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House of the Rising Son: Alexander Soros takes control of his father’s $25 billion funding empire.
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Discover The Networks New York hedge fund manager George Soros has long been one of the most politically powerful individuals on earth. Since the mid-1980s in particular, he has used his immense influence to help reconfigure the political landscapes of several countries around the world—in some cases playing a key role in toppling regimes […]
Wall Street Firms That Sold Out To China Are Now Struggling
/in Economy, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Will Kessler Major Wall Street firms that decided to expand their asset management operations into China even as other companies fled are struggling to capitalize on the market, according to The Wall Street Journal. BlackRock, a top U.S. investment company, is one of many American firms that are struggling to compete in the Chinese […]
VIDEO: The Global War on Farming—Control the Food, Control the People
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Matthys van Raalten Dutch legal philosopher Mrs. Eva Vlaardingerbroek spoke recently at an American farmers convention. Her speech should be seen as a warning for the U.S. It’s a very good speech about what’s the situation for Dutch farmers right now, what is coming to America, and with excellent questions of the American farmers […]
Public Square: An Alternative to Subsidizing Your Own Destruction
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel You have to hand it to the Left. They are a clever bunch. They take your tax dollars and use them to promote abortion, DEI in the military, and reverse discrimination. They take the tuition money you saved to educate your children or your tax dollars, and then they use it to […]
The Biden Administration Can’t Ignore This Whale Of A Problem Any More
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Steve Milloy As whale deaths mount on the east coast, the Biden administration can no longer pretend offshore wind farms are harmless to marine life. FOX News Digital revealed that the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is quietly offering a grant to study interactions between wind farms and critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. […]
America on Brink of $1 TRILLION a Year in Interest Payments
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report In interest alone. This is the greatest fiscal plunder — the unimaginable transfer of wealth — for our own destruction. The Red Line: America Is Headed Toward Annual Outlays in Interest Payments on Its Debts of $1 Trillion a Year Can Congress muster the will to rein in outlays across the […]
APPLE ADMITS iPhone Software Updates PURPOSELY Slow Down Phones, Will Pay Millions in Settlement
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report iPhone owners who were part of a class action lawsuit against Apple, alleging it deliberately slowed down its old iPhones to get people to upgrade to the latest model, will finally be getting their payout. This is how they treat they customers. The penalty is a mere pittance for Apple next […]
Elon Musk aims to turn Twitter into an ‘everything app’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Elon Musk’s recent rebranding of Twitter as X is a step toward the CEO’s goal of developing an “everything app.” Musk’s vision is for X to mark the spot for all your digital needs – to chat with your friends, order groceries, watch videos and manage your finances, all on one platform. His […]
Is This The Pause That Refreshes Or Something Worse?
/in Economy, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel When commenting on the stock market, it is difficult to establish continuity unless previous articles are referenced. We are sorry for that because it also requires the reader to go back to pick up the pieces of the argument. Our point of reference is the last commentary written on August 3, 2023, […]
Credit Crunch: The Money Supply Has Shrunk For Eight Months In a Row
/in Economy, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ryan McMaken Money supply growth fell again in June, remaining deep in negative territory after turning negative in November 2022 for the first time in twenty-eight years. June’s drop continues a steep downward trend from the unprecedented highs experienced during much of the past two years. Since April 2021, money supply growth has slowed quickly, […]
America Can’t Afford a Blank Check for Ukraine
/in Economy, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Zack Yost In his essay from August 4, Andrew E. Busch argues that opponents of providing aid to Ukraine have made a “feeble” case, identifying three arguments in particular that he finds lacking: that we should be focusing on issues at home rather than abroad; that the government of Ukraine is suppressing Russian Orthodox […]
Rich Men North of Richmond
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Education, Government Transparency, National Security, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy DEACON Rich Men North of Richmond Oliver Anthony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSA-SY5Hro Christian Virginian Christopher Anthony Lunsford, known to many as Folk Performer Oliver Anthony (his grandfather’s name) touched a resonant chord with 26 Million suffering Americans & Freedom Lovers worldwide, this past week – all vibrating with his heartfelt lament, Rich Men North of Richmond. Lyrics “Rich […]
What ESGers Don’t Understand
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Donald J. Boudreaux In her excellent AIER essay “The Charge to Change Capitalism and Why the Profit Motive Must be Preserved” Kimberlee Josephson wisely warns of the dangers posed to the economy by ESG investing, “common-good capitalism,” and other schemes to achieve allocations of resources different from the allocations that would be achieved by […]
Haaland Hit With Ethics Complaint After Stripping Oil And Gas Opportunities From Navajo Nation
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tristan Justice Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was hit with an ethics complaint Thursday over her controversial decision to choke off hundreds of thousands of acres in New Mexico from oil and gas development. The government watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) filed the complaint with the Interior Department inspector general’s office, citing the secretary’s […]
‘Huge Victory’: 5th Circuit Rules Against Mailing Abortion Pills and Ignoring Women’s Injuries
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Healthcare /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council The Biden administration suffered a major setback, as a federal appeals court has ruled the abortion industry cannot send the abortion pill through the mail, nor ignore the life-threatening harms suffered by the women who take it. The unanimous decision, which pro-life advocates say could save tens of thousands of lives, […]
Medicaid Paid Doctors to Push Risky COVID Vaccine
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado mRNA vaccine inventor-turned-truth teller Dr. Robert Malone just revealed how Anthem Medicaid was incentivizing doctors to push the dangerous COVID-19 vaccines by promising $50 for every Anthem member aged 5 years and older who got jabbed by Dec. 31, 2022. So what if 13 million people died worldwide from the vaccines? So […]
Mortgage Rates Jump to Holy-Moly 7.09%, FHA Rates to Highest in 20 Years, Pulling Rug Out from Under Home Sales in August
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Wolf Richter Mortgage applications to purchase a home: -40% from 2022 and 2019, 3rd worst week since 1995, behind only two weeks in February. The 7%+ mortgages are doing their magic on the housing market as they keep buyers out of the market, and home sales sagged further in late July and August, from […]
Target’s Sales Crumble For The First Time In Years Amid Backlash Over LGBT Kid Merchandise
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Target reported Wednesday that it was lowering its sales and profit expectations for the rest of the year, with the company having faced conservative backlash earlier in the quarter over the release of LGBT products for kids, according to Target’s second quarter earnings report. Target lowered its sales and profit expectations […]
China-Led Economic Group Pushes Forward With Plans To Topple American Dominance
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report With destructive Democrats as their domestic arm, the Communist Chinese will make easy work of the end of the American century. The top two issues during the August 22-24 Brics meeting are a possible expansion of the group and the oft-discussed but mostly elusive idea of creating a denomination, possibly backed […]
Censorship Controversy: Musk Sues Front Group CCDH
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy MERCOLA Take Control of Your Health Lawsuit Unveils Murky Web of Censorship Against U.S. Citizens Between lawsuits and voluntary document releases such as the Twitter Files, it’s become apparent that most censorship is being directed by the U.S. government, in blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution The U.S. government based some of its censorship […]
5 Ways Doctors Could Get Better Payment From Insurers
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Justin Nabity @ Physicians Thrive Physicians and insurance companies have a complicated relationship. They both depend on each other but also seek to maintain their own margins. In the end, it is the patient that typically comes out as the winner regardless of this rocky relationship. That being said, physicians need to be adequately […]
Biden Makes Grand Canyon National Monument, Ending Uranium Prospecting
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cameron Arcand Editors’ Note: The concept used to be, “public lands”, where ranchers, lumbermen, miners, off-road enthusiasts, hunters, hikers, and mountain bikers, in other words, “the public” had use of the Federal lands. Now propelled by the environmental movement, increasingly these become “private lands” government-owned and approved for only progressive causes. It is even […]
Interest Rate Hikes Fail To Pump The Brakes As Inflation Rises
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Inflation rose in July after steadily declining from a high of 9.1% in June 2022, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) release on Thursday. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a broad measure of the prices of everyday goods like energy and food, increased 3.2% on an annual basis in […]
‘Inflation Tax’ Is Higher Than Federal Income Tax
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Americans are paying far more to offset the costs of inflation since President Joe Biden took office than they pay toward federal income taxes, according to data calculated by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Average hourly earnings rose from $33.60 per hour in June to $33.74 per hour in July, but when […]
Biden DOE Called CCP Official Before Releasing Petroleum Reserves
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado A new report says that Biden’s Energy Secretary called up a top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) energy official before the Biden administration released America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) in late 2021. Aside from the ostensible goal of lowering gas prices (even while the Biden administration wrecked America’s energy independence), the Biden administration’s […]
‘Huge Mistake’: Anheuser-Busch and Other Brands Continue to Face Worldwide Boycott
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council The year 2023 has been full of breaking news stories and madcap headlines. So far, it has entailed a bank collapse, four indictments of a former president, an AI revolution, investigations into the weaponization of the federal government, Hunter Biden’s controversial business dealings, and the list goes on. In the midst […]
Disney Continues To Collapse As Multiple Revenue Streams Spiral Down The Toilet
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Ahh … ya gotta love it. The Walt Disney Company announced its latest earnings Wednesday afternoon, and things aren’t looking so good for Mickey Mouse & Co. Disney managed a couple of positives — like lower spending in future periods and the resumption of paying a dividend — but for the most part, things are disastrous […]
BIDENOMICS: American Credit Card Debt Soars Past $1 Trillion
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report No one an afford anything. Ain’t it grand, proles? US credit card debt surges to more than $1 trillion for first time ever By Ariel Zilber The credit card debt held by US shoppers surpassed more than $1 trillion for the first time ever as high inflation continues to drive up costs, […]
WOKE GOES BROKE: Anheuser-Busch Selling Off EIGHT Beer Brands as Bud Light Boycott Crushes Company
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Love this. Let this be a lesson. Former owner Billy Busch said Bud Light is no longer America’s beer and his father and grandfather “would have rolled over in their graves.” Bud Light Parent Company Selling Off 8 Beer Brands Amid Transgender Boycott By Tom Ozimek, August 8, 2023: Bud Light parent company […]
From Stoves To Ceiling Fans: The Biden Administration Has A Bad Regulation For Every Room In The House
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ben Lieberman 2023 began with federal regulators targeting gas stoves, but we have since seen a host of other proposals going after washing machines, refrigerators, dishwashers, ceiling fans, water heaters, and others. They are all part of the Biden administration’s prioritization of the climate change agenda over the interests of consumers. Each runs the risk of boosting appliance prices, […]