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I watched Biden’s Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre giving Biden credit for the lowest unemployment rate in US history thanks to his economic policies. And Biden mentioned that he inherited a terrible economy from Trump. Hmmm. Let’s let the data talk. Covid was horrific (I almost died from it), but it was the government response to Covid there was disastorous. Government shutdowns (and the masking of the populace) killed off numerous small businesses and sent jobless claims soaring in 2020 (white line) and U-3 unemployment rate rose to the highest level since The Great Depression. The response from The Federal...

December’s housing construction numbers are a mixed bag. On the one hand, US housing starts are down -1.36% from November to December, but down -21,8% since December 2021 (YoY). The good news? 1-unit (single family detatched) rose 11.26% from November to December (MoM). But 5+ (multifamily) starts are down -18.91% MoM. But 5+ unit PERMITS are up 7.14%. Perhaps Hunter Biden can now rent an apartment rather than pay his father $50,000 a month in rent for Joe’s Wilmington Delaware house.

Breaking News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is stepping down next month. Ardern wanting to step away from politics ahead of the October 14th General Election... Opposition protesters in Peru continuing their demonstrations...two more protesters killed in the Puno Region today... Türkiye (Turkey) wants the US to delink any F-16 fighter sales to the bids of Finland and Sweden to join NATO... Russian victory in Ukraine is: "inevitable" That message today from Russian President Vladimir Putin to factory workers... Stocks in the US moving downwards... In the UK nurses and ambulance workers will both strike on February 6th... The...

We've been asking a lot of questions about Biden's felonious handling of top secret documents. Today we get some answers. When Biden's lawyer found the documents he contacted the DOJ. President Biden’s personal attorney who discovered a batch of classified materials at the DC think tank that bears Biden’s name has spoken with federal investigators probing the case, according to a report. Patrick Moore, the lawyer the 80-year-old president tasked with cleaning out his former office at the Penn Biden Center last November, reportedly met with US Attorney John Lausch’s team after finding some 10 highly sensitive documents, according to...

An Ohio woman was recently surprised by the rescue dog she is fostering. According to a report, Kaitlin Devoto, of Cincinnati, Ohio, knew virtually nothing about the pup she had agreed to foster. All she knew was that the dog was rescued from a puppy mill.

Is Don gonna make Ron an offer he can't refuse? Or maybe just cut to the chase and have him whacked? That's what Joe Scarborough seemed to suggest on today's Morning Joe. Reacting to Trump having said that if Ron DeSantis runs against him, "we'll handle that the way I handle things," Scarborough said:"Sounds like a mob threat."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

MRC President Brent Bozell joined Fox News to expose a number of major figures in the liberal media who happen to have connections to one of the most notorious leftist billionaires in politics: George Soros. Bozell presented MRC Business’ findings from the final report of a three-part series analyzing Soros’ extensive global media influence during the Jan. 18 edition of Fox News at Night. The two previous reports collectively revealed how Soros dolled out a whopping $131 million to 253 organizations tied to news and activist media around the globe. The media organizations Soros funds help amplify his radical messaging...

Soft landing for the US economy? It is looking less and less likely. The bond market (10-year Treasury yield) just shed -14.1 basis points. As I always told my investments students, any 10 basis point shift in the 10-year Treasury yield is significant. Let’s start wit the US business leaders survey of current conditions. It just crashed to -21.4 Then we have US industrial production, down -0.7% in December. And is up only 1.65% year-over-year as M2 Money growth stalls. Capacity Utilization plunged more than expected to 78.7% (79.5% exp). Biden claiming the US economy is strong is pure Fantasy...

Markets are strange. Mortgage applications increased 27.9 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending January 13, 2023. But mortgage applications are 60% lower than the same week last year. The Refinance Index increased 34 percent from the previous week and was 81 percent lower than the same week one year ago. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index increased 25 percent from one week earlier. The unadjusted Purchase Index increased 32 percent compared with the previous week and was 35 percent lower than the same week one...

The Australian nation started as a penal colony. The best of Australian culture is robust and free. But the worst is weak and servile. Freedom Fighter Matt is a working man in Melbourne not afraid to denounce leftist police totalitarianism. God Bless Matt.

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The over $32 billion that leftist billionaire George Soros poured into his organizations to spread his radical “open society” agenda on abortion, Marxist economics, anti-Americanism, defunding the police, environmental extremism and LGBT fanaticism around the globe has paid dividends. In fact, his funding has helped him establish ties with some of the biggest name media personalities in the United States and abroad which help indoctrinate millions with his views on a day-to-day basis. MRC Business found at least 54 prominent media figures (e.g. reporters, anchors, columnists, editors, news executives and journalists) who are tied to Soros through their connections to...

Reading Miranda Devine's book "Laptop from Hell" you get a good insight into how Joe Biden traded his office for benefits over the years. He used his positions in office for favor trading that turned into 3 mansions, and a Corvette. Thing is, three mansions cost a lot of money to keep up. Some habits are hard to break. Enter HunterHunter Biden complained that 'half' of his salary went to paying his father's bills while he was Vice President, casting doubt on the Joe's previous claims that he's never benefited from his son's business dealings.The bills included a $190-a-month AT&T...

The Empire Strikes Out! No, not Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum, but the New York State Manufacturing index. For January, the index fell to -32.9. Then we have Wells Fargo and their crashing mortgage originiations. Everytime I see Klaus Schwab’s face, I think of Emporer Palpatine from Star Wars.

On this date in 1813, the British intensified their war against machine-wrecking Luddites by executing 14 at York. We touched last week on Mellor, Smith, and Thorpe, three Luddites hanged for assassinating a wool manufacturer during the dirty war that resulted from mechanizing formerly-artisanal textile production. The Luddite Bicentenary blog was prominently linked in that post; it’s been chronicling the real-time course of the Luddite rebellion from two hundred years’ remove, and is a recommended follow for anyone interested in this period. Today, the Luddite Bicentenary marks the mass hangings of January 16, 1813, pursuant to sentences issued by that...

A babbling MSNBC analyst with a history of Trump Derangement Syndrome is in no place to throw the word “addiction” at legitimate concerns of government reaching into American kitchens. MSNBC National Affairs Analyst John Heilemann kicked off Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a tirade on GOP opposition to gas stove bans. On the Jan. 16 edition of Morning Joe, he said “[The GOP is] addicted to this culture of lies and conspiracy theories that they have fomented, right?” Except, the proposed ban wasn’t fictitious nor conspiratorial. Bloomberg News released a story Jan. 9 headlined: “US Safety Agency to Consider...

There is a great scene at the end of the movie "The Hunt for Red October" in which there is a conversation between National Security Director Jeffrey Pelt and Soviet Ambassador Andrei Lysenko. Ambassador Andrei Lysenko: There is another matter... one I'm reluctant to... Dr. Jeffrey Pelt: Please. Ambassador Andrei Lysenko: One of our submarines, an Alfa, was last reported in the area of the Grand Banks. We have not heard from her for some time. Dr. Jeffrey Pelt: Andrei... you've lost another submarine? Here's the video https://youtu.be/HCHGFkhxInMWith the disclosure of yet another set of stolen documents this immediately popped...

We got trouble in Potomac City! No, I’m not talking about the numerous Top Secret documents that Biden carelessly left in his garage in Delaware and the UPenn Biden Center. And they found more over the weekend. I’m talking about the US Treasury 10Y-2Y yield curve being inverted for 135 straight days. And thanks to inflation, REAL wage growth has been negative for 21 straight months. All this is happening while M2 Money growth (green line) stalls to 0% YoY. Swaps 5Y are rising as The Fed withdraws monetary stimulus.

Newly-minted US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces a daunting task: trying to avoid a US debt default. As I have discussed many times before, nothing has been the same since the US housing bubble and near-collapse of the banking system that produced an expensive bailout of seemingly all financial institutions. After 2008, Federal spending has gone out of control. The budgetary hawks (or pigeons) in the US House of Representatives (with Pelosi, Boehner, Ryan then Pelosi again) went on Federal spending sprees of epic proportions. The Manhattan Institute has a nice chart showing the explosion in the Federal budget since...

Don't be distracted with the drama about Russia, China and other nations. Don't even be distracted with the drama about Joe Biden and classified documents. Things are broken in the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and they need to be fixed there rather than in Russia and China. We must not support any aspect of the World Economic Forum agenda... If The Chamber Of Commerce Is A... If Big Business Is A... Then Kristi Noem and dare I say 98 percent of the Republican politicians in this country assume the position for the... If Pastor Martin Niemöller...