Manufacturing Outlook and Credit Are Deteriorating

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Manufacturing Outlook pic.twitter.com/z7xrDeNqqH — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) April 22, 2022 Credit deterioration @thedailyshot pic.twitter.com/MODF3aMpCk — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) April 22, 2022 CITI Economic Surprise Index (CESI) informs of economists estimates vs. realized economic outcomes on daily/weekly basis. Ex-Covid lock/reopen CESI is highest in many years. Economists are this wrong & economist constantly appear … Read more

A Quick Word on Inflation

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by Chris Black Companies planned 15-20% price hikes last fall for this spring and summer. Instead of hitting the shelf with that, they added an additional 20%. An $18 product was supposed to go to $22, but landed at $25. Two Dollar Tree stores near me closed. Killed by inflation and $15 minimum wage. With … Read more

You Will Eat “ze bugz” and You Will Be Happy

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by Chris Black The system has just released what its intentions are with respect to food prices, a 37% increase worldwide. This will starve to death at least half a billion people in the developing world.  The overpopulation and extreme poverty problems of the developing world are about to be “solved” in one brutal swoop … Read more

Lance Roberts: Is a bear market lurking?

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by Lance Roberts of Real Investment Advice: Is there a bear market lurking in the shadows? Such seems to be the question everyone is asking me as of late. Over the last couple of weeks, we have reviewed the bullish and bearish cases for the market. Sentiment Is So Bearish. It’s Bullish Bullish Or Bearish? … Read more

Jason Burack & Guest Harris Kupperman: $200 Oil? Oil Supply Deficit Keeps Expanding? $200 Uranium Coming Too?

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Wall St. For Main St., Released on 4/20/22 Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed first time guest, hedge fund manager Harris Kupperman aka Kuppy. Follow Kuppy on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/hkuppy Harris Kupperman aka Kuppy has been successfully investing in the markets for over two decades. He is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer … Read more

Democrats in the Florida House of Representatives can be heard yelling & shrieking after lawmakers voted to remove Disney’s special tax status—a privilege it held for 55 years.

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Democrats in the Florida House of Representatives can be heard yelling & shrieking after lawmakers voted to remove Disney’s special tax status—a privilege it held for 55 years. Disney employs 38 lobbyists in Tallahassee & donates generously to politicians. pic.twitter.com/ak7rBbB2vw — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) April 21, 2022

Canadian Banks are responsible for customer data breaches and leaked customer data, because of a loophole.

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by clearsmoke This is just my observation over the past 10+ years as an IT person. The Canadian banks use a loophole to have remote workers sit at empty workstations in their brick and mortar buildings. This allows them to move Canadian labour outside of Canada’s legal jurisdiction, while that foreign worker is represented by an … Read more

Shrinkflation – The Great Deception

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by TheNiteOw1 We all know “shrinkflation” exists, but I just experienced it big time last night/today. Made spaghetti for the family last night, I cook it like I always do, after it’s all done cooking, I pour the water out of the pot, and I look what I have in the pot. The amount of … Read more

US professor wins $400,000 payout after refusing to call trans student a woman. Shawnee State University in Ohio had reprimanded Nicholas Meriwether, who then sued on first amendment grounds.

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A public university in Ohio has agreed to pay $400,000 to one of its professors after it rebuked him for refusing to use a student’s pronouns. In 2018, Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University in southern Ohio, addressed a transgender student as “sir” when she raised her hand in class. This prompted … Read more