Rusty & Ashley Pond
@Silver_Buck
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2016 Candidates' Taxplans give Big Debt & promise miracles. I analyze em all with an IncomeInequalityRatio to cut thru the BS. #RestoringTrueFreedom still best
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GDP includes government and healthcare spending, so the official GDP headline number is structurally bullish basically forever now.
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#NEW Home price analysis for America's 50 largest metro area housing markets MoM = Month-over-month YoY = Year-over-year Table via
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Here's a report from those of us living in California. The avg electricity cost is >$0.32/kWh, 77% above the national average. The spread for commercial rates is even higher. Gasoline prices of ~$4.36/gallon (which is low where I live) are ~ 50% higher here than the national
The amount of money Americans are paying for their energy bills has increased 13% since President Trump took office earlier this year, according to a new report.
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Forecasters expect that headline and core prices as measured by the CPI rose about 0.25% per month, on average, for the *two months* ended Nov. That would hold the 12-month increase at 3.0% at Nov, unchanged from Sept but up from slightly lower rates earlier this year.
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@atrupar Bessent's push to loosen financial regulations ignores hard lessons from history. Deregulation cycles in the 1920s, 1980s, and 2000s all fueled reckless risk-taking that crashed the economy—costing taxpayers trillions in bailouts. The claim that private credit growth proves banks
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@NickTimiraos The US economy lost 9k jobs in November 2025 per Revelio Labs🚨 The biggest declines were driven by the Leisure and Hospitality, Retail Trade, Transportation and Warehousing as well as Manufacturing sectors. Education and Health Services continued to add jobs and Public
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🚨1/4 We are requesting the public's assistance in identifying a person of interest in Saturday's incident at Brown University. Please share these video clips and direct all tips to 401-272-3121 or https://t.co/8a1yEMYJya
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Rep. Bennie Thompson is calling the terrorist attack on two National Guardsmen in D.C. an “unfortunate accident.” Gov. Noem fires back: “Unfortunate accident? It was a terrorist attack. They shot our Guardsmen in the head.” Another reminder of how differently some leaders
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@StephenMoore This is why people are upset with Trump - they're expecting a return to trend and not getting it.
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How about Gavinflation as an encore to Trumpflation and Bidenflation?
A dollar goes further in certain metro areas and states; @VisualCap shows relative value of $100 in each state, based on data from @GOBankingRates, using publicly available federal datasets from @BLS_gov @StateDept @uscensusbureau @zillow
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THE FED JUST CROSSED A THRESHOLD NO ONE IS DISCUSSING December 1, 2025. The Federal Reserve terminates Quantitative Tightening. Balance sheet frozen at $6.57 trillion. The largest liquidity withdrawal in central banking history ends after draining $2.39 trillion from the
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No kidding 🤔
Chuck Schumer in 1996: "The number one reason people come to the US illegally is to defraud systems like social security and I want to stop it." https://t.co/RouwGZdz4W
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Now that the Government is open, the data is flowing again. *US JOBLESS CLAIMS 216,000 IN NOV. 22 WEEK; EST. 225K This is one of the lowest readings of the year. --- This was considered a "desert-island indicator:" if you needed one measure to tell you the health of the
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@RichardHanania 'Old people' entered into a contract with the Govt decades ago. The US should not be able to unilaterally change the terms of the contract. If SS is not sustainable then changes should be implemented for people not yet of working age who have not yet entered into that contract.
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