Aussies are being called upon to sacrifice their standard of living in order to allow more spending on defence as global threats increase.

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by Boo_Randy You’ll lower your standard of living to boost the one percent’s defense stocks, and you’ll like it. A former head of ASIO says Australians should sacrifice their standard of living to enable more spending on defence amid building global tensions. Former spy boss turned ANU professor Duncan Lewis said the 2-3 per cent … Read more

Only 18% of Americans plan to increase their stock market investments this year, according to a survey.

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The stock market’s roller-coaster ride isn’t inspiring confidence in investors. Still, a small portion do plan to take advantage of recent price dips. About 18% of Americans are willing to put more money into stock market investments this year, including retirement accounts, according to a recent survey from Bankrate. The online survey polled more than 1,500 … Read more

Whoopi Goldberg: If women can’t have abortions we’re ‘going to come for’ guns, ‘get ready to give them up’

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In their furor over the recent Uvalde, Texas school shooting, the women of The View slammed Republicans Wednesday for defending Second Amendment rights and demanded they be as aggressive about gun control as they are about defending the unborn. The panel discussed the horrific mass killing of 19 children and two teachers at a Texas … Read more

Biden Regime Pushes World Health Assembly to Providing WHO Power Over the US During Pandemics – While Smaller Member States Are Objecting It

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The Biden Administration is pushing the World Health Assembly to approve its amendments to the treaty with the WHO which would give the WHO power over the US during any WHO declared pandemic. TGP has reported the past few weeks on the amendments the Biden Administration planned to bring before the WHO that would assign … Read more

The case for being a bear

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by Probably_Faking_It Alright, so, story time for you degenerates. Imagine your in Kindergarten and sitting at a multicolored carpet on top of a weird shape your teacher told you was a letter. ​ I just went to the store to pick up a few things. One of the things I needed to pick up was … Read more

Elon just modified his $TWTR funding – he is eliminating the $6.25B margin loan and replacing it with a bigger equity commitment (now a $33.5B PERSONAL GUARANTEE).

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Here's where Elon previously reduced the margin loan from $12.5 to $6.25B. This has always been the most at-risk piece of the financing to fall away and cause Elon to not close. This is a potential gamechanger.https://t.co/BWZS0m0Fgz — Compound248 💰 (@compound248) May 25, 2022

Gasoline + reopening categories (particularly airfares) continuing to put a lot of upward pressure on CPI

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Gasoline + reopening categories (particularly airfares) continuing to put a lot of upward pressure on CPI https://t.co/7uh74aRBGo pic.twitter.com/u4CHK8XYXI — Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) May 25, 2022 US petroleum inventories (crude, SPR, oil products) in million barrels – EIA #oott pic.twitter.com/k5kt4ur2dt — Giovanni Staunovo🛢 (@staunovo) May 25, 2022

There’s A Massive Fiscal Tightening Underway. The Economy Has To Get Real Bad So The Fed Can Come In Again And Save It

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THERE'S A MASSIVE FISCAL TIGHTENING UNDERWAY These days all the focus is on the Fed's monetary moves. But people should also be looking at what's happening on the fiscal side, where an extremely rapid tightening is underway From the @markets newsletter https://t.co/Pl5nZqsNJq pic.twitter.com/g3bbT7GmDb — Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) May 23, 2022 https://twitter.com/Bellehos/status/1529460007560945667 Oldie but a goodie … Read more