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Top Automaker Takes $1.3 Billion Dollar Bath On Key EV Line
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Top American automaker Ford hemorrhaged over a billion dollars on electric vehicles (EV) in the first quarter, leading to massive losses per vehicle. Ford sold 10,000 vehicles in its EV Model e unit in the first three months of the year, losing $1.3 billion on the line altogether, equating to a loss […]
NEW REPORT: ‘Over 98 percent’ of world’s central banks gearing up for new system of programmable, trackable ‘digital cash’ and 24 nations will have ‘live CBDCs’ by 2030
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections /by DrRichSwier.comBy Leo Hohmann All this despite almost zero coverage in the mainstream corporate media to date, most of which still refers to a fully digitized monetary system as ‘conspiracy theory’. The era of cash money is nearing its end, and with it will come the end of privacy. The World Economic Forum claims, in a […]
Why Small Businesses Hate Bidenomics
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Stephen Moore If the economy is so good, why do small business leaders feel so bad? The latest Small Business Optimism Index from the National Federation of Independent Business could hardly be more depressing. The survey finds that the men and women who run our 33 million small businesses and hire more than half of American […]
U.S. Economic Growth Slows Down Massively, Well Below Expectations
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Featured, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The U.S. economy grew at a rate of 1.6% in the first quarter of 2024, according to gross domestic product (GDP) statistics released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) on Thursday. Slower growth in the first quarter follows above-trend growth in the third and fourth quarters of 2023, which measured […]
Climate Change Is Normal and Natural, and Can’t Be Controlled
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Frits Byron Soepyanfbs Editors’ Note: The global warming crowd would like nothing better than to convince you that we are in a climate crisis and that they need to grab COVID-like emergency powers to dictate how you live your life. If it were not for the sinister nature of the movement, which wishes to […]
As the University of Arizona Goes, so Goes Tucson
/in Economy, Education, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni As the University of Arizona goes, so goes Tucson, the city where the university is located. As Tucson goes, so goes the University of Arizona (UA). Things haven’t been going very well for either of them. Both have been operating well below their potential for a long time, and both are […]
A Coup Without Firing a Shot
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jeffrey Tucker The last few years can be tracked at two levels: the physical reality around us and the realm of the intellectual, mental, and psychological. The first level has presented a chaotic narrative of the previously unthinkable. A killer virus that turned out to be what many people said it was in February […]
Why Young Men and Women in America ‘Have Every Reason To Be Outraged!’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier “For the first time in our nation’s history, a 30 year old isn’t doing as well their parents were at 30. They see exceptional wealth across my generation… and we’re running it up on their credit card.” — Scott Galloway We have been warning for over a decade that there is […]
The FED’s Dilemmas
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel The Federal Reserve is an unelected board of bureaucratic experts that holds great sway over the US economy, the world economy, and the standard of living of the people of the United States. Because of the arcane nature of its work, its responsibilities are not something we would want under the sway […]
Biden Admin Weighs California’s Latest Green Gambit That Could Set Off Chain Reaction Of Economic Pain
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Biden administration could allow California to implement a rule designed to push green locomotives, but a growing list of stakeholders are warning that the regulation would severely impact the state’s economy and the national rail industry. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could soon determine whether it will allow the California […]
Biden’s Title IX Rewrite Strips Away Protections For Women, Denies Women Equal Opportunity
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Editors of The Independent Women’s Forum Editors’ Note: Democrats cast themselves as the party of “women’s rights”, while they actually are the party of unrestricted abortion to be paid for with public money. We hope the knowledge of this most recent decision will change the minds of not only Arizona women, but women across […]
The Illegals Are Truly a Benefit
/in Economy, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky Of course, they are not really “illegals” as they should properly be referred to as “undocumented immigrants,” “unauthorized immigrants,” “non-citizens,” “without status,” and/or “unlawfully present.” As the Left stumbles over the correct characterization of people who have entered this country with no compliance to our national laws and remain here despite their […]
A Pulitzer Awaits the Arizona Daily Star
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni A recent Wall Street Journal column on the scam of the federal student-loan program brought to mind the financial, governance, and ethical mess at the University of Arizona (UA). The Arizona Daily Star’s coverage of the UA mess has been commendable, thanks to reporter Ellie Wolfe. A Pulitzer Prize awaits her […]
‘No Tech For Apartheid’: Google Workers Protest Company’s Services To Israel
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller A group of Google employees protested Tuesday in California and New York against the information technology corporation’s provision of cloud computing services to Israel, according to reports. The protesters in Google’s Sunnyvale, California location entered the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian Tuesday morning and said they would leave only […]
Weekend Read – Expropriation: The End Game of Anti-Whiteness
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jeremy Carl If they don’t act, white Americans will soon be subsidizing their own destruction. This article is adapted from Jeremy Carl’s book, The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart, which is currently available for pre-order and will be published on April 23. “I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my […]
‘Rather Despicable’: John Eastman Speaks Out After Bank Of America, USAA Shut Down His Accounts
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller One of the left’s biggest political targets recently found himself “de-banked” with no warning and little avenue for recourse, the Daily Caller has learned. John Eastman, once an attorney for former President Donald Trump, was de-banked twice in the span of several months by two prominent financial institutions, Bank of America […]
Ex-TikTok Employee Alleges American Executives Were ‘Completely Complicit’ In Giving ‘U.S. Data To China’
/in Cyberwarfare, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, National Security /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller U.S.-based TikTok executives were totally “complicit” in efforts to hand over Americans’ data to China despite company assertions to the contrary, a former senior data scientist at the social media platform alleged, according to Fortune. The House of Representatives passed legislation in March that would compel Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell TikTok for the […]
Deborah Birx Gets Her Close-Up
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bill Rice Most Americans will remember Dr. Deborah Birx as the “scarf lady” who served on the White House’s Covid Response Team beginning in February 2020. According to a recently-released (but little-seen) 24-minute mini-documentary, it was Birx – even more so than Anthony Fauci – who was responsible for government “guidelines,” almost all of which proved to be unnecessary […]
Nike Stocks Still Tanking a Year after Mulvaney Partnership
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council A lot has happened since Dylan Mulvaney pranced around his yard in a Nike sports bra last April. Days after his face appeared on Bud Light cans — the controversy that launched a thousand boycotts — the sight of him doing jumping jacks in women’s workout gear was almost worst. And a stock chart that […]
Another Dismal Tax Day: Can It Drive Fiscal Reform?
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Vance Ginn April heralds two markers in Americans’ financial calendar. Neither brings joy. Their anguish reminds us of the dire need for fiscal reform before it’s too late. The first day is Tax Day on April 15, when you must file taxes to the IRS. The other day is Tax Freedom Day on April […]
EV Truck Rule Highly Inflationary
/in Economy, Environment, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Larry Bell With consumer appetite for plug-in electric vehicles tanked and manufacturers making up for huge losses by charging more for gasoline cars and trucks that they actually want, EPA has just raised central-government-knows-best green zealotry to draconian heights. On Good Friday, when news outlets were relatively quiet, the agency rolled out a new […]
The Ultimate Destruction of Private Property
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky Many changes have occurred in American society over the past few decades, largely due to a surge of Socialism supporters. Most of them call themselves “Progressives.” The honest ones announce they are members of the Democrat Socialists of America. One of the primary tenets of Socialism is aimed to substitute private property […]
‘Hammered From All Sides’: Minority Truckers Say California’s Green Regs Are Destroying Their American Dream
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Labor & Unions, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Minority truckers are struggling to stay afloat as the state of California levies stringent green regulations on their businesses, according to some of those affected who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation. The California Air Resources Board (CARB), California’s environmental regulatory agency, will ban the sale of new diesel heavy-duty trucks starting […]
The American Consumers are Funding Iran by Doing Business with Communist China
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Geoff Ross The installed Marxist in the White House Joe Biden borrows money from Communist China with the approval of the Socialist controlled Republican Congress. This money approved by the Republican controlled Congress has been used in the past to protect the borders of the corrupt nation of Ukraine. We tax payers have also […]
Why The Public Does Not Love Bidenonmics
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel The Biden Administration is frustrated. After dumping fiscal stimulus that exceeds both the New Deal and the Great Society into the economy, he gets strikingly little political payback for such lavish handouts. The economy has been growing at a decent rate, unemployment appears rather low, and the stock market has been doing […]
Bidenomics Inflate-and-Spend Policies Are Penny Bad, Pound Foolish
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Under a metal standard, inflation is caused by bad pennies. Under the Biden standard, inflation is a bad penny, in that it keeps turning up. In fact, nearly two years after inflation peaked in the summer of 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Wednesday that inflation is still chugging along at nearly twice the […]
The Left’s Plan to Sabotage Talk Radio and Local News
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council For its nearly universal control over the news-industrial complex, the Left has failed to penetrate the one and only media format dominated by conservatives: talk radio. Despite repeated liberal incursions into the medium, from Mario Cuomo to Tom Daschle to Air America, the Left cannot make a showing. Now, the Left has launched a series of […]
Beneath the Skin of CPI Inflation, March: Inflation Behaves Very Badly, Saga Far from Over
/in Economy, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Wolf Richter Ugly inflation in services drives up the 3-month “core CPI” for 7th month, to 4.5% annualized, worst in a year, and the 3-month overall CPI to worst since Nov 2022. So inflation behaved very badly again in March. January was terrible, but it was kind of written off as maybe one of […]
Biden Must Stop Playing Politics With The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy David Blackmon Oil and gasoline prices are rising now, just in time to become an issue for the 2024 presidential election campaign. The U.S. domestic price for West Texas Intermediate topped $86 per barrel in Friday trading, while the international Brent index briefly hit $91 before dropping slightly below that level. These are the […]
Biden Reportedly Has No Plans To Address Inflation With Policy Changes Before Election
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller President Joe Biden reportedly has no plans to address inflation with policy changes ahead of the 2024 election, officials told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The issue of inflation and how the Biden administration will address it has resurfaced after the consumer-price index (CPI) increased to 3.5% in March, a figure […]