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The Federal Reserve’s interest rate rise from 0.25% to 4% was remarkable, but not because the 3.75% increase was historically large or fast. Unlike times past, rates had to climb out of a 0% basement. With that accomplished, we can now view 4% as the new ground level – the place from which the interest rate rising begins to bite.

Why is 4% a…[Read more]

“This is a day of optimism and hope for over 40,000 people who have called on the DOJ to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster, a corporation that has bent and broken the industry to its will since its entities merged in 2010.”

by Kenny Stancil

A coalition of anti-monopoly advocates cheered Friday after reporting confirmed that the U.S.…[Read more]

Now that Republicans have taken the House, President Joe Biden’s agenda is likely going to stall over the next two years of his term – at least the more ambitious parts of it.

“I’m proud to announce the era of one-party Democrat rule in Washington is over,” California GOP Leader McCarthy declared after winning the nomination from his caucus…[Read more]

If approved, it would bring total US spending on the war in Ukraine to about $105 billion

by Dave DeCamp

The White House on Tuesday asked Congress to approve $37.7 billion in new aid for Ukraine, which would bring total US spending on the war to about $105 billion.

According to The Hill, the request includes $21.7 billion in military aid for…[Read more]

Poster’s Note: This video is 1 hour 50 minutes long. So get yourself a snack, a drink and a comfortable chair. There are two parts. The first part should have been named, ‘If war is politics by other means, nuclear war is nice knowing you, smell you later!’ The second part needed to be called, ‘Oil can be called black gold, yet like King Midas,…[Read more]

The arrest of Italian neo-Nazis affiliated with the Ukrainian Azov Battalion highlights the terrifying potential for blowback from the Ukraine proxy war

by Alexander Rubinstein

Italian police announced a series of raids against the neo-Nazi Order of Hagal organization. Accused of stockpiling weapons and planning terror attacks, the group has…[Read more]