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by OLIVIA RONDEAU at breitbart.com The nationwide rent average has shot up by 23 percent under the Biden-Harris administration, new Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows. After President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office in January 2021, the CPI across all urban renters rose slightly by […]
by Dominic Gates at seattletimes.com Boeing on Monday announced internally a series of sweeping cost-cutting moves in response to the Machinists strike, and said it may temporarily lay off some employees, including managers and executives. According to three sources, Boeing laid off dozens of engineering contractors, mostly experienced retirees who had returned to help Boeing […]
by DAVID NG at breitbart.com The Walt Disney Company reportedly made a conscious effort to make Pixar’s Inside Out 2 “less gay” following the box-office failure of Lightyear, with studio executives blaming the latter movie’s much-discussed same-sex kiss for turning away audiences. The result: Inside Out 2 was a box-office hit, bringing in more than $652 million domestically this summer. […]
by Paul Homewood at wattsupwiththat.com Scotland’s last remaining oil refinery – Grangemouth – is to shut, we learned last week, with the loss of 400 jobs. The plant – co-owned by Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos – is closing due to the UK’s incoming ban on new petrol and diesel cars to hit net zero targets. Grangemouth produces most […]
by TYLER DURDEN at zerohedge.com Six years ago, when we first described Goldman’s catastrophic foray into consumer banking, we joked that the Goldman of 2008 would be shorting the Goldman of 2018 for that ridiculous idea. Fast forward to today when the joke is indeed on Goldman, and the bank’s losses on its now defunct […]
CNN ‘Journalist’ Gets Earful After Trying to Explain ‘What Happened to the Great Shoplifting Crisis’
by Stacey Matthews at legalinsurrection.com When all else fails, you can always count on CNN to beclown itself on any given day of the week, providing us with fresh reminders of why their ratings remain in the tank even after the numerous layoffs, line-up shuffles, and “leadership” changes they’ve made over the last several years. These reminders often involve reporting by Jim […]
via ftc.gov Newly released Federal Trade Commission data show that consumers reported losing more than $10 billion to fraud in 2023, marking the first time that fraud losses have reached that benchmark. This marks a 14% increase over reported losses in 2022. Consumers reported losing more money to investment scams—more than $4.6 billion—than any other category in […]
by David Wojick at wattsupwiththat.com California has adopted a target of 25,000 MW of floating offshore wind generation capacity. Of course, the cost is never mentioned, so here is a rough estimate to get the ball rolling. The estimate begins with the huge Dominion Energy (DOM) fixed wind project currently under construction off of Virginia. […]
by NICK POPE at dailycaller.com The Texas billionaire owner of a major pipeline company is on the precipice of potentially bankrupting Greenpeace USA, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Kelcy Warren’s company, Energy Transfer, is seeking legal recourse against Greenpeace’s American arm in court, alleging that several Greenpeace USA entities paid for attacks against […]
by Warner Todd Huston at lidblog.com Another giant retail chain has announced it is going into bankruptcy as Bidenomics continues to take a toll of this country. This time it is the discount retail store Big Lots which filed for bankruptcy citing high inflation and ruinous interest rates. Per Just The News: The company is filing […]