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Here Are The 17 GOP Senators Who Voted For Unlimited Spending
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The U.S. Senate passed legislation late Thursday night to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, and the bill is now headed to President Joe Biden’s desk. The legislation passed with 17 Republicans joining 46 Democrats to suspend the debt ceiling until Jan. 2025. Five Democrats broke with their party. Ahead of the June […]
‘Boycott Target’ Rap Hits Number 1 on iTunes
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council For those who didn’t know about the Target controversy already, they likely know now. Forgiato Blow, nicknamed “Trump’s Nephew,” released a song about boycotting Target last week, and it is rapidly climbing the charts. Blow’s music video has at least 705,000 views on YouTube, and the song has been growing in popularity ever […]
Fighting ESG all the way to the CEOs
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow ESG, or “environmental, social, governance” investing has become a pernicious threat to our free market. Large financial institutions such as banks and fund managers are using the gigantic sums of other people’s money they control to push ideological agendas that have nothing to do with investing. Substituting a woke […]
Great Reset: WEF Demands Fewer Private Cars, Increase in Public Transport
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado The insidious World Economic Forum (WEF) of the “Great Reset” is now pushing cities, countries, and companies around the world to adopt a new “scorecard” to encourage the expansion of supposedly “green” energy and public transportation, and fewer private cars. You will own nothing, you will ride public transport, and you have […]
Chick-fil-A Has Been Woke for Years. You Just Didn’t Want to Believe It.
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council When the rest of the world lost its corporate marbles, conservatives liked to think that there was one place that would never let them down: Chick-fil-A. As far as they were concerned, the churchgoers’ chicken of choice had been solidly built on Truett Cathy’s strong family values. While other CEOs took […]
Dozens of Major Corporations Have Abysmal Protections for Free Speech, Religion: Study
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Dozens of major corporations lack adequate protections for free speech and religion even as several companies have improved since last year, a new study suggests. The study was conducted in partnership with the investment technology service Inspire Insight, which provides faith-based investing data and ratings to thousands of institutions. Only two […]
Billion Dollar Losses For Companies That Went Woke Are Staggering – Bud Light, Target, Kohls, North Face
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Featured, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report For some psychiatric reason, the left can’t grasp that we don’t care what they do with their peckers, just keep them out of the classrooms and away from our children. BUD LIGHT VALUE HAS FALLEN $15.7 BILLION SINCE APRIL National Review: Sales for the beleaguered beer company, Bud Light, have fallen […]
Trump and His Allies Attack Tax Reform
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel Recently we felt it necessary (Trump Is Out of Line) to slap down President Trump for his attacks on Ron DeSantis in relation to Medicare and Social Security. We contended that no serious effort at controlling the deficit can be undertaken with the reform of “entitlement” programs. The reason: that is where […]
Without Economic Freedom, None of the Others Matter
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Paul Schwennesen [One Fine Spring Day, Over the Phone…] “Oh, and by the way, your background check says there’s a warrant out for your arrest.” This is not, mind you, the kind of thing one expects to hear updating teaching credentials in a very staid University bureaucracy. Nevertheless, there it was. “Oh?,” I retorted, […]
RINO McCarthy Caves On His Debt-Ceiling ‘Deal,’ He Sold Us Out
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Featured, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Apparently McCarthy was no match for the corrupt, diaper-wearing, cracked, child-sniffing mental patient. WATCH: @RepChipRoy SLAMS the terrible deal to raise the debt ceiling “Not one Republican should vote for this deal — it is a bad deal. No one sent us here to borrow an additional $4 trillion to get […]
When Corporations Act Like Politicians
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council As the 2024 presidential primary begins to take shape, pundits of all descriptions treat their readers to theories of whether this or that candidate can hold onto the partisan base or persuade independents. Strangely, many corporations — all Democrats, apparently — are behaving in the same, partisan way. Their unbusinesslike behavior […]
Lululemon Fires Two Employees FOR CALLING POLICE While Store Is Ransacked By Masked Thieves
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report What fresh hell is this? Why work? Why produce? Why obey any laws? These corporations are going to be the death of us. This is how they thank us for their success. The normal people better get organized. We didn’t come this far in human history to hurl ourselves back to […]
Fed’s Favored Core PCE Price Index Re-Accelerates, Driven by Services, Motor Vehicles: Inflation Stuck on High, Shifts from Item to Item
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Wolf Richter Not encouraging: core PCE price index refuses to come down, and has moved sideways since July last year. The inflation index favored by the Fed, the core PCE price index – which, by excluding the food and energy products, is a measure of underlying inflation – re-accelerated in April, as services inflation […]
THE NORTH FACE Becomes Latest Brand to Promote the Grooming of Kids
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Church Militant ‘Out in Nature’ campaign targets kids as young as 2-years old. DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) – Another popular clothing brand is promoting the homosexual grooming of children and transgender ideology just in time for so-called Pride Month. On Wednesday, the apparel brand The North Face released a new ad featuring a gay drag queen named Pattie Gonia, […]
Econ Expert on the GOP’s Debt Ceiling Hand: ‘We’re Holding Four Aces’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council When members of Congress started boarding their flights home Thursday, not one of them knew how long they’d be gone. The possibility of a shorter-than-usual Memorial Day recess looms large as negotiators desperately try to hammer out a deal on the debt ceiling before June 1. “Every hour matters,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy […]
HITS BOTTOM, KEEPS DIGGING: Bud Light To Sponsor Pride Parades Despite Ongoing Boycott
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Anheuser-Busch Joining Children’s Hospital Which Sexually Mutilates Children. This is textbook business school case study stuff. Lose touch with your audience, go down in flames. America’s woke companies have lost their way. Make your products. Sell your products. And STFU. Bud Light To Sponsor Pride Parades Despite Ongoing Boycott By Spencer Lindquist, Daily […]
What’s Next for the Fed?
/in Economy, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Thomas L. Hogan After neglecting to address inflation throughout 2021 and into 2022, the Federal Reserve has now raised its interest rate targets 10 consecutive times, to the highest level since 2007. At his press conference to announce the change, Fed Chair Jerome Powell emphasized the Fed’s priority of reducing inflation and stressed that […]
Target Shares Plummet Following Trans Push To Children, Posts $9 Billion Loss
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The mamas ain’t havin’ it. The men pushed back at Bud Light. Now it’s our turn. Disney, Bid, Noe, Target. Keep it up. Customers have started reacting strongly to corporate ideological pandering By Naveen Athrappully, The Epoch Times, May 25, 2023Updated: May 25, 2023 Shares of Target have recently declined after […]
‘Like a Cancer’: CCP Requires Party Cells in All Foreign Companies in China
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, National Security, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado You mean companies that operate in China have to sell out their ethics to be in the country? Who knew? All the way back in 1993, the mass murdering Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was already requiring all foreign companies operating in China to have an internal CCP cell. And no, the law […]
Latest Update On The Bud Light Boycott: It’s A Bloodbath
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Bud Light sales are continuing to plummet as the beer brand faces its third month of boycotts over its decision to choose transgender TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney as a brand ambassador. Bud Light sales for the week of May 6-13 have sunk 28.4%, following a 27.7% decrease the week before, according to […]
Woke Bud Light Can’t Give Their Beer Away – Literally, Now Forced to Buy It Back
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Bud Light’s marketing team has unveiled a new effort to bolster sales in the midst of ongoing boycott by essentially giving away a 15-pack of beer for free for Memorial Day. Until May 31, consumers can get up to a $15 rebate on the purchase of Bud Light, Budweiser, Budweiser Select, […]
Woke Ford’s ‘Very Gay Raptor’ Endorses Trans Lifestyle. Take action, tell them to stop it!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Florida Family Association Very Gay Raptor woke promotion is still alive on Ford website after June 2021 and June 2022 releases. Click here to send your email to complain to Ford Motor Company about its woke “Very Gay Raptor” promotion which is still on its website. Conservatives have called out Ford’s “Very Gay Raptor” […]
Bolting Blue Cities: Major Firms Vow To LEAVE Chicago Amid WOKE Policies, High Crime, Higher Taxes
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Chicago’s new woke mayor is signed in and vows to tax the rich and big business to pay for progressive agenda – as major firms vow to PULL OUT of city (Daily Mail) Mayor Brandon Johnson beat out more moderate Chicago schools CEO Paul Vallas this month to earn the spot […]
Market Volatility Compresses As Debt Ceiling Looms
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel Volatility in stock, bond, currency, and gold markets continue to contract as they pause awaiting not only the next meeting of the Federal Reserve but also the resolution of the current political battle over the debt ceiling. Depending on who is doing the talking, and what “extraordinary measures” are used by the […]
Crowding Out: The Fed May Be Killing the Private Sector to Save the Government
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Daniel Lacalle The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet reached its all-time high in May 2022. Since then, it was supposed to drop at a steady pace and shed three trillion US dollars by 2024. The normalization of monetary policy was built on the idea of a soft landing for the economy. However, the Fed may […]
New Biden Admin Mandate Will Raise Costs On Mobile Homeowners For ‘Zero’ Climate Benefit, Experts Say
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Biden administration’s upcoming rules requiring stricter energy efficiency standards for mobile homes will raise costs for low-income homebuyers while failing to meaningfully limit emissions, industry experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) rules — set to go into effect May 31, one year after they were finalized […]
Home Sales Plunge, Supply Rises, Prices Drop Year-over-Year Most since 2012. Even Investors Pull Back
/in Economy, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Wolf Richter All-Cash sales plunge 22% as investors don’t feel like overpaying either. The 2023 version of the spring selling season is here. OK, it’s spring selling season, the famously best times of the year to sell a home, because that’s when prices rise and sales rise due to hot demand from home buyers […]
University Housing Biden Center Took Funds From Firm Controlled By China’s ‘Supreme Organ Of State Power,’ Docs Show
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Philip Lenczycki The University of Pennsylvania received over $500,000 from a company that serves as an investment arm of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after it opened Joe Biden’s think tank in 2018, according to the university’s foreign gift reporting records. Between 2018 and 2020, China Everbright Group, a “state-owned financial conglomerate,” donated $523,840 […]
U.S. activist charges Twitter with being ‘participant tool’ in Saudi oppression
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch Money talks: “Saudi Arabia is Twitter’s second-largest investor.” It is noteworthy that the nefarious alliance between Saudi Arabia and Twitter that the Guardian highlights here began prior to Elon Musk taking over Twitter in 2022. Last year, Jihad Watch published this story: Something more than ‘reform’ is going on in Saudi Arabia: Twitter […]
A Book to Help Young Americans Understand Economics: Economics in Action by Brian Balfour
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy George Leef Very few young Americans learn anything about economics. Some high schools offer it, but the courses are usually taught by teachers who have scant knowledge of the field, using books that are heavily laden with anti-market sentiments. Such books reinforce socialistic ideas about worker exploitation, the supposed instability of capitalist economies, the […]