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21 February 2000 FORBES — When lawyer-cum-turnaround guy Steven Fink moved his family into a French Norman-style house on an Encino, Calif. cul-de-sac in 1984, he had no idea who lived next door. Turned out […]
By Jamie Joseph | 12 April 2022 THE EPOCH TIMES — One neighborhood in Santa Monica will not be receiving postal service from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) until further notice after “multiple carriers have been subjected to […]
Ship queues rise at Shanghai and Ningbo amid trucking shortage Vessels divert to Qingdao, Tianjin to avoid congestion By Ann Koh and Kevin Varley | 11 April 2022 BLOOMBERG — Dotting the sea off Chinese ports […]
Earning expectations for the big banks have been dialed back through the first quarter amid Russia sanctions and a steep decline in deal activity By Steve Gelsi | 7 April 2022 MARKET WATCH — Big U.S. […]
By Zachary Stieber | 8 April 2022 THE EPOCH TIMES — Pfizer hired 600 employees in the months after its COVID-19 vaccine was authorized in the United States due to the “large increase” of reports of side […]
The six bedroom 1930s mansion in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles was bought on October 21, 2020 for $3.1 million by a BLM-linked developer Dyane Pascall, a real estate developer who worked for […]
By Tyler Durden | 6 April 2022 ZERO HEDGE — The EU is expected to deliver another shock to its agricultural sector by capping Russian imports of potash, a crucial ingredient for growing food, according to Bloomberg, […]
By Dr. Vernon Coleman | 31 March 2022 THE EXPOSE The royal family receives £86 million of taxpayers’ money. How much of that will be used to pay Andrew’s £12 million bill? It’s our damned […]
The wealthy got immensely wealthier. Everyone else paid for it via rampant inflation. By Wolf Richter | 3 April 2022 WOLF STREET — The Fed’s own data on the distribution of wealth in the US is […]
Its primary vaccination requirement remains in place By Julia Musto | 2 April 2022 FOX NEWS — Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms (META) will stop requiring booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines for employees going into their U.S. offices. “We updated our requirements […]
By Mark Glennon | 1 April 2022 WIRE POINTS — The United States Senate on Tuesday voted to advance Lisa Cook’s nomination by President Biden to the Federal Reserve Board after a committee deadlocked on her nomination earlier […]
By Mike Landry | 1 April 2022 THE WESTERN JOURNAL — Parts of the world continue to learn just how important Ukrainian exports are. Germans are snatching up products like sunflower oil and flour, according to I Am […]
By Greg Wilson | 1 April 2022 WASHINGTON EXAMINER — A record $31 million award to a mom and pop bakery that accused a liberal Ohio college of ruining its business with false accusations of racism has been upheld by […]
By Kristina Wong | 30 March 2022 BREITBART — The Army this week admitted it was having problems recruiting and announced an unprecedented reduction in its numbers that would shrink the active duty Army to its […]
By Alice Giordano | 25 March 2022 THE EPOCH TIMES — In a classic case of one hand not knowing what the other is doing, a Virginia doctor has been awarded a legislative commendation for his […]
Soaring oil prices, energy and food crises on the horizon…is it possible the REAL target of this economic war is us? By Kit Knightly | 30 March 2022 OFF GUARDIAN — The first tweet I saw […]
30 March 2022 REUTERS — The European Central Bank has told banks to cut lending to the most indebted borrowers, which could poke a hole in their balance sheets if the economy turns south or interest […]
‘We are witnessing the birth of Bretton Woods III – a new world (monetary) order centred around commodity-based currencies in the East that will likely weaken the Eurodollar system and also contribute to inflationary forces […]
By Tyler Durden | 29 March 2022 ZERO HEDGE — Even before the war in Ukraine, a majority of American households were under pressure from record-high food inflation and consumer prices at a four-decade high. The […]
By Kyle Anzalone | 28 March 2022 LIBERTARIAN INSTITUTE — On Monday, the White House released its spending proposal for the 2023 fiscal year. The whopping $5.8 trillion budget includes $773 billion for the Pentagon. However, billions […]
By Adam Andrzejewski | 28 March 2022 REAL CLEAR POLICY — Amid the national debate over whether members of Congress should be able to trade stock, the governor of Illinois is demonstrating how prevalent conflicts of interest […]
By Nathan Worcester | 28 March 2022 THE EPOCH TIMES — President Joe Biden’s proposed Fiscal Year 2023 budget would involve billions in climate-related spending, including $11 billion for international climate finance, as well as multibillion-dollar investments said to […]
History shows that when ideas are repeated often enough, people’s tendency to believe them increases. By Brenda Simmons Torchy Blane | 24 September 2021 1 April 2022 Simmons is the CEO and 18-year veteran operative […]
“Commodities are real resources and resource inequality cannot be addressed by QE… you can print money, but not oil to heat or wheat to eat.” — Zoltan Pozsar This post follows on certain data-points and […]
By Scott Galloway | 25 March 2022 NO MERCY / NO MALICE — Last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced NFTs are coming to Instagram. What does that … mean? The announcement was a word salad of platitudes, so we don’t […]
‘This is a loss of trust in all institutions’ By Art Moore | 16 March 2022 WND — In a video interview Wednesday with WND, a former Wall Street executive whose analysis of CDC data shows […]
The illusion of evidence based medicine 16 March 2022 BJM — The advent of evidence based medicine was a paradigm shift intended to provide a solid scientific foundation for medicine. The validity of this new paradigm, […]
The Russian government held a press conference Thursday claiming that Hunter Biden helped finance a US military ‘bioweapons’ research program in Ukraine However the allegations were branded a brazen propaganda ploy to justify president Vladimir […]
By Bernadette Hogan, Nolan Hicks, Carl Campanile, Craig McCarthy and Bruce Golding | 24 March 2022 NEW YORK POST — Mayor Eric Adams exempted the city’s athletes and performers from the Big Apple’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate […]
By Lauren Cook | 24 March 2022 PIX 11 NEWS — A 10-year-old Staten Island boy died Wednesday after he collapsed during gym class at a Staten Island school, police said on Thursday. The boy suffered […]