With just three weeks left in the second quarter and the summer season in full swing, a key question emerges: What’s the state of the consumer?  Goldman Sachs analysts Kate McShane, Mark Jordan, and others published a note on Monday offering valuable insights into consumer trends following meetings with the management and investor relations of Dollar […]

Authored by James Howard Kunstler via kunstler.com, “Call me crazy, but I think Dem politicians in LA publicly encouraging riots helps explain why they’re also incapable of issuing building permits for the fires months ago.” —Mark Hemingway And pretty soon, expect action in a dozen other states, you can be sure, because just as it […]

from the weirdos-and-zealots dept Last week, Republican FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington abruptly announced that he would be stepping down from the FCC. Simington gave all of two-days notice of his departure, which was odd not only because of the short notice, but because it delays Trump Republicans from getting a voting majority allowing them to […]

In early May it was first reported that a US-supplied Patriot air-defense system that was based in Israel would be refurbished and sent to Ukraine. This was despite what the White House’s National Security Council said at the time in a statement: “President Trump has been clear: he wants the war in Ukraine to end […]

Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Estimated tax payments for the second quarter of 2025 are due on Monday, June 16, with taxpayers who fail to pay on time facing underpayment penalties, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said in a June 6 statement. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington […]