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Probably not, or so I argue in my latest Bloomberg column. Excerpt: The most obvious argument against the proposal is simply that uniform taxation is better than selective tax exemptions. If a lower capital gains tax rate is preferable, then the…
Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us,In October of 2024, Russia hosted the annual BRICS Summit in the city of Kazan with the intent to show unity among developing nations and general eastern interests. The Kremlin, a target of severe NATO sanctions…
Website Finder.com cited data from the National Christmas Tree Association showing that 43% of American households are expected to purchase a real tree this holiday season, with the average tree costing around $79.31—around $4 more than in 2023.2020 marked a critical point in which artificial…
Authored by Dr Gerry Brady via Boom Finance & Economic substack,"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.”- Benito Mussolini, Fascist Dictator of Italy for 26 YearsMarc Andreessen speaks with Joe Rogan –…
Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),The United States is set to fall in worldwide life expectancy ranking by mid-century, with widespread obesity adversely affecting people’s health, according to a recent study.File photo of an obese person. Paul…
America's beef cow inventory has steadily declined over the last half-decade, reaching 64-year lows and signaling a deepening crisis across the cattle industry. As the cattle crisis worsens, consumers should brace for higher ground beef prices.The shrinking beef supply has pushed…
Via The Mind Unleashed,In the vast, icy expanses of Greenland, a place more synonymous with desolate, arctic landscapes than with the shadows of human history, NASA scientists have stumbled upon an extraordinary anomaly. Buried beneath a hundred feet of ice lies…
Cash-strapped US consumers should be deeply concerned about rising food inflation. It's 'stickier' than ever as coffee and cocoa prices surge.Arabica coffee futures in New York hit a record high on Tuesday, driven by ongoing fears of a global supply crunch.…
by Calculated Risk on 12/10/2024 08:06:00 PM Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.Wednesday: • At 7:00 AM ET, The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.• At 8:30…
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he is working to bypass the New York City Council to change the city’s sanctuary city law ahead of a meeting with the incoming Trump administration’s border…
The hardline and extremist Islamic groups Hamas and the Taliban have been among the first regional entities to offer congratulations to the Islamist-led 'rebels' and the Syrian people after the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad.Afghanistan's Taliban government announced the…
By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.comOil demand in China, the world’s top crude importer, could peak as early as next year as the penetration of electric vehicles and LNG trucks is accelerating, state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) said on Tuesday.At this…
Americans, hit by inflation, higher interest rates, and supply-chain issues, are buying fewer new vehicles. The four-year average for annual sales is now 15.5 million, down from 17.7 million pre-pandemic, per the Bureau of Economic Analysis.The slowdown in new car sales…
Authored by Allan Stein via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),A property manager in Phoenix says that dealing with itinerant “squatters” is one of the least pleasant parts of the real estate business.Sometimes, you can’t control what happens, Calvin Favata with Your…
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg - who had a Biden DOJ plant in his legal case against former President Donald Trump - is trying to ensure his hush money case doesn’t vanish into thin air as Trump prepares for his return…
Authored by Jeff Louderback via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Nestled in the mountains of Yancey County in western North Carolina, Burnsville looks like a town that might feature in a Norman Rockwell painting or a Hallmark Christmas movie.NuWray Hotel owners Amanda…
General Motors is winding down its Cruise robotaxi division, according to a new report from Bloomberg. GM's exit from the market leaves Google's Waymo and Tesla as the two main names in autonomous driving. The division "proved costly and full of reputational pitfalls"…
Mark Sobel at OMFIF discusses the likelihood of an new Plaza Accord to depreciate the dollar. Given one would need Euro area and Chinese agreement, the assessed likelihood is low A Mar-a-Lago Accord also would be inconsistent with Europe’s cyclical situation.…
The 26-year-old Ivy League school graduate, Luigi Mangione, charged in the murder of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson, will fight extradition to New York City."My client will not waive extradition today," Manginone's lawyer said, quoted by Fox News. Mangione was denied bail on Monday and will remain at…
The Biden administration, desperate to make an impact somewhere, anywhere, in its final, dying days, has struck again.Just around the time we learned that Biden was set to finally kill the Nippon Steel of US steel, we learned that a federal…
Authored by Peter Berkowitz via RealClearPolitics,In January, Republicans will gain undivided control of the federal government’s political branches. Yet President-elect Donald Trump’s comfortable 312-226 electoral-college victory over Vice President Kamala Harris and his narrow margin in the popular vote – 49.9%…
Non-governmental organizations receiving taxpayer dollars are under scrutiny for misusing funds in shady operations. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, set to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have announced plans to investigate how taxpayer funds are funneled into NGOs. Let's begin with an…
Authored by Julie Kelly via RealClearInvestigations,Even as President-elect Donald Trump promised on Sunday to act “very quickly” on pardons for many of the protesters involved in the events of January 6, the Biden administration’s Justice Department is continuing to arrest and…
Today’s leading historians of science have “debunked” the notion that religious dogmatism and science were largely in conflict in Western history: conflict was rare and inconsequential, the relationship between religion and science was constructive overall. This view stands in sharp contrast…
by Calculated Risk on 12/10/2024 03:00:00 PM The Consumer Price Index for November is scheduled to be released tomorrow. The consensus is for a 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.3% increase in core CPI. The consensus is for CPI to…
Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com,Billionaire investor Ray Dalio expressed concerns about a potential “pending debt money problem” in global finance and urged a shift toward hard assets like Bitcoin and gold.Dalio, the founder of one the world’s largest hedge funds,…
The year may be drawing to a close but the US needs to feed the government debt monster - which just hit a record $36.17 trillion - with more and more debt come rain, shine, Chritmas, New Years, etc, etc, and…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Northern Mockingbird, Spencer, Indiana, United States. “Still singing incessantly through the night. All these audios recorded from bathroom window at 3:27, 3:33, 3:58, and 4:01 (last one does have passing car–amazing…
The rivalry between two of America's top billionaires, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, continued on Tuesday morning when Musk jokingly suggested on X that Gates' alleged short position on Tesla might lead to his financial demise. "If Tesla does become the world's most…
Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas this week revived an emergency application to block the Washington Medical Commission from investigating licensed physicians in the state over their criticism of COVID-19 policies.A man…
Having plunged from over $105 billion market cap in 2015 to less than $8 billion currently (amid mounting pressures on both its pharmacy and retail businesses), it appears Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has got cheap enough to spark private equity interest.The…
Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),The House of Representatives is set to vote this week on an annual defense bill, which includes $3 billion to remove Chinese telecom equipment from American wireless networks.A logo sits illuminated outside…
Authored by Tristan Greene via CoinTelegraph.com,Microsoft shareholders voted against a resolution to add Bitcoin BTC$97,604 to the company’s balance sheets during the firm’s annual meeting on Dec. 10. The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), a pro-free-market think-tank based in Washington, D.C., had…
by Calculated Risk on 12/10/2024 12:14:00 PM Many years ago, I wrote: The upward slope of Real House Prices. I argued that real house prices (adjusted for inflation) had typically increased about 1.0% to 1.5% per year (much higher than Professor…
By Noi Mahoney of FreightWavesPresident-elect Donald Trump’s plan to hit imports from China, Canada and Mexico with tariffs could deal a blow to companies across North America and trigger negative consequences for the global supply chain, according to experts.Trump said that…
Boeing has reportedly resumed production of its 737 Max aircraft at its Renton factory in Seattle, Washington, a little more than a month after a seven-week strike by 33,000 unionized factory workers concluded with a new contract. This marks a critical…
Authored by Andrea Widburg via AmericanThinker.com,Kentanji Brown Jackson may not know what a woman is, but she knows what it is to go to bed one night as just an ordinary Supreme Court justice and to wake up the next day…
The State Department revealed in a Monday filing that they are "substantially likely" to shut down their $100M Global Engagement Center (GEC), which was revealed in early 2023 to have been funding a "disinformation" tracking group which worked to pressure advertisers…
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By Benjamin Picton, senior macro strategist at RabobankHope Springs EternalChina’s Politburo yesterday signaled its intent to provide further support to the Chinese economy by adopting a “moderately loose” monetary policy stance next year. That marks a shift from the current setting…
With Assad overthrown and Syria in shambles, Israel has declared the permanent annexation of the Golan Heights. "The Golan Heights," announced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "will forever be an inseparable part of the State of Israel."He said that control over this…
Yves here. Richard Murphy highlights how housing is ever more unaffordable in the UK, portending yet another housing/financial crash. To add insult to injury, Brits are underhoused by advanced economy standards. From World Population Review: The United Kingdom once had the…
Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,A federal court on Dec. 9 temporarily blocked in 19 states the expansion of Obamacare coverage to immigrants who were illegally brought to the United States as children, also known as “Dreamers.”The ruling stemmed…
It appears American small business owners love 'hitler' and hate 'democracy'... US small-business optimism surged in November to a more than three-year high in anticipation of more favorable economic policies after Donald Trump sealed his return to the White House.The National Federation…
by Calculated Risk on 12/10/2024 09:07:00 AM Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-December 2024A brief excerpt: This 2-part overview for mid-December provides a snapshot of the current housing…
Yet another gruesome gang horror has played out in Haiti, as at least 184 people -- most of them elderly -- were variously slashed, hacked or shot to death on the orders of a warlord who'd been advised that aging slum…
Futures inch higher, reversing earlier losses even as bond yields gain 3bps to rise to a one week high, and the USD is once again rising. As of 8:00am ET, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 inched up 0.1% and 0.2% respectively with Mag7 names…
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),President-elect Donald Trump sent a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin following the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria after Islamist opposition fighters captured Damascus. He called for an immediate cease-fire…
The transcript from this week’s, MiB: David Roux, BayPine, Silver Lake Partners, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts…
Authored by Charles Hugh SMith via OfTwoMinds blog,History is either "one damned thing after another"--a chaotic collection of random events--or there are connections between events that are not readily visible. The study of history includes both rooting around for more factual evidence…
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