Florida Governor Ron DeSantis became the 7th prominent Republican to announce a presidential run for the 2024 election, as data from the Federal Election Commission shows.Former president Donald Trump was the first to announce his run back in December, followed by Nikki Haley,…
Authored by Matt Towery via RealClear Wire,To be clear, I am writing this as a pollster, not as a politician or partisan.Here’s the bottom line. As it gets closer to the summer of 2023, I would rate the Democrats as more…
Texas Children's Hospital will stop offering hormone therapy and other transgender care, according to the Houston Chronicle and ABC affiliate KTRK. In anticipation of a Texas bill — which aims to curb gender-transition care and which was sent to Texas Gov. Greg…
Authored by Mark Tapscott via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),The Internal Revenue Service Building in Washington, D.C., on May 22, 2023. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times)IRS officials picked a left-wing think tank to conduct a $15 million “independent review” of a proposal…
Black Lives Matter finished its latest fiscal year nearly $9 million in the red, even as world's premier race-grifting organization continued shelling out millions to execs and relatives of co-founder Patrisse Cullors, according to new tax documents posted last week and…
Authored by Donavan Lingerfelt via The Mises Institute,It’s been over five decades since the war on drugs began in the United States, and billions of dollars coerced from taxpayers have been spent on this frivolous operation.The General Accounting Office’s report found that the…
Considering the following: private jet demand in the US is sliding, and summer rental rates in the Hamptons have dropped. These could be indications that some of the wealthiest Americans are pulling back on spending as recession fears mount.Vacation rental company…
Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness,Instead of fighting anti-civilization lunacy, corporations are taking their money off the table, along with their life-affirming affordable fuel...“We need to criticize the people who got us here,” says Alex Epstein, founder of the Center for…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hailed China's "balanced position" on the conflict in Ukraine during a Friday meeting with Chinese special envoy Li Hui in Moscow.China has thus far resisted Western pressure to condemn Moscow, but has instead tried to present a…
By Mary Claire Evans of GallupAmericans, on average, estimate that a family of four needs a minimum income of $85,000 annually to “get by” in their community, marking a considerable increase from a decade ago. The past decade has witnessed not…
Authored by Bryan Jung via The Epoch Times,Florida’s citrus industry posted its worse harvest since 1937, which should give orange fans some pause at the supermarket.Damage from the 2022 hurricane season, combined with the impact of citrus greening disease, is ravaging…
One would not know it from looking at the S&P which just hit a 2023 high, but there is a bit of a bankruptcy crisis sweeping the US where companies are filing for bankruptcy at the fastest pace in 13 years,…
Authored by John Rapley via UnHerd.com,The West's imperial lifecycle is drawing to a close...In January 1999, in a Washington of bustling bars and soaring stock markets, Bill Clinton rose to deliver his State of the Union address. America was so untroubled…
Following yesterday's ugly money-market fund (accelerating inflows) and Fed balance sheet (another jump to a record usage of the Fed's Bank Term Funding Program emergency bailout cash), expectations are that bank deposits continued to leave US commercial banks.If everything's so awesome,…
Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),The Covenant School, and its parent organization Covenant Presbyterian Church, will be allowed to argue their interest in whether or not the school shooter’s writings will be released to the public, as…
The House China Committee this week published a list of ten bipartisan recommendations to deter China from attacking Taiwan. These are being officially recommended for inclusion in the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act.The list is said to be the result…
Authored by Jonathan Turley,Below is my column on the conflict in Democratic states over the fulfillment of prior political pledges from reparations to sanctuary cities. Democratic states like California cannot blame the opposing party for a failure to fulfill the pledge…
Authored by Chris Menahan via InformationLiberation.com,Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who came unarmed to DC and didn't even enter the Capitol Building on January 6th, was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday for "seditious conspiracy" by Obama-appointed US district…
While Fitch, Moodys and DBRS have all threatened to do what S&P boldly did in 2011 and downgrade the US should the debt ceiling crisis lead to a technical default, China's leading rating agency, China Chengxin International Credit Rating decided not…
Authored By Adam Dick Via Ron Paul Institute,In recent years, schools across America, with the help of private companies, have been significantly ramping up surveillance on students, largely in the name of keeping the children safe.Now that there is big buzz about…
Pentagon officials have already been on record as predicting the Russia-Ukraine war could take "years". But on Friday a top Russian official and former president gave the longest prediction thus far.Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev was quoted in Russian…
By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.comOil shipments out of Russia haven’t dropped in recent months despite the Russian pledge to cut production by 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) from March onwards, a Bloomberg analysis of shipping data showed on Friday.The most recent…
Target continues to face backlash from angry consumers a la Bud Light after putting up prominent "Pride" displays in its stores geared toward children in the days leading up to June, which is "Pride Month". While the company is doing front facing damage control,…
Authored by Steven Vannelli via Knowledge Leaders Capital blog,One metric I look at fairly often for various countries is the relationship between the performance of stocks vs. bonds. The idea is straightforward enough: when stocks are outperforming bonds, it tends to…
Elon Musk's brain-implant startup received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to conduct clinical trials of its experimental device in humans. "We are excited to share that we have received the FDA's approval to launch our first-in-human clinical study!" Neuralink said…
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,The national governing body of cycling in the UK has announced a ban on transgender competitors taking part in women’s races in the country.British Cycling says that the ban will come into effect by the…
This year? Probably not so much...We once thought JP Morgan was happy to agree to take on the carcass of First Republic Bank because it could get billions in deposits and assets for pennies on the dollar. Now, after learning that…
Authored by Caden Pearsen via The Epoch Times,A senior Twitter engineer resigned on Thursday following glitches that marred the highly anticipated Twitter Spaces event in which Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his presidential bid.Foad Dabiri, whose LinkedIn profile says he is…
Earlier this week, an insider at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) came forward and revealed his identity for the first time after filing an anonymous whistleblower complaint about the agency's handling of an investigation into Hunter Biden.The original whistleblower complaint from…
By Maartje Wijffelaars, Senior Macro Strategist of RabobankYesterday we learned that the US economy has been performing better than thought, ironically partly because of a detected fraud. Indeed, while initial jobless claims did rise by 4k in the week to 20…
The most important segment of the UMich sentiment survey continues to be inflation expectations, and after the preliminary data showed medium-term expectations rising significantly, the final print for May was expected to drop modestly from 3.2% to 3.1% (while the rebound…
Target executives, embracing "woke" capitalism, were completely oblivious, or maybe just ignorant, to the "Bud Light moment." After Bud Light pulled the plug on advertisements with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney because of damaging boycotts by conservative beer drinkers, the trans community…
One of The Fed's favorite inflation indicators - Core PCE Deflator - disappointed the doves, printing hotter than expected (headline and core both +0.4% MoM vs +0.3% MoM exp), pushing the YoY inflation signals higher...Source: BloombergEven more focused, is the Fed's…
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,I received many emails and questions on “why” we are adding the U.S. Treasury bond to our portfolios. The question is understandable, given its dire performance in 2022, where bonds had the biggest drawdown since 1786.However, there is,…
With the X-date for potential US default now estimated at June 5, House GOP and White House negotiators appear to be settling on an agreement to raise the debt limit and cap federal spending for two years, Bloomberg reports, citing people…
Carl Icahn's net worth continues to bleed, with Bloomberg reporting on Thursday that the billionaire's company has fallen in value from about $19 billion to $7 billion, following a critical report by short seller Hindenburg Research. The activist investor, who "controls about…
US Durable Goods Orders were expected to decline 1.0% in preliminary April data, but instead it rose 1.0% MoM (after March was revised down from 3.2% MoM to 2.8% MoM)...Source: BloombergCore orders (ex-Transports) dropped 0.2% MoM (worse than the 0.1% drop…
By Ven Ram, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategistThe market’s recent re-pricing of the Federal Reserve’s rate trajectory is nothing short of dramatic. Investors will find it challenging to price Friday’s slate of data going into the long weekend while being…
Despite urgent warnings from US and Western allies, Moscow is moving forward with plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus. The two longtime allies which form what they call a 'union state' signed a deal Thursday to formalize deployment of…
Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,Last Friday, members of the Arab League welcomed the Syrian regime back to the organization. Representatives from several Arab member states shook Syrian leader Assad’s hand and gave him, a “warm” reception according to several…
Authored by John and Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,“One of the creeping hands of totalitarianism running through the democracy is the Federal Bureau of Investigation… Because why does the FBI do all this? To scare the hell out of people……
Deaths from drug-resistant infections are set to skyrocket by 2050, according to the UN 2023 report ‘Bracing for Superbugs: Strengthening environmental action in the One Health response to antimicrobial resistance.’Unless drastic action is taken to tackle the problem, it could also lead to…
Submitted by Gun Owners of America,Most Americans are unaware that a new rule from President Biden's ATF is less than one week away from turning millions of fellow citizens into felons overnight. The new rule targets firearms that utilize a brace, a…
Authored by Jake Bevan via RealClear Wire,An abortive rally and an expanding field of challengers hasn’t hurt Donald Trump’s standing in Iowa, according to a new poll from Emerson College. In results released Thursday morning, 62% of Republican voters indicated they…
The elusive unicorn is no longer a myth in the U.S. startup world, with over a thousand private startups reaching a $1 billion valuation in the last 25 years.While some of these startups eventually go public and go on to become household names,…
Authored by Alex Newman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),The trend away from the U.S. dollar in global trade and finance is accelerating rapidly as inflation persists, government debt levels explode, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) roams the planet negotiating…
Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),The Alabama State Capitol stands in Montgomery, Ala., on May 15, 2019. (Julie Bennett/Getty Images)Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation on May 24 that seeks to define an individual’s sex based on their reproductive systems…
Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams is arguing in court for the suspension of the city’s “Right to Shelter” requirement, citing the ongoing influx of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in…
By Dhaval Joshi of BCA ResearchThe Debt Ceiling Game Is Parent-Child With A Bad Nash EquilibriumIn game theoretical terms, the debt ceiling standoff is the Parent-Child game.The ‘Child’ is the Democrats who can cut spending a lot (be very good), cut…
Authored by Monica Showalter via AmericanThinker.com,From the annals of "What was she thinking?," here's San Francisco's mayor, London Breed.According to the New York Post:San Francisco Mayor London Breed and the city's board of supervisors were forced to retreat inside after a meeting they…