Who Ya Got? 81% of economists see recession Vs. Money managers see double-digit stock returns

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1. China reopening (I). “Still wonder why they are reopening? Hartnett shows it in one simple chart”. BofA (Hartnett) via TME 2. China reopening (II). Goldman Sachs “forecasts that China’s real GDP growth will rise 1.5 percentage points to 4.5% in 2023, and then to 5.3% in 2024”. Goldman Sachs Briefings 3. PPI (I). Producer prices “came in … Read more

Madoff victims only lost 12% of their investments. BTC is many times worse than the biggest Ponzi in history.

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According to the US Department of justice, recovery of assets for victims of the scheme totals 88.35% to date. Whereas BTC investors lost 40% in the last 6 months, and 70% from the ATH. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-total-distribution-over-4-billion-victims-madoff-ponzi-scheme   h/t  entered_bubble_50

HEADLINES FROM 1984: France will distribute free condoms to fight rising STD rates.

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Dec. 9 (UPI) — France will begin making condoms available for free to people over 18 and under 26 starting next month, in an effort to reduce the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. French President Emmanuel Macron made the public health announcement on Friday. Macron told the French publication La Nouvelle Républic that the country has a “real issue” when it … Read more

The fight is coming. Government will try to bring in social credit scores and it will be up to us to fight it.

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The fight is coming. Government will try to bring in social credit scores and it will be up to us to fight it. Are you ready? Are you making an effort to use cash where you can? Are you restricting your data sharing as much as you can? pic.twitter.com/ax4Ona9M9D — Malcolm Roberts 🇦🇺 (@MRobertsQLD) December … Read more

LONDON TIMES: “The secrets of Hunter Biden’s laptop spell trouble for Joe/When a trove of emails raised questions about the lucrative business dealings of the Biden family, America’s tech, media and intelligence elites stifled the story.”

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via althouse It is a truism of American politics that money swills around the top candidates to an alarming degree. And it is also true, and inevitable, that many candidates trust their family members above anyone else to deal with money and other perks that can come their way. Yet even by these standards, the Biden … Read more

Who Has Better Ethics, the Social Security System or Bernie Madoff?

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by Patrick Barron via Mises According to Wikipedia, Bernie Madoff ran the world’s largest Ponzi scheme. The losses were estimated to be as high as $65 billion. Madoff had promised to invest his customers’ money in productive enterprises and pay them generous returns, when in fact he spent the money and manufactured fake statements. His returns to his customers … Read more

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says he will testify to Congress NEXT WEEK about the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange in response to request to Democrats

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Sam Bankman-Fried announced on Friday that he is willing to testify to Congress next week about the firm’s collapse last month He said he will be limited in what he could say and that he ‘won’t be as helpful’ as he would like as he no longer has access to his files House Financial Services … Read more

Here comes the diversity- Biden Regime Boasts “Full Steam Ahead” on Terminating Title 42

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‘The Biden administration will be appealing a court ruling that invalidated a public health order U.S. border officials have used to expel migrants en masse from the U.S.-Mexico border during the coronavirus pandemic, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. A Biden administration official said the Justice Department was not asking federal courts to keep Title 42 … Read more

Government working with social media companies to stifle American free speech and interfere in our elections? This is a crime!

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We are NOT going to just “Let it go” WHO is going to hold them accountable. Serious question? Does it fall under our Military’s purview? Supreme Court? Since it is TREASONOUS… I say military.. 20. This post about the Hunter Biden laptop situation shows that Roth not only met weekly with the FBI and DHS, … Read more

When labor market remains tight & inflation remains elevated, the result is higher wages. The FED has to raise rates further otherwise inflation will bounce again.

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When labor market remains tight & inflation remains elevated, the result is higher wages. JOB VACANCIES / UNEMPLOYMENT RATE RATIO The FED has to raise rates further otherwise inflation will bounce again. pic.twitter.com/f5AAsxMSUD — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) December 10, 2022