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DEATH SPIRAL: CNN Loses 90% Of It’s Audience
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report CNN was once the standard for providing news. Today they are a laughing stock. How much longer before Warner Media says enough? How can Jeff Zucker show his face in public? DEATH SPIRAL: CNN Ratings Drop 90% in Key Audience, Loses 80% of Total Viewers By The First, January 12, 2022 […]
Melania Trump Launches NFT ‘The Head of State Collection’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier On January 9th, 2022 First Lady Melania Trump launched a new Non-Fungible Token (NFT) “The Head of State Collection.” A Non-Fungible Token is a unique and non-interchangeable unit of data stored on a blockchain, a form of digital ledger. NFTs can be associated with reproducible digital files such as photos, videos, […]
Youth Depression, Suicide Increasing During Pandemic Response
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kerry McDonald As data on the unintended consequences of pandemic policy becomes gloomier, policy makers are beginning to acknowledge tradeoffs. Government policies meant to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in unintended consequences that threaten lives—including, tragically, the lives of young people who are generally spared from the worst effects of COVID-19. School closures, stay-at-home orders, […]
3 Reasons Nuclear Power Has Returned to the Energy Debate
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jason Bordoff If we believed our own rhetoric about the climate crisis, support for nuclear would be much higher. If you still needed proof that nuclear energy has returned to the conversation after decades of disfavor, it came with an unexpected celebrity boost last month. Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the Canadian singer Grimes separately used their star […]
What I See for 2022: Interest Rates, Mortgage Rates, Real Estate, Stocks & Other Assets as Central Banks Face Raging Inflation
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Wolf Richter An extra-special cocktail of three powerful ingredients with no cherry on top awaits us in 2022. Super-inflated asset prices such as housing, stocks, and bonds; massive inflation; and central banks that have started to react. Many central banks have started pushing up interest rates; others have ended asset purchases. And Quantitative Tightening […]
FLORIDA: DeSantis Investing $10m in Semiconductor Production to Combat China
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Once again, Governor Ron DeSantis is the best governor in the nation. No one is fighting harder for the American people than the great governor. When DeSantis becomes POTUS in either 2025 or 2029, he will take the fight to China and all of America’s adversaries. And he will win. #DeSantis2024! […]
Strength Of U.S. Dollar Slips After Poor Jobs Report
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report In 4 out of the last 5 months, the U.S. economy performed below expectations. But Decembers job report was the Biden Administrations worst one yet. It was gad awful. Less than half the jobs expected were created. As such, the U.S. dollar took a hit. America will not be able to […]
Covid-19 Economic Zombification
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Daniel Fenandez Editors’ Note: Discussion of “Minsky Moments” may strike the reader as obscure. However, it is noted in this article that the whole world, including real estate much of the private corporate sector, has become more leveraged than before the 2008 financial crisis. With the sharp rise in inflation, global central banks have […]
Biden Wrecking Ball: Over 3 Million Jobs Lost Due To Employer Closures Or Lost Business
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Destroying your livelihood, your ability to make a living, is a form of murder. The Biden Effect: Over 3 Million Jobs Lost Due To Employer Closures Or Lost Business A new report revealed on CNBC Friday that 3.1 million people have been unable to work due to their employer closing or […]
Phoenix Six-Figure Job Growth Ranks Second Among Large U.S. Metros
/in Economy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Elizabeth Troutman Phoenix has the second-highest percentage change in high-paying jobs out of a list of large U.S. metros, according to a Stessa report. Phoenix saw a 217.1% increase in six-figure jobs from 2015 to 2020, marking the second-largest percentage increase among the nation’s largest metropolitan areas. More Phoenix workers made six-figure salaries in […]
Forty-Five Years of Mask Studies Prove They’re Worthless
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Kelleigh Nelson “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H.L. Mencken “Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the […]
Here’s Why San Francisco is Experiencing a Shoplifting Surge That’s Putting Some Stores Out of Business
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what’s going on here. “I’m new to San Francisco,” New York Times journalist Thomas Fuller told a grocery store clerk shortly after moving to the city. “Is it optional to pay for things here?” It sounds like an absurd thing to ask, […]
STEEP LOSSES: Democrat-run states of NJ, NY & CT saw more wealthy residents flee in 2021, annual moving survey shows
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Droves of residents fled Democrat-run states with surging crime and COVID-19 restrictions last year — with New York, New Jersey and Connecticut among the five that suffered the steepest losses, a sobering new survey shows. Let’s hope these escapees don’t destroy the states they move to by importing their poisonous Democrat […]
Barbra: ‘Joe Biden’s Economic Record… the Best in 40 Years’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Discover The Networks In a stunning example of how the entertainment-media complex colludes to disseminate the totalitarian left’s blatantly false messaging, Democrat mega-donor and former entertainer Barbra Streisand took to Twitter on New Year’s Eve to insist that puppet President “Joe Biden’s economic record in his first year is the best in 40 years.” She added ludicrously, […]
Arizona Republic Report Leaves Out Important Details and Context On Universal Licensing
/in Economy, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jeffrey A. Singer The Arizona Republic recently published a report entitled, “Universal Licensing: Arizona opened the doors to less qualified workers‐the public bears the risk.” In its investigation of Arizona’s universal licensing recognition law enacted in 2019—a reform so successful and popular that it is being emulated by more than a third of other states—it mentioned irrelevant incidents […]
The Fed’s Doomsday Prophet Has a Dire Warning About Where We’re Headed
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Christopher Leonard Thomas Hoenig knew what quantitative easing and record-low interest rates would bring. Thomas Hoenig doesn’t look like a rebel. He is a conservative man, soft-spoken, now happily retired at the age of 75. He acts like someone who has spent the vast majority of his career, as he has, working at one […]
The Thirty Tyrants
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, National Security, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Lee Smith The deal that the American elite chose to make with China has a precedent in the history of Athens and Sparta In Chapter 5 of The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli describes three options for how a conquering power might best treat those it has defeated in war. The first is to ruin them; the […]
TAKE ACTION: CVS is Putting Racism Ahead of Health
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy 2ndvote .com CVS (3.42) is one of 2ndVote’s top-ranked drug stores with a previous score of 3.72 which has recently dropped to a 3.42. But that score might drop even further as company executives spent $600 million on Critical Race Theory (CRT) employee training programs. Fox Business reports that CVS implemented a four-week program last year […]
Our Top 21 Fiscal Charts of 2021
/in Economy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy The Editors at CRFB 2021 was a busy year for fiscal policy, which gave us ample opportunities to conduct substantive policy analyses using charts and tables. This year, we published over 210 papers, blog posts, and other products. As we get ready to pop the champagne and ring in the new year, here are our top […]
Liberal Democrat political class is a ‘machine that’s just devouring the city,’ economist says of NYC’s COVID-19 mandates
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The Democrats have crushed the greatest city in the world. ‘We’ve lost our minds,’ economist Jeffrey Tucker says of NYC’s COVID-19 mandates By Teny Sahakian | Fox News NEW YORK CITY – Lifestyles forced onto New Yorkers through restrictive coronavirus mandates are “not the way we’re supposed to conduct public life in this […]
End of Easy Money: Global Tightening in Full Swing, While the Fed Promises to Wake Up in Time Next Year
/in Economy, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Wolf Richter Central banks jacked up rates to catch up with run-away inflation, but most fell further behind; only Russia caught up. The Fed didn’t even try. The Czech National Bank dished out another surprise today, raising its main policy interest rate by 100 basis points to 3.75%, the highest since February 2008, and the […]
Biden’s oil price heading to $100 a barrel. Read on …
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Save America Foundation “Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.” – Debby Boone Unless the treasonous usurper in The Peoples House and his evil, satanic administration changes course on the insane energy agenda of theirs, oil will reach at least $100 a […]
What Is “Surveillance Capitalism” and Should We Be Concerned?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Shoshana Zuboff’s book on so-called “surveillance capitalism” is written to fire up those already concerned about the “commodification” of online life. “Pay attention.” It’s a common exhortation, perhaps from a panicked parent to a careless child, or from a tolerant teacher to a sleepy student, or from a Zen […]
Covid Vaccination Incentives Could Cost Phoenix $29 Million
/in Economy, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Elizabeth Troutman The city of Phoenix will offer bonuses up to $2,000 to vaccinated city employees, costing the city between $25 million to $29 million. The Phoenix City Council voted, 6-3, this week to approve the bonuses, which will go out to full and part-time employees by Jan. 18. City employees who do not […]
Fake Students, Vacations for Random Koreans, and Fattening Up Eels: Rand Paul Exposes 8 Insane Ways the Feds Wasted Our Money in 2021
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Yet again, taxpayers are footing the bill for some truly crazy expenditures. Every holiday season, Senator Rand Paul honors the fictional Seinfeld holiday “Festivus,” an annual airing of grievances, with a report exposing how the federal government wastes taxpayers’ money. The libertarian-leaning Kentucky Republican just released his latest report for […]
A Black Heretic on the Church of CRT
/in Economy, Education, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni A review of Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America ________________________________________________________ Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, by John McWhorter, Portfolio/Penguin, 2021, 201 pages. ________________________________________________________ John McWhorter says some important things about wokeness and critical race theory in this book, and as a black […]
Reasons for Optimism – America Is Waking Up
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel For an American from the Conservative or Libertarian side of the spectrum, the last few years have been a difficult period. While the seeds were planted years ago, we saw the full blooming of “Cultural Marxism” in the US, influencing almost all of our institutions ranging from major news networks, social media […]
Electric Vehicle Inanities, Insanities and Incoherence
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni The only green in the new Rivian truck is if it comes in that color. For Americans in the upper percentiles of income, education, social awareness, and environmental awareness, electric vehicles (EVs) have become the latest status symbol, virtue signal, and silver bullet (green bullet?) for reducing global warming. This suggests that […]
Ducey Quietly Bans All Public Worker Vaccination Mandates
/in Economy, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cole Lauterbach In an unannounced executive order regarding enhanced monitoring of COVID-19 metrics, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey banned public employers from requiring a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment. The order, signed Wednesday, primarily reactivates the state’s “enhanced surveillance advisory,” which requires most hospitals to provide consistent updates on ventilators, ICU beds, inpatient […]
FLORIDA: Governor DeSantis Vows ‘We Will Not Let Anybody Lock’ Floridians Down or ‘Take Their Jobs’
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Under Governor DeSantis, the state of Florida is the envy of the country. Everyone and their mother wants to move there. And for good reason. People want freedom, safety, and prosperity. Everything that Florida represents today. We love President Trump, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine Governor DeSantis not […]