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Tag Archives: interest rates
The “No Hire, No Fire” Economy
Statistics show that, one year into Donald Trump’s second term, the economic lassitude of the Biden Recession is still weighing down the American economy, as it isn’t creating jobs. While we will not be getting the payrolls report this week … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged ADP, Biden Recession, Economics, Federal Reserve, ghost jobs, interest rates, Jerome Powell, Nela Richardson, tariffs, unemployment
7 Comments
Russia Showing Visible Cracks
More than two years into Putin’s three day Special Operation, Russia is starting to show extensive cracks in its facade of normalcy. Would you believe the return of food rationing? Russian lawmakers have proposed introducing food ration cards across the … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Military, video
Tagged Africa, Andrew Chang, Burkina Faso, Donald Trump, Economics, Foreign Policy, inflation, interest rates, Mali, Military, Niger, Peter Zeihan, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War, Sahel, Ukraine, video, Volodymyr Zelenskyy
15 Comments
Japan Ends Negative Interest Rates
The Bank of Japan just ended 8 years of negative interest rates. Indeed, this is the first interest rate hike for Japan in 17 years. According to Keynesian economics, Japan should have experienced an economic boom from all that monetary … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, video
Tagged 1980s, Bank of Japan, Economics, interest rates, Japan, negative interest rates
5 Comments
“A Mass Extinction Event For Startups”
The Biden recession and other trends made 2023 a horrible year for startups. “Big startups are shutting down. According to PitchBook, more than 3,000 private venture backed startups failed in the last year.” “Of the startups raising money, 19% were … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, video
Tagged Adam Neumann, AI, Airbnb, Biden Recession, Bird (scooter company), DoorDash, Economics, Facebook, Hyperloop, interest rates, Masayoshi Son, Microsoft, Nvidia, Olive AI, Patrick Boyle, PitchBook, Smile Direct Club, Softbank, technology, Uber, video, WeWork, Zume
13 Comments
How Bad Off Is The Russian Ruble?
An important but less dramatic aspect of the Russo-Ukrainian War is just what effects the war and resulting sanctions are having on the Russian economy. It’s hard for outsiders to get a handle on just how badly the Russian economy … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Military, video
Tagged Economics, foreign currency, Foreign Policy, interest rates, Joe Blogs, Military, ruble, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine, video
13 Comments
Why Silvergate Failed
Yesterday’s LinkSwarm talked about the collapse of crypto-linked Silvergate bank. Here’s hedge fudge manager/university professor Patrick Boyle goes into detail of just how it went down. “Silvergate’s importance in the recent crypto boom is possibly best described by a now-deleted … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, video
Tagged Alameda Research, bank run, banking, Bitcoin, bitFlyer, Coinbase, cryptocurrency, FTX, Galaxy, interest rates, Kraken, Patrick Boyle, Paxos, Sam Bankman-Fried, Silvergate Bank, Winklevoss Twins
7 Comments
LinkSwarm for October 7, 2022
I hope all BattleSwarm readers are safe from the Joe Biden Armageddon thus far. Today’s LinkSwarm features Democrats disdaining the rules followed by the little people, the UN is delusional enough to think they can run the world and defy … Continue reading
Posted in Border Control, Budget, Communism, Crime, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Media Watch, Military, Regulation, Texas, Waste and Fraud
Tagged Arizona, banking, basketball, Border Controls, China, Chris Cuomo, Communism, dogs, Economics, Eric Adams, Eugene Yu, Facebook, food, fraud, gay, Illegal Aliens, interest rates, Joe Biden, Konnech, LaToya Cantrell, Lawsuit, LinkSwarm, Matthew Kacsmaryk, Media Watch, Military, natural gas, New Orleans, New York City, Nordstream, NYU, oil industry, OPEC, Paw Patrol, Regulation, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War, sanctuary cities, Saudi Arabia, Texas, transexual, True The Vote, Ukraine, UN, Venezuela, Vermont, voting fraud
4 Comments
Then: Commercial Investors Are Sucking Up All American Housing! Now: They’re Losing Their Shirts!
If you can remember all the way back to pre-Flu Manchu 2020, housing prices were soaring and there were a raft of articles decrying how commercial investors were snapping up housing as fast as they possibly could, pricing ordinary Americans … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Economics, Texas, video
Tagged adjustable rate loan, Biden Recession, BlackRock, economy, Federal Reserve, housing, inflation, interest rates, Jerome Powell, real estate, technology, Texas, video
11 Comments
The Great Leveler Is Coming, Mimi
In The Before-Time, The Long Long Ago, prior to The Great Dot Com Bubble Bust, newspapers (remember those?) were filled with reports of day-traders, ordinary people who quit their day jobs to trade stocks. And what do you know! A … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Economics, Media Watch, video
Tagged Ace of Spades, Biden Recession, Democrats, Economics, inflation, interest rates, Media Watch, Ryan Long, Vice News, video
11 Comments