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As 45th President and leading 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump traveled to Davenport, Iowa on Monday to give an address on education and protecting farmers, farmers are thanking Trump for giving them “hope that the true American President” is “back to take care of the American farmer again.”Trump gave his speech to a massive crowd of supporters that not only overflowed the arena but wrapped around the block outside in freezing temperatures.Before Trump’s trip on Monday, Trump wrote on his top-rated social media platform, Truth Social, on Sunday, “Nobody, in history, did more for the FARMERS of our Country than...

“Economics,” wrote Henry Hazlitt, “is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man.”True. No epoch is immune to the scourge of economic illiteracy.Yet, we find ourselves in a moment of especially unprecedented economic ignorance. We’ve come a long way since the days of Hazlitt’s editorializing in the New York Times. In the 1930s, believe it or not, the Times held the line on economic orthodoxy in the face of emergent quackery.Fast forward and here are but a few favorite examples of economic illiteracy, ripped from the headlines of our most prominent rags:Corporate greed causes inflationPrice controls are...

Well, the banking fiasco CREATED BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE is still with us. Why? Because the FDIC guaranteed deposits above $250,000 for the first time in history, bailing out millionaires/billionaires. I call this Crony Socialism (but I repeat myself). Congress doesn’t understand banking, only how to spend money.

Former Rep. Pat Schroeder, who was a pioneer for women’s and family rights in Congress, died Monday night, her former press secretary said. She was 82. She represented Colorado's 1st Congressional district from 1973-1997.Andrea Camp, Schroeder's former press secretary, said the former lawmaker suffered a stroke recently and died at a hospital in Celebration, Florida, where she has been living in recent years."Pat Schroeder blazed the trail. Every woman in this house is walking in her footsteps," said Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y.

Under intense questioning by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Merrick Garland acknowledged that "our office has had much more success prosecuting anti-abortionists who pray outside of abortion clinics than it has going after pro-abortionists that firebomb pregnancy centers." Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) was unimpressed by Garland's glib rationalization and suggested a different approach. "There have been 81 reported attacks on pregnancy centers and 130 attacks on Catholic churches since the Supreme Court's overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision was first leaked a year ago," he said. "Yet, only two individuals have been charged for these crimes....

VIDEOYou know how you can tell when your bank is doomed to failure? When you find out they put more concentration on producing Broadway type musical numbers rather than focusing on, well, banking. If I ever find out that my bank is producing song presentations as you can see here done by the FAILED Signature Bank, I will be immediately withdrawing all my money deposited at that institution.

White House propaganda machine Politico wasted no time in trying to cast President Joe Biden as the savior of Silicon Valley Bank startups by praising his ridiculous federal "bailout" plan. Politico was off to the races in its ridiculous Mar. 13 story headlined: “How Biden saved Silicon Valley startups: Inside the 72 hours that transformed U.S. banking.” The first paragraph made the entire article sound like the plot of a Mission: Impossible script: “On Sunday afternoon, an exhausted group of Biden administration officials gathered to put the finishing touches on a hastily composed plan to stave off a nationwide banking...

Food is up 10.2% YoY. Electricity up 12.9%, shelter up 8.1%.

As you know, Silicon Valley Bank has folded along with Signature Bank and a few other banks are showing signs of trouble. Predictably, Joe Biden- on whose watch his happened- immediately blamed Donald Trump. President Joe Biden blamed former President Donald Trump for the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, attributing their demise to Trump’s rollback of some Obama-era policies. “During the Obama-Biden administration, we put in place tough requirements on banks like Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, including the Dodd-Frank law to make sure that the crisis we saw in 2008 would not happen again,”...

Lake Audubon a man-made lake in Reston may soon chart new waters with a new name. Reston Association’s Board of Directors has begun preliminary conversations to consider launching a community dialogue on potentially renaming the lake, which is named after 19th century artist and known enslaver John James Audubon. The move, pitched by director John Farrell, would kickstart a community dialogue on the possibility of a name change. Early next year, Farrell will host an exploratory meeting with area stakeholders to discuss whether or not there is interest in changing the name of the lake. “It seems to me that...

Tucker Carlson went there tonight — Tucker told his audience if people don’t start making lots of noise we’re going to see a government controlled digital currency. Tucker Carlson opened his show on Monday by discussing the banking crisis in the country today. On Monday morning trading was halted on 20 banks as the markets opened. The New York Stock Exchange halted trading at Charles Schwab. Tonight Tucker Carlson went there – pointing out that the federal government gained power after bailing out the Silicon Valley Bank. Tucker also warned that this banking crisis could lead to a national digital...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

KEY POINTS: -The embattled Swiss lender published its annual report, which was scheduled for publication last Thursday, but ultimately delayed by a call from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. -Following the completion of discussions with the U.S. regulator, Credit Suisse confirmed its 2022 results announced on Feb. 9, which showed a full-year net loss of 7.3 billion Swiss francs ($8 billion). -The bank’s shares fell a further 5% to a new all-time low during early trade in Europe on Tuesday.Shares of Credit Suisse fell by 5% in early Tuesday trade to hit a new all-time low, after the bank...

The Federal Reserve is some hard thinking to do. Inflation came in hotter than expected, so raise rates to fight inflation or lower rates to prevent bank contagion. Similar to Kevin Malone’s “Double fudge brownies or Angela” debate. While headline inflation (CPI) came in a 6% (considerably higher than The Fed’s 2% target), core inflation came in at 5.5% year-over-year (YoY), which was expected. The truly nasty number is today’s inflation report is that weekly earnings YoY remained the same at a terrible -1.9%. Meaning that inflation is higher than nominal wage growth. This is the 23rd straight month of...

President Trump gave a speech from Iowa tonight on Education but he addressed other topics as well. Earlier today the President arrived and visited a local restaurant and then went to the arena where he spoke and where people lined up for hours to see him on this cold Iowa day. President Trump promised to totally obliterate the DEEP STATE. These crooks in the DOJ will be gone when Trump is elected. He’s the only guy currently even talking about this very important issue. video President Trump also discussed the Department of Education where he says he will break it...

JAPAN - The Government is urged to tell the truth about the huge number of vaccine injuries and excess deaths. Stating deaths in the vaccinated are 38 times higher than after the flu vaccine. (Video at link.

LONGBOAT KEY, Fla., March 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rumble, the video-sharing platform (NASDAQ: RUM), announced today that cartoonist and author Scott Adams has brought his comic “Dilbert” to Locals, its subscription-based platform. Annual and monthly subscribers now have access to exclusive content from the popular cartoonist.

VIDEOMeet Wokety Woke Woke Canadian Banker Mark Carney. If he was just the crackpot director of a small local bank that would be one thing. Unfortunately he has taken his Carney act to global levels as governor of both the Bank of Canada as well as the Bank of England. And now he is spouting off on a globalist stage at places such as the World Economic Forum. Listen to him talk and that will give you a good example of why banks such as Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank have collapsed and Credit Suisse seems about to fail.

Many people have described the emergency measures as a bailout and say that they mark a major shift in how the federal government deals with banking crises. Until now, only deposits up to $250,000 were insured under federal law. But the Sunday decision by regulators will protect all deposits made at SVB and crypto-heavy Signature Bank, which regulators wound down on Sunday, to avoid “system risk.” “We’ve changed the system,” economist Mohamed El-Erian, president of Queens’ College at the University of Cambridge, told CNBC’s Squawk Box on Monday. He also echoed Roger Altman, founder of investment bank advisory firm Evercore,...

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS VIDEO? J6 Video shows a Capitol Police officer smiling and holding the door open while protesters PEACEFULLY enter.