[Entertainment]
Why Rachel Says She Walked Away From The Bachelor a True Winner
For Rachel Nance, Tulum, Mexico truly proved to be the perfect place to fall in love—with herself.
While the ICU nurse's Bachelor journey didn't end with a proposal from lead Joey Graziadei or a...
Published:3/19/2024 2:59:20 AM
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[Markets]
AstraZeneca buying Fusion Pharmaceuticals for $2.4 billion
Published:3/19/2024 2:59:20 AM
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[LUMN]
Lumen Technologies: The Turnaround Could Have Gone Better
Published:3/19/2024 2:47:21 AM
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[Law]
Religious Freedom, Part 2: Lawyer Sounds Alarm About ‘Rise of Global Censorship’
This is the second in a three-part series on the movement for religious freedom in the U.S. legal system today. Check out the first part... Read More
The post Religious Freedom, Part 2: Lawyer Sounds Alarm About ‘Rise of Global Censorship’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.
Published:3/19/2024 2:47:21 AM
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[Markets]
Unilever to cut 7,500 jobs and split off arm that makes Ben & Jerry’s
Unilever on Tuesday said it may spin off the ice cream-unit that produces Ben & Jerry’s as the multinational consumer goods company said it expects to slash 7,500 jobs globally.
Published:3/19/2024 2:47:21 AM
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[Markets]
Unilever plans to cut 7,500 jobs, may spin off ice-cream unit
Published:3/19/2024 2:47:21 AM
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[World]
AstraZeneca to buy Fusion Pharmaceuticals for up to $2.4 billion
AstraZeneca is buying Fusion Pharmaceuticals for $2.4 billion as the London-listed group looks to build its presence in cutting-edge cancer treatments.
Published:3/19/2024 2:47:21 AM
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[Politics]
Trump’s mixed-up, invented and false account of his first impeachment
The former president regaled a rally crowd with a fictional version of his impeachment over a phone call with the Ukrainian president.
Published:3/19/2024 2:26:37 AM
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[Markets]
Stock market today: Asian shares are mixed after Bank of Japan ups key rate for 1st time in 17 years
Shares were mixed in Asia on Tuesday after the Bank of Japan hiked its benchmark interest rate for the first time in 17 years, ending a longstanding negative rate policy at odds with the stances of most central banks. In a widely anticipated move, the BOJ raised its overnight call rate to a range of 0 to 0.1%, up from minus 0.1%. It said that wage increases and other indicators suggested that inflation had stabilized above the BOJ's 2% target, but noted “extremely high uncertainties,” including weakness in industrial production, exports, housing investment and government spending.
Published:3/19/2024 2:26:37 AM
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[Markets]
Anti-Semitism As The Harbinger Of Global Chaos
Anti-Semitism As The Harbinger Of Global Chaos
Authored by Stephen Soukup via American Greatness,
On the off chance you hadn’t noticed, the world appears to be at an especially precarious moment presently. Obviously, war continues to rage in Ukraine and Gaza, with no end in sight to either conflict. Great Britain and Japan are currently in recession. Canada’s economy is an absolute disaster, with almost no hope of near-term recovery. Much of continental Europe and China are struggling economically, if not officially contracting. Some experts believe that the global economy more generally is sliding, slowly but surely, into recession. The only economic bright spot in the world is the United States, and even here we have our problems with consumer spending and sentiment, massive credit concerns, and inarguably sticky inflation.
Meanwhile, China is investing in and winning friends, and influencing people in the Global South. U.S.-backed Kurdish leaders are warning that ISIS is resurgent in Syria and Iraq. The Marine general in charge of U.S. Africa Command is warning of Russia’s increasing influence on that continent. Sudan remains mired in civil war. Nigeria is plagued by Islamist terrorism and mass kidnappings. Mexico is in the midst of a full-blown war with the drug cartels, who continue to grow bolder and more militarily sophisticated.
Everywhere one looks, chaos reigns—or, at the very least, bubbles just below the surface.
Perhaps most telling among the signs of disarray is the unnerving rise of antisemitism in the United States, Europe, and throughout the world. Antisemitism, in general, has been intensifying, slowly but surely, over the last decade or so. Over the last few months, however, it has emerged fully into the open, undaunted and unembarrassed. What was once considered shameful and disconcerting is now warmly welcomed as a “rational” response to American foreign policy, Israeli war practices, “colonialism,” and “white privilege.”
All of this is troubling, to put it mildly, both in and of itself and as a harbinger of greater and more deadly global unrest.
Hatred of and anger toward Jews is not the same as other forms of bigotry.
In many ways, the history of Western anti-Jewish hatred mirrors the history of Western political chaos and collapse. Or, to put it another way, historically, Jews are not only the perennial scapegoats during periods of social upheaval and displacement, but resurgent anti-Semitism serves as the proverbial canary in the coal mine for the rise of revolutionary movements.
In his classic, The Pursuit of the Millennium, the British historian Norman Cohn argues that the Jewish diaspora generally fit comfortably, if tentatively into European society for most of the first thousand years or so A.D., and only became a hated and perpetually persecuted minority with the rise of utopian Millenarianism that accompanied and then outlived the Crusades. Beginning then and continuing for the next nearly a thousand years, Europeans came to associate Jews with the antichrist and thus to associate hatred and persecution of Jews with preparing the battlespace for the Second Coming. Many historians, including Hannah Arendt, believed that the anti-Semitism that was such an integral part of the West’s 20th-century collapse into totalitarianism was relatively new and, in any case, distinct from medieval anti-Semitism. Cohn’s history suggests otherwise, connecting the religious eschatology of medieval Europe to the quasi-religious eschatology of post-Enlightenment Europe, thereby connecting the persistence of Western anti-Semitism as well.
Cohn tells us that millenarian moments and the millenarian movements that capitalize on those moments all share a common group of characteristics. They all appear under certain social and economic conditions. They all appeal to a certain segment of the population at large, who then present themselves as economic, spiritual, and political leaders. They all utilize scapegoats, meaning that they all identify a different, usually much smaller segment of the population on whom they can blame all the world’s ills and then set about to cure those ills through the elimination of the scapegoat. And more often than not, that scapegoat tends to be Jewish.
In the conclusion to the second edition of Pursuit of the Millennium, Cohn notes that the millenarian fervor of the middle ages may have changed, but it never really died, and it maintained its common characteristics even as it became secular or “quasi-religious.” He wrote:
The story told in Pursuit of the Millennium ended some four centuries ago but is not without relevance to our own times. [I have] shown in another work [Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion] how closely the Nazi phantasy of a world-wide Jewish conspiracy of destruction is related to the phantasies that inspired Emico of Leningrad and the Master of Hungary; and how mass disorientation and insecurity have fostered the demonization of the Jew in this as in much earlier centuries. The parallels and indeed the continuity are incontestable.
The parallels between the rise of Nazism and the current global unrest and demonization of the Jewish people are also largely incontestable. The election that brought Hitler to power didn’t happen in a vacuum, after all. It happened in the midst of global chaos, namely the Great Depression. It also followed the decadence and distortion of the Weimer Era. As the New York Fed has shown, even a global pandemic—the 1919 Spanish Flu outbreak—contributed to the sense of discomfort and disconnect among the German population, prompting increased support for Hitler and his Nazis.
The present global chaos doesn’t have to end the same way the chaos of a century ago did. It doesn’t have to result in the ascension of millenarian ideologies and their totalitarian defenders. History has shown that extremism can be short-circuited and radical ideologies undone. The first step in doing so, however, must be to bring an end to the rationalization of the persecution of the world’s Jews. The second step is to end the persecution itself.
Antisemitism is ugly and shameful, and it must be treated as such. For their sake and ours.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 02:00
Published:3/19/2024 2:03:28 AM
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[Opinion]
The Energy Transition Has Become A Big Green Hot Mess
by David Blackmon at CDN -
We spend a lot of time talking and writing about the green energy subsidies contained in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. That’s appropriate given that bill’s content of a raft of incentives and subsidies the CBO estimated would amount to $369 billion over 10 years, a number that some analysts …
Click to read the rest HERE-> The Energy Transition Has Become A Big Green Hot Mess first posted at Conservative Daily News
Published:3/19/2024 1:07:28 AM
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Is freedom brewing in Latin America? Many signs point to 'yes'
Despite the dire news we read about America's border crisis, there are glimmers of hope starting to show across Latin America. Here's where to look for them.
Published:3/19/2024 1:07:28 AM
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[Free Speech]
[Ilya Somin] Court Should Focus on Coercion in Murthy v. Missouri
The government is entitled to try to persuade social media to take down posts, but not to coerce them to do so.
Published:3/19/2024 12:28:20 AM
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[Agriculture]
Matt McGrath of the BBC Goes Climate Banana Crazy
Of course, the McGrath article is just one of many that appear in legacy media outlets that attempt to insert alleged human involvement in the continually changing climate into general news stories.
Published:3/19/2024 12:05:53 AM
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GREG GUTFELD: The deliberate hoax machine is doing what it does best
'Gutfeld!' panelists discuss the context surrounding former President Trump's use of the word 'bloodbath.'
Published:3/18/2024 11:09:46 PM
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[Banking and Financial Institutions]
Japan Raises Interest Rates for First Time in 17 Years
Higher inflation and rising wages suggest that the country’s economy can grow without such aggressive stimulus from the central bank.
Published:3/18/2024 11:09:46 PM
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[Markets]
Cereal For The Peasants? How The Elites Use "Skimpflation" To Control Our Eating Habits
Cereal For The Peasants? How The Elites Use "Skimpflation" To Control Our Eating Habits
Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us
People who have been reading my analysis for a long time are well aware of my expectations on the eventual outcome of the US economic debacle: A stagflationary crisis followed by a massive crash similar to the Great Depression (or worse). I based this prediction on a number of circumstances, but primarily I went back to the history of currency devaluations and central bank policy. These kinds of things have happened before and they tend to follow a pattern that is visible today.
Specifically, I studies the 1971-1981 stagflation crisis for reference and I found some startling similarities. It was one of the worst economic declines in American history next to the depression, and it’s an event that almost no one talks about. A lot of people (specifically Gen Z) believe that our current era is the worst financial era of all time and that their generation has been shafted by previous generations.
This is inaccurate; the stagflation disaster of the 1970s was far worse. That said, it shows us where our country is eventually headed and it’s not looking good. What is a manageable economic crunch today has the potential to become a calamity tomorrow.
One issue that I’m fascinated by that usually isn’t mentioned in mainstream economic discussion is quality degradation – The way in which products, services, construction, manufacturing, style and availability tend to break down when inflation suddenly spikes. This process is known as “skimpflation” and it was rampant in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most Americans today think of the 70s as a happy-go-lucky era of disco, bell bottoms and psychedelics, but in reality it was economically dismal.
Examining real life images and footage from the decade compared to the 1960s, there was a stark shift in the quality of life. From the quality of cars, to the quality of clothes, to the quality of housing. Some US cities (like New York or Philadelphia) looked like warzones complete with rubble strewn slums. After sky-high inflation for several years causes a doubling and tripling of retail prices along with growing unemployment rates, the environment starts to feel real ugly.
Skimpflation And The Food Pyramid Agenda
Another aspect of life that takes a hit is the quality of diet and the ability of families to feed themselves. Most people are familiar with the concept of “shrinkflation” – The habit of companies to shrink portion sizes while keeping their packaging and prices the same in order to offset inflation in production costs without consumers noticing. However, skimpflation is another way in which companies will attempt to avoid raising prices on the shelf, and that’s by lowering the quality of ingredients, along with encouraging the public to eat less nutritious (and less expensive to produce) foods.
The 1970s was the decade that gave birth to the processed food market and the microwave cuisine, at least on a wider scale. This was the decade when American food truly took a nose dive. The ease of processed foods was offset by the poor nutritional content. They were cheaper, but the quality sucked and we are still living with the repercussions of that trend today.
There were, of course, counter-culture movements working against the adoption of processed foods, including “know your farmer” type organizations and organic movements. But as we are all well aware, the cheap processed foods eventually won. Society embraced the market because they had to. Prices were so high that it was the only way they could feed their families everyday.
Interestingly, the Food Pyramid that we were all taught about as children in public schools was introduced to the western world in 1972. The pyramid was actually first used by the Swedish government in direct response to inflation and was designed to encourage the populace to eat cheaper food-stuffs (primarily cereals, dairy products, pastas and carbs). Governments have been using subsidies to promote the consumption of low cost and low quality foods ever since.
I’m recounting these trends from the 1970s because we are seeing a very similar agenda today, though it is far more insidious in nature. Economic decline is a favorite tool for the establishment to control the behavior of populations, including dietary habits.
Dollar Losing Buying Power? Switch To Lab Grown Meat And Bugs…
It’s no coincidence, for example, that there has been a massive push by government agencies and corporations to acclimate the public to the idea of fake lab-grown meat products. For now, fake meats are more expensive than real meats so there’s no incentive for the public to consume them, but if inflation continues to drive prices higher eventually real steak will cost far more than artificial steak and people may be convinced that the fake stuff is a viable alternative.
Then there’s the notion of western consumers eating bugs for protein instead of beef or chicken or pork. Beyond the claims that this will somehow “save the climate” from global warming (which is a complete falsehood backed by zero concrete evidence), the powers-that-be also suggest that bugs will be far more affordable than hamburgers in the near future.
Bugs are traditionally a starvation food. They are only a staple in countries where famine is common or where governments aggressively restrict normal agriculture. Bug protein also has a habit of giving people parasites. The only way westerners could be convinced to eat bugs as a part of their regular diet is if inflation crushes the regular meat market.
Let The Peasants Eat Cereal…
Another form of skimpflation is the shift even further to the bottom of the food pyramid. Recently, Kellogg's CEO Gary Pilnick suggested in an interview with CNBC that Americans will eventually start ‘eating cereal for dinner’ because the cost is so much cheaper per portion. In other words, cheap processed carbs will become a mainstay of the American diet because a lot of people won’t be able to afford anything else. Pilnick brags that Kellogg's is well placed for this coming change in the food market…
The marketing for this idea is already well underway. Various companies are promoting an end to traditional healthy homemade dinner habits and a switch to unconventional and cheaper processed foods. The thrust of the Kellogg's campaign relies on poverty. Meaning, they are banking on the expectation that Americans will be poorer in the near term and that this condition will continue for years to come.
Just as we saw during the 1970s stagflation crisis, there is a rush to cut quality in all goods and services, but food is a major target. Today, it’s about convincing the market to consume more carbs and processed foods and less protein. Tomorrow, it will be about abandoning established agriculture altogether and having all our food manufactured in labs. The elites seem to be planning for a significant financial crisis beyond what we have already dealt with and this is evident in their efforts to sell the reconstruction of our dietary habits based on poverty rather than prosperity.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 00:00
Published:3/18/2024 11:09:46 PM
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[World]
Israel’s war on Hamas brings famine to Gaza
What makes this calamity all the more stunning is that it’s entirely the product of human decisions.
Published:3/18/2024 11:09:46 PM
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[Foreign Affairs]
Stuck With Putin for the Foreseeable Future
The weekend election offered neither a credible challenger nor a credible successor.
The post Stuck With Putin for the Foreseeable Future appeared first on The American Conservative.
Published:3/18/2024 11:09:46 PM
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[Markets]
Bank of Japan ends negative-rate era, hikes for first time since 2007
Japan’s central bank raised interest rates for the first time in 17 years Tuesday, tightening its monetary policy amid stubborn inflation.
Published:3/18/2024 10:47:11 PM
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[Markets]
Bank of Japan ends negative-rate era, hikes for first time since 2007
Published:3/18/2024 10:47:10 PM
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Legal experts weigh in on Trump’s options after failure to secure $464M appeal bond: ‘uncharted territory’
Legal experts weigh in on Trump’s options after his attorneys said he couldn't secure a $464 million appeal bond he needs in a New York civil fraud judgement against him.
Published:3/18/2024 10:12:02 PM
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[Entertainment]
Richard Simmons Responds to Concerns Over Message Saying He's "Dying"
Richard Simmons is sorry if he set off some alarms.
The aerobics icon is apologizing to fans after confusion arose about his well-being over a March 18 message he wrote about health that said he's...
Published:3/18/2024 10:12:02 PM
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[Politics]
BREAKING: Trump considering Vivek Ramaswamy for DHS Secretary
Former President Trump has decided that Vivek Ramaswamy won’t be his running mate this year, but he is considering him as a potential DHS Secretary, according to Bloomberg: Donald Trump has ruled . . .
Published:3/18/2024 9:33:59 PM
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[Markets]
Another Shutdown Averted As Deal Reached
Another Shutdown Averted As Deal Reached
Congress has reached a deal to avert yet another shutdown following an agreement to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the remainder of FY 2024, according to Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman.
In a race against time, Congress passed a package of six appropriations bills earlier this month, narrowly avoiding a partial shutdown. The deal revealed by Sherman avoids a Friday, March 22 drop-dead date.
The text of a minibus combining those bills was widely expected to be released by Sunday, though no such deal emerged.
As Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times reported earlier, House rules require that members be given at least 72 hours to review legislation before it comes up for a vote. This meant that if a deal was not released on Monday, it could mean another last-minute scramble to get something on President Joe Biden’s desk.
The delay came amid fierce Republican opposition to the president’s handling of the crisis at the southern border, which more than 7 million illegal immigrants have crossed since he took office.
Appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are included among the mix of remaining spending bills. Those negotiations reportedly derailed over the weekend amid talks of a potential year-long continuing resolution.
“Republicans want to underfund DHS, which makes the border less secure and the country less safe,” a White House official told Politico on Sunday, asserting that Republicans were trying to “sow chaos on the border ahead of November.”
But Republicans purportedly pushed back on those claims, holding that the issue was not the amount of funds requested but how they would be used.
Nonetheless, talks were said to be back on track on Monday. Commenting on the negotiations at a press briefing, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the administration’s position was that DHS needs more funding to adequately address the border crisis.
The deal is likely to face pushback from the GOP’s right flank, which continues to push for stronger border reforms.
“Congress: we are FUNDING a DHS that is MASS RELEASING illegal aliens into our communities, some of whom commit horrific crimes,” wrote Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), a member of the staunchly conservative House Freedom Caucus, in an X post.
“Republicans MUST NOT vote to keep funding Mayorkas’ DHS at the same level with zero policy changes next week. We have the power to stop this,” he added.
Thanks to the GOP’s razor-thin majority in the House, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was forced to ally with Democrats to pass the first appropriations minibus on March 6. A similar partnership may well be in the cards for the second.
Other remaining bills include funding for the departments of Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and State, as well as the legislative branch, financial services, and general government.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 22:20
Published:3/18/2024 9:33:59 PM
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[World]
Lawsuit details 1993 sexual assault allegation against New York mayor
The complaint filed Monday accuses Eric Adams of sexually assaulting a woman, who also worked for the city in 1993, after she asked him for help getting a promotion.
Published:3/18/2024 9:14:01 PM
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[Entertainment]
Climate activists disrupting Jeremy Strong was the best part of the play
Jeremy Strong’s Broadway revival of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” is weirdly underwhelming.
Published:3/18/2024 9:07:14 PM
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[World]
Will Princess Kate video put an end to royal communications mess?
A video appears to show the Princess of Wales walking with her husband, Prince William, at a farm shop in Windsor.
Published:3/18/2024 9:00:28 PM
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[World]
Michigan lawyer who claimed election fraud arrested after Dominion hearing
Stefanie Lambert was facing a bench warrant from a state court in Michigan, where she is accused of taking part in a conspiracy to tamper with voting machines.
Published:3/18/2024 9:00:28 PM
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Monday Overnight Open Thread (3/18/24)
***** The Quotes of The Day Quote I “The whole Seattle is dying is such a meme and is bullshit. As far as the racial justice movement that started at the same time, there is nothing to recover from.”...
Published:3/18/2024 9:00:28 PM
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[Economy]
Chinese Auto Executive: 'Bloodbath' Coming for American Auto Industry
He Xiaopeng, the CEO of XPeng Motors, predicts a "bloodbath" against America's auto industry with the help of cheap China-made electric vehicles (EVs).
Published:3/18/2024 8:47:41 PM
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[Uncategorized]
Supreme Court Extends the Stay on Texas Immigration Law ‘Pending Further Order’
SCOTUS will take action but we do not know when it will happen.
The post Supreme Court Extends the Stay on Texas Immigration Law ‘Pending Further Order’ first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
Published:3/18/2024 8:47:41 PM
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[Entertainment]
Garrison Brown's Friend Wants Sister Wives Canceled After Death
Bryson Cook is working through his grief.
The day before Robert Garrison Brown was laid to rest, the Sister Wives alum's close friend shared an emotional message that concluded with a call to...
Published:3/18/2024 8:47:41 PM
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[Society]
Advocates of Open Debate Online Struggle to Overcome Government Speech
Those hoping for more open discourse on matters of national concern should not await the Supreme Court‘s decision in Murthy v. Missouri with much optimism. ... Read More
The post Advocates of Open Debate Online Struggle to Overcome Government Speech appeared first on The Daily Signal.
Published:3/18/2024 8:27:54 PM
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[Markets]
Queenpin Of Guatemalan Drug Cartel Sentenced Over International Trafficking Conspiracy
Queenpin Of Guatemalan Drug Cartel Sentenced Over International Trafficking Conspiracy
Authored by Stephen Katte via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
A Queenpin of the Lorenzana drug trafficking network has been sentenced to 33 years in prison and forced to forfeit $27 million for charges related to international drug trafficking.
According to the Department of Justice, Queenpin Marta Julia Lorenzana-Cordon from Zacapa, Guatemala, was a leader in one of the largest and most influential drug cartels in Guatemala. Guatemala is a Central American country south of Mexico, with a population of over 17 million people.
During their reign, the Lorenzana criminal group was described by authorities as one of the most brutal and destructive drug trafficking organizations in the world.
Julia Lorenzana-Cordon was extradited to the United States in December of 2021, after Guatemalan authorities took her into custody at the behest of the U.S. government in May 2021. She subsequently pleaded guilty in May of 2023 to conspiring to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, and knowing and intending for the drug to be unlawfully imported to America.
According to the Department of Justice, Julia Lorenzana-Cordon, also known as Yulie, began operating within the criminal enterprise around 2008 and continued until at least 2019. The organization itself began operating in 1996. The patriarchal criminal group comprised primarily of family members and had the goal of distributing multi-ton quantities of cocaine from Colombia to Central America and Mexico for eventual distribution into the United States.
The investigation into Julia Lorenzana-Cordon was part of Operation Slipknot and conducted by the DEA’s Bilateral Investigations Unit, with assistance from the DEA Guatemala City Country Office and the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces. Investigators found the Lorenzana drug trafficking organization transported tonnage quantities of cocaine from Colombia into Guatemala, where the cocaine was stored on properties owned by the crime organization.
After the cocaine was processed, the drug was transported by the Sinaloa Cartel, among other organizations, into Mexico, through Central America, and eventually, into the United States.
Along with Julia Lorenzana-Cordon, her siblings, Eliu Elixander Lorenzana-Cordon and Waldemar Lorenzana-Cordon have also been hit with lengthy prison sentences. Both were convicted in 2019 on international narcotics trafficking charges in the District of Columbia and sentenced to life in prison.
At the same time, the father of the siblings, Waldemar Lorenzana-Lima Sr., pleaded guilty in August 2014 to international narcotics trafficking charges in the District of Columbia, receiving 23 years in prison. He has since passed away.
According to authorities, the family was deeply dysfunctional, and Julia Lorenzana-Cordon had separate drug trafficking networks different to those of her brothers and father, which allowed her to continue operating for a few years after the rest of her family was convicted.
Julia Lorenzana-Cordon was also reportedly married to Jairo Estuardo Orellana Morales, a Guatemalan narcotics trafficker and accused murderer who was arrested in May 2014. His status since being detained is unknown.
The Department of the Treasury designated the couple as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNT) under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act). Under the act, U.S. persons and entities are prohibited from conducting financial or commercial transactions with anyone designated as a SDNT. The act also freezes any assets a SDNT may have under U.S. jurisdiction.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 21:00
Published:3/18/2024 8:27:54 PM
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Washington Post Writer Back With Another Hot Take on Whiteness and Country Radio
Published:3/18/2024 8:27:54 PM
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[Politics]
Cannon tells lawyers to weigh if Trump conduct can’t be reviewed by courts
In Donald Trump’s classified documents case, Judge Aileen Cannon’s order about jury instructions seems to take precedence over numerous other pretrial issues.
Published:3/18/2024 8:27:54 PM
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Don Lemon's Interview with Elon Musk Is Uncomfortable to Watch
Published:3/18/2024 7:59:44 PM
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[Uncategorized]
Global Warming Impacting Eagle Populations
“Sadly, these live-streamed bald eagle eggs likely won’t hatch MAR 18, 2024 ‘Resilient’ parents Jackie and Shadow continue to incubate their eggs as snow falls in Big Bear Valley. Though they’ve captivated the internet since late February, three eagle eggs … Continue reading →
Published:3/18/2024 7:59:44 PM
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[Entertainment]
Beauty YouTuber Jessica Pettway Dead at 36 After Cancer Battle
The YouTube community is in mourning.
Jessica Pettway—a YouTuber known for her beauty, fashion and lifestyle content—died on March 11 after a battle with stage three cervical cancer, her sister...
Published:3/18/2024 7:59:44 PM
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[Bad science journalism]
Wrong, NBC News, Climate Change Doesn’t Threaten Minnesota Ice Fishing
That is clearly a short-term weather pattern, not climate.
Published:3/18/2024 7:59:43 PM
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[Media]
All You Need To See of Don Lemon's Interview With Elon Musk
Former CNN host Don Lemon released the interview with Elon Musk that he said prompted the billionaire to scrap his deal with Musk's X.
The post All You Need To See of Don Lemon's Interview With Elon Musk appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
Published:3/18/2024 7:44:15 PM
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[Politics]
WATCH: Biden’s leftist pick for the Supreme Court shocked everyone with her comments this morning about the First Amendment
Joe Biden’s leftist pick for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, voiced her concern today that free speech protections in the first amendment might hamstring the government’s ability to protect people. She . . .
Published:3/18/2024 7:44:15 PM
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Effort to revive Mississippi ballot initiative process is squelched in state Senate
The MS Senate killed a proposal Monday to restore a ballot initiative process, days after a 26-21 vote to pass a bill that would allow residents to put some policy proposals on statewide ballots.
Published:3/18/2024 7:44:15 PM
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'Rust' armorer challenges involuntary manslaughter conviction, requests new trial
Attorneys for "Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed are challenging her involuntary manslaughter conviction. Gutierrez Reed was convicted by a jury earlier this month for the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Published:3/18/2024 7:44:15 PM
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Color Us COMPLETELY Unsurprised: LAPD Task Force is Created to Deal with Gangs of 'Foreign Burglars'
Published:3/18/2024 7:35:58 PM
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[Markets]
Before Bernie Sanders, Richard Nixon championed the 4-day workweek
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Richard Nixon might seem to have little in common, but the disgraced former president was an early champion of the four-day workweek.
Published:3/18/2024 7:18:43 PM
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WATCH: Biden’s Special Geriatric Shoes Now Promoted on Corporate State Media
Published:3/18/2024 7:07:08 PM
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[Uncategorized]
Scientific American Covers Itself with Shame Again, This Time by Using Term ‘Birthing Parent’
Another of its recent published pieces was a hit job on Charles Darwin and Western science.
The post Scientific American Covers Itself with Shame Again, This Time by Using Term ‘Birthing Parent’ first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
Published:3/18/2024 7:07:08 PM
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[Politics]
Goldberg: Did Trump literally threaten a 'bloodbath'? No, and claiming he did only helps his campaign
It's easy to misconstrue the ex-president's comment in Ohio given his incoherence and history as well as the media's biases. But it won't help get Biden reelected.
Published:3/18/2024 7:07:08 PM
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[Society]
High School Male Pushes Females Out of High Jump Honors
A male high school student took 10th place in the girls’ high jump in a recent national indoor track meet in Boston, continuing a streak... Read More
The post High School Male Pushes Females Out of High Jump Honors appeared first on The Daily Signal.
Published:3/18/2024 7:07:08 PM
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Chinese billionaire pleads guilty to straw donor scheme in New York and Rhode Island
A Chinese billionaire has pleaded guilty to federal election crimes and faces up to 27 years in prison; also charged with immigration fraud and using false documents.
Published:3/18/2024 7:07:08 PM
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[Markets]
High-Schoolers Are Losing Confidence In The Benefits Of A College Degree
High-Schoolers Are Losing Confidence In The Benefits Of A College Degree
Via Campus Reform,
A recently released study that involved focus groups and a national study explores how high school students and non-enrolled adults ages 18-30 view the prospects of a college degree.
New data suggests that prospective college students are finding fewer and fewer reasons to obtain a degree.
Inside Higher Ed recently highlighted a new report by the Gates Foundation-funded HCM Strategists and Edge Research revealing that high school students and young adults have a declining view of the benefits of a college degree.
The study, ”Continuing to Explore the Exodus from Higher Education,”compares the results of focus groups and a national survey conducted in 2023 to findings from a 2022 Gates Foundation report titled, “Where are the students?.”
Researchers found that high schoolers and non-enrolled adults ages 18-30 still associate some benefits with attending college, but those perceived benefits were in decline compared to findings from 2022.
The percentage of non-enrolled adults surveyed who consider reasons to go to college, such as to gain more money or get a better job, as important or very important has also dropped from the year before.
At the same time, however, non-enrolled adults continue to perceive an increasing benefit to other options such as licenses, certificates, and trade schools.
In conclusion, the study’s researchers write that, “Despite our understanding of the value of higher education, perceptions among these high school students and non-enrolled audiences make it clear that institutions need to prove their value to them.”
”In particular, why does the value of a 2-year or 4-year degree outweigh the value of credentials and job training programs?,” the researchers write.
“Both High Schoolers and Non-Enrollees see and select other paths that are shorter, cheaper, and/or more directly linked to specific job opportunities.”
“At the end of the day, higher education has a lot of work to do to convince these audiences of its value,” HCM consultant Terrell Dunn told Inside Higher Ed.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 19:40
Published:3/18/2024 7:07:07 PM
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[Politics]
Trump says Jewish Democrats ‘hate’ their religion
The former president revisited his previous assertions that Jewish Americans were being disloyal.
Published:3/18/2024 7:07:07 PM
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Helping Hands Cafe
Valley of the Gods, Utah If you think the recent cold snap is unbearable, then Antarctica is not for you. Surfin' the fjords. Well not really but close enough. Diving bell ship allows crew to walk on the bottom...
Published:3/18/2024 7:07:07 PM
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Richard Simmons startles fans by saying 'I am ….dying' before apologizing for 'confusion'
Richard Simmons, 75, wrote on Facebook Monday, "Please don’t be sad. I am ….dying." The former fitness coach's manager clarified that he is indeed alive and "very healthy and happy."
Published:3/18/2024 6:27:59 PM
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[Entertainment]
The Best Plus Size Swimwear That'll Make You Feel Cute & Confident
We independently selected these products because we love them, and we think you might like them at these prices. E! has affiliate relationships, so we may get a commission if you purchase...
Published:3/18/2024 6:11:42 PM
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[Israel]
Why Is President Biden Helping Hamas?
President Joe Biden’s recent foreign policy moves are baffling. By any rational standard, they are undermining Israel and helping Hamas. When Biden was caught on... Read More
The post Why Is President Biden Helping Hamas? appeared first on The Daily Signal.
Published:3/18/2024 6:11:42 PM
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[Markets]
Russia Mulls Security Buffer Zone As Ukraine Drones Shut Down 600,000 Barrels Of Daily Refining
Russia Mulls Security Buffer Zone As Ukraine Drones Shut Down 600,000 Barrels Of Daily Refining
After Russian President Vladimir Putin's post-election victory speech and Q&A with the press wherein he first unveiled the possibility of creating a buffer zone between Ukrainian land and Russian border regions, the Kremlin has issued more details of the plan being mulled.
Putin had initially described Sunday, "I do not exclude that, bearing in mind the tragic events taking place today, we will be forced at some point, when we deem it appropriate, to create a certain ‘sanitary zone’ in the territories today under the Kyiv regime." He referenced the "tragic events" of cross-border attacks in regions bordering Ukraine which have left scores of civilians dead and wounded over the past several months.
Putin described without elaborating further that the security zone "would be quite difficult for the adversary to overcome with its weapons, primarily of foreign origin."
On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that as part of the plan Russia "would take measures to safeguard [its] territories" from Ukrainian drone and artillery attacks on critical infrastructure and civilian areas and residences. These areas can be made safe, he explained in follow-up to Putin's words, "some kind of corridor, some kind of… buffer zone that [would put] out of reach any means that the enemy might use to launch strikes."
From Moscow's perspective, this is laying the foundation and likely even 'legal framework' for seizing and solidifying hold over border territories inside Ukraine for the purpose of creating this proposed buffer. In many cases thus far throughout the war, Ukraine forces have been able to send drones hundreds of kilometers inside Russia, reaching even Moscow and St. Petersburg in rare instances.
Oil refineries have been especially targeted, with a dozen or more instances in merely the last few months alone. Crimea too has come under increased drone swarm attack.
The attacks on energy are clearly beginning to have significant impact on a chief source of revenue, part of which no doubt goes to fund the Russian war machine in Ukraine.
"Gunvor Group Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Torbjörn Törnqvist estimates about 600,000 barrels of Russia’s daily oil-refining capacity has been knocked out by Ukrainian drone strikes," Bloomberg reports based on a Monday report. According to some key quotes:
“It is significant because obviously this is gonna hit the distillate exports straight away,” Törnqvist said during an interview at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston on Monday. “So that will probably take down exports by a couple of hundred thousand barrels, so to me it’s a distillate problem.”
...Broadly writ, crude oil markets are mostly in balance and fairly valued, Törnqvist said, adding that US supplies are likely to grow this year by about half the rate of 2023’s 700,000-to-800,000 barrel-a-day pace. Still, non-OPEC supply growth overall is likely to be flat this year, he said.
The past week has seen consecutive days of drone strikes on oil facilities inside Russia, with a noticeable uptick in attacks confirmed over the weekend, as Russians went to the polls to vote in the presidential election. Just before the three-day election period began, there was an attack on Rosneft's largest refinery:
Russia's Ryazan oil refinery, controlled by Rosneft, was set ablaze after a drone attack, a regional governor said on Wednesday.
The plant, with installed capacity of around 350,000 barrels per day, refines about 12.7 million metric tons of Russian crude a year (around 317,000 barrels per day), or 5.8% of total refined crude, according to industry sources.
On Sunday alone, 35 drones were launched on Russia, disrupting electricity in a number of border regions, including resulting at another fire at an oil refinery. One drone made to Moscow, and was shot down as it flew near Domodedovo airport.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 18:40
Published:3/18/2024 6:11:42 PM
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Laken Riley's Father: She is Being “Used” by Politicians
Published:3/18/2024 6:11:42 PM
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New lawsuit alleges NYC Mayor Eric Adams demanded sex acts from police officer in exchange for career help
A new lawsuit against New York City Mayor Eric Adams alleges that during his time on the police force in the '90s he demanded sexual favors from a colleague in exchange for help with her job.
Published:3/18/2024 6:11:42 PM
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[Markets]
Dow Jones Futures Fall: Nvidia CEO Speech In Focus; Google, Tesla Surge Ahead Of Fed Meeting
Dow Jones Futures: Nvidia stock was in focus late Monday during CEO Jensen Huang's speech. Google and Tesla surged ahead of the Fed meeting.
Published:3/18/2024 6:11:41 PM
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[AMD]
Nvidia: Nobody Rings A Bell At The Top
Published:3/18/2024 5:35:35 PM
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[Entertainment]
Chiefs Kicker Hopes Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce "Start a Family"
Harrison Butker is hoping that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will keep saying yes to their love story.
The Kansas City Chiefs kicker recently recalled meeting his teammate's girlfriend after their...
Published:3/18/2024 5:35:35 PM
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[Uncategorized]
Homeland Security Funding Could Hold Up Another Short Term Funding Bill
One White House official told Politico that the Republicans want to deplete funding for the border because that totes makes sense.
The post Homeland Security Funding Could Hold Up Another Short Term Funding Bill first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
Published:3/18/2024 5:35:35 PM
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[World]
21-Year-Old Ousts GOP Incumbent in North Carolina
Published:3/18/2024 5:35:35 PM
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[CONSTITUTION]
Justice Jackson Says 1st Amendment Is “Hamstringing The Government” In Efforts To Censor Speech
Justice Jackson Says 1st Amendment Is “Hamstringing The Government” In Efforts To Censor Speech. Well, esteemed dummy, this is exactly how the Founding Fathers intended the Constitution to work. It was designed to restrict the government, not us. Someone should explain to her not only what the Constitution is but also what the definition of … Continue reading "Justice Jackson Says 1st Amendment Is “Hamstringing The Government” In Efforts To Censor Speech"
Published:3/18/2024 5:35:35 PM
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[Latest News]
'Forced Energy Transition': Critics Slam Biden's Impending Gas Car Crackdown
President Joe Biden is facing a barrage of criticism as his administration is on the verge of finalizing its most ambitious regulations yet to phase out gas-powered vehicles in favor of electric alternatives.
The post 'Forced Energy Transition': Critics Slam Biden's Impending Gas Car Crackdown appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
Published:3/18/2024 5:35:35 PM
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[Markets]
"It's Like The Wild West": Crime And Violence On NYC Transit Underreported According To NYPD Source
"It's Like The Wild West": Crime And Violence On NYC Transit Underreported According To NYPD Source
Authored by Matthew Lysiak via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Crime and violence in New York City’s subway system have spiraled out of control and are “significantly higher” than the agency’s official numbers have publicly indicated, according to a New York Police Department (NYPD) source.
The official number of arrests made in the city’s subway system rose by 45 percent this year, with more than 3,000 arrests made underground in the first two months of the year, many of them of repeat offenders, according to figures released by the NYPD Transit Bureau. However, the publicly released data only scratch the surface of the amount of crime in the nation’s largest transit system, a law enforcement source told The Epoch Times.
“The numbers they are putting out are a complete joke and everyone knows it,” the source, who requested anonymity out of fear of retribution, said. “The sense of lawlessness (on the subway) is so bad that unless you have personal experience in the system, especially at night, it is impossible to understand.
“It’s like the Wild West.”
NYPD officers have also been incentivized to not report minor offenses in an effort to keep the numbers as low as possible, according to the source, who said pressure has come from higher-ups to maintain the narrative that crime has plateaued or is going down.
However, not even the city’s own agencies can agree on how much crime is occurring in the subway system. After Transit released figures showing that violent subway crimes went up by 13 percent this year, the mayor’s office quickly pushed back, disputing the numbers released by the agency and claiming that crime actually dropped last month.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a former police chief, said that “overall crime is down.”
However, a “significant majority” of the crimes that do occur on the subway go unreported by the victims, according to the source.
“People understand that the majority of those who commit larceny or assaults are never going to be apprehended, so why go through the trouble of making a report?” the source said.
The mayor’s office did not respond to a request for comment by press time.
The topic of commuter safety has risen to the forefront of the national dialogue after several recent high-profile crimes in New York’s subway system, including a shooting caught on film at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station in Brooklyn on March 14 during a rush-hour commute.
The crime spree provoked New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to order 750 New York National Guard troops and 250 New York State Police troopers be deployed into the subway system to conduct bag searches and combat the surge in crime. The new deployment is in addition to the 1,000 New York City police officers who were ordered to patrol subway lines and do security checks on bags.
“Since taking office, I have been laser-focused on driving down subway crime and protecting New Yorkers,” Mrs. Hochul told reporters at the March 6 news conference. “I am sending a message to all New Yorkers: I will not stop working to keep you safe and restore your peace of mind whenever you walk through those turnstiles.”
“No one heading to their job, or to visit family, or to go to a doctor’s appointment should worry that the person sitting next to them possesses a deadly weapon.”
Morale among NYPD officers is at an all-time low as crime and police resignations have been on the upswing, according to officials.
In recent years, an increasing number of New Yorkers, including police, have been assaulted. From Jan. 1 to March 31, 2023, citywide, 1,251 on- and off-duty police were assaulted, compared with 949 in the first quarter of 2022, according to NYPD crime statistics.
A total of 2,516 officers resigned from the department in 2023, according to police pension data previously obtained by The Epoch Times. It is the fourth most in the past decade and 43 percent more than the 1,750 who resigned their positions in 2018. Further, the data show that the number of officers quitting before they reach the 20 years required to receive their full pensions has increased by 104 percent since 2020.
In January, officers’ jobs became more difficult after the New York City Council pushed through controversial legislation dubbed the “How Many Stops Act,” which requires police to officially document any encounter they have with the public, including logging the race, gender, and age of any person to whom they speak.
The recent exodus comes on top of years of officer attrition, eroding the ability of the nation’s largest police force to serve and protect to dangerous levels, according to Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry.
“This is truly a disaster for every New Yorker who cares about safe streets,” Mr. Hendry previously told The Epoch Times. “Cops are already stretched to our breaking point, and these cuts will return us to staffing levels we haven’t seen since the crime epidemic of the ’80s and ’90s.”
Tyler Durden
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 17:40
Published:3/18/2024 5:35:35 PM
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Supreme Court debates Biden administration outreach to digital platforms over controversial posts
Conservatives have claimed First Amendment violations by the Biden administration and accused of improperly coordinating with tech firms to remove information posted by private users on social media.
Published:3/18/2024 5:35:35 PM
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[Politics]
BREAKING: Supreme Court extends block on Texas law allowing arrest of illegals crossing border
The Supreme Court has just extended their block on the Texas law the Abbott signed in December that allows the state to arrest illegals caught crossing the border. The extension came from . . .
Published:3/18/2024 5:35:35 PM
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[World]
Supreme Court refuses to delay prison time for Trump aide Peter Navarro
Former Trump aide Peter Navarro is scheduled to report to federal prison in Miami before 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Published:3/18/2024 5:35:35 PM
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Democrats Again Defending Dignity of MS-13 Gang Members
Published:3/18/2024 5:35:35 PM
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Skitch Qui
You no doubt remember that James Biden's favorite method of laundering money into Joe Biden's bank accounts was to claim that the money he wired over -- which has been proven to be the proceeds his own deals with the...
Published:3/18/2024 5:35:35 PM
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[World]
Small businesses need Biden's regulatory tsunami to stop
Small businesses couldn't agree more with Mr. Biden on their importance to the economy and the urgent need for help.
Published:3/18/2024 4:45:20 PM
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[Markets]
Border security talks could push spending bills past shutdown deadline
A closure could be brief. Negotiations are continuing, but Congress hasn’t left itself much time to act before a deadline this weekend.
Published:3/18/2024 4:45:20 PM
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[World]
Online shoppers are feeling frustrated. Blame it on the ‘Amazon effect’?
A new survey says consumers find e-commerce sites often fail to meet expectations. Experts say that’s because shoppers have become accustomed to how Amazon gets things done to their liking.
Published:3/18/2024 4:45:20 PM
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[World]
Israeli forces raid Gaza City hospital; U.S. confirms death of top Hamas leader
The Israeli military operation at al-Shifa hospital, which it said was targeting Hamas militants, came as experts warned of famine in northern Gaza.
Published:3/18/2024 4:45:20 PM
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[Politics]
BREAKING: Trump initiates appeals process in Fani Willis case
It’s just breaking that Trump and his seven co-defendants have jointly initiated the appeals process after Judge McAfee refused to disqualify Willis from the case. Below is a statement from Steven Sadow: . . .
Published:3/18/2024 4:38:16 PM
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[Gun Control]
[David Kopel] Law Enforcement Trainers File Scotus Amicus Brief against Maryland Rifle Ban
Citizens should be able to choose the same high-quality defensive arms that peace officers choose
Published:3/18/2024 4:38:16 PM
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[Congress]
How Biden’s Big-Deficit Agenda Guarantees Inflation
Inflation has been a top concern for Americans for years. This is understandable: Inflation-adjusted earnings have declined by thousands of dollars in recent years, putting... Read More
The post How Biden’s Big-Deficit Agenda Guarantees Inflation appeared first on The Daily Signal.
Published:3/18/2024 4:38:16 PM
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[Markets]
Treasury yields climb ahead of Fed meeting. Here's why.
Treasury yields are trending higher as investors brace themselves for the Federal Reserve's highly anticipated decision on Wednesday. To shed light on the factors driving this yield movement, Truist's Managing Director of Fixed Income Chip Hughey joins Yahoo Finance Live. Hughey attributes the rise in yields to three factors: the continued stickiness in inflation data, the Fed's likelihood to maintain a "higher-for-longer" stance, and strong Treasury issuance. However, he notes that "the biggest factor for yields" has been the market's pricing of six to seven rate cuts, which has now been revised to below three, resulting in "big implications on the yield curve." Hughey believes the Fed could initiate rate cuts mid-year when they have a "sufficient" amount of evidence of cooling inflation. Although he acknowledges the increasing probability of zero cuts occurring in 2024, he does not believe that scenario will materialize, stating that despite "a bumpy path," the Fed "will see that inflation is cooling." For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Yahoo Finance Live. Editor's note: This article was written by Angel Smith
Published:3/18/2024 4:38:16 PM
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Sen. Brian Schatz Tells Headline Writers How to Take Donald Trump Quote Out of Context
Published:3/18/2024 4:38:16 PM
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Gaslight Media Floods Country With Disinformation About a "Bloodbath"
The Bee: I've put this off all day, trying to think of something clever to say about it. I couldn't think of anything clever to say. It is what it is: The "American" media is a hostile foreign psyops machine,...
Published:3/18/2024 4:38:16 PM
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‘Star Wars’ actor would reprise role of Lando Calrissian for the right price: ‘I’ll sell my soul’
Billy Dee Williams played the original role of Lando Calrissian in the "Star Wars" franchise and believes he "created that character."
Published:3/18/2024 4:15:14 PM
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[Markets]
Why earnings growth, not the Fed’s interest-rate policy, is driving U.S. stocks
Published:3/18/2024 4:15:14 PM
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[Creators]
MrBeast Inks Deal With Amazon to Produce a $5M Game Show on Prime Video
The show is expected to be released later this year.
Published:3/18/2024 4:15:14 PM
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[Rainfall]
Is climate change to blame for the atmospheric rivers impacting California? The evidence says “No.”
From CFACT By Chris Martz Since the end of January, California has been pelted by a series of atmospheric rivers bringing rounds of moderate-to-heavy rainfall for days on end, spurring…
Published:3/18/2024 4:06:06 PM
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[World]
Lindsey Graham, visiting Kyiv, urges Ukraine to pass mobilization law
The Republican senator visited the Ukrainian capital as Russia is advancing on the battlefield and vital U.S. military aid remains blocked in Congress by House Republicans.
Published:3/18/2024 4:06:06 PM
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[National Security]
TikTok Supporters Blame Jews for Congressional Ban
TikTok supporters online are claiming that "pro-Israel lobbying groups" and Jews are responsible for pressuring Congress into fast-tracking bills that would ban the Chinese social media app, which the U.S. intelligence community deems a national security threat.
The post TikTok Supporters Blame Jews for Congressional Ban appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
Published:3/18/2024 3:56:57 PM
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[Markets]
Gen-Z OnlyFans 'Creator' Quits As She Dedicates Life To Jesus Christ
Gen-Z OnlyFans 'Creator' Quits As She Dedicates Life To Jesus Christ
OnlyFans has become a site for adult entertainers and amateurs to deliver pornographic content straight to their horny fans. Gen-Zers have flocked to the site, many of whom are young women seeking 'female empowerment.'
The platform boasts about young female superstar "models" making six- and seven-figure earnings, aspiring (or corrupting) an entire generation of young people to give up on education and degrade themselves as a sex worker. This trend exploded during Covid as many youngsters have lost all memory of why sex work is shamed in society.
Taking selfies or videos of feet, asses, boobs, and or pornographic scenes with others isn't real productive work and is self-destructive behavior (daddy problems much?). Normalizing online prostitution is terrible for civilized societies. Also, sex workers are not respected in society, leaving very limited future opportunities in life after OnlyFans.
Recent data from OnlyFans shows that about 70% of creators are women, and 30% are men, translating to about 1.4 million American women and 600,000 American men.
The OnlyFans phenomenon could be a bubble as one top Gen-Zer creator has allegedly given up on her hugely successful account for a life of Christ, or at least she says...
The Whatever podcast, which has interviewed creator "Nala" before, posted on X Saturday evening, "WE DID IT BOYS!!!" while referring to several videos of the creator finding Jesus and allegedly abandoning her account (however, the account is still online).
"I hope she stays on the narrow road that leads to life. And I also hope it's genuine. You can have both of these thoughts at once," one X user said.
And this.
However, only some believe in Nala's awakening and commitment to Jesus....
Rebranding?
Another X user said: "God forgives, but doesn't forget."
Perhaps the OnlyFans creator bubble begins to crack as they must re-enter society and find real jobs.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 16:40
Published:3/18/2024 3:56:57 PM
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Mira Sorvino laments how Harvey Weinstein 'stifled' her career after she 'rejected him'
Mira Sorvino recalled being blacklisted in the entertainment industry and how her career fundamentally changed after rejecting mega producer Harvey Weinstein.
Published:3/18/2024 3:56:57 PM
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[Markets]
Nvidia reveals much-awaited Blackwell chip lineup at GTC conference
Nvidia Corp.’s most hyped debut yet — its long-awaited next chip — was revealed at its annual conference on Monday.
Published:3/18/2024 3:56:57 PM
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[Politics]
CNN Obviously Has No Problem With 'Bloodbath' When THEY Use the Word
Published:3/18/2024 3:56:57 PM
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[Markets]
Dow Jones Futures: Nvidia CEO Speech In Focus; Google, Tesla Surge Ahead Of Fed Meeting
Dow Jones Futures: Nvidia stock was in focus late Monday during CEO Jensen Huang's speech. Google and Tesla surged ahead of the Fed meeting.
Published:3/18/2024 3:56:57 PM
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[Markets]
Nvidia reveals much-awaited Blackwell chip lineup at GTC conference
Published:3/18/2024 3:56:57 PM
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[World]
Kroger to sell its specialty pharmacy business
Supermarket chain Kroger Co. on Monday agreed to sell its specialty pharmacy business, saying it would be better off as a standalone segment.
Published:3/18/2024 3:56:57 PM
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[Communism]
[Ilya Somin] Video of Marshall University Online Talk on "Putin's Western Supporters"
In the presentation I explain why Putin's regime appeals to these people, and how they compare with Western sympathizers with the USSR during the Cold War.
Published:3/18/2024 3:43:11 PM
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[Entertainment]
At the Met, exquisite singing in a confounding staging of ‘La Forza’
Soprano Lise Davidsen was the highlight of Mariusz Trelinski’s vaguely updated take on Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino”
Published:3/18/2024 3:43:11 PM
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[Markets]
AI raises existential crisis for Apple and tech’s old guard: Partner or perish
Published:3/18/2024 3:43:11 PM
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[World]
Supreme Court likely to reject limits on White House social media contacts
A majority of justices from across the ideological spectrum expressed concern about hamstringing White House officials and other federal employees.
Published:3/18/2024 3:43:11 PM
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[Markets]
My sister is in her 80s, and she recently remarried, but her less-wealthy husband insists on filing a joint tax return. Should she be concerned?
“I believe that my sister’s assets exceed those of her husband. They live in her new husband’s home in California, which has a mortgage.”
Published:3/18/2024 3:43:11 PM
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[Ala Art Fair]
How Do You Convince a Country to Start Collecting Art?
There's an untapped market for contemporary art in Kazakhstan, assuming dealers can entice would-be collectors.
Published:3/18/2024 3:43:11 PM
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[2024 Election]
Poll: Bernie Moreno Takes Commanding Lead in Ohio on Eve of Primary Election After Trump Rally
Trump-backed businessman Bernie Moreno has taken a nine-point lead over his nearest opponent for Ohio’s Republican Senate nomination, per a poll.
Published:3/18/2024 3:34:44 PM
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[Politics]
Democrat crime policies are so bad international gangs target Dem cities for home burglaries…
Democrat leaders are so soft on crime that in places like Los Angeles that international gangs in Latin American are targeting them for home burglaries. When out on bail these gang members . . .
Published:3/18/2024 3:34:43 PM
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[United States Politics and Government]
Supreme Court Seems Likely to Side With NRA in First Amendment Case
The National Rifle Association argued that a New York official violated the First Amendment by encouraging entities to break ties with the group after the Parkland mass shooting.
Published:3/18/2024 3:34:43 PM
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[Markets]
5 key moments from Elon Musk’s interview with Don Lemon
The X owner resists responsibility for the hate speech on the social media platform and says America must ‘move on’ from racism.
Published:3/18/2024 3:34:43 PM
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Concerned First Amendment Hamstrings Government
Published:3/18/2024 3:34:43 PM
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NBC Regime Media: Biden Is "Angry and Anxious" About His Failed Campaign for "Re" Election
How bad must it be, for the most Regime of all Regime Media to report this? President Joe Biden was seething. In a private meeting at the White House in January, allies of the president had just told him that...
Published:3/18/2024 3:34:43 PM
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'Most Important SCOTUS Case of My Lifetime': Recap of Oral Arguments in Murthy v. Missouri
Published:3/18/2024 3:22:23 PM
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[Markets]
Stock markets, Nvidia close day higher amid GTC event
The three major stock indices (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) are feeling festive, capping off Monday's trading session in the green the day after St. Patrick's Day. Nvidia (NVDA) shares also close with a slight gain while the chipmaker showcases it latest generation of products at its 2024 GTC (GPU Technology Conference) event. Yahoo Finance's Madison Mills and Josh Lipton review the latest market action after the closing bell. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Yahoo Finance Live. Editor's note: This article was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.
Published:3/18/2024 3:22:23 PM
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[World]
Will an Apple-Google AI partnership pass regulatory muster?
Any deal, especially one involving AI, will capture the attention of federal and state lawmakers, the Biden administration, consumer-privacy advocates and government regulators.
Published:3/18/2024 3:22:23 PM
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[Markets]
Will an Apple-Google AI partnership get past regulators?
Published:3/18/2024 3:22:23 PM
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The Language Police at GLAAD Have a Whole New List of Word We're Not Allowed to Say
Published:3/18/2024 2:53:47 PM
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Gisele Bündchen’s divorce from Tom Brady revealed she was ‘stronger than I thought’
Gisele Bündchen is continuing to adjust to her life post-divorce from Tom Brady, as she prepares to launch a cookbook of healthy recipes.
Published:3/18/2024 2:53:47 PM
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[Gear]
Fisker Suspends Its EV Production
After the difficult launch of its Ocean SUV, Fisker says it's pausing production for six weeks.
Published:3/18/2024 2:53:47 PM
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[Markets]
Here’s the reality about the mutual funds and ETFs that beat the stock market in 2023
One good year doesn’t make a trend.
Published:3/18/2024 2:53:47 PM
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30 years after firing, a soprano returns to the Met Opera for a recital
Famed soprano Kathleen Battle is making a triumphant return to the Met 30 years after her controversial firing; the artist will perform a selection of classical and spiritual works.
Published:3/18/2024 2:53:47 PM
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[World]
Garrison Brown’s Sister Madison Details His Mental Health Struggles
This Sister Wives alum is sharing insight into her grief journey.
One week after Garrison Brown was laid to rest, his sister Madison Brown Brush, 28, shared an emphatic message about the...
Published:3/18/2024 2:53:47 PM
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[Politics]
Nothing Peachy About Georgia’s Willis-Wade Hanky-Panky Ruling
Fulton County, Georgia, Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee’s decision is one fine muddle. McAfee ruled on Friday in the Fani Willis-Nathan Wade sexual-kickback case: It takes two to tango, but... Read More
The post Nothing Peachy About Georgia’s Willis-Wade Hanky-Panky Ruling appeared first on The Daily Signal.
Published:3/18/2024 2:43:36 PM
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[Uncategorized]
Trump Cannot Get $464 Million Bond in New York Civil Case
“…efforts ‘have included approaching about 30 surety companies through 4 separate brokers.’”
The post Trump Cannot Get $464 Million Bond in New York Civil Case first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
Published:3/18/2024 2:43:36 PM
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Obama holds surprise meeting with world leader after report about Biden 'rivalry'
President Barack Obama met with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for the first time, hours after a report came out of a rivalry between Obama and Biden.
Published:3/18/2024 2:43:36 PM
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[Politics]
BREAKING: Netanyahu agrees to send Israeli delegation to hear Biden proposal for Rafah
Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu spoke with Joe Biden on the phone today after Schumer’s disgusting attack last week. According to the most recent news, Jake Sullivan told reporters that Netanyahu has agreed . . .
Published:3/18/2024 2:43:36 PM
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[Democrats]
Obama Has Terrible Judgment, But He Was Right About One Thing
Joe Biden is still annoyed that Barack Obama didn't want him to run for president in 2016 (or 2020). He even brought this up to Special Counsel Robert Hur seemingly unprompted during their discussions about classified documents.
The post Obama Has Terrible Judgment, But He Was Right About One Thing appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
Published:3/18/2024 2:43:36 PM
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[Economy]
Media Research Center: Google Interfered in 41 U.S. Elections over 16 Years
A new study by the Media Research Center alleges that Google has repeatedly interfered in U.S. elections, favoring leftist candidates and suppressing conservative voices.
Published:3/18/2024 2:43:36 PM
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[Markets]
Dow Jones Climbs As Donald Trump Stock Dives; Alphabet Nears Entry Amid Apple Hookup Buzz
The Dow Jones gained on the stock market today. A Donald Trump-linked stock fell while Cathie Wood bought a diving stock.
Published:3/18/2024 2:43:36 PM
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[World]
Are you part of a Ponzi scheme?
Greece, Argentina, and the old Soviet Union had governments that were Ponzi schemes that eventually went bust.
Published:3/18/2024 2:43:36 PM
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[Markets]
"We're One Event Away From A 1970s-Style Stagflation Explosion..."
"We're One Event Away From A 1970s-Style Stagflation Explosion..."
Excerpted from 'The Turning Point' report via Larry MacDonald's TheBearTrapsReport.com,
We hear the comparisons more and more; they are growing louder by the week.
“The years 2023-2024 look a lot like 1973-1974.”
The history books remind us,1973’s oil embargo shook the global energy market. It also reset geopolitics, reordered the global economy, and a multipolar world saw energy weaponized. After kissing 6% in 1970, in Q1 of 1973, inflation as measured by CPI danced just below 4%, much like today, central bankers were doing the Michael Jackson moonwalk in celebratory form. Then, in bloodcurdling fashion in late 1974, CPI breached 12%.
“Don’t be silly, 1973 was a far different set up,” we are told.
When it comes to demand on a global stage, 2024 is 2x 1973.
Above all, the U.S. is the largest producer of oil in 2024, not as was the case in 1973, when she was the world’s largest petroleum importer.
At the time, oil was 50% of world energy consumption vs. 1/3 today.
There is just one overwhelming difference today.
In the last 8 weeks, we have seen drone technology knock out
a) parts of Russia’s second largest airport,
b) at least three of Putin’s prize oil refineries,
and c) countless ships in the Suez Canal.
Weaponizing oil in a multipolar world is exponentially more uncertain with James Cameron calling the shots. In October of 1984, he brought us the “Terminator” and opened the world’s eyes to the future of AI and the weaponization of robots. If Vladimir Putin, on the eve of an election, cannot protect his second-largest airport, how can the Saudi’s protect their own crown jewel. Measuring 280 by 30 km (170 by 19 mi) (some 8,400 square kilometres (3,200 sq mi)), it is by far the largest conventional oil field in the world. That’s a lot of ground to protect. We are one event away from a 1970s-style stagflation explosion.
More often than not, recency bias is an investor’s foe. The 2008 and 2020 recessions were similar in that a shock triggered a colossal bond rally along with plunging PMI, ISM and LEI data. It’s more and more apparent by the minute. What we are experiencing today is much more of a 1970s – 1980s recession vintage. An inflation-driven slowdown hits the bottom 60% first, but this time around after the Fed suppressed rates for so, so, so long, higher net worth consumers feel like they died and went to heaven. Revenge consumption has been the economy’s tailwind from those with $1m ($50k annual income vs. $8k in 2021) to $10m ($500k annual income vs. $80k in 2021) in a money market fund. This, plus trillions of fiscal overdosing coming out of Washington have prevented the recession so far, but they have also made inflation’s second act far more certain in a multipolar world.
In this note we breakdown the increasing stagflationary landscape.
By our count, $500B has moved into Oil & Gas and Metals in recent months. Likewise, oil’s risk to inflation expectations, rates and the -- CRE wounded -- super regional banks is accelerating.
What does the world look like if the Fed is forced to ease to protect the banks and the bottom 60% of consumers in an election year -- while inflation is heading north for the summer?
Sticky Inflation
Both CPI on Tuesday and PPI on Thursday came in hotter than expected.
Core CPI rose 3.8% y/y vs +3.7% expected and PPI rose 2% y/y vs 1.9% expected. At the same time, several data points show a slowing economy as well. Retail sales, which were reported simultaneous with the PPI on Thursday, rose 0.6% m/m, which was less than the 0.8% forecast. The prior month was revised lower as well, from -0.8% to -1.1%.
In ANOTHER stagflationary turn, the Empire State manufacturing survey for March also came in well below expectations at -21 vs -7 expected.
The report noted that “Demand softened as new orders declined significantly, and shipments were lower. Unfilled orders continued to shrink. Labor market indicators weakened, as employment and hours worked both decreased. The pace of input price increases moderated somewhat, while the pace of selling price increases held steady”.
BofA in its monthly consumer spending report on Monday said that” consumer spending momentum appears soft, Credit card and debit card spending rose 0.4% m/m, after a 0.3% drop in January.”
Oil – High Impact Far and Wide
The oil heavy CRB touched its highest level since November Friday. Every day the super-regional banks go without rate cuts, the day of reckoning on market-tomarket losses grows closer to a reality. The Fed opened the door to a softer path, just an inch – that has fueled inflation’s Act II.
This has LARGE implications for the banks.
Since January 2023; Zions ZION, Comerica CMA and Truist TFC are underperforming the S&P 500 by close to 50%.
The NYCB failure has regulators at the OCC and FDIC on the lookout for other Mark-to-Market cheaters.
In recent days, we have multiple Ukraine drone attacks on Russian oil refineries, another over the weekend.
A multipolar world takes some of the steering wheel away from the Fed with large implications for the banks.
Multipolar World - Drone Strikes with High Impact
By some estimates, in 2023 the EU imported 130 million barrels of seaborne refined products – mostly diesel – from refineries processing Russian crude.
These purchases were worth an estimated €1.1 billion. With some Russian refineries down, Europe must draw more supply from the West, WTI is more than +13% off February levels, +20% off the December lows.
The refineries that are processing Russian crude oil and exporting to the EU are largely the same ones sending laundered Russian fuel to the UK and US.
The seven largest refineries collectively processed 390 million barrels of Russian crude oil in 2023, valued at an estimated €23 billion. (Global Witness).
Connecting the Dots
Higher rates + higher inflation expectations are leaving a stain here. Some banks desperately need rate cuts.
Where does that leave us?
The anxious bond market is now pricing in just 60% odds a rate cut in June and 72bp of rate cuts in 2024. In the upcoming FOMC meeting, some economists are now forecasting the DOT plot to move from 3 to 2 cuts this year.
It only takes two Committee members to raise their dot for the median dot to go from 3 cuts to 2 cuts for the year.
Odds of Rate Cut
The higher the white line above the lower the June rate cut probability.
We are back where we were in late February, with June rate hike odds at 60%.
(The market prices these odds as an expected move in the Fed Fund futures. So -15bp is a 15bp/25bp=60% chance of a 25bp drop in Fed Funds.)
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"Funny how Nicky-Leaks only mentions the dovish data, failed to mention the Atlanta Fed sticky CPI data out yesterday which showed nice reacceleration" -- Dallas PM.
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Subscribers can read the full 'Turning Point' report from Larry MacDonald's Bear Traps Report here...
Tyler Durden
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 15:25
Published:3/18/2024 2:43:36 PM
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[Markets]
AstraZeneca will cap inhaler costs at $35 per month
The cost-reduction strategy follows a similar move from Boehringer Ingelheim, a rival in the medical device sector.
Published:3/18/2024 2:43:36 PM
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Study: 'Woke' People More Likely to be Anxious and Depressed
Published:3/18/2024 2:43:36 PM
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[Markets]
Shares of Weight Watchers parent extend their bounce ahead of Oprah TV special
WW’s stock has been under pressure, but one analyst thinks an upcoming Oprah Winfrey TV special could highlight promise of the company’s clinical business.
Published:3/18/2024 2:43:36 PM
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[World]
Supreme Court rejects appeal by New Mexico official ousted from office over Jan. 6
Couy Griffin will not be able to return to his seat as a county commissioner, which he was removed from under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment.
Couy Griffin Supreme Court rejects appeal by New Mexico official ousted from office over Jan. 6
Published:3/18/2024 2:43:36 PM
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Shock Study: "Woke" People Are More Neurotic, Depressed, Miserable, and Mentally Ill
The deuce you say! Psychological researchers in Finland have created an assessment to help measure an individual's commitment to principles of social justice and made some surprising findings across the Finnish population -- including a negative correlation between progressive ideals...
Published:3/18/2024 2:43:36 PM
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[Markets]
Why it’s so hard to buy a house right now — and why it could get easier soon
Published:3/18/2024 2:19:34 PM
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[Markets]
Giving up oil is a ‘fantasy’, says Saudi Aramco chief
Ditching oil and gas is a “fantasy” amid increasing demand, one of the world’s most powerful oil and gas bosses has said.
Published:3/18/2024 2:12:39 PM
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Snubbed RFJ JR. Gets Excluded from Kennedy Family St. Patrick's Day Photo with Joe Biden
Published:3/18/2024 2:12:39 PM
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Big Government, Big Tech, and Big Academia all worked hard to silence you. That’s why we’re fighting back
The House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has just begun to fight for the right to free speech for all.
Published:3/18/2024 2:12:39 PM
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[World]
Why Biden Can’t Count on Falling Inflation for Electoral Success
Is weak consumer sentiment really about interest rates?
Published:3/18/2024 2:03:41 PM
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Bruce Willis' daughter Tallulah diagnosed with autism
Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's daughter Tallulah revealed she'd been diagnosed with autism in an Instagram post Friday. The 30-year-old received the diagnosis over the summer.
Published:3/18/2024 2:03:41 PM
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[Markets]
Why it’s so hard to buy a house right now — and one reason it could get easier soon
House hunters looking to buy a home this spring are continuing to find the housing market challenging.
Published:3/18/2024 2:03:41 PM
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[Latest News]
Border Patrol Apprehends Illegal Immigrant Who Claims To Be Hezbollah Terrorist
A Lebanese migrant whom the United States Border Patrol caught trying to illegally enter the country said he was a member of the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, and that he intended to build a bomb and travel to New York.
The post Border Patrol Apprehends Illegal Immigrant Who Claims To Be Hezbollah Terrorist appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
Published:3/18/2024 1:40:57 PM
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[Politics]
Election 2024 latest news: Down-ballot races take center stage in Tuesday’s primaries
With President Biden and former president Donald Trump assured of their parties’ nominations, Tuesday’s primaries in Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Ohio will feature key down-ballot races.
Published:3/18/2024 1:40:57 PM
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William Shatner shares his biggest regret from Hollywood career: 'I failed horribly'
At 92 years old, William Shatner is opening up about his biggest regret. He took responsibility for "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" flopping with critics, as he starred and directed.
Published:3/18/2024 1:40:57 PM
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[Markets]
Reddit’s IPO could be a bellwether for other offerings this year, says Vanderbilt professor
Reddit’s IPO is drawing comparisons to that of another popular social-media platform.
Published:3/18/2024 1:40:57 PM
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[Sports Illustrated]
Sports Illustrated Will Live On Under a UK Sports Media Startup
The storied magazine will now publish under Minute Media, which owns other sports media companies.
Published:3/18/2024 1:40:57 PM
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[Media]
Nolte: From Aaron Rodgers to ‘Bloodbath’ – Media Hoax Season Begins!
This, when we all know that if Biden loses in November, the left-wing terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter will — and with the corporate media’s full approval — burn, loot, rape, and murder for the next four years.
Published:3/18/2024 1:28:02 PM
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Nearly 1,000 Americans in Haiti plea for help, State Dept. says, as gangs unleash new attacks
The State Department says nearly 1,000 Americans have filled out a form asking for help in Haiti as gangs make the security situation there "untenable."
Published:3/18/2024 1:28:01 PM
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'Escape From New York,' Starring Donald Trump... and Every Other Developer
Published:3/18/2024 1:28:01 PM
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[Markets]
United Airlines CEO looks to reassure customers that airline is safe
Published:3/18/2024 1:28:01 PM
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[World]
Treasury yields on verge of level that could disrupt the stock-market rally, warns strategist
As two key central bank meetings loom, one Wall Street strategist warns that rising Treasury yields could derail a record-setting rally in U.S. stocks if they surpass one key level.
Published:3/18/2024 1:28:01 PM
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Netanyahu to Chuck Schumer: Drop Dead
As you probably know, Israel is on the verge of wiping Hamas off the face of the map, if I can use Hamas' words to describe their own peril. As Israel is about to enter Hamas' last redoubt, Rafah, and...
Published:3/18/2024 1:28:01 PM
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[Markets]
Taibbi Dismantles 'Absurd' NYT Hit Piece
Taibbi Dismantles 'Absurd' NYT Hit Piece
Heading into the 2024 election, corporate media is once again spinning lies in order to re-frame, or contain, legitimate news stories.
In his latest reports, Racket News' Matt Taibbi corrects the record after a desperate slam job on the Twitter Files, published by The New York Times ("We seek the truth and help people understand the world") just before oral arguments in a historic First Amendment case in the Supreme Court...
In advance of oral arguments tomorrow in the Supreme Court for Murthy v. Missouri, formerly Missouri v. Biden, the New York Times and authors Jim Rutenberg and Steven Lee Myers wrote a craven and dishonest piece called, “How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation.”
The Times implies both the Twitter Files reports and my congressional testimony with Michael Shellenberger were strongly influenced by former Trump administration official Mike Benz, whose profile occupies much of the text. Benz is described as a purveyor of “conspiracy theories, like the one about the Pentagon’s use of Taylor Swift,” that are “talking points for many Republicans.” They quote Shellenberger as saying meeting Benz was the “Aha moment,” in our coverage, and the entire premise of the piece is that Benz and other “Trump allies” pushed Michael, me, and the rest of the Twitter Files reporters into aiding a “counteroffensive” in the war against disinformation, helping keep social media a home for “antidemocratic tactics.”
This all has a strong whiff of setup. I have nothing to say against Mike Benz, but let’s set some things straight. As Rutenberg and Lee Myers themselves note, I first talked to Benz in March, 2023. The Twitter Files reports were virtually all done by then. I would publish just two more, one on the day of my testimony, March 9, 2023 (“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”) and one on March 17 (“Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of ‘True Stories’”).
Mike was the source for exactly one piece of information in those two stories: a video his Foundation for Freedom Online posted of Stanford Internet Observatory director Alex Stamos, in which Stamos said Stanford’s Election Integrity Partnership was created to “fill the gap of things the government couldn’t do” legally:
This was true, public, and newsworthy, not a “conspiracy theory” about Taylor Swift or anyone else. Did “Trump Allies” force Stamos to put that video on YouTube?
Rutenberg and Lee Myers imply Benz influenced a change in my personal reporting, since I didn’t discover “evidence of direct government involvement” in the first installment of the Twitter Files about the Hunter Biden laptop story:
The author of that dispatch, Mr. Taibbi, concluded that Twitter had limited the coverage amid general warnings from the F.B.I. that Russia could leak hacked materials to try to influence the 2020 election. Though he was critical of previous leadership at Twitter, he reported that he saw no evidence of direct government involvement.
In March 2023, Mr. Benz joined the fray. Both Mr. Taibbi and Mr. Benz participated in a live discussion on Twitter, which was co-hosted by Jennifer Lynn Lawrence, an organizer of the Trump rally that preceded the riot on Jan. 6… As Mr. Taibbi described his work, Mr. Benz jumped in: “I believe I have all of the missing pieces of the puzzle.” There was a far broader “scale of censorship the world has never experienced before,” he told Mr. Taibbi, who made plans to follow up.
Nice try. Though I didn’t find “direct evidence” of government involvement in censorship programs in the first Twitter Files piece, we did discover it, on a grand scale, almost immediately after. Subsequent Twitter Files reports reflected this, including “Twitter, the FBI Subsidiary” from December 16th, 2022, and the “Twitter and Other Government Agencies” story published on Christmas Eve of 2022, the day the IRS opened a case on me.
Shellenberger, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, and other Twitter Files reporters discovered the key elements of the Twitter Files reports, from the “industry calls” held between the FBI and Internet platforms like Twitter, to the role of Stanford’s Election Integrity Partnership, to the role of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center in sponsoring “anti-disinformation” work, in the first two weeks of research. Our central thesis about state-sponsored censorship was online months before we met Benz. By mid-December 2022, I knew we were looking at a sweeping federal content-control program, and repeated the idea many times. As I wrote on Christmas Eve, 2022:
The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government —from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA… The operation is far bigger than the reported 80 members of the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF)… Twitter had so much contact with so many agencies that executives lost track.
Nonetheless, the gist of today’s Times piece is that Shellenberger and I got this thesis from Benz. They literally wrote it that way, that when I testified to Congress, I was presenting his thesis:
Later, Mr. Shellenberger said that connecting with Mr. Benz had led to “a big aha moment…”
A week after that online meeting, Mr. Taibbi and Mr. Shellenberger appeared on Capitol Hill as star witnesses for the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Mr. Benz sat behind them, listening as they detailed parts of his central thesis: This was not an imperfect attempt to balance free speech with democratic rights but a state-sponsored thought-policing system.
Michael, Bari, Lee, David Zweig and others involved with the Twitter Files project have been subject to a lot of silly smear jobs in the last year-plus, but this piece of deep state fan fiction in the Times is low even by their standards. It’s clearly intended to re-cast the outing of federal censorship initiatives as Trumpian conspiracy theory before oral arguments begin in Murthy v. Missouri tomorrow.
As the Times notes, this is one of “the most important First Amendment cases of the internet age,” and “could curtail the government’s latitude in monitoring content online.” Originally filed by the Attorneys General of Louisiana and Missouri, the lawsuit “accuses federal officials of colluding with or coercing the platforms to censor content critical of the government.”
The reason the government faces such danger is because two lower courts have already affirmed the core accusation that multiple Executive Branch agencies, including the White House and the FBI, violated the First Amendment when they engaged in mass-flagging programs of the type identified in both the Twitter Files and the original Missouri v. Biden complaint. After these lower court decisions, the Times notes with sadness, “the Biden administration has largely abandoned moves that might be construed as stifling political speech,” facing as it now does the specter of “legal and political blowback.”
The administration faces this blowback because the story about the censorship programs is true. The Times didn’t bother trying to argue we got anything wrong. It just said we knew Benz, showed a picture of him sitting behind Shellenberger as he testified, then said things like “More recently, Mr. Benz originated the false assertion that Taylor Swift was a ‘psychological operation’ asset for the Pentagon,” as if that had something to do with us. It’s Six Degrees of Misinformation.
Rutenberg two election cycles ago authored the seminal article on “oppositional” journalism in the Trump age. “Trump is Testing the Norms of Objectivity in Journalism” came out in summer of 2016, and was hugely influential. It said Trump was such a threat that the job going forward could no longer just be about reporting facts, but reporting facts that will “stand up to history’s judgment.”
Now he’s arguing the exposure of censorship programs is “paralyzing” official efforts to police social media, the medium that was “central to [Trump’s] political success.” Apparently misleading the public about my reporting is the new version of staying on the right side of “history’s judgment.” Let’s hope the Supreme Court doesn’t get distracted by these hysterics. Is there any doubt that’s what this story is designed to accomplish?
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Subscribe to Matt Taibbi's Racket News substack here...
Tyler Durden
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 14:05
Published:3/18/2024 1:20:50 PM
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[Entertainment]
MrBeast strikes Amazon deal for biggest competition series in TV history
The deal, worth possibly $100 million, will be the latest attempt by an internet creator to move to more traditional forms of entertainment.
Published:3/18/2024 1:20:50 PM
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[Politics]
NBC News' Presidential Historian Makes It Clear There Will Be a 'Bloodbath' if Trump Loses OR Wins
Published:3/18/2024 1:02:53 PM
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New Banksy mural with a 'green' theme appears in London
A new Banksy mural appeared behind a cropped tree in London on St. Patrick's Day. Some passersby interpreted an environmental message in the vibrant green artwork.
Published:3/18/2024 1:02:53 PM
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[Uncategorized]
Supreme Court Hears Argument in Biden Administration Social Media Coercion Case
With the liberal and conservative wings of the Court entrenched, Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett likely to decide outcome of the case
The post Supreme Court Hears Argument in Biden Administration Social Media Coercion Case first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
Published:3/18/2024 12:41:04 PM
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[Entertainment]
Brooke Burke Weighs In On Ozempic's Benefits and "Dangers"
Brooke Burke is giving her take on the Ozempic debate.
As discussions continue to emerge over the medication—with celebs like Amy Schumer and Raven-Symoné weighing in on the subject—the former...
Published:3/18/2024 12:41:04 PM
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[Gear]
Jabra Enhance Select 300 Hearing Aids Review: Some of the Best We've Tested
The Jabra Enhance Select 300 hearing aids are relatively pricey, but their performance, battery life, and technical support make them worth the added cost.
Published:3/18/2024 12:41:04 PM
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Has the 'Climate Crisis' Ruined Your Relationships? Tell The Guardian All About Your Troubles
Published:3/18/2024 12:41:04 PM
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Kate Middleton reported sighting with no photo evidence triggers ‘further sense of mistrust’: expert
Kate Middleton was reported to have been out and about with Prince William on Saturday, but no photos exist of the occasion, fueling the ongoing rumors about the royal family.
Published:3/18/2024 12:41:04 PM
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[Markets]
Dow Jones Media Giant Disney, AI Stock Arista In Or Near Buy Zones
Dow Jones media giant Disney, along with AI stock Arista and Duolingo, are in or near buy zones in today's stock market action.
Published:3/18/2024 12:41:04 PM
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[Markets]
Reddit’s impending IPO is up to five times oversubscribed, report says
Published:3/18/2024 12:41:04 PM
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[Foreign Affairs]
Israel’s Critics and the Fauda Problem
Life is not a TV show.
Published:3/18/2024 12:41:04 PM
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[World]
NYCB’s stock downgraded to underperform at Raymond James on expectation of rising credit costs
Raymond James sees credit costs taking a bite out of earnings, while Moody’s hikes rating by one notch after $1.05B injection.
Published:3/18/2024 12:21:20 PM
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Hezb'allah Terrorist Arrested at Southern Border; Admits He Entered US to Build a Bomb
Migrant crime is out of control. Illegal migrant admits terror group affiliation after crossing into U.S., "I'm going to try to make a bomb" Sun Mar 17 2024 MXM Exclusive Quick Hit: A Lebanese illegal migrant captured along the U.S....
Published:3/18/2024 12:21:20 PM
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[Markets]
Macron's Long Telegram
Macron's Long Telegram
By Benjamin Picton, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank
The focus of markets last week was, quite rightly, on US inflation figures. US 2-year yields posted gains every day to close the week just over 25bps higher at 4.73%. The move was prodded along by stronger-than-expected US CPI on Tuesday, strong PPI on Thursday, and then rising prices for goods imports on Friday.
So, it was a trio of bad news on the inflation front, with the goods imports inflation providing the cherry on top because disinflation in internationally-traded goods has been doing the heavy lifting for the Fed (and others) up until now. Perhaps unsurprisingly, market pricing on the quantum of cuts expected from the Fed this year fell from 4.2 last Monday to 3.3 as of this morning. The S&P500 picked up on the vibe by closing lower for the second week in a row. That hasn’t happened since October of last year, which happened to be the cyclical low before Jerome Powell’s ‘pivot’ lit the fuse on a whopping Santa rally that has survived well into 2024.
This week will be dominated by central bank actions, even though we fully expect that actual action in the form of shifting policy rates will be pretty thin on the ground. The BOJ will be a major point of interest on Tuesday, with markets now pricing in a 55% probability of an end to the negative interest rates policy (NIRP). A return to ZIRP (zero interest rates policy) is seen as a 70% probability by the April meeting, or 96% by June.
Markets have been gradually bidding up the implied path of the BOJ’s policy rate for weeks as Japanese unions deliver strong wage gains for their members. Rengo, Japan’s largest labour union, last week secured wage increases of ~5.25% for members. That’s the first time in more than 30 years that wage gains have exceeded 5%. BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda has stressed in the past that he would need to see evidence of persistent wage growth to be convinced that inflation will converge on the 2% target. Given the events of last week, a lift in the policy rate tomorrow is a certainly a possibility but given past dovishness it seems more likely that the BOJ will hold fire until April.
Tomorrow also brings the RBA’s March policy meeting. We expect no change to the policy rate or the bank’s slight hawkish bias, especially since the RBA meeting will predate the February labour market report by two days. We’re forecasting the unemployment rate to dip to 4%, and for the economy to have added 24,500 jobs last month. That will be sufficient to trigger the Sahm Rule, which might explain why Aussie Treasurer Chalmers has recently started the softening-up process for a more growth-oriented budged in May. The RBA’s Financial Stability Review on Friday will also make for interesting reading, especially with regards to Australia’s gravity-defying mortgage market.
Of course, the main event for the week will be the outcome of the March FOMC meeting on Wednesday. Our Senior US Strategist Philip Marey expects no change to the Fed Funds rate this week and maintains our call for the first cut of the cycle to arrive in June. Philip notes that the Fed will give in-depth consideration to the pace of balance sheet runoff at this week’s meeting. Any lowering of $95bn ‘passive QT’ combined monthly cap for Treasuries, MBS and agency debt would be an encouragement for equity managers looking for a fresh round of monetary stim.
The Bank of England also meets this week and will publish their decision on the Bank Rate on Thursday. We’re expecting no changes there either. Stefan Koopman, our Senior Macro Strategist covering the UK thinks that the BOE will trail both the Fed and the ECB in delivering any policy easing, despite signs of softening in labour markets.
If equity markets do take encouragement from central bankers this week, it will be in defiance of a geopolitical environment threatening escalation. Crude oil last Thursday joined other asset classes making year-to-date highs. That coincided with Russian state media reporting claims that the Houthis now have a hypersonic missile, and comments from Houthi Supreme leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi where he said that the group will begin targeting ships heading around the Cape of Good Hope at Africa’s Southern tip.
If the Houthis DO possess a hypersonic missile (a big ‘if’), it could only have come from Russia (by way of Iran) and would pose a worrying risk to US and allied navies operating in the area. The targeting of commercial shipping taking the long route to Europe via the Cape of Good Hope would be a further detriment for insurance costs and would deal a blow to prospects of an ECB rate cut in June.
Last week also saw a stunning interview delivered by French President Emmanuel Macron. We touched on this on Friday, but it bears repeating that Macron is now taking a much firmer line on the War in Ukraine. Macron’s interview follows Vladimir Putin’s well-publicized history lecture of Tucker Carlson, and news that Russia has shifted tactical nuclear weapons westward into Belarus. It also came just before the weekend’s Russian elections, where Putin dubiously secured 88% of the vote. In this context, there are echoes of George Kennan’s ‘Long Telegram’ that established the US policy of Soviet containment in the 1940s.
Macron’s speech reads like a greatest hits of Realpolitik. Europe must do ”whatever it takes”. “If Russia wins this war, Europe’s credibility will be reduced to zero.” “If Ukraine were to fall, our security is threatened. And so, the time has come to resist.” “If the situation were to deteriorate, we have to be ready, and we will be ready. We will be ready to make the decisions to ensure that Russia never wins.”
These comments arrive in the context of Macron’s earlier refusal to rule out committing French troops to fighting in Ukraine. That was met with threats from Putin and denials from European counterparts that “boots on the ground” could ever happen. Seemingly addressing this, Macron said: “Two years ago we said we would never send a tank. We did. Two years ago we said we would never send medium-range missiles. We did. We said we would never send planes. Some are now in the process. We set too many limits.”
Christine Lagarde is famously on the record saying that the ECB’s commitment to the Euro has “no limits”. Macron is making the same commitment on security.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 12:50
Published:3/18/2024 12:14:13 PM
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Kristin Cavallari shares photo of 24-year old boyfriend with her son 3 weeks after making romance public
Kristin Cavallari shared a photo of her son with new boyfriend Mark Estes on Instagram. The "Laguna Beach" star previously revealed Estes and her son met on the couple's first date.
Published:3/18/2024 12:14:13 PM
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[World]
Why S&P 500’s consumer-discretionary sector is ‘left behind’ in U.S. stock market
The S&P 500’s consumer-discretionary sector is one of the worst-performing areas of the U.S stock-market index this year.
Published:3/18/2024 12:14:13 PM
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[Investment Banking]
Goldman Sachs’s Top Woman Banker Stephanie Cohen Is Leaving After 25 Years
Cohen, once a CEO hopeful, is leaving for the cloud service provider Cloudflare.
Published:3/18/2024 12:14:13 PM
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[World]
‘Banksy came overnight’: A neighborhood wakes up to world-famous street art
Hours before street artist Banksy claimed credit, north London residents wondered: Who’s behind the tree mural on Hornsey Road, and what does it mean for me?
Published:3/18/2024 12:06:29 PM
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[Climate Economics]
BP Shareholders Unhappy With Green Strategy
BP has been under increasing pressure over net zero commitments that have allegedly left shareholders £40bn poorer.
Published:3/18/2024 12:06:29 PM
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[World]
Sen. Schumer's undemocratic dangerous anti-Israel diatribe
Sen. Chuck Schumer's recent diatribe against Israel seemed like he was competing for best-supporting actor in a growing treacherous horror film within the Democratic Party as to who can be more hostile to Israel.
Published:3/18/2024 11:57:22 AM
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[Latest News]
IDF Says It Killed Top Hamas Operative in Raid on Hospital
The Israel Defense Forces said it killed a senior Hamas official at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital Monday morning.
The post IDF Says It Killed Top Hamas Operative in Raid on Hospital appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
Published:3/18/2024 11:49:17 AM
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Americans aren't buying Biden's 'devout Catholic' label, poll finds
Americans are skeptical of President Biden's claim to be a "devout Catholic," according to a new poll from Pew Research.
Published:3/18/2024 11:49:17 AM
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[Anti-Americanism]
A media bloodbath
The left wing media is impervious to the facts and to the truth and cannot wait to seize upon anything and everything Donald Trump says no matter how much ...
The post A media bloodbath appeared first on Flopping Aces.
Published:3/18/2024 11:49:17 AM
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[Markets]
Reddit’s impending IPO is up to five times oversubscribed, report says
Reddit’s closely watched initial public offering is between four and five times oversubscribed, according to a Reuters report.
Published:3/18/2024 11:49:17 AM
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[The Sandman]
Neil Gaiman Just Sold $1M Worth of His Own Memorabilia to Benefit Authors and Artists
"The auction made a lot of money, and it's going to do a lot of good, and that makes me very happy," said Gaiman in a blog post.
Published:3/18/2024 11:49:17 AM
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[ABR.PR.D]
Arbor Realty: 13.3% 'Sucker Yield,' 3 Better Big-Dividend Strategies
Published:3/18/2024 11:31:44 AM
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[Quick Takes]
U. South Florida Student Govt. Won’t Allow Student Leadership Candidates to Speak to School Newspaper
"may have potentially violated the free speech rights of new student candidates"
The post U. South Florida Student Govt. Won’t Allow Student Leadership Candidates to Speak to School Newspaper first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
Published:3/18/2024 11:31:43 AM
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[Markets]
Half Of Downtown Pittsburgh Office Space Could Be Empty In 4 Years
Half Of Downtown Pittsburgh Office Space Could Be Empty In 4 Years
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
The CRE implosion is picking up steam.
Check out the grim stats on Pittsburgh.
Unions are also a problem in Pittsburgh as they are in Illinois and California.
Downtown Pittsburgh Implosion
The Post Gazette reports nearly half of Downtown Pittsburgh office space could be empty in 4 years.
Confidential real estate information obtained by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette estimates that 17 buildings are in “significant distress” and another nine are in “pending distress,” meaning they are either approaching foreclosure or at risk of foreclosure. Those properties represent 63% of the Downtown office stock and account for $30.5 million in real estate taxes, according to the data.
It also calculates the current office vacancy rate at 27% when subleases are factored in — one of the highest in the country.
And with an additional three million square feet of unoccupied leased space becoming available over the next five years, the vacancy rate could soar to 46% by 2028, based on the data.
Property assessments on 10 buildings, including U.S. Steel Tower, PPG Place, and the Tower at PNC Plaza, have been slashed by $364.4 million for the 2023 tax year, as high vacancies drive down their income.
Another factor has been the steep drop — to 63.5% from 87.5% — in the common level ratio, the number used to compute taxable value in county assessment appeal hearings.
The assessment cuts have the potential to cost the city, the county, and the Pittsburgh schools nearly $8.4 million in tax refunds for that year alone. Downtown represents nearly 25% of the city’s overall tax base.
In response Pittsburgh City Councilman Bobby Wilson wants to remove a $250,000 limit on the amount of tax relief available to a building owner or developer as long as a project creates at least 50 full-time equivalent jobs.
It’s unclear if the proposal will be enough. Annual interest costs to borrow $1 million have soared from $32,500 at the start of the pandemic in 2020 to $85,000 on March 1. Local construction costs have increased by about 30% since 2019.
But the city is doomed if it does nothing. Aaron Stauber, president of Rugby Realty said it will probably empty out Gulf Tower and mothball it once all existing leases expire.
“It’s cheaper to just shut the lights off,” he said. “At some point, we would move on to greener pastures.”
Where’s There’s Smoke There’s Unions
In addition to the commercial real estate woes, the city is also wrestling with union contracts.
Please consider Sounding the alarm: Pittsburgh Controller’s letter should kick off fiscal soul-searching
It’s only March, and Pittsburgh’s 2024 house-of-cards operating budget is already falling down. That’s the clear implication of a letter sent by new City Controller Rachael Heisler to Mayor Ed Gainey and members of City Council on Wednesday afternoon.
The letter is a rare and welcome expression of urgency in a city government that has fallen in complacency — and is close to falling into fiscal disaster.
The approaching crisis was thrown into sharp relief this week, when City Council approved amendments to the operating budget accounting for a pricey new contract with the firefighters union. The Post-Gazette Editorial Board had predicted that this contract — plus two others yet to be announced and approved — would demonstrate the dishonesty of Mayor Ed Gainey’s budget, and that’s exactly what’s happening: The new contract is adding $11 million to the administration’s artificially low 5-year spending projections, bringing expected 2028 reserves to just barely the legal limit.
But there’s still two big contracts to go, with the EMS union and the Pittsburgh Joint Collective Bargaining Committee, which covers Public Works workers. Worse, there are tens — possibly hundreds — of millions in unrealistic revenues still on the books. On this, Ms. Heisler’s letter only scratched the surface.
Similarly, as we have observed, the budget’s real estate tax revenue projections are radically inconsistent with reality. Due to high vacancies and a sharp reduction in the common level ratio, a significant drop in revenues was predictable — but not reflected in the budget. Ms. Heisler’s estimate of a 20% drop in revenues from Downtown property, or $5.3 million a year, may even be optimistic: Other estimates peg the loss at twice that, or more.
Left unmentioned in the letter are massive property tax refunds the city will owe, as well as fanciful projections of interest income that are inconsistent with the dwindling reserves, and drawing-down of federal COVID relief funds, predicted in the budget itself. That’s another unrealistic $80 million over five years.
Pittsburgh exited Act 47 state oversight after nearly 15 years on Feb. 12, 2018, with a clean bill of fiscal health.
It has already ruined that bill of health.
Act 47 in Pittsburgh
Flashback February 21, 2018: Act 47 in Pittsburgh: What Was Accomplished?
Pittsburgh’s tax structure was a much-complained-about topic leading up to the Act 47 declaration. The year following Pittsburgh’s designation as financially distressed under Act 47 it levied taxes on real estate, real estate transfers, parking, earned income, business gross receipts (business privilege and mercantile), occupational privilege and amusements. The General Assembly enacted tax reforms in 2004 giving the city authority to levy a payroll preparation tax in exchange for the immediate elimination of the mercantile tax and the phase out of the business privilege tax. The tax reforms increased the amount of the occupational privilege tax from $10 to $52 (this is today known as the local services tax and all municipalities outside of Philadelphia levy it and could raise it thanks to the change for Pittsburgh).
The coordinators recommended an increase in the deed transfer tax, which occurred in late 2004 (it was just increased again by City Council) and in the real estate tax, which increased in 2015.
Legacy costs, principally debt and underfunded pensions, were the primary focus of the 2009 amended recovery plan. The city’s pension funded ratio has increased significantly from where it stood a decade ago, rising from the mid-30 percent range to over 60 percent at last measurement.
The obvious question? Will the city stick to the steps taken to improve financially and avoid slipping back into distressed status? If Pittsburgh once stood “on the precipice of full-blown crisis,” as described in the first recovery plan, hopefully it won’t return to that position.
The Obvious Question
I could have answered the 2018 obvious question with the obvious answer. Hell no.
No matter how much you raise taxes, it will never be enough because public unions will suck every penny and want more.
On top of union graft, and insanely woke policies in California, we have an additional huge problem.
Hybrid Work Leaves Offices Empty and Building Owners Reeling
Hybrid work has put office building owners in a bind and could pose a risk to banks. Landlords are now confronting the fact that some of their office buildings have become obsolete, if not worthless.
Meanwhile, in Illinois …
Chicago Teachers’ Union Seeks $50 Billion Despite $700 Million City Deficit
Please note the Chicago Teachers’ Union Seeks $50 Billion Despite $700 Million City Deficit
The CTU wants to raise taxes across the board, especially targeting real estate.
My suggestion, get the hell out...
Tyler Durden
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 12:10
Published:3/18/2024 11:31:43 AM
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Guess What It Takes to Become a Cop in Nashville Now...
Published:3/18/2024 11:31:43 AM
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[Markets]
How Elon Musk’s interview with Don Lemon went off the rails
Published:3/18/2024 11:31:43 AM
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[Markets]
Stock market today: Nasdaq soars to lead stocks higher as AI hopes run high
Investors are starting the week in an upbeat mood as techs shine ahead of a pivotal Fed policy call.
Published:3/18/2024 11:31:43 AM
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[Lifestyle]
Fresh and Fun Cocktails for the Spring Season
Toast the new season with these whimsical cocktail recipes.
Published:3/18/2024 11:31:43 AM
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[Politics]
Matt Walsh reveals police training video showing just how much they’ve lowered their standards for women…
Matt Walsh posted a Nashville police training video that demonstrates just how much they’ve lowered their standards to recruit female police officers. Here’s the video what Walsh says about it: “The Nashville . . .
Published:3/18/2024 11:16:37 AM
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[Gear]
8 Best TV Streaming Devices for 4K, HD (2024): Roku, Chromecast, Fire TV
We've tested dozens of ways to watch stuff on 4K or HD TVs. These are our favorites.
Published:3/18/2024 11:09:34 AM
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[Markets]
Flood of Chinese imports could renew trade tensions, threaten U.S. jobs
China’s export surplus of cars and electronics helps the fight against inflation. But lower-priced Chinese goods threaten Biden’s hopes of boosting U.S. factory jobs.
Published:3/18/2024 11:09:34 AM
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[Markets]
Trump says he’s asked 30 companies to back his $454 million appeal bond and all have said no
In a legal filing before the New York Court of Appeals on Monday, former President Donald Trump said he has approached nearly 30 surety companies to help back the bond he needs in order to pursue an appeal, and that all have said no.
Published:3/18/2024 11:01:59 AM
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Inflation Rises "Much More" than Expected; Media Hails Joe Biden's Genius In Finally Curing Americans of Consumerism
Hail the great leader! He brings us political prosperity! Wholesale inflation rose 0.6% in February, much more than expected The producer price index, which measures pipeline costs for raw, intermediate and finished goods, jumped 0.6% on the month, double the...
Published:3/18/2024 11:01:59 AM
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[Politics]
“We will slaughter you like sheep” – MEMRI exposes Michigan Imam inciting violence against Jews in Friday sermon [VIDEO]
MEMRI has captured a video of an imam in Michigan preaching hatred for Jews in his Friday sermon and inciting violence against them. In the hateful sermon, Imam Abdou Zindani asks Allah . . .
Published:3/18/2024 10:38:01 AM
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[Uncategorized]
Hamas Internal Security Chief Killed During IDF Raid On Shifa Hospital
More proof of Hamas use of hospitals for terror activities. IDF: "Mabhouh was hiding in a compound at the Shifa hospital, from which he operated and advanced terrorist activity."
The post Hamas Internal Security Chief Killed During IDF Raid On Shifa Hospital first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
Published:3/18/2024 10:38:01 AM
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[Markets]
Don't start putting new money into the market now: Strategist
Is a bubble forming around the stock market (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC)? And if so, is it about to burst? B. Riley Wealth Management Chief Investment Strategist Paul Dietrich sits down with Yahoo Finance to discuss whether certain sectors of the market are becoming overvalued and if the equity market is edging closer to correction territory. "I'm sure that every analyst... is looking at all the different valuation methodologies, and they've got to come to the same conclusion because there's no ambiguity here," Dietrich says about the probability of a market bubble. "It is bizarrely overvalued in most of these things. And so, you're seeing the smart money right now moving massive amounts into cash." For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Yahoo Finance Live. Editor's note: This article was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.
Published:3/18/2024 10:38:01 AM
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[Entertainment]
There's No Place Like Judy Garland's Home: See Her $11.5 Million House
You're definitely not in Kansas anymore.
In fact, you could be living at the Los Angeles estate once owned by the late Judy Garland.
Somewhere over the rainbow—er, in Bel Air—the recently listed...
Published:3/18/2024 10:38:01 AM
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[Whitney Biennial]
The 2024 Whitney Biennial Is a Romp Through Turmoil and Abstraction
Here's what not to miss at the 81st biennial, which runs until August 11.
Published:3/18/2024 10:38:01 AM
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[World]
The Left Has More Proof That Donald Trump Is Totally an Authoritarian
Published:3/18/2024 10:38:01 AM
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Reba McEntire denies bashing Taylor Swift, shuts down fake news report
Reba McEntire is slamming a report from a satire account that claims she called Taylor Swift "an entitled little brat." The country musician praised Swift for being a "strong role model."
Published:3/18/2024 10:38:01 AM
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[Markets]
A new worry for people getting divorced after 50? Where to live in a tight housing market.
“Gray divorces” are pushing older Americans into a heated housing market.
Published:3/18/2024 10:38:01 AM
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[Markets]
Ryan Reynolds–backed company Nuvei’s stock rockets on buyout interest
Published:3/18/2024 10:38:01 AM
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GOP leaders confront Biden’s new climate czar on key security risks lurking in green agenda
FIRST ON FOX: Senate Republicans are sending a stark warning to White House climate czar John Podesta over the Biden administration's pause on key energy projects.
Published:3/18/2024 10:02:23 AM
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Second suspect charged in theft of ruby slippers from 'The Wizard of Oz'
A second man has been charged in connection with the 2005 theft of a pair of ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in "The Wizard of Oz" after 76-year-old Terry Jon Martin pleaded guilty.
Published:3/18/2024 10:02:23 AM
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