After a week of predictable drama, President Joe Biden signed a government funding bill on Saturday, averting yet another government shutdown because of our government’s terminal addiction to spending money we don’t have. As we noted earlier, the package limps the government along to March 14, when this is Trump’s problem, and includes $100 billion […]

Update (2000ET): Germans took to the streets on Saturday night in Magdeburg to protest a deadly Christmas Market attack carried out by a 50-year-old immigrant from Saudi Arabia. The car-ramming attack on Friday night claimed five lives and left 200 people injured. 🇩🇪German media is LYING about the Christmas market attack🇩🇪 They try to convince […]

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A third blood pressure medication was recalled across the United States in the past several weeks, according to a notice updated on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) website on Dec. 16. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in White Oak, Md., on […]

Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, Wrapping your head around Bitcoin’s inexorable rise. In every issue of The Bitcoin Capitalist there is a section called “This Month’s FUD”, where I look at the “Death of Bitcoin” narratives that emerged over the last few weeks and mercilessly debunked them. It’s not hard, because most, if not […]

Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The University of Delaware on Dec. 16 settled with NASA after allegedly failing to disclose a professor’s ties to and support from the Chinese regime. In 2020, NASA awarded the university a grant to establish a research center focused on the use of satellites to […]

On Friday we featured a tongue-in-cheek headline, but which is sadly all too literal and true: Syrian Leader With $10M Bounty On His Head Meets With Delegation From Country That Put The $10M Bounty On His Head. US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf led the delegation along with Daniel Rubenstein, […]

Authored by Bradley Smith via RealClearPolitics, The reelection of President Donald Trump could serve as a historic turning point for free speech in America. President Trump has said he will investigate censorship practices by the federal government, end the rampant disrespect for First Amendment rights on our college campuses, and take on Big Tech’s Orwellian […]

Starting weeks ago Washington had threatened the Republic of Georgia with “consequences” amid accusations of rigged elections, after the ‘Russia friendly’ Georgian Dream Party swept parliamentary elections. And this month, 53-year old Mikheil Kavelashvili of Georgian Dream party was named president after 224 out of 225 members of Georgia’s electoral college voted him in (which the […]

Although costs vary from family to family, two working parents spend an average of around $23,000 per year raising one child in the United States. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, illustrates the cost of raising a child by state, based on data compiled by SmartAsset as of February 2024. Methodology SmartAsset used the MIT Living Wage Calculator […]

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Powell & A Government Shutdown Hits Stocks Last week, we noted the ongoing market churn that could last into this week’s Fed meeting. To wit: “That certainly seemed the case this past week, with the market trading being fairly sloppy. Attempts to push the market higher were repeatedly met with […]