Your Survival Guy’s been watching lumber prices. I reported here and here that much of the increase was due to a bottleneck at sawmills. (There’s plenty of trees, just no excess capacity at the mills creating finished lumber.) Lumber futures reached a high of $1,711.20 per thousand board feet in May. On Tuesday, July futures […]
Russia! Biden Is Already Losing to Putin
What is President Biden doing meeting with Russian President Putin? This is a joke, right? Under Biden’s watch, our Colonial pipeline was hacked, as was the world’s largest meat processing company, and we shutter the Keystone XL pipeline. Meanwhile, Putin gets his Nord Stream 2 and we’re meeting with him why? Sen. John Barrasso called […]
VIDEO: Complete Breakdown of Law and Order, Is This a Third World Country?
No, it’s San Francisco. This just happened at the @Walgreens on Gough & Fell Streets in San Francisco. #NoConsequences @chesaboudin pic.twitter.com/uSbnTQQk4J — Lyanne Melendez (@LyanneMelendez) June 14, 2021 Action Line: No one is coming to help you, time to get your gun and your training now.
COVID Was a Retirement Stress Test: Did You Pass?
You’re probably feeling pretty good about your retirement after getting tested by COVID-19. You’ve been saving until it hurts your whole life. That’s why my favorite investment is Y-O-U. Relying on yourself to work to make money, and then investing to save it, is the best way to ensure that an inflated stock market, or […]
An Entire Atlanta Suburb Wants to Escape the City
You know I want you to escape the city. You’re taxed too much and left to fend for yourself in America’s big cities today. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than Buckhead, an Atlanta suburb that pays one-fifth of the city’s budget but has been left to face rampant violence alone. Residents of Buckhead want […]
Americans Fleeing High Tax States for Growth Corridors
You already know that America’s growth corridors are where the action is for businesses who want to keep their own money and thrive. The Census has confirmed as much, and the economic numbers do too. Now the IRS is coming in with another analysis to put the final nail in the coffin for high tax […]
Profit and Power Drive Environmentalism on Wall St. and in Washington
It used to be rare that regulators in Washington D.C., and money men on Wall St. would find common cause, but that has changed in an era when the government is so big, its subsidies alone drive the profits of many businesses. Big Wall St. firms like BlackRock have found a way to turn Washington […]
VIDEO: Hockey Fans Join Singer for Powerful National Anthem
At The Blaze, Sarah Taylor describes the heart warming rendition of the National Anthem that was sung by fans recently (watch it below). She writes: Hockey fans during Wednesday night’s NHL playoff game between the New York Islanders and the Boston Bruins delivered an unforgettable rendition of “The S Singer-songwriter Nicole Raviv, who regularly delivers […]
Air Force Studying Global Rocket Deliveries in Under an Hour
Want a New York pizza in Antarctica? The Air Force might be able to get it there while it’s still warm. The Air Force has announced a fourth Vanguard program, which will study concepts for launching rockets to deliver 100-tons of cargo anywhere in the world in less than an hour. Obviously, the cargo carried […]
EGO: BlackRock CEO Goes Woke with Investor Money
You have read about Larry Fink using your money for everything but profit. His use of ESG investing, i.e. using investor funds like a piggy bank to push his environmental and social agenda, hurts Fink’s trustworthiness. It’s not about investors, it’s about Fink’s ego. At Real Clear Markets, Peter Flaherty has written a brutal takedown […]
You Invest, They Win: America’s Woke Money Men
While Joe Biden wants to raise your taxes, even when you’re dead, the woke hedge fund and endowment managers are reaping the rewards of their special treatment. They’re using your money for everything but what you need, profit. In a lengthy piece at The American Mind, J.D. Vance, (author of Hillbilly Elegy, and probable candidate […]
Tucker Explains: Biden Wants to Remake America
Biden Is Planning To Rob the Dead
Americans know that Joe Biden wants to raise their taxes, but they might not realize he’ll be coming for their money even after they’re dead. In The Wall Street Journal, Richard Rubin and Rachel Louise Ensign outline Biden’s plan, writing: President Biden has proposed raising the top capital-gains tax rate to 43.4% from 23.8% and […]
SECOND AMENDMENT: Judge Overturns California Assault Weapons Ban
For 32 years Californians have had their Second Amendment right infringed upon by the state’s draconian “assault weapons ban.” The ban has prevented Golden Staters from owning most standard versions of America’s most popular firearm, the AR-15. In his ruling, Judge Roger Benitez struck a blow to the heart of the central argument of most […]
If This Man Thinks Inflation is Back, Worry
You have been telling me about the inflation you’re seeing in your life. It’s not good. Inflation can throw all the calculations of a well-planned retirement into chaos. Even people who are still working need to readjust in the face of higher prices. When those old dollars you saved after working hard aren’t worth as […]
California Losing Most Residents to Texas and Arizona
New data from the IRS adds some detail to what America already knew from the Census–people don’t want to live in California anymore. On net, California lost more taxpayers and dependents than any other state between 2018 and 2019. Eight million people left the state during that time, with 165,355 fewer moving in, making for […]