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US home prices are still skyrocketing as The Federal Reserve kept its massive foot on the monetary accelerator pedal. CoreLogic’s home price index grew at a 20.9% YoY pace in April, but is expected to slow to 5.6% YoY in late 2022. Remember peeps, The Fed still have its staggering monetary stimulypto in place. The Fed is signaling its withdrawal of stimulus, causing mortgage rates to soar. Given the slowdown of the US and global economy, we shall see if The Fed keeps to its tightening plans. As of today, the market is expecting The Fed to raise its target...

Throughout this “pandemic” we have been fed an unending series of lies, distortions and disinformation by the media, the public health officials, medical bureaucracies (CDC, FDA and WHO) and medical associations. Physicians, scientists, and experts in infectious treatments who formed associations designed to develop more effective and safer treatments, were regularly demonized, harassed, shamed, humiliated, and experience a loss of licensure, loss of hospital privileges and, in at least one case, ordered to have a psychiatric examination. Anthony Fauci was given essentially absolute control of all forms of medical care during this event, including insisting that drugs he profited from...

The J6 Pilot Flopped Democrats can now add “televised distraction campaign sideshow” to their growing list of failures.The pilot episode of the January 6 hearings doomed the entire season. The ratings don’t lie: America is not enthralled. Despite unprecedented coordination on behalf of the mainstream media to synchronize coverage of the Democrats’ mockumentary, the left-wing smokescreen failed to capture the hearts and minds of the nation. America does not want to J6 and chill.Despite their greatest attempts at hyping the insufferable premier, CNN pulled in lower numbers than Tucker Carlson’s show the night before, which opened the Thursday 8 p.m....

As heavy fighting continues, a senior advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that 200 Ukrainian soldiers are dying each day as casualties surge in Eastern Ukraine. Mykhaylo Podolyak told BBC News that the nation is heavily outgunned and pleaded for Western nations to deliver more heavy weapons.“The Russian forces have thrown pretty much everything non-nuclear at the front and that includes heavy artillery, multiple rocket launch systems and aviation,” Podolyak said. The senior Ukrainian official went on to urge Western leaders to supply the nation with heavy weapons, saying there is a “complete lack of parity” between Ukrainian and...

Tim Michels, the Trump-endorsed candidate in the Wisconsin Governor race has been allowed back on the ballot by the Wisconsin elections officials.This came after Democrats tried to get him kicked off the ballot because he had the wrong address on nomination papers.The Democrats alleged that because of the error he only had 350 legitimate signatures and not the 2000 needed.From Newsmax:Wisconsin elections officials voted Friday to allow Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate to stay on the Republican primary ballot in the presidential battleground state, pushing aside a Democratic challenge to his nomination papers.The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission voted unanimously to allow...

On Monday morning, Americans heard from former members of Donald Trump’s campaign and presidential administration who described unsuccessful efforts to disabuse him of various false claims about the 2020 election. Those tuning in to the hearing of the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot learned how people like former attorney general William P. Barr tried to explain to Trump that he was wrong in his assertions about rampant election fraud, with Trump simply choosing to press forward with false claims anyway. Then, on Monday afternoon, Trump pressed forward with false claims anyway. The former president released a 12-page document...

Wholesale prices accelerated again in May as inflation tightened its stranglehold on the U.S. economy, adding to the financial pressure on millions of Americans.The Labor Department said Tuesday that its producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level before it reaches consumers, climbed 10.8% in May from the previous year. On a monthly basis, prices grew by 0.8%. Although that was slightly lower than the 10.9% forecast from Refinitiv economists, the reading – near a record-high of 11.5% notched in March – suggests that inflationary pressures in the economy remain strong.Core inflation at the wholesale level, which excludes...

VIDEOLook at the absolute joy on the face of Ron Klain, Biden's chief of staff aka Puppet Master, over what he thinks is a booming economy under Sleepy Joe. His total divorce from reality is laughable but it makes one worried how those fools will ever tackle the dire economic situation if they are this clueless.Remember, Puppet Master said the economy is "humming."

A stray dog was rescued Sunday after it wandered into the gorilla enclosure at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in northern San Diego County, humane society and zoo officials said. Officials believe the dog... got into the park on his own...Zoo staffers say he may have been part of a pair of domestic dogs running loose in the park, virtually undetected until he was noticed in the gorilla habitat around 4 p.m. Wildlife care specialists then recalled the two gorillas from the enclosure, which the zoo said is “part of the regular safety procedures at the park.” The dog......

During their sham one-sided hearing the Jan. 6 Committee shared their interview with former AG Bill Barr who was seen laughing hysterically when he was asked about the evidence of voter fraud presented by “2000 Mules” during his pre-recorded testimony at the Jan 6 show trial. Bill Barr: “Uh, the election was not stolen by fraud. And I haven’t seen anything since the election that changes my mind on that, including the ‘2000 Mules’ movie. (laughing) In a nutshell. the GBI[Georgia Bureau of Investigation] was unimpressed with it and I was similarly unimpressed with it because I was holding my...

Former first lady Michelle Obama spoke at the Culture of Democracy Summit on Monday, where she claimed that democracy in the U.S. is "fading."

Tuesday, June 14, 2022 The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, sponsored by Matt Palumbo's MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN for Tuesday shows that 38% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Biden’s job performance. Sixty-one percent (61%) disapprove. The latest figures include 17% who Strongly Approve of the job Biden is doing and 51% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -34. (see trends)

CODY, Wyo., June 13 (Reuters) - Record flooding and rockslides unleashed by an unprecedented burst of heavy rains prompted the rare closure on Monday of all five entrances to Yellowstone National Park at the start of the summer tourist season, the park superintendent said. The entire park, spanning parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, will remain closed to visitors, including those with lodging and camping reservations, at least through Wednesday, as officials inspect damage to roads, bridges and other facilities. The closures come as Yellowstone was gearing up to celebrate its 150th anniversary year, and as local communities heavily dependent...

Lockdown DamageEmpirical evidence demonstrates that shutting down economies and schools brought little benefit and much harm.Did the Covid lockdowns save lives? Statistics can help answer the question.In April, free-market economists Phil Kerpen, Stephen Moore, and Casey B. Mulligan published a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research entitled “A Final Report Card on the States’ Response to COVID-19.” Their report considered three variables for all 50 states and Washington, D.C.: health outcomes (measured by adjusted mortality), economic performance throughout the pandemic (measured by unemployment and GDP), and the pandemic effect on education (measured by the percentage of cumulative...

A new political action committee has formed attempting to draft Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president in 2024, and it is being run by a Republican consultant heavyweight who has been a veteran of campaigns involving former GOP Presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. DeSantis, running this year for a second term as Florida governor, has consistently led polls among Republican primary voters if Trump isn’t a contender. However, when Trump is included in the polling, DeSantis usually runs a distant second. The Ready for Ron PAC is being led by two generations. Ed Rollins was the campaign...

A Washington Post opinion piece ripped Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for his vehement opposition to kids attending drag performances after video from the "Drag Your Kids to Pride" show in Texas went viral last week, accusing him of "weaponizing" child protective services for "political gain." "Fresh off defending parental rights in education, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a new cause: using the power of the state to harass parents who see drag performances as family entertainment," columnist Alyssa Rosenberg wrote. Rosenberg noted DeSantis' complaints that children should not be exposed to drag performances, citing his quotes that, "We have child...

Gov. Polis is saving some of his own millions this election season by having the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) do his dirty work and negative campaigning for him. Democrat governors gave $1.5 million to the super PAC Strong Colorado, which passed on nearly half of that to yet another group, the Colorado Information Network, now airing ads attacking Greg Lopez in the GOP gubernatorial primary. That’s according to the Colorado Sun, which is chasing the money down the different rabbit holes to determine who is funding the Network’s $915,000 ad buys attacking Lopez on the issues of gay marriage, abortion,...

The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics says that you can have a particle spinning clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time – until you look at it, at which point it definitely becomes one or the other. The theory claims that observing reality fundamentally changes it. The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it. At the very least, you are to blame for not doing more. Even if you don’t make the problem worse, even if you make it slightly better, the ethical burden...

A cyber forensics expert commissioned by the Washington Examiner recovered over 168,000 deleted files from a copy of Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop. Many of the deleted files were system files, application files, or duplicates of user files stored elsewhere on the laptop. Some of the recovered data, however, shed light on his financial dealings in 2018 and early 2019, as well as his personal dealings during that time frame. Also recovered from the drive were deleted pictures of government ID cards for two individuals linked to President Joe Biden's son. Konstantinos "Gus" Dimitrelos, a former Secret Service agent who has...

The Economic Meltdown Has Roots in LockdownAmerican’s capacity for denial is truly a thing to behold. For at least 27 months, it should have been obvious that we were headed for a grave crisis. Not only that: the crisis was already here in March 2020. For weird reasons, some people, many people, imagined that governments could just shut down an economy and turn it back on without consequence. And yet here we are. Historians of the future, if there are any intelligent ones among them, will surely be aghast at our astounding ignorance. Congress enacted decades of spending in just...