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The Fed’s Beige Book shows a weakening economy Please consider the Fed’s Beige Book for July 2025. What is the Beige Book? The Beige Book is a Federal Reserve System publication about current economic conditions across the 12 Federal Reserve Districts. It characterizes regional economic conditions and prospects based on a variety of mostly qualitative information, gathered directly from each District’s sources. Reports are published eight times per year. What is the purpose of the Beige Book? The Beige Book is intended to characterize the change in economic conditions since the last report. Outreach for the Beige Book is one of many…
A majority of Germans oppose efforts to ban the populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, with many believing that it is merely an attempt by the Berlin establishment to sideline its opposition. In May, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s political spy agency, under the direction of then-far-left Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, ruled that the AfD is a “right-wing extremist” organisation. While the classification is currently under legal challenge, if upheld, it would allow for state surveillance of the party and potentially clear the way for the government to ban the party to supposedly protect German…
A July 21, 2025, memo for Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) makes clear all AFGSC personnel are to pause use of Sig Sauer’s M18 pistol. The M18 is a Sig Sauer P320 variant. The memo comes in response to an “incident at F.E. Warren AFB.” Personnel are to be armed with M4 rifles instead of the M18 pistol while the investigation is ongoing. Inspections of “all Wing-assigned M18 weapons systems” will occur during the first part of the investigation, and those inspections shall be carried out by “Combat arms inspectors.” F.E. Warren AFB reported that “an active-duty Airman assigned…
Ukraine’s supporters are up in arms over a factual and neutral – for a change – report on the aftermath of the failed Kursk invasion It’s a platitude that war kills not only people but truth. And as all platitudes, the statement is true, boring, and misleading. Because it omits the real murderers: “War” does not, actually, kill truth; people kill truth. War just tempts them to do so as few other things – such as job applications or marriage – can. The flipside of that fact is that it is perfectly possible to stick to the truth – or…
Massive protests broke out against President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday in Ukraine. The protests took place one day before peace talks between Ukraine and Russia. Marjorie Taylor Greene reported: Huge protests erupt in Kyiv against Ukrainian President Zelensky as he is a dictator and refuses to make a peace deal and end the war. Good for the Ukrainian people! Throw him out of office! And America must STOP funding and sending weapons!!! pic.twitter.com/WMJuMB7PlA — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) July 22, 2025 The protests erupted outside the president’s office after Ukraine’s Parliament passed a law that would strip the independence…
On Tuesday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Now,” John Sandweg, who served as acting ICE Director under President Obama, said that New York City’s sanctuary laws “certainly played a role” in the shooting of an off duty Border Patrol agent. Host Marni Hughes asked, “Does flooding sanctuary cities help this immigration problem?” Sandweg responded, “Well, look, clearly, Marni, something needs to change here, right? This is exactly — I don’t think anyone wants guys like this walking the streets. And I think when you look at the sanctuary laws, they certainly played a role here in this. You have someone who entered…
When it comes to fighting President Donald Trump, Democrats across the nation have complained for months about the sluggish reflexes of party leaders in Washington. Who would have guessed that a MAGA-fueled conspiracy theory would change all that? Congressional Democrats appear to have finally found their mojo in sticking it to the White House by seizing on the Jeffrey Epstein saga to humiliate the president and split the GOP. Unlike in the past, senior Democrats have shown a surprisingly nimble ability in recent days to pivot to the GOP’s vulnerability du jour, threatening to force votes exposing a divided Republican…
Border Czar Tom Homan on Tuesday responded to Hunter Biden’s crazed rebuke of the conservatives and the Trump Administration in epic fashion. Hunter Biden said “f*ck you” to anybody who wants safe streets and a secure border “I don’t really care what the former First Drug Addict thinks,” Homan told Fox’s Laura Ingraham. Homan then doubled down on his threats to sanctuary cities, putting leaders on notice that “hundreds of additional ICE agents” will be sent in if they continue to let violent criminals back onto their streets instead of handing them over to ICE. “we’re going to flood the…
During an interview on CBS News on Tuesday, Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) argued that economic indices on the stock market, employment, and inflation are just being made up by the Trump administration and “what they’re reporting are just numbers and we don’t know how much accuracy [there] is.” Host and CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett asked, “Congresswoman, the White House says, repeatedly, and there are some numbers that back them up on this, the stock market is up, investment in this country is up, employment is up or stable, inflation is down or stable. Most of the economic…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) fired the replacement for interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Alina Habba, hours after district court judges voted to replace her with her top assistant. In a post on X, Attorney General Pam Bondi highlighted how Habba, a New Jersey-born lawyer, “has been doing a great job” in making the state safe again. Bondi added, despite that, “politically minded judges refused” to allow Habba to remain in her position. “Accordingly, the First Assistant United States Attorney in New Jersey has just been removed,” Bondi added. “This Department of Justice does not tolerate…