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Tarp 2.0 on the way?
October 9, 2023
Business
The Margin Call Moment
October 9, 2023 ICYMI: The Margin Call Moment: World Now Facing Up To $70 Trillion In Global Losseshttps://t.co/iYJxJfS5G9 — zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 9, 2023
Homes Are “Unaffordable” In 99 Percent Of U.S. Counties
Economic Collapse | Sept. 28, 2023 If you are looking to buy a home right now, I feel so sorry for you. The other day when I wrote that “life in America has never been more […]
There Goes the Consumer
Sept. 29, 2023
Final Takedown Accelerating
For dot connectors, it’s now easy to surmise why and how the Crime Syndicate and their Lugenpresse media have concocted the “white nationalist,” “white supremacist,” Nazi-boogeyman smear narrative. We now learn that after the George […]
CVS says it will close NINE HUNDRED stores by the end of 2024 – 10% of all its shops – as it moves to online strategy amid rampant increase in shoplifting
Daily Mail | Sept. 26, 2023 CVS is set to close hundreds of stores across the country as it undergoes a complete retail overhaul – as more outlets move towards online sellers amid rampant increases […]
JPMorgan’s Pampered Client, Jeffrey Epstein, Broke a Lot More Laws Than Just Sex Trafficking of Minors
Wall Street on Parade | Sept. 13, 2023 A closer look at the trail of lawlessness perpetrated by Jeffrey Epstein while he was receiving VIP treatment from executives and licensed brokers at the largest bank […]
Thousands Of ‘Bogus’ Jet-Engine Parts Sold To Global Airline Fleets: Report
Zero Hedge | Sept 21, 2023 Lawyers representing jet engine maker CFM International and its co-owners General Electric and Safran said “documentary evidence” shows thousands of jet engine parts with falsified documents were sold to […]
Kansas City will kick hundreds of rentals off Airbnb, Vrbo this week. Here’s why
Kansas City Star | Sept. 20, 2023 Vacation rental giant Airbnb lists “over 1,000” places to stay in Kansas City. But by tomorrow, nearly half of that number could be gone. It’s all due to […]
Moderna Plunges After Pfizer Sees Just 24% Of Americans Seeking Covid Boosters
Zero Hedge | Sept. 18, 2023 Shares of mRNA maker Moderna – better known as one of the main sponsors of the US open tournament which was won by the vocally unvaccinated Novak Djokovic who […]
Sub-50 Cent Price on Treasury Bond Underscores Investor Pain
Yahoo Finance | Sept. 18, 2023 (Bloomberg) — Fifty cents on the dollar is a very low price in the world of bonds. In most cases, it signals that investors believe the seller of the […]
Is an Epic Bankruptcy Cycle Getting Underway?
Twitter | Sept 17, 2023 Bankruptcy attorney: Shit is hitting the fan 👀👀😳 pic.twitter.com/5xLmWZAQpN — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) September 16, 2023 Same story here from another bankruptcy attorney: pic.twitter.com/YhnAl5jdDo — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) September 16, […]
US banking crisis has gone quiet, but not away
Ahead of the Herd | Sept 13, 2023 It was exactly six months ago when the US regional banking crisis started to dominate news headlines, triggering concerns over the global financial system. Fast forward to […]
The Federal Reserve Is Losing Money and You’re Going to Foot the Bill
Schiff Gold | Sept. 15, 2023 The Federal Reserve is losing money. That means the American taxpayer is losing money. In most instances, a business bleeding red ink has a big problem and could ultimately […]
The Middle Class Is Increasingly Becoming “The Impoverished Class”, And The Poor Are Increasingly Being Pushed Into The Streets
Michael Snyder | Sept. 12, 2023 America’s middle class is being systematically eviscerated. When the Federal Reserve pumped trillions of dollars into the financial system during the pandemic, most Americans didn’t realize what that would […]
IRS Shuts Door on New Pandemic Tax-Credit Claims Until at Least 2024
MSN.com | Sept. 14, 2023 The Internal Revenue Service is making its biggest moves yet to stop what officials say is a wave of fraudulent and overstated claims for a pandemic-era tax break, including an […]
Boycotters vow to make a national retailer ‘the new Bud Light’
The Street | August 9, 2023 Fresh off of the success of their boycott against Bud Light, social media political activists have set their sites on a new target. t might be a busy latter […]
Amazon Censorship of 9/11 Unmasked
By Edward Curtin | 15 September 2018 OFF-GUARDIAN — n September 10, 2018, I published a laudatory review of the new book, 9/11 Unmasked: An International Review Panel Investigation by David Ray Griffin and Elizabeth Woodworth. It is the definitive […]
1907 Panic, Haves and Have-Nots Template in Play
In my recent podcast with Robert Phoenix- Robert Phoenix and Russ Winter Discuss the Neoliberal Political Grift Economy – I laid out the economic forecast that a replay or template of the 1907 Panic is […]
Bill Gates’ foundation buys Anheuser-Busch stock worth $95 million after Bud Light financial fallout
CBS News | Sept 7, 2023 Bill Gates’ foundation trust bought 1.7 million shares of Anheuser-Busch InBev after the company experienced a few months of controversy and declining stock prices. The Bill and Melinda Gates […]
“Unprecedented Levels” Of Theft In Nation’s Capital Forces Supermarket Chain To Remove Name-Brand Items From Shelves
Zero Hedge | Sept. 5, 2023 Walmart, Target, Kohl’s, Foot Locker, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and Dollar Tree, to name a few, have all raised concerns about out-of-control thefts in their stores nationwide. The latest is supermarket chain […]
Mortgage Rates Adjust to New Era, Jump to Highest since 2001. Long-Term Treasury Market Slowly Coming out of Denial
Wolf Street | August 24, 2023 Today, Freddie Mac’s weekly measure of the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate hit a two-decade high of 7.23%. The next higher rate, 7.24%, occurred in June 2001. Beyond that […]
Labor Market Implodes: Job Openings Crater, Prior Data “Unexpectedly” Revised Sharply Lower
Zero Hedge | August 29, 2023 For months we have been warning that at a time when the US economy is careening into a hard landing recession, the manipulated, seasonally-adjusted, and politically goalseeked job openings […]
The 10 Companies That Dominate the Global Arms Trade
By Jeff Desjardins | 12 January 2018 VISUAL CAPITALIST — The world puts $1.69 trillion towards military expenditures per year, and about $375 billion of that goes towards buying arms specifically. Whether it is guns, […]
The West Is Losing Control Over the Gold Price
Gainesville Coins | August 25, 2023 An important change has unfolded in the global gold market. The East has been driving up the gold price, predominantly in late 2022 and the first months of 2023, […]
Retailers are raising the alarm about theft. For Nordstorm it’s been ‘within our plans.’
Marketwatch | August 25, 2023 Lots of big retailers this summer are talking about theft, and how it’s hurting profit. But when an analyst asked department-store chain Nordstrom Inc. JWN, -9.13% about the subject on Thursday, following a […]
Biden’s America: The inmates are running the asylum
By Patricia McCarthy | 12 March 2022 AMERICAN THINKER — How does one sanely describe what has happened to the United States since Joe Biden was inaugurated? The nation has been effectively ruined by the policies of […]
Countdown to Economic Oblivion
Two weeks ago we exposed the expedient fiscal scams and loots being used to keep the economy afloat and keep manna flowing to the criminal classes. One of these is the Employee Retention Credit. We […]
LA Is Spending Up To $837,000 Per Unit To House The Homeless
By Tyler Durden | 26 February 2022 ZERO HEDGE — Are you wondering why so many people are defecting from places like California in favor of tax havens like Florida? Look no further for your answer, […]
Sacklers Reach $6 Billion Deal Over Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin Lawsuits
By Tyler Durden | 4 March 2022 ZERO HEDGE — Members of the billionaire Sackler family who control Purdue Pharma LP have agreed to fork over as much as $6 billion in a settlement with state […]