Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Lockdown Advocate Admits Negative Impacts Were Never Considered
May 13th, 2022Via: Summit News: A professor who advocated for longer lockdowns in his role as a SAGE government advisor now admits that the negative impacts of lockdowns were never included in SAGE modeling and that they should have been. Professor John Edmunds was part of the SAGE team that told the government there would be 6,000 […]
Elon Musk says Twitter Deal Is “Temporarily on Hold”
May 13th, 2022Via: CBS: Elon Musk said Friday that his planned $44 billion purchase of Twitter is “temporarily on hold” pending details on spam and fake accounts on the social media platform, another twist amid signs of internal turmoil over the proposed acquisition. In a tweet, the Tesla billionaire linked to a Reuters story from May 2 […]
Bay Area Housing Crisis: Tiny Bunk Bed ‘Pods’ Offered for $800 a Month
May 12th, 2022Via: SFGate: For $800 a month you could live in a tiny bunk bed-style pod with 13 other roommates in the Bay Area. Eight-month-old startup Brownstone Shared Housing has come under the spotlight this week after an Insider profile on the company revealed what it looks like inside the Palo Alto home with 14 tenants […]
Biden Wanted $33B More For Ukraine. Congress Quickly Raised it to $40B. Who Benefits?
May 11th, 2022Via: Glenn Greenwald: While it is extremely difficult to isolate any benefit to ordinary American citizens from all of this, it requires no effort to see that there is a tiny group of Americans who do benefit greatly from this massive expenditure of funds. That is the industry of weapons manufacturers. So fortunate are they […]
Pranking Scam Call Centers
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$350 Million in Secret Payments to Fauci, Collins, Others at NIH
May 10th, 2022Via: Epoch Times: An estimated $350 million in undisclosed royalties were paid to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and hundreds of its scientists, including the agency’s recently departed director, Dr. Francis Collins, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, according to a nonprofit government watchdog. “We estimate that up to $350 million in royalties from third parties […]
U.S. Gasoline Prices Hit Record And Peak Driving Season Has Yet To Come
May 10th, 2022Via:: ZeroHedge: U.S. retail gasoline and diesel prices at the pump hit a new record, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA). Soaring fuel prices come three weeks before the summer driving season begins, a challenge for the Biden administration and Federal Reserve as they combat the highest inflation in four decades. Across the board, […]
Florida: “Victims of Communism Day”
May 10th, 2022It’s a start. “Victims of Governments Day,” would be better. Via: Miami Herald: Public school teachers in Florida will soon be required to dedicate at least 45 minutes of instruction on “Victims of Communism Day” to teach students about communist leaders around the world and how people suffered under those regimes. Speaking at Miami’s Freedom […]
Sweden Pandemic Deaths Among Lowest In Europe — All While Avoiding Strict Lockdowns
May 9th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: Sweden logged one of the lowest Covid-19 death rates in Europe, all while avoiding strict economy-killing lockdowns that led to economic chaos across the world, the Telegraph reports, citing new figures from the World Health Organization. Sweden, which was criticised in the early stages of the pandemic for resisting a mandatory lockdown, had […]
Spring Wheat Hits 14-Year High On World War 3 & Weather Woes
May 9th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: A combination of delayed plantings in Northern U.S. Plains and Canada due to soggy weather, a dry spell in Western Europe, chaos in Ukraine, and severe weather in India, have disrupted global wheat markets, sending prices in Minneapolis to the highest levels since 2008. Spring wheat is used to make bagels, pizza crust, […]
