Parker Thayer appeared on the Ruthless podcast to discuss Everybody Votes, a $100 million voter registration campaign originally proposed by the Wyss Foundation and pushed by John Podesta. In the 2020 election cycle, Everybody Votes essentially functioned as a tax-exempt Democratic political action committee in running a voter registration campaign designed to target predominantly Democratic…
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Ford Motor Company Is a Trending Stock: Facts to Know Before Betting on It
Ford Motor Company (F) is one of the stocks most watched by Zacks.com visitors lately. So, it might be a good idea to review some of the factors that might affect the near-term performance of the stock. Over the past month, shares of this company have returned +3.2%, compared to the Zacks S&P 500 composite’s…
4 Stocks to Watch in a Challenging Technology Solutions Industry
Players in the Zacks Computer – Integrated Systems industry are grappling with lingering supply-chain bottlenecks. A challenging macroeconomic landscape with rising inflation is also a concern. Soaring prices and persistent delays in customer acceptance have resulted in high levels of backlog and cast a pall on the industry’s prospects. Nonetheless, International Business Machines IBM, Hewlett…
Dive Into Dividends: Top 5 Bargain Growth Stocks to Buy
Volatility and uncertainty in the stock market have taken the front seat in recent weeks on worries over higher interest rates for longer time. In such a scenario, dividend investing seems to be a prudent option to fight the current market turmoil. Though dividend-paying stocks don’t offer dramatic price appreciation, they provide a consistent income…
Energy Market Volatility Bothers You? Watch These 3 Stocks
The initial pandemic period, when there were no vaccines, saw an environment of heightened uncertainties. The price of crude oil plunged to a negative $36.98 per barrel on Apr 20, 2020. However, with the rapid developments of vaccines, which led to the gradual opening of the economies, the pricing scenario of West Texas Intermediate crude…
5 Stocks Favored by Brokers Amid the Current Turbulence
U.S. stock markets have been gripped by volatility since August after an impressive performance in the first seven months of the year. Inflation remains hot and the related concerns of an economic slowdown have gained ground lately, leading to the turbulence. Though the Fed did not hike interest rates in September, Fed Chair Jerome Powell…
Zacks Industry Outlook Highlights Walmart and Kroger
Zacks Equity Research discusses Walmart Inc. WMT and The Kroger Co. KR. Industry: Supermarkets Link: https://www.zacks.com/commentary/2155281/2-supermarket-stocks-to-watch-on-robust-industry-trends Players in the Zacks Retail – Supermarkets industry have been benefiting from their constant efforts to improve store and online operations. Companies are committed to improving delivery and payment options and strengthening assortments. That said, increased technological investments and…
5 Restaurant Stocks to Buy Ahead of the Holiday Season
September is turning out to be the most volatile month year to date. However, this is no surprise as this month is historically known as the worst-performing on Wall Street. In fact, this year, the impressive bull run after a highly disappointing 2022 ended in August. Market participants dilemma about the Fed’s future course of…
Goldman Sachs Reiterates Public Storage Buy Recommendation
Fintel reports that on September 27, 2023, Goldman Sachs reiterated coverage of Public Storage. (NYSE:PSA) with a Buy recommendation. Analyst Price Forecast Suggests 30.97% Upside As of August 31, 2023, the average one-year price target for Public Storage. is 345.67. The forecasts range from a low of 308.05 to a high of $385.35. The average…
Zacks Investment Ideas feature highlights: Pioneer Natural Resources, EOG Resources and ConocoPhilli
Zacks Investment Ideas feature Pioneer Natural Resources PXD, EOG Resources EOG and ConocoPhillips COP. Tap into Energy Momentum with These 3 Stocks The Zacks Oils and Energy sector has displayed notable relative strength over the last three months, adding +12% compared to the S&P 500’s modest gain. Rising energy prices have helped shift sentiment, with…
Culinary And Bartenders Unions Authorize Vegas-Wide Strike Across 22 Casinos And Resorts
Culinary And Bartenders Unions Authorize Vegas-Wide Strike Across 22 Casinos And Resorts Tis the season to strike. Following President Biden’s unprecedented visit to the picket lines of United Auto Workers in Michigan on Tuesday afternoon, by night, tens of thousands of members of the Culinary and Bartenders Unions in Las Vegas voted by 95% to authorize a strike against…
If China Is So Weak, Why Are Commodities So Strong?
If China Is So Weak, Why Are Commodities So Strong? By Ye Xie, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist The decline in China’s home construction has been remarkable, almost rivaling the US housing crisis of 2008. It raises the question: Why are commodity prices so resilient if one of the biggest buyers is in malaise?…
Why the “Just Wage” Theory Doesn’t Make Much Sense
Just-wage theory tells us that an employer cannot reduce his workers’ wages below some presumed “cost of living.” Yet, that same employer can be permitted to reduce the worker’s wage to zero if the worker has been replaced by a machine. Original Article: Why the “Just Wage” Theory Doesn’t Make Much Sense Click this link for the original source of…
The Dangerous Myth of a “Soft Landing”
If we search the news from 2007, we can find plenty of headlines with the IMF and the Federal Reserve predicting a soft landing. No one seemed to worry about rising imbalances. The main reason is that market participants and economists like to believe that the central bank will manage the economy as if it were a car. The current…
100s Of Pages Of Newly Released Memos Spark Fresh Corruption Charges Ahead Of 1st Biden Impeachment Inquiry Hearing
100s Of Pages Of Newly Released Memos Spark Fresh Corruption Charges Ahead Of 1st Biden Impeachment Inquiry Hearing Mountains of evidence released by House Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee today point to a decade and more of influence peddling and financial fraud involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and brother, James, and multiple business…
Watch Live: DeSantis’ Last Stand In Second GOP Primary Debate (Ex-Trump)
Watch Live: DeSantis’ Last Stand In Second GOP Primary Debate (Ex-Trump) Ding, Ding, Round Two! But once again, there’s no real contender as former President Trump heads to Detroit, skipping the second Republican presidential nominee debate tonight at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. You can’t really blame him, given his position…
Musk Says COVID Shot “Almost Sent Me To Hospital”, Says He’d Go To Prison Before Firing Workers For Refusing Jab
Musk Says COVID Shot “Almost Sent Me To Hospital”, Says He’d Go To Prison Before Firing Workers For Refusing Jab Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Elon Musk on Tuesday revealed that he took multiple COVID-19 vaccines so that he could travel during the period of intense pandemic restrictions and that…
CRITICAL ALERT!
Lions and friends… It has come to my attention that there is a person, or persons, using FB Messenger contacting people who follow my work impersonating me. THIS IS A SCAMMER! I do not use FB, or FB Messenger. I would NEVER reach out to any of you just out of the blue. THAT should…
Mitsubishi Is Pulling Out Of China’s Auto Market
Mitsubishi Is Pulling Out Of China’s Auto Market We have been writing over the last few months about increased competition in China’s EV market and (most recently) about intense EU scrutiny over Chinese subsidies, which the EU claims is mucking up its electric vehicle market by driving prices lower. Now, one Japanese automaker is backing…
DC Appeals Court Refuses To Release Pro-Life Campaigner During Appeal
DC Appeals Court Refuses To Release Pro-Life Campaigner During Appeal Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal appeals court has denied pro-life campaigner Lauren Handy’s emergency motion to be released from custody pending her appeal. Left-wing pro-life protester Lauren Handy, the director of activism with Progressive Pro-Life Uprising, protests outside…
Trudeau Apologizes To Zelensky & Canadian Public For NaziGate, Quietly Tells MPs Don’t Speak About It
Trudeau Apologizes To Zelensky & Canadian Public For NaziGate, Quietly Tells MPs Don’t Speak About It Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday issued formal apology to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over what’s coming to be known as the ‘NaziGate’ scandal. He indicated that this apology was sent through diplomatic channels. Trudeau confirmed this in a press conference regarding…
What Happens To Social Security Payments If The Government Shuts Down?
What Happens To Social Security Payments If The Government Shuts Down? Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The looming government shutdown has some Americans worried about what would happen to their Social Security payments if the end-of-the-month deadline passes with no resolution to the gridlock in Washington and parts of the…
CIA Building Own ChatGPT-style AI Bot In Shadow Of China’s Advances
CIA Building Own ChatGPT-style AI Bot In Shadow Of China’s Advances The US Central Intelligence Agency’s Open-Source Enterprise division will soon roll out with a ChatGPT-like large language model (LLM), which is to serve as a tool for federal and intelligence agencies to more easily and quickly access intel and information. Director of the CIA’s…
Meat From Animals Vaccinated With mRNA Vaccines May Soon Make Its Way Into The US Food Supply
Meat From Animals Vaccinated With mRNA Vaccines May Soon Make Its Way Into The US Food Supply Authored by Megan Redshaw via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Shrimp have become the latest addition to a growing list of food sources targeted by mRNA gene therapy technology. An Israeli company seeking to bring mRNA vaccines to…
Mayo Clinic Nuclear Weapons Hydroxychloroquine Information Page After People Take Notice
Mayo Clinic Nuclear Weapons Hydroxychloroquine Information Page After People Take Notice One day after the Mayo Clinic’s endorsement of Hydroxychloroquine was highlighted for use in Covid-19 patients, they scrubbed the page and then blamed a 3rd party vendor for supplying the information. The original page read: “Hydroxychloroquine may be used to treat coronavirus (COVID-19) in certain…
Holy Cow, They’re Naked!
This post Holy Cow, They’re Naked! appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Mr. Warren Buffett — Omaha’s sage: “A rising tide floats all boats….Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” How many presently wade waist-deep without swim trunks? We do not know precisely. Yet we hazard the number is vast….
Food Stamp Program Losing $1 Billion Every Month To Alleged Fraud, Errors: Sen. Ernst
Food Stamp Program Losing $1 Billion Every Month To Alleged Fraud, Errors: Sen. Ernst Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. food stamp program is losing around $1 billion a month owing to alleged fraud and errors, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has warned. A sign alerting customers about SNAP food…
“Highly Likely”: China’s ‘Batwoman’ Warns Of New COVID Outbreak
“Highly Likely”: China’s ‘Batwoman’ Warns Of New COVID Outbreak Shi Zhengli, the Peter Daszak collaborator whose Wuhan virus database was altered 48 hours before the Chinese government ordered virus samples destroyed in the early days of the pandemic, and whose team was using genetic engineering to create ‘chimeric SARS-like viruses to test on humanized mice‘…
10 Numbers Which Prove That The U.S. Economy Has Hit A Major Pivot Point
During the summer, many of the experts repeatedly assured us that the U.S. economy would be able to avoid a recession, but now reality is setting in. Credit conditions continue to tighten, home sales are falling, credit card losses are exploding, stores are closing all over the country, and the number of bankruptcies is rising…
Background for Tonight’s Republican Debate
You don’t have to study federal budget data closely to know that the only way to reduce the huge budget deficits over the next 10 years, while avoiding tax increases, is to cut the growth rate of spending. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that federal spending in 2023 will come in at a whopping 24.2…
Some People Are TRULY Twisted…
Lions and friends… I want to share this with you. Here @truetranny made this comment to me, (below), after I posted about losing my dog Dolly, with my response. Here below is a link to @truetranny, realtranny, just in case you have something you would like to say back . Click this link for the…
Pritzker’s Illinois: Nation’s Worst State To Own A Home
Pritzker’s Illinois: Nation’s Worst State To Own A Home Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org, Gov. J.B. Pritzker promised to cut property taxes in 2020, part of his State of the State speech. Even then he recognized that those taxes, some of the nation’s highest for decades, were a real drag on Illinois…
Pritzker’s Illinois: Nation’s Worst State To Own A Home
Pritzker’s Illinois: Nation’s Worst State To Own A Home Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org, Gov. J.B. Pritzker promised to cut property taxes in 2020, part of his State of the State speech. Even then he recognized that those taxes, some of the nation’s highest for decades, were a real drag on Illinois…
25 Irreplaceable Cultural Treasures Destroyed Forever by War
The destruction of cultural artifacts, heritage sites, and historical records such as temples, statues, museums, and libraries is among the many immeasurable tragedies of war. While cultural sites are often inadvertently destroyed during bombings, it is also common for these symbols and heritage sites to be targeted during war. For example, it was Hitler’s decision…
White House Spokesman Lies, Has Meltdown Over Hunter Biden’s $260K Chinese Wires
White House Spokesman Lies, Has Meltdown Over Hunter Biden’s $260K Chinese Wires In the wake of yesterday’s announcement by the House Oversight Committee that Hunter Biden used his dad’s Delaware address – the one with all those classified documents – to receive $260,000 in Chinese wires, White House spokesman for ‘oversight and investigations’ Ian Sams…
White House Spokesman Lies, Has Meltdown Over Hunter Biden’s $260K Chinese Wires
White House Spokesman Lies, Has Meltdown Over Hunter Biden’s $260K Chinese Wires In the wake of yesterday’s announcement by the House Oversight Committee that Hunter Biden used his dad’s Delaware address – the one with all those classified documents – to receive $260,000 in Chinese wires, White House spokesman for ‘oversight and investigations’ Ian Sams…
LIVE. Critical Updates! Risk In This Market Is Now EXTREME! Its Time To TAKE ACTION. Mannarino
Lions and Friends, please support my work. Choose either PayPal, Click: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/GregoryMannarino Or Use STRIPE, Click: https://buy.stripe.com/28o15F82aeQwcCc7ss WANT TO SUPPORT MY WORK WITH CRYPTO? Please click: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/81ce40ab-37d8-45f9-af89-61831978c6eb LINK TO THE MMRI (Mannarino Market Risk Indicator). Click https://traderschoice.net/about-traders-choice Click this link for the original source of this article. Author: Gregory Mannarino This content is courtesy of,…
Timeline: What Did The Feds Not Do About Alleged Biden Family Corruption & When Did They Not Do It?
Timeline: What Did The Feds Not Do About Alleged Biden Family Corruption & When Did They Not Do It? Authored by Ben Weingarten via RealClear Investigations, Nov. 2018-June 2020: Hunter Biden Probe Begins; President Trump Impeached While Pursuing Biden-Ukraine Information; Alleged Justice Department Undermining of Probe Begins June 2020-Dec. 2021: Evidence of Influence-Peddling With Nexus…
Timeline: What Did The Feds Not Do About Alleged Biden Family Corruption & When Did They Not Do It?
Timeline: What Did The Feds Not Do About Alleged Biden Family Corruption & When Did They Not Do It? Authored by Ben Weingarten via RealClear Investigations, Nov. 2018-June 2020: Hunter Biden Probe Begins; President Trump Impeached While Pursuing Biden-Ukraine Information; Alleged Justice Department Undermining of Probe Begins June 2020-Dec. 2021: Evidence of Influence-Peddling With Nexus…
Bonds & Bullion Purged As Crude & King-Dollar Surge Into Qtr-End
Bonds & Bullion Purged As Crude & King-Dollar Surge Into Qtr-End Well that was a day – summarized perfectly by JPM’s head of cash trading Matt Reiner who wrote this morning that “equities are trading as though hope and confidence are dwindling out of the system” before a big squeeze this afternoon slapped some lipstick…
Bonds & Bullion Purged As Crude & King-Dollar Surge Into Qtr-End
Bonds & Bullion Purged As Crude & King-Dollar Surge Into Qtr-End Well that was a day – summarized perfectly by JPM’s head of cash trading Matt Reiner who wrote this morning that “equities are trading as though hope and confidence are dwindling out of the system” before a big squeeze this afternoon slapped some lipstick…
Limitless Money and the Limitless Fed
Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 23, 2023. Click this link for the original source of this article. Author: This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, https://mises.org and its author. This content is made available by use of the public RSS feed offered by the host site and is used for educational…
The Liberty Movement’s Pro-War Fifth Column
Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 23, 2023. Click this link for the original source of this article. Author: This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, https://mises.org and its author. This content is made available by use of the public RSS feed offered by the host site and is used for educational…
Shutdown: Toward The Brink (Or Why This Time Might Be Different)
Shutdown: Toward The Brink (Or Why This Time Might Be Different) Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Should market participants be concerned about the possible government shutdown at midnight on Sept. 30? It’s too soon to answer that question definitively, but it’s not too soon for investors to take some defensive action. If it does…
37 Violent Celebrity Deaths
It’s shocking and oftentimes life-changing when a family member or close friend dies violently. For a celebrity, dying a violent death can be the awful price to pay for fame. To assemble a list of famous people who died violently, 24/7 Tempo reviewed information from Biography, Newsweek, Encyclopedia Britannica, and other media sources. Politicians, royalty,…
All Philly Liquor Stores Closed After Mass Looting
All Philly Liquor Stores Closed After Mass Looting Update (1450ET): The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that all Philadelphia Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores are closed on Wednesday after looters targeted at least 18 locations on Tuesday night. The decision to shutter more than two dozen Fine Wine & Good Spirits locations was “in the interest of…
5 Earnings Reports Due Thursday, September 28
There are 5 earnings reports on the release calendar for Thursday, three before U.S. markets open and two due after markets close. The following table is based on data from Briefing.com and includes a consensus forecast in dollars for quarterly earnings per share and EPS reported last year, and the consensus forecast for quarterly revenue…
Something Deeply Personal I Would Like To Share With You.
Lions and friends… I consider us a worldwide family, and with that, I want to share things with you, deeply personal things. As most of you know, my dog Dolly passed last week, she was ill with cancer and was suffering towards the end- losing Dolly broke my heart, and I miss her terribly. Yesterday,…
BIG Shout Out To LAVA NEWS!
Lions and friends… Most of you know Lava News, (Lava Girl), at least I hope you do! Her work is noteworthy and absolutely worth paying attention to. If you haven’t yet, be sure to subscribe to her channel. Click on the picture below. Click this link for the original source of this article. Author: Gregory…
US Shale Giant Agrees With JPMorgan: Oil Headed For $150
US Shale Giant Agrees With JPMorgan: Oil Headed For $150 Slowly but surely, the market is waking up to a jarring realization: the price of oil is now higher than where it was a year ago, and also where it was right before the start of the Ukraine war, but in the meantime the Biden…
Strong 5Y Auction Prices At Highest Yield Since Summer Of 2007
Strong 5Y Auction Prices At Highest Yield Since Summer Of 2007 The last time a 5Y auction priced here, quants suffered a historical meltdown. We are of course talking about the summer of 2007, and just like then, moments ago the 5Y auction priced at a high yield of 4.659%, and up 16bps from August….