US Real GDP grew at a whopping 5.2% (revision) in Q3.

But was it organic growth or simply The Federal Government funding the defense and green energy industies with trillions in spending?

This was obvious from the beginning: if the US was going to demand countries to pass pro degeneracy laws, countries are just going to make deals with the Chinese, who don’t put sexual stipulations on trade deals.

 California is set to spend nearly $300 million to clean up homeless encampments near state roads.

 House Republicans unveiled on Wednesday a website dedicated to the corruption-focused impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden.

 Dozens of seniors in New York, including a 94-year-old Army veteran named Frank Tammaro, were evicted from their senior center, which was then converted into a migrant shelter.

 X owner Elon Musk gave his thoughts on who he might vote for in the 2024 presidential race when asked about the matter during an interview in New York City Wednesday afternoon.

The Reverse Repo Facility and the Repo market are crucial overnight lending mechanisms operated by the Federal Open Market Committee.

You can feel something’s very wrong already from the title.

Diversity is our greatest strength, except when it comes to things that require basic proficiency at literally anything.

 The Arkansas attorney general rejected a ballot measure proposing a constitutional right to abortion on Tuesday.

 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticized former President Donald Trump on Wednesday for touting an endorsement from a Black Lives Matter leader.

 The Department of Justice appears to have collected information on anyone who liked, followed, or retweeted Donald Trump’s Twitter account — among other actions in connection to the former president’s social media — in the days leading up to the January 6 U.S. Capitol breach.

 X owner Elon Musk ripped companies this week that are boycotting advertising on his social media platform after a recent post of his generated controversy.

 Former President Donald Trump touted an endorsement from a former leader of Black Lives Matter on Wednesday, saying that he was “very honored” to have his endorsement as well as “BLM’s support.”

 Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott announced Wednesday the state will bus another 70,000 immigrants to Democrat-run cities around the nation amid the Biden administration’s ongoing crisis at the Southern Border.

Significant winter weather, including over 40 inches of snow in parts of the Great Lakes and interior Northeast, caused hazardous conditions and a fatal road accident, with the snow winding down but light showers still possible.

Buckle up, America! The signs are clear, and they’re not pointing towards mere challenges but a looming economic catastrophe. The U.S. housing market, a historical indicator of economic health, is in a deadlock, and it’s sending shockwaves through the nation.

Wake up to a concerning reality – the media is subtly pushing for Personal Carbon Allowances, urging you to accept it as a normal restriction and even your civic duty. But make no mistake, it’s neither normal nor your duty; it’s an encroachment on your freedom.

Home Depot’s retired co-founder Bernie Marcus is sticking by Donald Trump.

The billionaire Republican has admitted he’ll probably still donate to Trump’s 2024 campaign even if the former president ends up being convicted in one of his four criminal cases that are expected to come to trial before the general election next November.

“I think so. Because I think it’s all trumped up,” Marcus, who backed Trump in 2016 and 2020, told Reuters of the 91 charges leveled at the former president following his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss and his alleged mishandling of classified documents after he left the White House.

Marcus suggested he wouldn’t be a major donor even though he’d support GOP front-runner Trump in the primary and if he became the presidential nominee.

The custodian of Joe Biden’s vice presidential records, a key witness in his classified documents probe, was caught up in another documents scandal while working at the Commerce Department during the Clinton administration, court records reveal. 
 
Longtime Biden aide and gatekeeper Kathy S. Chung, who has been interviewed by federal prosecutors and congressional investigators in the Biden case, was part of a team sanctioned for withholding and even destroying key documents in the federal case that sought sensitive records from a central figure in the so-called Chinagate fundraising investigation of the late 1990s, RealClearInvestigations has learned exclusively. 

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Market participants are bracing for potential shifts in the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, with some traders positioning for significant rate cuts in 2024. 

On Tuesday, a judge ordered that the Federal Bureau of Investigation hand over the laptop that belonged to Seth Rich, the 27-year-old Democratic National Committee staffer who was gunned down on July 10, 2016, while walking back to his Washington, DC home.

Judge Amos Mazzant, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, ruled that the FBI had to release the laptop, siding with Brian Huddleston, the man who filed a lawsuit against the FBI for failing to provide the material after he submitted a Freedom of Information Act request.

A16-year-old boy was savagely murdered at a French village’s annual winter ball earlier this month. According to witnesses, the gang of young men responsible for the boy’s death and the corresponding rampage on Nov. 18 made clear they were out to “stab white people.”
 

Perhaps all the cheer around record Black Friday online sales, fueled by 'Buy Now, Pay Later' options, may be unwarranted, as a new Bloomberg report suggests that this year's most important shopping day fell short of expectations for major retailers.

According to an analysis of Bloomberg Second Measure transaction data, the median decline in Black Friday sales was about 4% for a basket of 40 companies that have a higher percentage of year-to-date sales from the shopping holiday versus peers. The data showed that this year's drop was sharper than Black Friday 2022. 

In recent economic developments, the Eurozone finds itself navigating through a challenging period, marked by a hard landing. Two key indicators, household lending and retail sales, are sounding alarm bells, pointing to significant economic downturns across the region.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently put a stop to Florida’s “Protection of Children Act,” a law intended to prevent children from attending live performances featuring explicit content, including drag shows.

This ruling, following a federal district court’s support for an Orlando drag bar, Hamburger Mary’s, represents a notable setback in the efforts to protect minors from potentially harmful content.

SB 1438, signed by Governor Ron DeSantis, criminalizes allowing children to witness sexually explicit live performances.

Preliminary estimates suggested that Iraq’s Eridu oil field holds between 7-10 billion barrels of reserves.

Senior Russian oil industry sources spoken to exclusively by OilPrice.com last week said the true figure may well be 50 percent more than the higher figure of that band. In either event, the Eridu field - part of Iraq’s Block 10 exploration and development region – is the biggest oil find in Iraq in the last 20 years, and Russia wants to control all of it, alongside its chief geopolitical ally, China.