Thursday, May 15, 2025

March core wholesale prices year over year were revised up in today's release for April, from 3.3% to 4%, and with April we now have eight consecutive months with increases above 3%

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 The average increase to date has been 3.58% year over year for eight months, 121% higher than the pre-pandemic average of 1.62%. 

It's so simple even she can understand it

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  Sotomayor Challenges Trump On Universal Injunctions: So If A President Seized Everyone's Guns, One Court Ruling Couldn't Stop It...

The funniest thing that's happening to Donald Trump right now is that while he tries to intimidate the Fed to reduce interest rates and they do nothing, yields are soaring all by themselves

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 The bond market is issuing a vote of no confidence in our elected leadership. One branch of Republican government thinks this is the 19th c...

We'll probably never know whether weak Russian invasion of Ukraine headlines like these at CNBC contributed to Trump's thinking that Ukraine started it

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Shrinking from calling what Russia did an invasion was a temporary flight from reality for CNBC, probably motivated by keeping people from p...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Nigel Farage's UK Reform Party won new majorities in ten regional councils across England in the May 1 elections, stunning Labour and the Conservatives

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 ... The races were local. But Reform UK’s unprecedented surge has recast political trends nationwide, sparking panic in Britain’s two major...

The rate of core cpi inflation is still running 55% ahead of the 2010-2020 average and liberal VOX wonders where is the inflation

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Meanwhile you start turning on, and turning off, tariffs in February and expect to see massive, economy-turning evidence already in the Apri...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

The devastating truth about the end of US Houthi attacks is that US forces failed after spending more than $1 billion

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 The thread is here . The limits of conventional power have been reached. Putin has been experiencing the same in Ukraine and could have bee...

They call themselves conservatives lol

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  Drug-Price EO Should've Happened Decades Ago Scott McKay, The American Spectator

Core cpi inflation, which excludes food and energy, came in at 2.8% year over year in April 2025, and so did food inflation

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 Core cpi inflation at 2.8% year over year is 55% higher than the average rate of 1.8% which prevailed 2010-2020.   core food

Energy inflation year over year in April 2025 is negative, but prices for electricity have never been higher, natural gas is climbing in record territory, and gasoline prices under Trump are still Biden-like

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House Republican Chip Roy (TX-21) says the current policy baseline tax assumption of Republican Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho is a load of crap

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Chip Roy is right. The expiring temporary tax cuts of Donald Trump had a cost in 2017, and if renewed they'll still have a cost, which i...
Monday, May 12, 2025

No DOGE savings show up in April US Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the Federal Government, but higher deficits sure do, $194 billion higher year to date than last year

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Fiscal 2025 deficit, October-April: $1.049 trillion Fiscal 2024 deficit, October-April: $0.855 trillion Increase in the deficit in 2025 Oct-...

Rag-headed heathen bastard King of Qatar to award Mad King Ludwig of America lavishly appointed $400 million 747-8 jumbo jet to use as Air Force One until Boeing gets its act together

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  Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources Trump poised to accept Qatar jet...

Comrade Trump to slash drug prices for the people in latest attack on predatory capitalist bigpharma pigs

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Trump to sign order to cut some U.S. drug prices to match lower ones abroad  Trump signs order aiming to cut some U.S. drug prices to match ...

Trump's phony Liberation Day for working Americans evaporates into thin air, new 90-day pause brings 145% reciprocal tariffs on China, which tanked markets in early April, down to 30%

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Stock futures surge. Crude oil surges. US Treasury yields surge. U.S. and China agree to slash tariffs for 90 days in major trade breakthrou...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Only Trump can do it

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 hehe No One Person Can Pull Dems Out of the Ditch Michael Goodwin, New York Post   ... Although there’s obvious a...

Whatever else may be said about Rene Girard, he grasped the big problem even if he miscast it as capitalist, namely Chinamerica

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   “Everyone now knows that the looming conflict between the US and China, for example, has nothing to do with a ‘clash of civilisations’, ...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Speaking of gasoline prices lol

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Hello Washington Times, hello, how did Biden's increased oil supply from the SPR to buy the 2022 elections lead to increased gasoline price at the very same time?

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 I'm so confused. Doesn't price drop on an increase in supply? "Let's increase supply so prices rise so the voters vote for...

The Chicago Tribune editorial board laments the closing of all Jo-Ann Fabrics stores, never mentions that becoming a literal sewer of woke was the last straw for many of its long time customers

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 Sewer has two meanings dontchaknow, seamstress only one. From the conclusion : ... And lucky Chicago suburbanites have small businesses suc...