Following the collapse of First Republic last week, the meltdown of three other banks, and the Federal Reserve's quarter-point increase, making the tenth straight hike in an aggressive campaign to tame elevated inflation, a professor of finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business presented a grim warning that the regional banking dominos are falling.
In a New York Times opinion piece titled "Yes, You Should Be Worried About a Potential Bank Crisis. Here's Why," Professor Amit Seru wrote, "the fragility and collapse of several high-profile banks are most likely not an isolated phenomenon." He said, "A damaging combination of fast-rising interest rates, major changes in work patterns, and the potential of a recession could prompt a credit crunch not seen since the 2008 financial crisis."...
President Joe Biden can be impeached for bribery, one of the two offenses specifically mentioned in Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution.
The bribery does not — as Democrats reminded us smugly during the Trump impeachments — need to reach a criminal standard. It simply needs to be plain enough to make a plausible case — and we reached that level long ago, even before this week’s bombshell from the House Oversight Committee.
Amid rampant corruption in Kiev and as US troops gather at the Ukrainian border, does the Biden administration have an endgame to the conflict?
"...It is unknown how much the Zelensky government is paying per gallon for the fuel, but the Pentagon was paying as much as $400 per gallon to transport gasoline from a port in Pakistan, via truck or parachute, into Afghanistan during the decades-long American war there.
What also is unknown is that Zelensky has been buying the fuel from Russia, the country with which it, and Washington, are at war, and the Ukrainian president and many in his entourage have been skimming untold millions from the American dollars earmarked for diesel fuel payments.
One estimate by analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency put the embezzled funds at $400 million last year, at least...
Harry S. Truman (U.S.) 1884 - 33rd president of the United States
1847 - The rubber tire was patented by Robert W. Thompson.
1886 - Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called"Coca-Cola."
1943 - The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.
1945 - U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.
1956 - Alfred E. Neuman appeared on the cover of "Mad Magazine" for the first time.
1958 - U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
1959 - Mike and Marian Ilitch founded "Little Caesars Pizza Treat".
1985 - "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.
A transgender lifeguard applicant — a female who identifies as male — exposed "bare breasts" in front of "several dozen children" at a pool in Jacksonville, Florida, last week, WJAX-TV reported.
What are the details?
The station said the incident occurred at Cecil Aquatic Center during a group tryout for the lifeguard position and that the city received complaints.
"...On some occasions, the civilization fell apart in hours like Pompeii or through several years of economic crisis.
The collapse of these past empires was due to four major factors: political issues, social and cultural issues, environmental issues, and economic issues...
In 1972 MIT study, a team of researchers studied the risks of a doomsday scenario, examining the restricted availability of natural resources and the rising costs that would subvert the possibility of economic growth in the second decade of the 21st century.
So, is it true that our civilization is headed towards economic collapse?
"More than 60 aircraft will appear in the flypast celebrating the Coronation of King Charles in London on Saturday." "Prince Charles III of Great Britain was quoted to the BBC as saying, "If we go on exploiting the way we are, whatever we do to nature -- however much we pollute her, we do it to ourselves. It is insanity."
If CO2 really were a pollutant, particulate, a GHG that's responsible for [nonexistent] 'anthropogenic CO2 based 'global warming'' induced 'climate change' they insist is threatening coastal cities with rising sea water levels, then surely the 'Defender of Faiths' soon to be coronated King Charles III would pass on the multi-aircraft flypasts, no?
And additionally, wouldn't there be clear documented evidence for AGW induced ocean sea level rises worldwide that supports the Vatican's Crown claim that maintains that burger eating minivan driving soccer moms are threatening coastal cities with flooding?
The Biden Department of Justice and the FBI are reportedly in possession of a document that details a possible "criminal scheme" involving then-Vice President Joe Biden's collusion with a foreign national.
According to a reportedly reputable whistleblower, the document in question allegedly provides specific details about how Biden did the bidding of a foreign national, delivering requested policy decisions in exchange for cash.
Catch up fast: Proposition A would amend the city charter to:
Prevent officers from investigating abortions. (Illegal in TX)
Halt citations and arrests for low-level marijuana possession. (Illegal in TX)
Ban police chokeholds and no-knock warrants.
Expand the city's cite-and-release policy to direct officers to cite, not arrest, people for certain nonviolent misdemeanor offenses, including some theft offenses.
Create a justice director position for the city, a person who hasn't worked in law enforcement and would oversee criminal justice policies...
The other side: The police union and local business leaders oppose the measure. They have focused on the cite-and-release expansion, not the abortion component, saying it will increase crime by emboldening people who won't be arrested.
The cite-and-release expansionincludes theft under $750 and graffiti damages less than $2,500. Opponents say small businesses would be the victims.
Zoom out: Proposition A opposition taps into voters' crime fears. It's a similar strategy that candidates used in the Chicago mayoral race this year.
An election software company based in Michigan sued an election integrity watchdog group and its leaders last year for defamation over claims it had conspired with the Chinese Communist Party and subverted American elections.
After months of denial and litigation, the company has withdrawn it suit.
"Another act to subdue an aggressive mentally ill man leads to another George Floyd media-leftist whitewash of the perpetrator and this time, I think it will not work.
“Democrats turned subways into hell and now give good citizens the choice between being the victim of a lunatic who kills them or a lunatic justice system that punishes anyone who stands up to the psychos.
"It’s called anarcho-tyranny.“
Let’s review the comparison. Jordan Neely had a long criminal record -- 42 arrests. He threatened passengers who made several 911 calls without a response. His record showed he was increasingly capable of violence...
...Maybe the people who are failing their duties to the homeless and mentally ill are the ones who deserve to be in the dock, not those acting to defend themselves and others.
“They make me vomit,” Dreyfuss told Margaret Hoover on Firing Line which aired Friday night on PBS. “This is an art form. No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is.”
New policies enacted by the Oscars in 2024 will see film award eligibility dependent upon meeting two of four stipulated diversity benchmarks.
One, for instance, mandates a third of a movie cast must be comprised of “an underrepresented group.”...
