WOKE - Reason to Drop State Farm

 State Farm - WOKE

In January, State Farm Insurance actively advocated a company-wide program to get “Transgender, Inclusive and Non-Binary” books into school libraries to spark “challenging, important and empowering conversations with children ages 5 and up. The company’s LGBTQ advocacy shifted dramatically on Monday, however: “Conversations about gender and identity should happen at home with parents, State Farm said in a statement after they were exposed by the independent non-profit organization Consumers’ Research.

On January 18, 2022, State Farm’s Corporate Responsibility Analyst Jose Soto sent out an internal email calling on its Florida agents to participate in a “unique project” to “diversify” classrooms, community centers and libraries.

In the email, Soto said State Farm had partnered with the GenderCool Project to get books about being transgender and non-binary in front of schoolkids as young as 5-years-old.

Bernanke "Stagflation may be on the way"

 

Ben Bernanke sees "stagflation" ahead

NYT May 17, 2022 10:05 AM ET

But he also suggests it is possible the nation could be in for a period of “stagflation,” a word Mr. Bernanke says was invented in the 1970s.

“Even under the benign scenario, we should have a slowing economy,” he said. “And inflation’s still too high but coming down. So there should be a period in the next year or two where growth is low, unemployment is at least up a little bit and inflation is still high,” he predicted. “So you could call that stagflation.”

He is particularly aware that runaway inflation can quickly become a political issue — possibly putting the Federal Reserve in the cross-hairs of the public — in a way that even unemployment doesn’t evoke. “The difference between inflation and unemployment is that inflation affects just everybody,” he said. “Unemployment affects some people a lot, but most people don’t respond too much to unemployment because they’re not personally unemployed. Inflation has a social-wide kind of impact.”

 Portland - Democrat Showplace of Woke

Put a Fork in Portland

Portland use to be one of my favorite towns to visit. It had fun bars and groovy thrift stores. Now it looks like Detroit on a bender.

MARKETS: YEAR-TO-DATE - May 16, 2022

 

MARKETS: YEAR-TO-DATE

Nasdaq 11,805.00 -24.54%

S&P 4,023.89 -15.57%

Dow 32,196.66 -11.40%

10-Year 2.918% +140.4 bps

Bitcoin $31,079.77 -32.88%

Netflix $187.64 -68.85%

*Stock data as of market close, cryptocurrency data as of 7:00pm ET. Here's what these numbers mean.

Markets: More than $11 trillion in value has been erased from global stocks since the end of March. And, despite a pop last Friday, many analysts don’t think we’ve hit the bottom yet. Fewer than 30% of S&P companies have hit a one-year low during this downturn, compared to almost 50% during 2018’s rout and 82% during the financial crisis in 2008, according to Bloomberg.

Kamala's Word Salad - She's a Joke

Kamala is an Embarrassment  

FBI (Bad Players Unvailed) - Epoch Times)

 FBI (Bad Players Unvailed)

New DOJ Notes Reveal FBI Panic After Trump Tweeted He Knew He Was Being Spied On

By Jeff Carlson and Hans Mahncke

 

May 9, 2022 Updated: May 10, 2022

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Newly released notes taken by high-level Department of Justice (DOJ) officials during a March 6, 2017, meeting with FBI leadership expose some of the lengths the FBI went to, to cover up its spying on the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump.

MARKETS: YEAR-TO-DATE - May 9, 2022

 

MARKETS: YEAR-TO-DATE

Nasdaq 12,144.66 -22.37%

S&P 4,123.34 -13.49%

Dow 32,899.37 -9.46%

10-Year 3.128% +161.4 bps

Bitcoin $34,188.23 -26.17%

Oil $109.54 +45.65%

*Stock data as of market close, cryptocurrency data as of 8:00pm ET. Here's what these numbers mean.

Markets: You don’t need us to tell you this, but your retirement fund is probably getting wrecked from the steep market sell-off. The 100 largest 401(k) funds are all in negative territory this year, and 88 of them have posted double-digit losses, according to data firm BrightScope. Economy: If you’re one of the folks who believes we’re barreling toward a recession, you’ve got Bill Gates on your side. The billionaire told CNN yesterday that “I’m afraid the bears on this one have a pretty strong argument that concerns me a lot.”