burack of Wall St For Main St The Fed’s balance sheet is up $150 billion in only 2 weeks and is on its way towards $8 trillion very quickly. This large increase so quickly is mostly from $100 billion in purchases of toxic mortgage backed securities (MBS). FULL SHOW NOTES AND LINKS HERE Commit to tipping … Read more
It probably should not be surprising when Americans hand Democrats total control of the federal government in Washington — both houses of Congress plus the White House. But it is significant. A new Gallup poll is reporting a large majority of Americans (57 percent) want more federal government regulation of the large technology companies. That’s … Read more
An ongoing coronavirus pandemic wasn’t going to stand in the way of city employees making big bucks, with more earning six figures, $200,000 and $300,000 in 2020 than they did in 2019. As always, the top of the list is dominated by the city’s cops and firefighters, according to the city’s 2020 payroll data released Friday. The … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUp1ZysjsPE https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-rosengren-fiscal-idUSKBN2AJ2CO https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/enrollment-us-community-colleges-plummets-amid-pandemic-76017644 https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2021/02/third-stimulus-check-update-biden-challenges-critics-of-19t-spending-plan-that-includes-1400-payments-what-should-i-cut.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/20/biden-declares-major-disaster-in-texas-as-state-struggles-with-fallout-from-power-outages.html#BREAKING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dE0DciFe3A Leah Barkoukis from Townhall reports, The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, met virtually Wednesday to discuss legislation that would establish a commission looking into reparations for black Americans. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbar…
by Martin Jones via Mises In recent years a number of economic studies have concluded that small to moderate increases in the minimum wage do not necessarily cause a discernible decline in employment. Social activists have seized on these findings to argue that there are no job losses and that it is possible to increase mandated wages … Read more
