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Stocks: S&P 500 Hit 25 Records this Year

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You may have noticed the food and beverage industry needs workers. Like, right now. You can expand that out to most businesses in the service industry. Your Survival Guy will place the blame on big government unemployment checks and on the lockdowns freaking people out. Case in point, we escaped to the city this weekend […]

Lumber Prices Are Soaring, Should the Fed Be Afraid?

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Lumber prices are breaking records. First position Spruce-Pine-Fir futures are trading at over $1500/metric ton. Perhaps the most frightening aspect of the spike in lumber prices is that builders have been able to pass them on to customers. The Fed should be very worried about the rapid rise in prices going directly to consumers. The […]

Biden, the Human Wrecking Ball: Make America Poor Again

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One way conservatives have been looking at Joe Biden is that he is so boring that he could not possibly pose a problem for them. But a more honest assessment is that he is a fraud. Good Ol’ Joe, just a regular guy from Scranton, is now vying to become the next FDR. “Heaven help […]

Americans Must Be Immediately Protected From Forced Vaccinations

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Legislatures in states like Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Tennessee are working to protect citizens from forced vaccination mandates by schools and employers. Americans should have freedom to govern their own bodies. Megan Redshaw writes at LewRockwell.com: A slew of colleges and universities are embracing COVID vaccine mandates, telling students if they want to attend classes on campus, […]

Tennessee Now Has Permitless Carry, Will Texas Be Next?

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In April, Tennessee joined the ranks of the states where gun owners can carry without a permit after Governor Bill Lee signed the legislature’s permitless carry bill in law. There are now 19 states with permitless carry in effect: Alaska Arizona Arkansas Idaho Kansas Kentucky Maine Mississippi Missouri Montana New Hampshire North Dakota Oklahoma South […]

Utah Must Replace Mitt Romney

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Sen. Mitt Romney was booed at the Utah Republican Party’s organizing convention on Saturday. He was called a traitor and communist. Romney has shown disdain for the average American throughout his tenure in the Senate and should be replaced. Paul Sacca reports in The Blaze: Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) was boisterously booed on Saturday when […]

Conservatives Beware: Neocons, and Their Right-Wing Marxism Are Back

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At LewRockwell.com, Boyd D. Cathey sounds the alarm that the neocons and their right-wing Marxism are back, and conservatives need to beware. He writes (abridged): The words recently written by David P. Goldman ring, in retrospect, ever so true: Now under Biden the neoconservatives, partially sidelined under Trump, are back. And “their ideology is a sort of […]

Raise Taxes, Eat the Rich, Control Everything

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Goofy and insubstantial as it is, the above pretty much sums up Joe Biden’s address to Congress on Wednesday, writes Roger Kimball in Spectator.US. Biden Promises To “Buy American.” American tax dollars are going to be used to buy American products made in America that create American jobs. Make America Poor Again Hmm … Where, […]

Strong GDP Set to Accelerate in the Second Quarter

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First-quarter GDP estimates came in at a robust 6.4%, with growth likely to accelerate to more than 8% next quarter. Over the coming weeks, economic activity in the U.S. will surpass its pre-pandemic high. With the Fed pumping over a trillion dollars of liquidity into financial markets annually and the Six Trillion Dollar Man (Joe […]