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Testimony: BioTech Admits Gate’s GMO Factory Food IS a Gene Therapy
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Amil Imani Now the truth comes out. Please read this column about GMO foods and Bill Gates. Renz Missouri House Testimony – BioTech Admits Gate’s GMO Factory Food IS a Gene Therapy This has been a monumental week for the truth and freedom movement in our ongoing war against the WEF/CCP/Gates Foundation/etc. Here are […]
Money and Inflation Are Still Related
/in Economy, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Gerald P. Dwyer There is perhaps no empirical regularity among economic phenomena that is based on so much evidence, for so wide a range of circumstances,” Milton Friedman observed in 1989, “as the connection between substantial changes in the quantity of money and in the level of prices.” And yet, despite the wide body […]
Another Country Dumps Dollar, Tells Citizens To Get Rid Of Holdings Of U.S. Dollar and Switch to Yuan
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The dollar as the main world currency is our pillar of strength and power. Look what Biden and The Democrats did to us. Kenya President Tells Citizens To Get Rid Of Holdings Of US Dollar, As Nations Dump The Dollar And Begin To Embrace Petroyuan “I am giving you free advice […]
Democrat Barney Frank Was Board Member at Collapsed Signature Bank
/in Economy, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Frank Bergman Democrat former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) was a member of the board at the collapsed Signature Bank. As Slay News reported, New York-based Signature was shut down by regulators on Sunday [March 12] in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse on Friday [March 10]. Now it has emerged that […]
Is ‘Wokeism’ to Blame for Silicon Valley Bank’s Demise? No and Yes
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jon Miltimore Within days of Silicon Valley Bank’s swift and shocking collapse, a narrative formed that “wokeism” lay at the heart of the California bank’s sudden demise. It began with a Fox News appearance by Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus. “I feel bad for all of these people that lost all their money in […]
Tucson Is Heading Down the Path of Other Failing Leftist Cities with Its Climate Action Plan
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy AZ Free News In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, multiple government officials seized the opportunity to grab more power. Perhaps chief among them were the Tucson city council and Mayor Regina Romero, who exploited the moment by declaring a “climate emergency.” Now, the city of Tucson has finalized its plan to […]
Raining on Medicaid Expansion’s Parade
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Healthcare, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US North Carolina is becoming the 40th state to adopt Medicaid expansion with Republicans putting it over the top like they did in Virginia. Medicaid expansion is the government health program for childless able-bodied adults making up to 38 percent more than the federal poverty level. It’s how the Democrats claim so many more […]
Is The Banking System Safe?
/in Economy, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel Over the past few weeks, we have had the second and third-largest bank failures in our history. As this crisis unfolds, we are repeatedly told by officials that it is localized to these particular banks, that the banking system is sound, and there is not a systemic risk to those with money […]
Is Paris Burning? Yes, and So Are Lyon, Marseille, Lille, Bordeaux and Rennes
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The classic 1966 movie Is Paris Burning? centers around Adolf Hitler’s desire, as the Allied armies advance through France in 1944, to see Paris destroyed rather than fall into the hands of his enemies. Paris didn’t burn in 1944, but the conflagration, as it turns out, was just delayed. CNN reported Friday that “Paris and […]
Powell Explains the Fed’s New Regime: Rate Hikes & QT to Fight Inflation while Offering Liquidity to Banks to Keep them from Toppling
/in Economy, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Wolf Richter An enormously important new regime gets engraved into central-bank handbooks. The ECB and Bank of England are also on board. It makes sense in this era of high inflation, QT, rising policy interest rates, and high financial fragility in the banking system, after years of money printing and interest rate repression. The […]
Beware of Governments Bearing Gifts
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky The title is a “turn of phrase” from when the Greeks provided the Trojans with the gift of a giant wooden horse. Similarly, whenever a government — in this case Biden’s government – appears to give private industry money for a directed purpose, there is a laundry list of caveats. In this […]
The Ultimate Cancel Culture and Equality
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni A review of Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962, by Frank Dikotter (Bloomberg Publishing, Hardback Edition, 2010; Paperback Edition, 2017, 420 pages). It is seen as gauche, hateful, and unenlightened on college campuses and like-minded places to quote Winston Churchill because he was an imperialist and […]
Environmental Protection Shouldn’t Mean Economic Suicide
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council When I was in college in southern California many years ago, the smog could be overwhelming. Visibility was low and the sense of being closed-in by a layer of brownish-grey was ongoing. Then, one day it rained. The sky was actually blue and, to my great surprise, you could see the […]
6 Charts Show Crucial Facts About Spending, Taxes, Deficits Missing From Biden’s Budget
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy David Ditch The Biden administration on Thursday released an outline for its fiscal year 2024 budget. As expected, it promotes the same swampy, big-government agenda as last year, which the country desperately needs to avoid. Beneath the administration’s spin, the ultimate message is that it thinks the federal government doesn’t have enough power and […]
Biden Touts New Budget With Tax Hikes, Critics Push Back
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Casey Harper President Joe Biden released his 2024 budget Thursday [3/9] that includes a trove of tax hikes, quickly sparking pushback from critics. The White House said the budget will cut deficits by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade. Critics argued that despite those cuts, the national debt is still soaring, projected to […]
Janet Yellen Says More Bank Bailouts Could Be On The Horizon
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in remarks Tuesday that regulators may insure all deposits at more banks following the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank depositor bailouts. Yellen said the bailouts were essential to safeguard the U.S. banking system in prepared remarks at the American Bankers Association Tuesday, referencing the […]
How Hi-Tech Israeli Elite Protestors Moved Funds out of Israel — to SVB
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Barry Shaw Among the organizers of the ongoing street protests in Israel against the recently elected right-wing government, thinly veiled as protests aganst judicial reform, were two individuals who stoked up the theme encouraging high-tech investors to remove their money from Israel. Organized under the banner of a Marxist-sounding title, the ‘High Tech Workers […]
Biden’s First Veto Mandates Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing Of Our Retirement Savings
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Biden vetoed a bill that would have stopped your retirement savings being used to fund political woke activism. We are being forced to fund our own destruction. By what right does the government command our retirement money to fund their lunacy? Biden issues first veto of his presidency over influence from […]
How Government Lost 15 Million Acres of Public Land in the United States
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Non-market allocations of resources are doomed to result in catastrophic waste and mismanagement, evidenced by a recent New York Times story exploring how ‘millions of acres of public lands aren’t really open to the public.’ Leave it to the United States Government to lose track of almost three states […]
The Country Where Economic Freedom Has Grown the Most Over the Last Two Decades
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Vietnam is on the path to becoming one of the world’s most vibrant economies. No country of comparable size has gained as much economic freedom since 1995. Vietnam continues to gain economic freedom, as confirmed by the latest edition of the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom ranking. The Index ranks a total of 176 […]
China Brokers a Surprising Mid-East Deal
/in Economy, Environment, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel We think a story of major importance has been buried by the news of bank runs in the US. While not disputing the importance of the bank run stories (we’ve written on this ourselves), the implications of China brokering a deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran are very important. The two warring […]
Biden Treasury Secretary’s Policy Destroys Small U.S. Banks While Bailing Out Chinese Depositors, Experts Say
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Once the big four banks control all the money, they will control everything else, including what kind of business you can run, what you can and cannot say on social media, and what opinions you can hold. This is the biggest power grab since the election rigging of 2020. By: Jason Cohe, […]
The Unconstitutional Tax on “Unrealized Capital Gains”
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Phillip W. Magness The Biden Administration’s 2023 budget bill made headlines by proposing a so-called “billionaire tax,” imposing a 25-percent minimum rate on the “unrealized capital gains” of the wealthiest Americans. The Biden measure rests on an economic falsehood. The new proposal rests on the work of far-left academics such as Thomas Piketty and […]
‘No Painless Option’: Fed Faces Tough Choice on Inflation Following Bank Collapses
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Casey Harper The U.S. Federal Reserve may be less likely to use its key tool to combat inflation because of recent bank failures. The Fed has been aggressively hiking interest rates for months to help combat inflation. While inflation has slowed, it remains elevated. Given the recent bank collapses, hiking rates again may be […]
Silicon Valley Bank: The Woke Democrat Cesspool Is Deep And Wide
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US We’re learning new details about just how big a Woke Democrat cesspool Silicon Valley Bank really was. The Bank’s political action committee donated primarily to Democrats for 20 years. One hundred percent of the PAC’s donations went to Democrats in 2020, as well as in 2021-2022. Last year, the PAC donated to […]
Silicon Valley Bank Parent Company Files For Bankruptcy
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller SVB Financial Group, the parent company for California tech lender Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York Friday, the biggest filing of its kind since Washington Mutual Inc. in 2008. SVB, which was SVB Financial Group’s main business, was taken over by federal regulators after it collapsed due to […]
Why SVB and Signature Bank Failed so Fast – and Why the U.S. Banking Crisis Isn’t Over Yet
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities With over $1 trillion of bank deposits currently uninsured, the banking crisis is far from over. Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed with enormous speed – so quickly that they could be textbook cases of classic bank runs, in which too many depositors withdraw their funds from a bank at the […]
Why We Should Let Bad Banks Fail
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Bad banks need consequences. Let them fail. By now, you’ve likely heard about regulators closing down Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and now Signature Bank as well. While I’m not going to go into all the details, the basic story is described well in this article on Seeking Alpha. Essentially, SVB […]
BIDEN BANK CRISIS: Dow Plunges 700 Points, ‘First Domino To Drop’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Stock indexes are on pace for one of their worst days this year. Woke and broke. And still Biden and the Democrats are pushing, legislating and imposing these fatal polices. This is the poison fruit of the diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices that elevates whining whiners and demonizes talent, intelligence […]
10 Things to Know about the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council This weekend was the most tumultuous for the banking sector since 2008, as an apparently prosperous, mid-sized bank completely collapsed. When the dust settled, federal regulators had taken over management of two banks while several others teetered on the brink. Needless to say, the incident has deeply shaken Americans’ confidence in […]