D.C. Think Tank Urges America To “Invest” In Zelensky’s $1 Trillion Reconstruction Plan  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a video address on Tuesday estimated it will cost more than $1 trillion to rebuild his country following the Russian assault, now over nine months in. If […]

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Texas Parent Shocks School Board With Graphic Library Books Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Texas mother, frustrated by her school board’s reluctance to remove books with graphic sexual content from school libraries, found an embarrassing technique for getting […]

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“Crypto Bros” Dump G-Wagons And McLarens Amid Digital Asset Bust Readers have been well-informed about the slide in wholesale used-vehicle prices. A combination of increasing new car and truck supply, soaring interest rates, and economic uncertainty have been drivers of slowing consumer demand. But let’s concentrate on […]

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“Just… Wow!”: Record Numbers Turn Out For Early Voting In Georgia Senate Runoff Authored by Dan M. Berger via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Early voting in Georgia’s Senate runoff between incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker is setting records, as it did […]

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The Establishment Is Using An Ideological Monopoly In Big Tech To Maintain Control The news surrounding Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter and the political firestorm it has caused probably hasn’t escaped most people.  The platform which once represented the very root of leftist cancel culture […]

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Who Is Killing The Crypto Millionaires? Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Are some of the cryptocurrency industry’s most important pioneers being targeted by someone?  We just learned that a 53-year-old cryptocurrency billionaire named Vyacheslav Taran has died, and he is the […]

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Q3 GDP Revised Higher As PCE Comes In Hotter Than Expected While it’s among the least relevant points of this week’s data deluge as it looks at a quarter that ended nearly 2 months ago (and much has changed since then), moments ago the BEA […]

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Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin Who Ruled After Tiananmen Massacre Dies At 96 Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who came to power after the Tiananmen Square massacre, died on Wednesday at 96 of leukemia and multiple organ failure, state media reported.  Jiang Zemin passed away […]

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One Monetary Policy Fits All – Part II Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In Part one of this series, Our Currency The World’s Problem, we discuss the vital role the U.S. dollar plays in the global economy. With an understanding of the dollar’s role as […]

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ADP Signals “Turning Point”: Weakest Labor Gains Since Jan 2021, Manufacturing Job Losses Soar The Midterms are over and so any pretense of a ‘strong as hell’ economy are out of the window, providing some ammo for folks to believe this morning’s ADP report (ahead […]

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Former White House ‘Disinformation Czar’ Nina Jankowicz Registers As Foreign Agent Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nina Jankowicz, who briefly served as the Biden administration’s “disinformation czar,” has registered as a foreign agent of a nonprofit organization based in the […]

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These Are The World’s 100 Biggest Pension Funds Despite economic uncertainty, pension funds saw relatively strong growth in 2021, and as Visual Capitalist’s Jenna Ross details below, the world’s 100 biggest pension funds are worth over $17 trillion in total, an increase of 8.5% over the previous […]

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End Of Zero-COVID Will Not Cure China’s Deep-Set Debt Problem Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, China’s risk of slipping into “debt deflation” will be the longer-term driver of its asset markets even after the country finally manages to exit its Covid Zero policy. A […]

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Cyber Monday Sales Hit Record $11.3B, Fueled By Deep Discounts Thanks to deeper than expected discounts, Cyber Monday set new records yesterday – with online retailers pulling in $11.2 billion in sales, a 5.1% jump over 2021 when $10.7 billion of sales were recorded, according […]

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Pennsylvania County That Ran Out Of Paper Ballots Fails To Certify Election Results Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A county in Pennsylvania that didn’t have enough paper ballots on Election Day failed to certify the results of the Nov. 8 […]

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Twitter Stops Enforcing COVID-19 Misinformation Policy Twitter will no longer enforce its Covid-19 misinformation policy, under which users who deviated from prevailing establishment narratives frequently had their accounts locked or suspended. The longstanding policy did not apply to misinformation from government officials, who frequently lied […]

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The “Oil Curse” And Splashy PR Announcements Of Oil Production Cuts Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, It’s not just the price of oil that matters: how much disposable income consumers have left to buy more goods and services matters, too. The Oil […]

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US Home Prices Declined For 3rd Straight Month In September After tumbling for the first time since 2012 in July, Case-Shiller’s 20-City Composite Home Price index was expected to drop for the third straight month in September (the latest data available) as mortgage rates soared, […]

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Did European Inflation Just Peak? On the heels of a major tumble in German PPI last week… Did European inflation just peak pic.twitter.com/8L7eCpOV5Q — zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 21, 2022 Germany’s headline CPI just fell 0.5% MoM (notably worse than the 0.2% decline expected) – its […]

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The Next Secular Bear Market May Be Upon Us Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, After 12 years of a liquidity-fueled, Fed-induced bull market, are the markets set to start another “secular” bear market? In an interview with the Financial Times, Boaz Weinstein, founder of Saba Capital Management, suggested […]

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