The June inflation numbers are a disaster, coming in at a 40-year high of 9.1%. After the Biden administration’s repeated victory laps crowing about “the fastest-growing economy in the world” and how we’re “stronger economically” than ever, the downward spiral is feeding a growing consensus that President Joe Biden and his Democrats in Congress are […]
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Economy Minister Robert Habeck announced on Thursday that Germany would move to Stage Two of its three-stage plan emergency plan. This is a war preparation stage. It means Europe’s largest economy now sees a high risk of long-term gas supply shortages. That’s because Germany, which gets a third of its gas from Russia, is facing a looming supply […]
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No wonder we’re screwed and entering a massive recession. This report sheds light on the causes of our current economic purgatory. The US economy is in a perplexing state of labor market purgatory. We have 9.3 million unfilled job openings, all while millions of Americans remain on unemployment benefits and millions more are opting out […]
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I am usually a strong supporter of law enforcement. They do an extremely hard job and have to deal with the public — many of whom don’t like them at all — on a regular basis. Not something I’d enjoy, for sure. And the crap they have to put up with from the likes of […]
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Researchers combed through more than 66,000 publicly available Peoples Liberation Army purchase records throughout the eight-month period from April to November 2020 and identified 97 unique, high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chips ordered by the PLA. Nearly all of them were designed by U.S. firms Nvidia, Xilinx (now AMD), Intel, and Microsemi. The CSET report reveals […]
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There’s an interesting history of what we have traditionally known as the Liberal World Order online at the Army War College. It traces the rise of leftist progressive values from Woodrow Wilson to Clinton and Bush – all dressed up as classically liberal values. Here’s the gist of it. “The rise of the liberal world order […]
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Millions of American families are reeling from the worst wave of inflation in more than four decades. Reduced purchasing power and shortages of basic goods, such as baby formula, have caused consumer confidence to hit record lows. Those looking to Washington for real solutions will be left wanting. Both the Biden administration and congressional Democrats are promoting tired, failed policies: more […]
The Civiqs poll daily tracking service has President Joe Biden’s overall approval rating at 29 percent of registered voters. In contrast, 58 percent disapprove of how he is handling his job. Joe Biden has done the seeming impossible, he has twice as many people believing that he stinks at his job than that he is […]
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Ever wonder where the money lifted from your paycheck every week goes? Mostly it doesn’t go where we want it to go. It gets spent and squandered in ways that are exactly opposite to what you and I would want. If they set out to rip us off they couldn’t do a better job. But […]
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If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll know I’m not a big fan of the Biden push to force us all to drive electric cars. I’ve talked about power brownouts and blackouts and electric cars. I’ve talked about natural disasters and the futility of attempting to flee in an electric vehicle. I’ve even been accused of […]