Nearly half of small businesses can’t pay the rent in Joe Biden’s miracle economy.

Small businesses employ 62 million Americans — nearly half. And they account for 2/3 of new jobs over the past 25 years. Basically, big business outsources and replaces workers with machines,…

CHINA’S GOLD-BUYING SPREE COULD BE THE STRAW THAT BREAKS THE DOLLAR’S BACK (MSN)

Some commentators have spent decades predicting the imminent demise of the US dollar’s special status as the world’s international reserve currency.

Eventually, they will be right, and that day may…

TAXPAYERS ARE SUBSIDIZING COLLEGE EXTREMISM (The Daily Signal)

Mohamed Abdou is a pro-Hamas “anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization” at Columbia…

‘SOCIAL SECURITY IS BROKE BEYOND BELIEF’: ECONOMIST SAYS THE US RETIREMENT SAFETY NET IS FULL OF HOLES (Moneywise)

Many Americans aren’t saving enough for retirement — and they’re relying on Social Security benefits to get by in retirement. But that may not be a sound strategy.…

INFLATION IS SCRAMBLING AMERICANS' PERCEPTIONS OF MIDDLE CLASS LIFE (Markets Insider)

It was a dream when he was younger — once he was making six figures, he assumed he'd be in financial nirvana, worry-free, off on vacation somewhere at least once a year, perhaps able to buy a…

CHIEF ECONOMIST STUMPED IN ATTEMPT TO CLARIFY MONETARY FUNCTIONING UNDER BIDEN (MSN)

In a recent, unsettling moment captured during an interview for the upcoming documentary 'Finding The Money,' Jared Bernstein, the Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to President Joe…

France sends combat troops to Ukraine battlefront (Asia Times)

France has sent its first troops officially to Ukraine. They have been deployed in support of the Ukrainian 54th Independent Mechanized Brigade in Slavyansk. The French soldiers are drawn from France’s 3rd Infantry…

HERE'S HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO RENT A 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT ACROSS 10 MAJOR CITIES IN ASIA (CNBC)

Renting a place is a big financial decision, especially when choosing to live in a major city where price tags are particularly hefty.

The general rule of thumb is to spend no more than…

NO, DEMONSTRATIONS TODAY AREN’T LIKE THE 1960S (The Daily Signal)

The current demonstrations on college campuses against Israel remind some of the unrest on college campuses during the 1960s.

But the comparison is not a good one.

The unrest of the 1960s was defined by the war…

Pure bloods with unvaccinated sperm … this is your future.

CAN THE CURRENT UNIVERSITIES BE SAVED? SHOULD THEY BE? (The Daily Signal)

By Victor Davis Hanson

Elite higher education in America—long unquestioned as globally preeminent—is facing a perfect storm.

Fewer applicants, higher costs, impoverished students, collapsing standards,…

BIDENOMICS IS KILLING THE AMERICAN DREAM OF OWNING YOUR OWN HOUSE NATIONWIDE (TWJ)

Joe Biden's economy is having a serious negative impact all across the country and as prices on everything we need skyrocket, the dream of owning a home is slipping away.

A new study, for…

SOARING INSURANCE COSTS COULD FINALLY PUT A LID ON HOME PRICES, REAL ESTATE EXPERTS SAY (Market Insider)

When mortgage rates started to spike in 2022, the thinking was that higher borrowing costs would put a lid on prices, which had spiraled endlessly upward since the pandemic…

NORTHROP'S COLOSSAL MANTA RAY UNDERWATER DRONE PASSES AT-SEA TESTS (Defense News)

Northrop Grumman's massive Manta Ray underwater test bed completed at-sea trials this year, validating its ability to operate below the waves and with minimal human contact.

In a photo first…

Exactly, we should encourage people to use and see technology as a production multiplier and not as a competitor.

Federal debt has flatlined b/c Treasury is working through the flood of cash that came in on Apr 15th, but it's drying up fast - the TGA is down $90 billion in the last 2 days alone...

EXCLUSIVE: INSIDE THE MILITARY'S SECRET UNDERCOVER ARMY (Newsweek)

The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low…

HERE’S HOW MUCH AMERICANS THINK THEY DESERVE TO BE PAID — AND IT’S LIKELY IMPOSSIBLE (NYP)

Time is money. Lots and lots of money.

A recent survey asked more than 2,000 Americans the precise dollar amount they feel an hour of their time is worth — and it rivals executive…

HOSPITALS NO LONGER REQUIRED TO REPORT COVID-19 DATA TO CDC (Fierce Healthcare)

Hospitals are off the hook for data reporting requirements that have been in place since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Per guidance documents from the Department for Health and Human…

STARBUCKS IS RUNNING OUT OF AMERICANS TO DRINK ITS EXPENSIVE COFFEE (WSJ)

Pork latte, anyone?

To Americans, who still get excited for pumpkin spice season, the beverage Starbucks tested in China recently sounds over the top. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and…