Weâre No Longer Headed Toward the âLast Mileâ 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
Cornell students to hold âJewish Unityâ rally to fight rising campus antisemitism
April 12, 2024 by
Students and faculty at Cornell University are holding a âJewish Unityâ rally on Sunday to protest rising antisemitism at the Ithaca campus. The fight against antisemitism will come just days after engineering student Patrick Dai pleaded guilty Wednesday to threatening to kill Jewish students on campus last October. âAfter the horrific 10/7 attacks, I expected […]
Inflation Reignites: Fed’s Favorite Inflation Gauge Shows Prices Rising Again
March 28, 2024 by
A key measure of inflation in the U.S. showed that prices climbed again in December, suggesting the respite from rising prices seen in the prior month was short-lived. The personal consumption expenditure price index rose 0.2 percent compared with the prior month, in line with expectations and an increase from the negative 0.1 percent reading
Fmr. Obama Treasury Official Rattner: February CPI ‘Not a Good Thing’ for Getting Inflation to Goal, ‘What the Fed Really Looks at’ ‘Is Rising’
April 4, 2023 by
On Wednesdayâs broadcast of MSNBCâs âMorning Joe,â Steve Rattner, who served as counselor to the Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration, stated that the core services inflation metric that the Federal Reserve âreally looks atâ is ârising and that is not a good thingâ to getting inflation down to the target level. Rattner said, â[I]nflation looked
Klobuchar rising: Leadership path opens for Minnesota Dem
February 23, 2023 by
Provided she wins reelection next year in her blue state, Amy Klobuchar will have big decisions to make about where to go next. | Zach Gibson/Getty Images Amy Klobuchar made her debut as a member of Senate Democratsâ leadership âBig Fourâ with a dash of sarcasm. âOh, the first time ever at the microphone,â the
Ocasio-Cortez Warns Against âHysteriaâ Over Rising Violence, Reiterates Her Proposal To Defund Police
June 28, 2021 by
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called publicâs concerns over an ongoing increase in violent crimes âhysteriaâ and repeated her proposal to defund the police during a Saturday Zoom call. âWe are seeing these headlines about percentage increases. Now, I want to say that any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much, but I…
Housing Starts Crash as Rising Costs Crimp Construction
May 19, 2021 by
Construction of new homes in the U.S. slowed by much more than expected in April as homebuilders held back on projects because prices of materials and labor have been rising rapidly. Private homes were started at a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 1.569, a 9.5 percent decline from March, Commerce Department showed Tuesday. Economists had…
Rising Again From the Swamp Valerie Jarrett Pal Van Jones
May 6, 2018 by
âThursday on CNNâs âAnderson Cooper 360,â former Obama administration green jobs czar and network contributor Van Jones attacked Rudy Giuliani for saying on Fox News that the FBI behaved like âstormtroopersâ when they raided Michael Cohenâs office was âtreasonous language.â (â, May 4, 2018) Both Rudy and Fox can file Jones under âCâ for Communist […]
No, Obamacare’s Rising Rates and Evaporating Access Are Not Trump’s Fault
August 23, 2017 by
I’ve written about this issue a few times now, but the Left’s spin about Democrats’ terrible, deteriorating healthcare law — which Republicans have failed to replace, in spite of endless promises — is misleading and not credible. Â As the story now goes, the reason why Obamacare premiums are soaring by double digits across most of […]
Tensions Rising in Germany
September 17, 2016 by
Citizens clash with Syrian refugees–and each other. Immigrants protest under heavy rain against the realization of their deportation from the German Goverment in the Center of Munich on September 16, 2016. Germany is blowing up again over migration. The Saxon town of Bautzen has, like dozens of similar places across Germany, a barracks for some […]
Obama Hides Rising Murder Rates, and Hundreds of Dead Americans, in Criminal Statistics
July 12, 2016 by
President Barack Obama is claiming that murder rates are declining in Dallas, Los Angeles and nationwide, even though numerous sources of data shows a nationwide spike in murder since he launched his 2014 stigmatize-and-federalize campaign for the nationâs state and local police forces. âOver the last four or five years during the course of my […]
HUUGE! Trump Support With LATINOS Rising â Now Only 4 Points Behind Hillary! â BLACK Support at 26%!
June 9, 2016 by
This is HUUGE! Donald Trump is currently running only 4 points behind Hillary Clinton with Latino voters. AND Trump has 26% support from black voters! THIS IS DEVASTATING NEWS FOR DEMOCRATS! If Democrats lose 25% of the black vote they will lose the election in a landslide. FOX News Latino reported: It is evident that […]
Rising Threats – Shrinking Military
April 3, 2016 by
When President Obama took office, he promised to be a new type of commander-in-chief. Many now fear thatâs exactly what has happened. Critics see the American military downsizing, and its influence in world affairs waning, creating a dangerous power vacuum. “Fox News Reporting: Rising Threats – Shrinking Military,” airing Friday at 10 p.m. ET, Saturday […]