Tennessee’s prisons chief resigns after failed execution of Christa Pike, Gov. Bill Lee says

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AP — The head of Tennessee’s prison system is resigning, Gov. Bill Lee announced Saturday, the first major staff shake-up since Christa Pike’s stunning failed execution left her unconscious and on a ventilator at a hospital. Frank Strada, commissioner of the Department of Correction, will step down this month, Lee said. Some of the governor’s … Read more

Yesterday Trump said inflation is totally under control. Today he says inflation is the cure to our problems. The messaging is just all over the place. Prepare accordingly. From here, the dollar goes into hyper inflation territory pretty quickly…

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Inflation is the creation of money. So if they inflated the currency. They could literally just pay off the debt. Everything would instantly become 3x more expensive though. The US just crossed $40 trillion in total debt. That number has grown by $11 trillion in just the last 5 years. The interviewer brought up those … Read more

Texas is getting huge reimbursement check from DHS.

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A $7.5 billion check from the federal government could be headed toward property tax relief for Texans. Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday that he wants to use as much of Texas’ recent border-security reimbursement as possible to reduce property taxes, while maintaining funding for the state’s ongoing border operations. Abbott made the comments at the … Read more

Kevin Hassett: “The higher mortgage rates are actually a good sign for the economy because corporations are borrowing money to build things like data centers instead of lending to homeowners.”

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Bassett is so full of shit it is unbelievable. Mortgages are not getting crowded out by demand for factory financing. That is such a stupid lie I can see why he was smiling like a circus clown when he said it. — Patrick Strother (@PatrickStrother) October 2, 2026

Walmart is beating Amazon on price and delivery

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A shopper complaining that Amazon has become a rip-off may sound like another internet rant. But Walmart’s numbers show a real shift in online retail. Walmart U.S. e-commerce sales jumped 24% in its latest quarter. Store-fulfilled delivery increased 40%, while marketplace sales grew more than 50%. Walmart is using its 4,600 U.S. stores as local … Read more

Goldman says the Treasury long end is “totally bidless.” If the short end follows, the U.S. debt market could collapse

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GOLDMAN SACHS DROPS DOOMSDAY STATEMENT: U.S. BONDS HAVE NO BUYERS Goldman Sachs just admitted the long end of U.S. Treasury market is “totally bidless.” Translation: almost nobody wants the 10- to 30-year debt the U.S. is trying to sell. No buyers. None. Zero. While Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Congress we’re in an “illiquid period,” … Read more

Billionaires are not the reason you can’t afford healthcare. Obamacare didn’t fix the cost problem either.

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The Affordable Care Act was supposed to make health insurance more affordable. Look at what happened to the people buying coverage themselves. In 2026, the average ACA Marketplace deductible jumped 37% to $3,786, an increase of $1,027 in one year. Average premium payments rose 58%, from $113 to $178 a month, after the enhanced subsidies … Read more

MAMDANI: “Socialism, to me, means that you will have WHATEVER YOU NEED to live a dignified life, and that it is the GOVERNMENT’S JOB to deliver on that.”

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THEO VON: “Will you define socialism for us?” MAMDANI: “Socialism, to me, means that you will have WHATEVER YOU NEED to live a dignified life, and that it is the GOVERNMENT’S JOB to deliver on that.” I’ve heard a line like that before. It came from a famous book, and it was… pic.twitter.com/B9jKlJkVXH — The … Read more

The AI math gets absurd at current GPU prices

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The economics of AI are getting harder to defend at current GPU prices. The hyperscalers currently generate roughly $70 billion a year in AI cloud revenue. But according to the Financial Times’ calculation, they would need about $636 billion annually to achieve roughly the 30% return on invested capital they historically targeted. That’s roughly nine … Read more

Government of Canada’s Privy Council: Forecast Report on Canada in 2040. Total economic dystopian nightmare predicted and expected in Canada.

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The federal government’s Privy Council released a forecast report about Canada in 2040. The report titled “Future Lives: Social mobility in question” paints a dark future for Canada in the year 2040. The report highlights what can be described as a Great Depression coupled with a dystopian nightmare. They predict the following: – Canada devolving … Read more

Riot video from France, hooligans.

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Thousands of teenagers staged demonstrations outside schools and educational buildings in Paris on Friday, protesting against a lack of state investment in education, overcrowded classes of up to 40 children in crumbling buildings, poor teacher pay, staff absences and what they say is an unequal system in which social background determines success. This isn't Beirut … Read more

Trump warns of a depression. The midterms come next. Then the economy may get blamed on whoever wins.

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Trump’s depression warning comes before the economic pressures have finished working through the system. If the economy contracts hard after the midterms, the timing could make the election an easy scapegoat even though the credit tightening, refinancing stress and energy shock were already in motion. I wish I could laugh this off, but it feels … Read more

The corruption in the second term of the Trump presidency is unlike anything seen before by any American president in scope or shamelessness.

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Many if not most Trump supporters end up baffled and/or enraged by this claim because the media sources which they trust and to which they confine themselves never mention any of it, so they don't know it exists:pic.twitter.com/1ye2Q0PSsz — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 1, 2026 The stupidity hurts https://t.co/m10Xyy4q6M — Brandon Weichert (@WeTheBrandon) October 2, … Read more