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A deep dive into the shrinking money supply: Banks get sweetheart programs from the liquidity fairy while households are forced to take on debt and in some instances DIE while being priced out of their lives in favor of rising interest rates to fight an inflation problem the Fed created.

May 25, 2023 7:05 amMay 24, 2023 9:45 am

by Dismal-Jellyfish Let’s get to it! M2 (U.S. money stock–currency and coins held by the non-bank public, checkable deposits, and travelers’ checks, plus savings deposits, small time deposits under 100k, and shares in retail money market funds) is decreasing: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL …

The Fed released the Economic Well-being US Households 2022. People will DIE being priced out of their lives in favor of raising interest rates to fight inflation for a problem the Fed created to begin with. Inflation isn’t just insidious, it kills!

May 22, 2023 7:44 pm

by Dismal-Jellyfish Not even dying is without inflation 🙁 “Cost of dying” in America nears $20K The median funeral cost is $7,848, the average family spends $9,351 on legal and financial expenses. Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2022-report-economic-well-being-us-households-202305.pdf

Mail Fail! Seattle’s out-of-Control Crime and Drug Problem in Democrat-Controlled City Have Forced USPS to Pause Deliveries to an Entire Zip Code This Month

May 20, 2023 9:43 pm

Out-of-control crime in the Democrat-run city of Seattle forced the United States Postal Service (USPS) to pause deliveries to an entire zip code for a week. Around 900 residents in the 98118 zip code did not receive their mail as …

Government: Minting $1 Trillion coin to “solve” the debt problem. Interest payments Q1: And it’s gone.

May 10, 2023 8:50 pm

A trillion here, a trillion there; pretty soon you’re talking about real money. h/t CarlBMenger_

You Can’t Keep Solving The Debt Problem with MORE Debt

May 5, 2023 9:13 am

By Matthew Piepenburg The de-dollarization is a watershed moment. Matthew Piepenburg shares his views in this extensive interview with Daniela Cambone of Stansberry Research, covering the FED, petrodollar and de-dollarization, banking risk and gold. “The world’s reserve currency is not …

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The problem with illegals in Chicago is ridiculous.

April 23, 2023 6:17 pm

Beyond what you may read in the news, the illegal situation in Chicago is ridiculous. My kid is a Chicago cop and this is what is happening at a lot of police stations. Buses are dropping off dozens of illegals …

Ben Shapiro: “The Real Interracial Crime Problem Isn’t White On Black, It’s Black On White”

April 18, 2023 10:31 pm

The vast majority of racial crime in the United States is intra-racial. But when it does come to interracial homicide, for example, the chances that a white person killed was killed by a black person are far higher than that …

New Mayor of Chicago has a cocaine problem

April 6, 2023 10:23 pm

BREAKING: New Mayor of Chicago announces he will be enacting taxes to 'find the revenue' from 'individuals who have the means' to fix the deficit from social spending He is talking about wealth taxespic.twitter.com/dBbeytcPXS — Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) April 6, …

U.S. Banks are sitting on $1.7 trillion in unrealized losses, research says. That’s not a problem—until it is

March 24, 2023 10:43 am

Why do banks invest in MBS? Itamar Drechsler, Alexi Savov, and Philipp Schnabl* March 13, 202 New York University Stern School of Business U.S. banks had unrealized losses of $1.7 trillion at the end of 2022. The losses were nearly …

The World Has a Plastic Problem, as New Study Into ‘Plasticosis’ Disease Reveals.

March 16, 2023 7:14 pm

“Plasticosis” is the name a group of scientists have given to the damage caused by ingestion of plastics. The research these scientists carried out is based on seabirds, but has clear implications for other animals, including us. It has been …

Population Problem: Japan is leading this trend, but Europe is heading towards the same demographic trend.

March 9, 2023 10:07 am

Japan's Population Problem, Visualized 🤨 Japan is leading this trend, but Europe is heading towards the same demographic trend. pic.twitter.com/JqWhlj1bea — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) March 9, 2023 Population collapse is the biggest threat to civilization — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) …

Scott Adams: The ADL Has Now Labeled Me as Anti-Semitic: “The Media Is the Problem: A Race-Baiting Industrial Complex.”

March 1, 2023 10:24 am

Timestamp: 20:57 "What Scott is up to, I don't know, but he's always up to something. He's a hypnotist, and he's a persuasion expert, and he's been playing with the idea of how to create hoaxes… so he's up to …

Ireland creates quite a problem for attempts to measure an economy via GDP

February 22, 2023 10:34 am

by Shaun Richards Over the weekend just gone a rather familiar issue has reared its head. Gabriel Makhlouf, governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, has defended Ireland’s world-beating economic growth against accusations that it is an artificial product of …

HY Bond A-D Line Showing Liquidity Problem

February 18, 2023 11:09 pm

by Tom McClellan The SP500 broke out in 2023 above the year-long downtrend line that everyone has been watching, and has been struggling a little bit in February 2023 trying to extend that breakout. While it looks like just a pause …

UK Inflation improves but there is a clear problem with rents

February 15, 2023 6:16 pm

by Shaun Richards We are in the midst of a two day barrage of data on the UK economy. This morning we were presented with some better data on the inflation front. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 10.1% …

Bill Gates says AI Can Help Solve ‘Digital Misinformation’ Problem

February 13, 2023 2:54 pm

Gates added, “You’ll have to take AI into consideration” to “solve the digital misinformation [problem].” He described “political polarization” as another social ill that could be partially remedied via the use of AI to reduce “confirmation bias.” https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/02/12/bill-gates-ai-can-help-solve-digital-misinformation-problem/ Well Bill, …

Jim Jordan is going to be a problem for the FBI

February 10, 2023 10:27 pm

Jim Jordan is going to be a problem for the FBI pic.twitter.com/3rorE8xoSJ — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) February 9, 2023

We Have A Problem… The Global Debt Market Is Flashing A WARNING SIGNAL.

February 6, 2023 8:35 pm

Gallup Poll – Gov’t is Our Greatest Problem

February 2, 2023 10:44 amFebruary 1, 2023 10:44 pm

by Martin Armstrong Gallup has just confirmed what our computer has been forecasting especially since 2011. The majority of Americans now say that a lack of leadership from President Biden and Congress is the country’s biggest problem and that means …

Ted Cruz Shares the Real Problem for the Biden Administration in Light of Classified Docs Scandal

January 21, 2023 3:22 pm

Ted Cruz recently appeared with Sean Hannity on Fox News and shared what he believes to be the deeper problem for the Biden administration in relation to the president’s classified documents scandal. As RedState reported, multiple troves of classified materials, including …

China’s Shrinking Population Is Deeper Problem Than Slow Growth for Its Economy.

January 19, 2023 9:12 pm

via WSJ: A rapidly aging population, slowing growth in productivity, high debt levels and rising social inequality will weigh on the country’s economic ascent for decades to come, economists said. On Tuesday, the same day that China posted 3% growth, …

Modern America’s Diversity Problem is Concentrated Almost Entirely in the Major Cities

January 17, 2023 6:32 pmJanuary 16, 2023 7:36 pm

by Chris Black All those “the past is a foreign country” memes showing overwhelmingly White US cities with clean streets aren’t an exaggeration; most places outside of the biggest major cities, including many of the smaller cities, still look more …

Wikipedia is a Big Problem That Nobody is Talking About

January 17, 2023 6:32 pmJanuary 16, 2023 7:35 pm

by Chris Black When your average normie wants to look something up for quick information, where do they go? Wikipedia. They are unlikely to critically examine the content of the article or the sources provided, which are typically going to …

America’s “Systemic Racism” Problem Is Mostly in Woke, Democrat, Anti-Asian Education Bureaucracies

January 6, 2023 12:28 pm

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin began 2023 by asking the state’s Attorney General Jason Miyares to investigate the allegation that officials at Thomas Jefferson High School (TJ) intentionally withheld notifications of National Merit awards from the school’s students and families (most of them …

FIND THE HIDDEN EASTER EGGS: Schumer: We Want Omnibus Bill for Whole Year ‘to Avoid the Problem’ of House GOP ‘Having Any Control

December 8, 2022 1:52 pm

Schumer stated, “Well, first, we hope to get an omnibus done, a spending bill for the whole next year, to avoid the problem of McCarthy having any control. We’re working. Obviously, we have to come to a bipartisan agreement. We’re …

THE PROBLEM WITH HIRING FOR EQUITY IS THAT WE DO NEED COMPETENCE: The Supreme Court Confronts the Left’s Victimhood Consensus.

November 7, 2022 10:40 am

THE PROBLEM WITH HIRING FOR EQUITY IS THAT WE DO NEED COMPETENCE: The Supreme Court Confronts the Left’s Victimhood Consensus. Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 reasserted the principle that no one should be discriminated against based on race, it …

The problem is that everyone notices high prices…

November 7, 2022 10:36 am

Dem pollster Mark Penn: Democrats have stupidly become “inflation deniers” before midterms. Democratic Pollster Mark Penn said this week on “FOX News Sunday” that the Democratic Party has denied the impact of inflation ahead of the 2022 midterm elections by …