Obamacare plan premiums may increase an average of 45 percent in Florida next year due to health care insurers rate hike requests, according to Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation. There are six insurers in Florida selling plans on and off the exchanges in 2018 including Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Celtic Insurance Company, Florida Health […]
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EPA Moves to Repeal Obama’s Clean Power Plan Coal Regs…
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced Monday that the Trump administration is moving to scrap the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration’s signature regulatory program to curb emissions from coal-fired power plants. Pruitt made the announcement at an event in Hazard, Ky., casting the previous policy as unfair. “That rule really was about picking winners and […]
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Takes Direct Adversarial Position to U.S. NAFTA Trade Framework…
CTH has called out the anti-American economic positions of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for many years. The U.S. CoC is the largest DC lobbying group for multinational corporations and multinational financial interests. The CoC is at the very epicenter of the financial constructs that support the Washington DC UniParty. When President Trump won the […]
Outgoing Coach Rick Pitino Reportedly Pocketed 98 Percent of the School’s $39M Contract with Adidas…
Embattled Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino reportedly pocketed as much as 98 percent of the school’s five-year, $39 million deal with Adidas while leaving less than a million for the school and the program. Specifically, over the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons, Pitino made $3 million under a personal services agreement with Adidas while only $35,000 […]
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics, BLS, Caught Fabricating Wage Data…
While it’s not the first time we have observed the BLS manipulate data (the last time was in “This Is What Happens When The Bureau Of Labor Statistics Is Caught In A Lie”), never before had we actually caught the Bureau Of Labor Statistics openly fabricating data. Until now. As reported earlier today, in one […]
What Hurricane: Full-Time Jobs Soar by 935,000, Biggest Increase in the 21st Century…
Not only was there much confusion ahead of the September payrolls report, there was just as much confusion inside it, because while the market decided to ignore the 33,000 drop in payrolls (as per the Establishment Survey), the first monthly decline in 7 years and instead focus on the just as widely expected spike in […]
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NFL Players’ Union Teamed Up with George Soros to Fund Leftist Advocacy Groups…
Even before its feud over the national anthem with President Trump, the NFL Players Association wasn’t on the same political team as many of its fans, judging from its contributions to leftist advocacy groups. Tax documents released by 2ndVote show the NFLPA donated $5,000 in 2015 to the Center for Community Change Action, a group […]
Did IRS Overstep in $5 Million Campaign to Pressure Americans on Obamacare?…
The IRS would never push legal boundaries in order to pursue the ideological agenda of a political party in Washington D.C., right? Well, aside from that time that Lois Lerner used her position inside the IRS to target Tea Party Organizations in order to help Obama get re-elected in 2012, of course. While we all […]
N.J. Mega Car Dealer Pulls TV Ads Over NFL Protests…
In response to the ongoing controversy surrounding NFL players kneeling during the national anthem, the owner of Flemington Car and Truck Country has pulled the dealership’s ads from broadcasts of games for the remainder of the 2017 season. “The National Football League and its owners have shown their fans and marketing partners that they do […]
Fox Sports: We Will No Longer Air National Anthem Before NFL Games…
Fox Sports will no longer air coverage of the national anthem before its NFL games, the network said on Sunday in a statement to Sports Illustrated. With the exception of the London matchup between the Miami Dolphins and New Orleans Saints, Fox Sports plans to follow “standard procedure” and broadcast regionalized coverage without airing the […]
NFL Risks Billions in Publicly Funded Stadiums As Millionaire Players Stage Kneeling Protests…
American taxpayers shelled out billions of dollars to build the stadiums that National Football League players are now using to stage their kneel-down protests of the national anthem. The players say they have a right to express their displeasure with racism in the U.S. with their protests, but lawmakers say the NFL could be risking […]
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Wilbur Ross Smacks Canadian Airline Company Bombardier With 220% Countervailing Duty…
Whoo-doggies, Wilburine ain’t messing around with this dispute. U.S. aerospace manufacture Boeing filed an unfair trade complaint against Canadian aerospace company Bombardier stating the Canadian government was subsidizing the manufacturing of 100- to 150-seat large civil aircraft. Canada does subsidize their airline manufacturing, everyone knows this is true – even Canadians admit it…
Governments Are Testing Their Own Cryptocurrencies…
The people of Sweden are breaking up with cash. The number of banknotes and coins in circulation has fallen to its lowest level in three decades. Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank, estimates that cash transactions made up only 15 percent of all retail transactions last year, down from 40 percent in 2010, thanks in large part […]
Government Regulation, Crony Capitalism Is Keeping 1000s in Florida Without Power…
Almost two weeks have passed since Hurricane Irma made landfall in South Florida, yet tens of thousands remain without power. With temperatures regularly eclipsing over 90 degrees, these outages are not only a grave inconvenience for Floridians cleaning up after the storm, but have proved to be deadly. Given the power of Irma…
Bay Area Sues Big Oil For Billions…
The cities of San Francisco and Oakland have filed lawsuits against Chevron, Exxon, ConocoPhillips, BP, and Shell for the effect of their activities on climate change: higher sea levels. The cities seek billions in damages to counteract the effects of the changing climate. Reuters quoted San Francisco officials…
“This is where the next financial crisis will come frome”…
In an extensive, must read report published on Monday by Duetsche Bank’s Jim Reid, the credit strategist unveiled an extensive analysis of the “Next Financial Crisis”, and specifically what may cause it, when it may happen and how the world could respond assuming it still has means to counteract the next…
The Federal Reserve Is Setting America Up for Economic Disaster…
I recently had the opportunity to read “The Creature from Jekyll Island” by G. Edward Griffin, a prodigious tome dealing with the circumstances surrounding the creation of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. I was taken aback by some of its provocative assertions…
Small-Town American Budgets Devastated by Opioid Crisis as 41 States Subpoena Big Pharma…
A surge in Opioid consumption, primarily prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl – a drug 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine – and the resulting spike in overdose related deaths is devastating families in rural America. But the opioid epidemic is laying waste to more than just the broken families…
Putin Orders to End Trade in U.S. Dollars at Russian Seaports…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to approve legislation making the ruble the main currency of exchange at all Russian seaports by next year, according to the Kremlin website. To protect the interests of stevedoring companies with foreign currency obligations, the government was instructed…
Lies, Lies & OMG More Lies…
Every month the government apparatchiks at the Bureau of Lies and Scams (BLS) dutifully announces inflation is still running below 2%. Janet Yellen then gives a speech where she notes her concern inflation is too low and she needs to keep interest rates near zero to save humanity from the scourge of too low inflation.
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