Millions of homeowners face mortgage misery after interest rates jumped for the fifth month in a row to a 13-year high of 1.25 per cent, which is this is the fastest that rates have risen over a six-month period since 1988. Borrowers with variable-rate deals will see their bills soar by hundreds of pounds a … Read more
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Outdoor events are banned by authorities in parts of France "until the end of the heat wave".https://t.co/8je4HYOuzg — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) June 17, 2022 Oh no! it’s summer and it’s hot. This has never happened before. h/t luisaywhitehat
NEW – Powell: "Rapid changes are taking place in the global monetary system that may affect the international role of the dollar." A US central bank digital currency is being examined to "help the US dollar's international standing." pic.twitter.com/htP6r1brNz — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) June 17, 2022
by SilverBoatSurfer Wolf Richter: Fed Stops Dillydallying. So OK, Maybe No Softish Landing. Markets on their Own
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, and his companies, Tesla Inc and SpaceX, are being sued for $258 billion over claims that he was involved in a Dogecoin cryptocurrency scheme that inflated the coin’s price and left investors with billion-dollar losses. What Happened: The class-action lawsuit, Johnson v. Musk, 22-cv-05037, accuses Musk of running a … Read more
*UPDATE* Second week of "Quantitative Tightening" and FED INCREASED its ~$9TN balance sheet by $14 Billion, including $20BN increase in residential MBS. As we've exposed, FED is buying more USTs and MBS than their own principal estimates. Zero explanation. Zero justification. https://t.co/EJtMSLnS82 pic.twitter.com/8s142NGvtE — Fix The Fed (@FixTheFed) June 16, 2022
Americans who think they might have been exposed to monkeypox should take precautions like masturbating 6 feet apart from their partner to prevent the spread of the virus, according to health officials. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month issued a list of safe activities for sexually active patients to engage in. … Read more
Six parking enforcement officers are off the job and another half-dozen are under the microscope after the city says it found that the ticket-writers had been penning fake or bad fines while they skipped work. Chief of Streets Jascha Franklin-Hodge told the Herald that the city has “clear evidence” of misconduct by six officers who … Read more
Two years after thousands of residents descended on Phoenix streets to protest police brutality and call on the city to divert money from police, some of the same activists were outside City Hall on Tuesday to condemn pay raises for officers. They called for better uses of the $19.8 million in police pay hikes that the City … Read more
Political Corruption and Injustice Threaten U.S. National Security. Bottom line: The sellout of fundamental American values by U.S. political and scientific elites for Chinese cash does strategic damage to America just as Pearl Harbor and 9/11 did psychological and operational damage. Professors; political creeps; the universities that debase and ignore American constitutional, political and cultural … Read more
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Source: https://t.co/ZCNlA69S9v — Conks (@conksresearch) June 16, 2022
by confoundedinterest17 I couldn’t sleep at all last night … after The Fed cranked up their target rate 75 basis points. The odds of a recession grew to 71.7% as The Fed hikes rates. Over the next 24 months, the probability of a US recession is 98.5%. The NASDAQ index tanked -4% today on the fallout from … Read more
Skip to 3:30 in this video, to hear the news item about the swarm of drones; probably the dronees were Chinese! News of a US Navy ship ‘swarmed’ by a ‘fleet of drones’ emerges A US Navy ship was “swarmed” by a fleet of drones, according to former Australia-China Council scholar Andrew Phelan. “It’s emerged … Read more
Bulls, it turns out that in 2022 you were fed a big load of bull shit. What was supposed to be an imminent Fed bailout turned out to be record tightening in a recessionary bear market. This is called GLOBAL LIQUIDATION mode. pic.twitter.com/q83D8f7phb — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) June 16, 2022 World’s Central Banks Unleash Most Hawkish … Read more
USA Today is a fact check partner for Facebook and maybe even Twitter. They just got busted produce fabricated news. Literally fake. Made up. Complete disinformation. Will Twitter be issuing a “deboost” penalty against USA TODAY. @elonmusk https://t.co/QzEttexw5d — Cernovich (@Cernovich) June 16, 2022
2/ Nuclear power is safe! People falsely believe it’s dangerous–like they falsely believe airplanes are more dangerous than cars. They’re swayed by emotion & don’t consider the evidence. — Brian Gitt (@BrianGitt) June 16, 2022 4/ Only ~200 people have died as a result of radiation from a nuclear accident in 60+ yrs. Yet millions … Read more
Short highlight… I asked, "Can you tell me if anyone on the vaccine approval committees ever received money from the people who make vaccines?" Fauci : "People who receive royalties are not required to divulge them." pic.twitter.com/a0YIm2jfvZ — Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) June 16, 2022 h/t CFP
I voted for Mayra Flores – first time I ever voted Republican. Massive red wave in 2022. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 15, 2022 h/t CFP
Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald reacts to Mayra Flores flipping a seat: "The split between the reality, and what elite media and political people have been saying could not be wider." pic.twitter.com/yVkqXYOWwd — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 16, 2022 Great @jimmy_dore Segment On Tucker Carlson Tonight Calling Out Joe Biden For Blaming Every Disaster Here At … Read more
This piece from The Intercept is long, but take your time reading it. It’s nourishment. As Ramesh Ponnuru quipped, “I’m not going to read [the story] all at once. Some things have to be savored.” Indeed. We cover the ‘woke excess’ beat on a regular basis, both in this space and on the radio, because it matters. A relatively small, loud group of … Read more
In footage obtained by Project Veritas of Thursday’s meeting with Twitter employees, Elon Musk stressed the importance of having free speech on the platform he is in the process of purchasing. “I think it’s essential to have free speech and for — and to be able to communicate, yeah, just communicate freely,” the SpaceX and Tesla CEO said in … Read more
Chalkbeat has announced the launch of a tool that will allow journalists to choose their sources by race or gender identity. Chalkbeat has announced the launch of a tool that will allow journalists to choose their sources by race or gender identity. The practice offered by the tool is being coined “source auditing.”The creator of … Read more
