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Well well well You can take the kid outa Jersey but you can't take the Jersey out of the kid. Way to go, Cory!

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Interesting that Senate D leaders agreed to schedule the tariff repudiation vote for when Whitehouse was known to be away, possible maneuvering for leadership roles afoot? Or just incompetence as usual?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

What's ironic about Hegseth's reforms to the Pentagon is that he is simultaneously modeling it after the new Ukrainian military whilst cutting them off at the knees. Chee, t'anks!

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

"Attempts to investigate Hezbollah’s role in storing the explosives at the civilian site have been repeatedly stymied by politicians and other figures connected to the terror group." www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-us...

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104% tariffs on Chinese goods go into effect tomorrow. Let's see how Fox News is covering the story.

submitted 50 days ago • 407 comments

"As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working-class hero is something to be... Then they expect you to pick a career When you can't really function you're so full of fear A working-class hero is..."

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Ok what’s going on here? Yields are going up which means bond prices are going down. Fewer buyers of the world’s safest asset. Normally when the economy slows, there’s a flight to safety, not away from it. Means the world may be abandoning America. We are flirting with a true crisis.

submitted 50 days ago • 428 comments

Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.

submitted 50 days ago • 100 comments

BREAKING: Speaker Hakeem Jeffries just threw DOWN the gauntlet—challenging Trump’s little Johnson to a one-on-one debate TOMORROW on the GOP’s extremist budget. Let’s see if MAGA’s puppet has the guts to defend cuts to seniors, vets, & working families. We. The. People. Are. Watching.

submitted 50 days ago • 86 comments

YARDENI: “.. Trump administration officials have been taking credit for the recent drop in bond yields .. Unfortunately, the 10-year .. yield is up .. to 4.36% this evening! “.. investors may be starting to worry that the Chinese and other foreigners might start selling their US Treasuries.”

submitted 50 days ago • 34 comments

JFC. So far, Trump has caused markets to lose about 14%. Here's how the same period to date looks under other recent presidential terms

submitted 54 days ago • 84 comments

Absorb the sabotage and destruction contained in these two paragraphs www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

submitted 50 days ago • 119 comments

This shows that while all SSA service will decline, it will be older people in red states and rural areas of blue states that suffer most. That's ... not a typical way to treat a key constituency

submitted 50 days ago • 6 comments

Trump's threatening to veto any Congressional control on his tariff policy BUT Senate Democrats could stop the bleeding by using Trump's emergency powers against him as @ddayen.bsky.social explains. Will they??? prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 50 days ago • 18 comments

FUNDSTRAT tonight: “.. in the last few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers. .. A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”

submitted 50 days ago • 1495 comments

Always watch the bond markets

submitted 50 days ago • 9 comments

Downfall parody time

submitted 50 days ago • 72 comments

"As Willie Sutton supposedly said when asked why he robbed banks: “Because that’s where the money is.” Social Security is 22 percent of the federal budget — and that’s more than 20 times the funds spent on foreign aid." wapo.st/424Mkdm

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Incredible. There has been a 144 seat swing in the Canadian seat projections in just *four months*. Has there ever been a rally-round-the-flag/leader like it?

submitted 50 days ago • 15 comments

The Dow closed at 43,480 on the final day of Biden's presidency. Today it closed at 37,646

submitted 50 days ago • 29 comments

Martin Wolf is not messing around here www.ft.com/content/d96d...

submitted 50 days ago • 81 comments

ah yes, coal companies, famously in need of pro bono representation

submitted 50 days ago • 31 comments

I can’t believe I’m saying this but it appears there’s no other way to put it: Elon Musk is essentially running the IRS.

submitted 50 days ago • 20 comments