July 26, 2024

Breitbart Business Digest: Debate Showed Biden Still Trapped in His Old Economic Lies

Biden Lives in a World of Economic Lies President Biden demonstrated again last night that he is completely untethered from the truth about the American economy and unprepared to discuss the nation’s economic challenges. All the public opinion surveys show that inflation is the top issue for voters, so it was natural that the CNN

Breitbart Business Digest: Juneteenth Gloom Is in the Air, Especially for Democrats

It’s Juneteenth. You MUST Celebrate. Happy Juneteenth to those who celebrate, which is everyone on Wall Street, apparently. Markets were closed today, but we wanted to give you a Breitbart Business Digest anyway. Juneteenth, which is also known as “Emancipation Day,” commemorates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers informed black Americans in Galveston, Texas

Cannabis cops uproot illegal weed shop in heart of Queens business district

The city’s cannabis cops have raided and shuttered an illegal pot shop in the heart of a Queens neighborhood’s business district as part of Mayor Eric Adams’ newly announced crackdown on scofflaws. The Big Apple Sheriff’s Office and NYPD closed the unlicensed “Western Green” smoke shop at 81-27 Lefferts Blvd. in Kew Gardens on Thursday. […]

Judge blocks rule capping credit card late fees at $8 in win for business groups

A federal judge in Texas on Friday blocked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new rule for an $8 cap on credit card late fees, a victory for business and banking groups that said the regulator exceeded its authority. US District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth issued a preliminary injunction against the rule, which was scheduled to take effect on May 14. […]

Breitbart Business Digest: Nvidia and the AI Gold Rush

A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet, But Nvidia Smells Like Money The joke going around the desks of financial advisers this week has a young girl asking her father about her name. “Dad,” says the daughter. “Why is my middle name Rose?” “It’s because your mother loves roses more than almost

Breitbart Business Digest: All Eyes Turn to This Week’s Inflation Report

The Jobs Report Was Inconclusive, So the Nation’s Eyes Turn to CPI Last week’s inconclusive jobs data means that this week’s inflation data has the potential to be very consequential. The Department of Labor reported that the economy added a much higher-than-expected 275,000 jobs in February, according to the establishment survey, but there were large

Breitbart Business Digest: Inflation Is Back and Rising Again

We’re No Longer Headed Toward the ‘Last Mile’ on Inflation Inflation accelerated for the fourth straight month in February, confirming the upward momentum in prices and further undermining the case for rates cuts from the Federal Reserve this year. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.4 percent from January, a tick above the 0.3 percent

Breitbart Business Digest: Immigration Will Not Lower Inflation

Border Chaos Has Added Millions of Foreigners to Labor Force Immigration is not going to bail America out of our inflation mess. The United States is experiencing an enormous surge of migrants. The Department of Labor says that the labor force has increased by 4.6 million foreign born workers during the Biden administration, including an

Breitbart Business Digest: Powell Speaks and States the Obvious—No Rate Cuts Are Coming

Powell’s Progress Jerome Powell spoke today from our nation’s capital and indicated what we all know to be true: The Fed has no business cutting rates at this time. “The recent data have clearly not given us greater confidence and instead indicate that it is likely to take longer than expected to achieve that confidence,”

Breitbart Business Digest: A Tax Day Reminder That Elections Matter

Tax Day Cometh… We made it, fam! It’s another Tax Day. For some, April 15 is a day that can fill an American citizen with pride. It shouldn’t. Your money is almost certainly getting squandered by the federal government in ways both well known and mysterious. (If you need examples, see Breitbart.com literally any day

Comic predicts woke Seattle club that canceled him will not ‘stay in business that long’

A Seattle comedy club canceled four comics because they didn’t align with its neighborhood’s “progressive values” — leading one of the funnymen to predict the club would go out of business. The Capitol Hill Comedy Bar, which celebrates the “vibrant voices of the queer community” with a weekly “Queers to the front” open mic. had […]

‘Blood Money’: The Biden Family Bagged $5M from Business Partner of ‘White Wolf’ Chinese Criminal Gang Leader Who Helped Create the Fentanyl Pipeline Decimating America

Fatih Aktas, Spencer Platt, Jim Watson/Getty Images; CEFC; BNN The Biden family bagged $5 million from the business partner of the “White Wolf,” a Chinese criminal gang leader who helped create the fentanyl pipeline now decimating the United States, Peter Schweizer detailed in his new book, Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While

Breitbart Business Digest: Jerome Powell Plays Rate Cut Santa Claus

This Is What It Sounds Like When Doves Laugh “It would be premature to conclude with confidence that we have achieved a sufficiently restrictive stance, or to speculate on when policy might ease.” Fed Chairman Jerome Powell spoke those words on December 1 at a fireside chat at Spelman College. The markets rejected that idea

Breitbart Business Digest: Is Improved Consumer Sentiment All About Democrats Hating Trump?

The Shaky Edifice of Improved Consumer Confidence Americans are feeling better about the economy than they have in years. Or at least Democrats are. Consumer confidence—as measured by the Conference Board’s monthly survey—surged to a two-year high in January, the third straight monthly increase. The assessment of current economic conditions soared to the best reading

‘They Don’t Even Return My Calls’: San Francisco Business Owner Blames City Leaders for Letting Criminals Ruin Area

A longtime San Francisco business owner is facing “financial ruin” after “widespread drug use, violence and filthy streets” destroyed his neighborhood, making it impossible to keep his companies afloat. Mark Sackett, owner of multiple businesses, including a “South of Market building with a printmaker, antiques shop and events venue called the Box SF for almost

Censorship Industry: ‘Business Booming’ for Ex-Facebook ‘Disinformation’ Experts amid Wars

AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File A new report in CNBC confirms what many observers, including the House Judiciary Committee, have noticed: online censorship has become a global industry, worth billions of dollars. And with two major wars underway, one in Ukraine and one in the Gaza Strip, that industry is reportedly set to expand. According to

Breitbart Business Digest: Wall Street Expects More Cuts Than the Fed Does

Wall Street Is a Haven for Doves Wall Street has not let go of its conviction that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next year. When Federal Reserve officials met last month, their Summary of Economic Projections showed a median expectation for the target rate to be 5.6 percent at the end of this

Breitbart Business Digest: What the Jobs Report Means for 2024

A Choose Your Own Adventure Jobs Report The conventional wisdom about Friday’s disappointing jobs data was that there was a little something for everyone. And, for once, the conventional wisdom is right. The headline jobs number fell below Wall Street’s expectations, suggesting a softening of the labor market. The average workweek slipped as well, which

Breitbart Business Digest: Declining Job Openings May Help Bring Down Inflation

A Soothing JOLTS The doves got everything they could have wished for out of the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) on Tuesday. Job openings fell to 8.827 million in the August report, which estimates vacancies as of the last business day of July. This is the first time openings have fallen below 9

Breitbart Business Digest: Can Republicans Meet the UAW Strike Challenge?

A Choice Not an Echo on the UAW Strike Think of tonight’s debate as test of whether the GOP will offer the American people a choice for which party can defend workers best or an echo of a misremembered past. The Republican Party has talked a very good game in recent years about representing the

Mel Gibson’s ‘John Wick’ TV series casting defended by director after backlash: ‘Not my business’

The director of “The Continental: From the World of John Wick” defended casting Mel Gibson in the prequel TV series, saying “personal life stuff” is not his business. Albert Hughes, who directed two of the three upcoming episodes, chose Gibson through the “usual” process. “I cast [Gibson] based on his past work that I grew […]

LAURA INGRAHAM: Nobody believes Biden didn’t know about Hunter’s business dealings

Not a single adult alive with any normal brain activity believes this. The line that Joe Biden wasn’t aware of his son’s business dealings is undercut by Biden’s own life story. Now, from his own words and his own actions, we see that his family means everything to him. Their closeness has been chronicled in […]

Breitbart Business Digest: Powell’s Jackson Hole Speech Gives a Whiff of a Clash with Biden White House

From J-Hole to the Fox Holes There’s a clash coming between the Federal Reserve and the Biden administration. President Joe Biden has been touting what he says are the accomplishments of “Bidenomics.” He has claimed credit for inflation coming down, the strength of the jobs market, and investment in domestic manufacturing and infrastructure. He celebrates

Washington Post Columnist Changes Mind, Says Biden’s Role in Family Business Warrants Investigation

President Joe Biden’s involvement in his family business warrants investigation, Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen wrote, changing his tune on a scandal he previously dismissed as an “irrelevant sideshow.” Years after Senate Republicans issued the 2020 Senate report detailing the Biden family business, Olsen wrote that he “changed” his mind on the Biden family scandal because of “more

Breitbart Business Digest: The Recession Will Have to Wait Till Next Year

Wait Till Next Year The most heralded recession in American history will probably not arrive until next year. The U.S. economy is turning out to be far more resilient in the face of the Fed’s aggressive rate hikes than most analysts had projected. What’s more, several of the big risks that were threatening to drag

PAID TO FAIL? San Diego business owner criticizes costly plan to buy hotels to house homeless, ‘huge failure’

A San Diego business owner and CEO is skeptical city leadership’s plan to turn four hotels into housing for homeless people will foster lasting results. “They’re just trying to clean up a little bit of the people and get them out of the public’s vision so they can get voted back in,” Kate Monroe told […]

Exclusive — Whip Tom Emmer: Joe Biden ‘Clearly Lied’ About His Involvement in Hunter’s Business Dealings

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement that President Joe Biden “clearly lied” about his involvement in Hunter Biden’s business dealings. “Joe Biden clearly lied to the American people about his involvement in his son’s corrupt business dealings,” Emmer said in a statement to Breitbart News. “The Biden family’s

James Comer to Begin Deposing Biden Business Associates  

The House Oversight Committee is set to begin deposing Biden family business associates in the coming weeks and months, Chairman James Comer (R-KY) forecast. Comer said Devon Archer, one of Hunter Biden’s top associates, will be the first member deposed to unravel the family’s international business schemes. A source with knowledge of the committee’s schedule told

BlackRock Driving Business Into The Arms of The New World Order

BlackRock is a critical tool of the deep state in bringing big business into the new world order, explains The New American’s senior editor Alex Newman in this episode of Behind The Deep State. BlackRock, with about 10 trillion dollars under management, is one of the top stakeholders in virtually every company you can think […]

Joe Biden Says ‘No,’ He Didn’t Lie About Talking Business with Hunter Biden

President Joe Biden said Monday he did not lie in his repeated claims of never speaking with Hunter Biden about the family’s international business deals — despite mounting evidence to the contrary. After hosting an event in the East Room at the White House about the nation’s economic challenges, Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich asked President Joe Biden, “Did

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