Going Down! MBA Mortgage Applications Dive 8.6% WoW, Purchase Apps Decline 7%, Refi Apps Decline 9% As Mortgage Rates Skyrocket (ARM Share Rose 9.4% WoW)

by confoundedinterest17 Thanks to The Federal Reserve helping to raise mortgage rates through the roof, mortgage applications are going down. From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey. Mortgage applications decreased 8.3 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending … Read more

Best Stock Trading Apps for 2022

There has been some good thing if you want to start trading equities. Not only have practically all large investment companies eliminated fees on stock trades, but the process of investing in the stock market is now simpler than ever. And one of the main reasons for this is because there are several good commission-free … Read more

Kyle Bass on why the Fed will fail + the real reason why China’s locking down its people

CNBC, Released on 4/27/22 Part 1 (part 2 below) "Clearly the Fed overcooked it–they overdid this. When you make 40% more money the price of everything goes up about 40%. Now they are trying to unwind that," says @jkylebass on #inflation. "I don't think they'll get very far." pic.twitter.com/1TRdCctUe5 — Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) April 27, … Read more

IMF: We Are Out Of Time! Global Economy CRASHING, Great Reset IMMINENT!

by Josh Sigurdson with Tim Picciott via World Alternative Media Josh Sigurdson talks with Tim Picciott, The Liberty Advisor about the recent shocking admission by IMF Director Kristalina Georgieva that too much money has been printed and they didn’t “think through the consequences” of printing vast amounts of currency. The IMF Director says we are already out of time. This … Read more

Heartaches In Heartaches! US Q2 Real-time GDP Stumbles To 0.446% As Fed Continues Monetary Stimulypto (What Will Happen When The Fed Pulls The Plug??) March Pending Home Sales Decline -8.90% YoY

by confoundedinterest17 Heartaches in heartaches. US GDP growth for Q2 has stumbled to 0.446% as The Fed is launching quantitative tightening (QT) to fight the inflation that they caused in the first place. According to the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow real-time GDP tracker, US GDP growth has stumbled to a meager 0.446%. Despite the massive stimulus from The … Read more

Investors Should Never Cheer For A Gold Price Pullback, But $1835 Is Where The Miners Come Alive

by Stewart Thomson of Graceland Updates 1.   Given that the US government has lost almost every war it has ever fought, should investors and regular citizens be concerned that the current de facto war against Russia will end at least as badly as all the others and… what does this mean for gold? 2.   Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this … Read more

CATO Ranks California 48th in Personal and Economic Freedoms in U.S.

“California is one of the least free states in the country, largely because of its long-standing poor performance on economic freedom,” the CATO Institute explains in its latest ranking of the 50 states. California, once known as “The Golden State,” used to be at the top of the list specifically for personal and economic freedoms. CATO scores … Read more

Washington state bans the word marijuana

OLYMPIA, Wash. — “Pot,” “weed,” “grass,” “Mary Jane,” “flower” — there is no shortage of terms to describe cannabis. However, Washington state is taking one word officially off the table: “marijuana.” Legislators recently passed a law that changes every Revised Code of Washington with the word “marijuana.” The change gets rid of the term, swapping … Read more

SEC Alert! SEC Charges Archegos and its Founder with Massive Market Manipulation Scheme Multiple Archegos Executives Charged with Misleading Counterparties

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Sung Kook (Bill) Hwang, the owner of family office Archegos Capital Management, LP (Archegos), with orchestrating a fraudulent scheme that resulted in billions of dollars in losses. The SEC also charged Archegos’s Chief Financial Officer, Patrick Halligan; head trader, William Tomita; and Chief Risk Officer, … Read more

Nigeria: “Government has determined that the NIN-SIM Policy implementation can proceed, as machinery has already been put in place to ensure compliance.”

by squaremild When governments build themselves hammers don’t be surprised to find they start seeing the people as nails. More news of the slow, boring trudge to global tyranny. https://nimc.gov.ng/nin-sim-linkage-fg-commends-compliance-and-directs-telcos-to-bar-outgoing-calls-on-unlinked-lines-from-4th-april-2022/

WHAT IS THE FED?

by Boo_Randy The Federal Reserve, “the Fed”, is the central bank of the United States of America that was created in 1913 by Congress. It is a banking cartel that has a government-granted monopoly on the creation of money and credit. The Fed literally loans “money” (Federal Reserve Notes) into existence.  Federal Reserve Notes are … Read more

LMAO – Amazon staff has meltdown over ‘Johnny the Walrus’

Woke Amazon staffer cries in meeting to discuss the ‘trauma’ caused by best seller children’s book ‘Johnny the Walrus’ that compares being transgender to pretending to be a walrus -Amazon staff have been ‘traumatized’ by children’s book Johnny the Walrus -The book allegorically compares being transgender to pretending to be a walrus -The company held … Read more