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FedNow? Everything
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Connor Vasile Thought the Federal Reserve raising interest rates was bad? Wait until they freeze your ability to get paid. Seamless money transfers? State-of-the-art security and tracking features? A hassle-free payment service backed by the Fed? No annoying third-party systems? What’s not to love about the Federal Reserve’s new FedNow Service? Quite a lot, […]
VIDEO: Highways in The Sky – Aviation On The Road Ahead
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy DEACON Highway in The Sky video posted by Jorj Baker on Vimeo. It can now be revealed how air transportation became so flawed – that two (2) nominally qualified pilots were so spatially confused, as to literally fly a serviceable, modern airliner into the ocean, despite onboard installation of quote “Terrain Avoidance Warning Systems […]
Does Social Housing Actually Work? Setting the Record Straight on the Vienna Model
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Edward Pinto Over the past few years, Vienna’s social housing model– where about 60% of residents live in municipally owned or supported apartments at subsidized rents–has been portrayed as a success of socialism over market forces in numerous news stories. For example, the New York Times recently called Vienna a “renters’ utopia”; the Financial […]
The Collapse of the EV SPACs: Another One Goes Bankrupt, Others on the Verge
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Wolf Richter Editors’ Note: As the news rolls in of one EV disaster after another, the easy money and greed of Wall Street have to be examined. However, it also should be noted this is part of a government, top-down, problem of central planning. Politicians have a dream and if the dream does not […]
Inflation Surges Above Expectations Despite Fed’s Rate Hikes
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Inflation rose significantly in August, marking the second month in a row that inflation has ticked up, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) release on Wednesday. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a broad measure of the prices of everyday goods, increased 3.7% on an annual basis in August, compared to 3.2% […]
The Cavernous Hole In American Energy Policy
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy David Holt In an abundant year for American energy policy ideas that are the equivalent of shooting the economy in the foot, one stands out for its simplicity: the giant, empty caverns known as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). When gasoline prices surged in 2021, the Biden Administration first started tapping the SPR. It […]
House Oversight Releases Bank Record Showing Hunter Biden Took Millions From Russian And Ukrainian Oligarchs
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy James Lynch The House Oversight Committee released bank records Wednesday showing Hunter Biden took millions of dollars worth of payments from Russian, Ukrainian, and Kazakh oligarchs. Hunter Biden received millions from Russian oligarch Elena Baturina, Ukrainian energy firm Burisma and Kazakh oligarch Kenes Rakishev when his father was vice president, the committee found. The […]
CFACT: Empowering American Farmers To Stand Up, Take Action
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tom Deweese Farmers across the nation have found themselves on the front lines of the Globalist/Davos drive to reset society. From massive wind and solar farms to the growing land grab called Carbon Capture Pipelines, usable farmland for growing our food is disappearing faster than any of the bogus predictions of melting polar ice […]
How ‘Bidenomics’ Is Destroying Homeownership
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Stephen Moore In boasting about “Bidenomics” two weeks ago in Milwaukee, President Joe Biden declared that his policies are “restoring the American dream.” Then he went into his creepy whispering mode and assured us “it’s working.” Huh? Isn’t it a big aspiration of the American dream to own a home? Biden keeps making first-time homeownership harder for young […]
New Labor Stats Show Foreign Workers Gaining Jobs While Native-Born Workers See Decline
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Immigration, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Federation for American Immigration Reform The August 2023 Employment Situation survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) drew far more media attention than normal for a monthly economic publication, and for good reason. The survey shows that over 1.2 million native-born Americans lost jobs from July to August 2023. However, over the same period, nearly 700,000 new […]
America’s Loss of Power: The Role of the Worker
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Karen Schoen Who supplies the Labor? The American middle-class worker. Why is the government planning and scheming to eliminate the American worker? Because the Globalists want you to need them so they can control you. Once you need and count on the government to survive, you are their serf/slave forever. If you need them, […]
Biden Regime Cancels Trump-Era Oil and Gas Leases in Alaska
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The Democrats mean to kill the engine of America. Biden canceled all of the Alaska drilling on Federal land. At the same time, he stopped allowing liquid natural gas from being transported by train. That leaves the only mode of transportation by trucking. About 2 months ago the largest trucking company […]
Getting Ivermectin from Walmart — NOT!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. The Resistance to Science Continues to be Stunning. I believe that preparation is wise. Considering that COVID-19 seems to be making somewhat of a comeback (even here), it seems advisable to have a science-based treatment on hand if either my wife or I get infected. Based on my research of the early treatment options, it is […]
‘Horrified’ Hospital Employee Leaks DEI Training pushing 3-YEAR-OLDS Identifying as ‘Transgender’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Mengele medicine. The hospital needs money, and this is their solution. ‘Horrified’ hospital employee leaks DEI training pushing 3-year-olds identifying as transgender ‘Many transgender people have ALWAYS known their true gender,’ the DEI training from Kaiser Permanente said By Hannah Grossman Fox News, September 4, 2023: A “horrified” hospital employee at Kaiser Permanente leaked a sex change […]
Thoughts About Some Interesting Charts
/in Economy, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel Charts, like photos, sometimes capture the mood of data. They also have a way of compacting history, so one can see differences or similarities to previous economic cycles. This chart shows the extent to which the “yield curve” is inverted. An inverted yield curve is caused when rates for short-term debt exceed […]
Institutional Racism: Fact or Fiction?
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni The wrong answer has resulted in the wrong public policies. A popular narrative is that institutional racism explains why African Americans, as a group, on average, experience higher poverty rates, lower test scores, fewer advancement opportunities, worse health outcomes, higher arrest rates, longer prison sentences, fewer housing options, and higher rates […]
United Airlines Grounds All Flights Nationwide
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller United Airlines has resumed flights after ordering all of them grounded across the United States and Canada on Tuesday. United had requested the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issue a ground stop order on all of its aircraft in the United States and U.S.-bound flights from Canada, the FAA tweeted. Flights would be […]
A Viable Realism and Revival Doctrine
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Vivek Ramaswamy Washington, Monroe, and Nixon equals America First. In his inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson famously summarized the thought of George Washington in what is now known as the Washington Doctrine: “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” The last of the Founders to serve as president, James Monroe, […]
Florida Senator Marco Rubio Releases 40-Page Report On The Crisis Of Working, Non-Working Men
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio will release a 40-page report Tuesday regarding male labor participation that details the problems men face in their role as providers and shares evidence that working-aged men are having trouble finding quality jobs and are dropping out of the labor force at high rates. The Daily […]
Bidenomics Jobs Report: 1.2 Million Native-Born Workers Lost Their Jobs & Were Replaced With 668K Foreign-Born Workers
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Immigration, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report And the illegitimate POTUS is out today bragging about jobs. Zero Hedge reports that 1.2 million American born workers have been replaced by nearly 700k foreign born workers. Bidenomics: America last. As Biden continues to tout his economy, the data says otherwise. The July jobs estimate was revised 30,000 lower and […]
The U.S. Fiscal Ponzi Scheme: Enjoy The Sun While You Can
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ken Veit There are few things as confusing as the concept of money. Thorough explanations quickly become bogged down in technical weeds. I am going to attempt to make this as simple as possible for the general reader. It will probably upset my more technically savvy financial friends, but let the chips fall where […]
Wealthy Democrats Aided And Abetted The Biden Border Crisis, Now They’re Whining About It
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy John Daniel Davidson Amid the scrum of news this week about Democrat-led schemes to put former President Donald Trump on trial during the GOP primaries and rig the 2024 election in plain sight, you might have missed a cautionary tale out of New York City, where Democrat millionaires are whining about a migrant crisis […]
The Richest Opponents of Carbon-Free Nuclear Energy
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ken Braun A new profile at InfluenceWatch for the Opposition to Nuclear Energy movement lists eleven anti-nuclear nonprofits that each individually have annual revenue in excess of $50 million. As shown in a previous essay, there are hundreds of left-leaning nonprofits that oppose the use of zero-carbon nuclear energy, including nearly all of the nation’s largest climate/carbon alarmist […]
STEPHEN MOORE: Biden’s Killing the American Dream of Homeownership
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller In boasting about Bidenomics two weeks ago in Milwaukee, President Joe Biden declared that his policies are “restoring the American dream.” Then he went into his creepy whispering mode and assured us “it’s working.” Huh? Isn’t a big aspiration of the American dream owning a home? Biden keeps making first-time homeownership […]
Curse of Easy Money: US Government Interest Payments v. Tax Receipts, Average Interest on Treasury Debt, & Debt to GDP
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Wolf Richter Spiking Interest payments will hopefully, knock on wood, force the drunken sailors in Washington to go through detox. The gigantic US government debt is now approaching $33 trillion, amid a tsunami of issuance of Treasury securities to fund the mind-blowing government deficits and roll over maturing securities. At the same time, the Fed has […]
COVID-19 Lies and What to Do About Them
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kurt Mahlburg The fall of Fauci and the unraveling narrative about COVID-19’s origins is something of a slow-motion train wreck. As recently as 2021, White House Chief Medical Advisor and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci was hailed as a national hero and an icon of science. To be […]
Is the Fair Tax in Our Future?“
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Dr. Thomas Patterson Critics of Donald Trump once counted tax evasion among his many faults. But it turned out that he wasn’t breaking any tax laws. He was simply utilizing the complex web of exemptions, deductions and other rules available to reduce his tax bill to near zero. It would be hard to imagine […]
What Is the New Deal with the New Deal?
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Robert E. Wright Editors’ Note: It is quite striking how many similarities we have today with another thuggish Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The New Deal was the template for the modern welfare/warfare state and for the abuse of the electoral process, and the court system. Looking back, it seems fantastic that so many Americans […]
Exposed: Best Buy’s Discrimination Against Christians
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy O’Keefe Media Group We have a crucial update on the Best Buy whistleblower case that has been making waves across the nation. Enis Sujak, the man who courageously exposed Best Buy’s blatant discrimination, has been officially terminated by the company. The Backstory For those who missed our initial coverage, Sujak provided OMG with recordings […]
The Three-Headed Monster Giving Us Lousy Public Policy
/in Economy, Education, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Art Carden We have made fantastic strides in our understanding of how the physical and social worlds work. The Great Enrichment of the last three centuries or so that happened because we adopted the Bourgeois Deal of “Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich” has lifted us to standards of living our ancestors […]