President Biden and his supporters claim that he took an economy that was “flat on its back” in 2021 and made it “the envy of the world”. How did Biden accomplish this? He supposedly rebuilt the economy “from the middle out and the bottom up”.

With $1.2 billion in commercial real estate property loans coming due by the end of 2025, property owners are scrambling for sources of refinance.

Uncle Sam has stopped lending a helping hand and now repo men are back in business. Repos for the first half of 2024 are up 23% from a year ago. Higher-for-longer interest rates mean new car loans average 7.3% and used car loans average 11.5% putting stress on consumer pocketbooks. However, Claire Ballentine wrote in Bloomberg of something all too familiar.

On the 11th of June, Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party stunned the United Kingdom by officially declaring in their 2024 election manifesto that, if reelected on July 4th, it would pass legislation to reintroduce “mandatory national service”

“Realism requires we recognize that the ruling classes and the US government have no durable community and no internal integrity. The state is a pirate gang writ large. It is unified by criminal circumstance, functions by fear and tribute, and is surrounded by enemies who would see it stripped, drawn and quartered at first opportunity. It’s almost enough to make one pity the state and mourn the ruling classes!” — Karen Kwiatkowski