Grocery shoppers look to expired food to save money
(NewsNation) — Grocery shoppers have become resourceful amid America’s ongoing record inflation, which has spiked grocery prices by 13% over the last year. According to a September Food Dive study, six out of 10 of the 2,000 surveyed consumers reported buying foods close to the expiration date due to affordability, with 46% saying they disregard … Read more
New Zealand bans future generations from buying tobacco for life or fined NZ$150,000
People used to move to New Zealand for a free and open new life. Now it’s a totalitarian nightmare. Future generations of New Zealanders will be banned from purchasing tobacco as part of a package of new anti-smoking laws that has passed parliament and are among the strictest in the world. The suite of new … Read more
Tesla trading at lowest PE ever
h/t ccmarketgoats
Binance reportedly processed over $10 billion in illegal payments this year and a DOJ investigation is looking into top executives including CEO Changpeng Zhao. Did Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents call in a few DoJ favors? Payback is a b*tch…
The US Justice Department has been investigating crypto exchange Binance over money laundering violations, Reuters reported Monday. The report says that Binance processed over $10 billion worth of illegal payments in 2022. A Binance spokesperson told Insider that it would be “inappropriate for us to comment” on matters related to the DOJ. The US Department … Read more
Lol! This person has a legitimate point here.
Russia has a separate internet that Putin controls. If it’s not state media, Putin doesn’t want his citizens seeing it. Did you see the forbidden list of phrases and topics that will get you in jail? https://variety.com/2022/politics/news/russia-censorship-law-fake-news-1235196208/ h/t CryptoInform
Gone In November? US Inflation Growth Slows To 7.1% YoY, Real Hourly Wage Growth “Improves” To -1.9% YoY (Fuel Oil UP 65.7%, Food At Home UP 12%)
by confoundedinterest17 Is inflation “gone in November”? Nope. Slowing, yes, but at 7.1% YoY and core inflation at 6.0% YoY, it is still considerably higher than The Fed’s target of 2%. And the American middle class and low wage workers are still suffering with REAL average hourly earnings growth at -1.9% YoY. The biggest losers in the inflation … Read more
Has Inflation Finally Peaked? Let’s Take a Look…
By Graham Summers, MBA The markets have reached a new level of stupidity. Stocks are exploding higher based on inflation coming in at 7.1% Year over Year. This is apparently great news because Wall Street expected the number to be somewhere between 7.2% and 7.6%. So, according to those buying stocks today, a 0.1% “beat” … Read more
SEC Alert! SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investors in Crypto Asset Trading Platform FTX. Defendant concealed his diversion of FTX customers’ funds to crypto trading firm Alameda Research while raising more than $1.8 billion from investors
Source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-219 The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Samuel Bankman-Fried with orchestrating a scheme to defraud equity investors in FTX Trading Ltd. (FTX), the crypto trading platform of which he was the CEO and co-founder. Investigations as to other securities law violations and into other entities and persons relating to the alleged misconduct are ongoing. … Read more
Now imagine what Alphabet and the Pentagon are doing….
Now imagine what Alphabet and the Pentagon are doing…. pic.twitter.com/fRhkErTUJS — Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) December 12, 2022 Thanks to @elonmusk’s Twitter Files, we now know that James Baker had an outsized role in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story at Twitter. Last week, we sent a letter to Twitter, asking the platform to look into … Read more
Market hears what it wants to hears and disregards the rest.
Consumer prices rose less than expected in November, up 7.1% from a year ago JUST IN – US inflation at 7.1% in November, lower than expected. — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) December 13, 2022 Fed will need to unwind this, but not today. Despite efforts:FED'S POWELL: NO 5% INFLATION IS NOT ACCEPTABLE Market hears what it wants … Read more
We went from a secure border under President Trump’s watch, to this.
We went from a secure border under President Trump’s watch, to this. https://t.co/5wFC5fDRs2 — Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) December 12, 2022 Biden Advisor Jake Sullivan: “We believe that that system is a system that does an effective job of being able to determine who is coming across the border.” Over 1 MILLION “gotaways” have illegally … Read more
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Says Mark Zuckerberg Served Him Goat He Killed ‘With a Laser Gun and Then the Knife’
Dorsey told Rolling Stone, “Well, there was a year when he was only eating what he was killing.” “He made goat for me for dinner. He killed the goat,” Dorsey continued, adding, “He kills it with a laser gun and then the knife.” Dorsey then said Zuckerberg told him that they were having only goat … Read more
With the holidays coming up, and family gatherings, please be mindful of others economic situations
by Guysmarket Not necessarily all that market related, but in this upcoming Christmas, there’s going to be many people in shaky economic situations. If you’re in a situation where you are sitting pretty, practice empathy and be careful about talking money. Many people may be facing potential job loss or have lost thousands in their … Read more
CPI Figures are out! Here’s the scoop
h/t Guysmarket
How Things Fall Apart
by Charles Hugh-Smith That’s how things fall apart: insiders know but keep their mouths shut, outsiders are clueless, and the decay that started slowly gathers momentum as the last of the experienced and competent workforce burns out, quits or retires. Outsiders are shocked when things fall apart. Insiders are amazed the duct-tape held this long. The … Read more
If They Get The Opportunity, They Will Transform Our Society Into A Dystopian Hellscape
by Michael If the elite get their way, our world will eventually look far more bizarre than any science fiction author ever imagined. If you haven’t figured it out by now, the elite are control freaks, and they are envisioning a future in which they are in control of all of our lives from birth … Read more
Miss Luggage Stealer has been fired by Joe Biden! Department of Energy Says Sam Brinton ‘Is No Longer a DOE Employee’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: The U.S. Department of Energy appears to have parted ways with Sam Brinton, the nonbinary Biden administration nuclear official who is facing charges for allegedly stealing two pieces of luggage at two separate airports. “Sam Brinton is no longer a DOE employee,” a Department of Energy spokesperson told The Daily Signal in an … Read more