Fox News' Sean Hannity was no match for economist Austin Goolsbee on Friday night.
Goolsbee gores Hannity:
"Hannity repeatedly tried to attack president Joe Biden over energy production and gas prices, only to be fact-checked by Goolsbee, a professor at the University of Chicago.
"He inherited energy independence, and we were a net exporter of energy, and now he's begging OPEC," Hannity said of Biden at the beginning of the clip.
"He inherited an economic downturn bordering on catastrophe and in times like that, the price of oil tends to go way down, that's for sure," Goolsbee responded.
"We need to focus," Hannity said. "Did he or did he not inherit — well, three vaccines and monoclonal antibodies — did he also inherit that we were a net exporter of energy, and did he cut energy production by 40 percent? The answer is yes."
"No, he did not cut energy production by 40 percent," Goolsbee responded. "Energy production fell because we were in an economic catastrophe — (a) catastrophic downturn.
"No, he fired Keystone XL pipeline workers," Hannity insisted.
"The Keystone pipeline wasn't built yet, Sean," Goolsbee said flatly. "That had no effect on energy production."
"Then why is he begging OPEC?" Hannity said of Biden. "Donald Trump didn't beg OPEC. Why is he begging OPEC?"
"He's not begging OPEC," Goolsbee said. "He convinced OPEC, and OPEC is increasing their production."
"They keep rejecting him," Hannity claimed.
"They didn't reject him. They said they're increasing production," Goolsbee said. "Why are you complaining about that, Sean? You're all over the map here. You were saying you didn't like to pay high gas prices. I told you gas prices went down and Biden convinced OPEC to increase production, and then you said, 'Why is he asking them to increase production?'"
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Earnings surprise is coming on Tuesday. Monday's bank reports will be a precursor to MS. Look to see $103-$105 by Wednesday.
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" Dem. Sen. Jon Ossoff will introduce a bill that bans members of Congress from trading stocks and closes the spouse loophole. "
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ONE-SIX committee pledges to 'Expose each and every level
of a carefully planned and staged assault on American democracy"
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"Jobless claims: Another 207,000 Americans filed new claims last week
Emily McCormick · Reporter Thu, January 6, 2022, 8:30 AM
New unemployment claims ticked up but remained near a 52-year low last week, with the weekly pace of new claims holding below pre-pandemic levels as the labor market sees job openings near a record high.
The Labor Department released its latest weekly jobless claims report Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main metrics from the print, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg:
-- Initial jobless claims, week ended Jan. 1: 207,000 vs. 195,000 expected, 198,000 during the prior week
-- Continuing claims, week ended Dec. 25: 1.754 million vs. 1.678 million expected, 1.716 million during the prior week
The U.S. economy likely saw a back-to-back week with new jobless claims coming in below the psychologically important 200,000 level. In the pre-pandemic period throughout 2019, new claims averaged around 220,000 per week.
But given that this week's data encompasses the holiday period, some economists warned that this report may be subject to some additional distortions.
"Signal-to-noise ratio is high at this time of year, because seasonal adjustment over the holidays is extremely difficult, so all forecasts are tentative," Ian Shepherdson, chief economist for Pantheon Economics, wrote in a note. "The trend, though, is falling."
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How is it SCHW has steadily risen without fumbling every three weeks and are now at the back door with $5 of seperation when it was $30 in November ? Every single time that MS hits the 52 week high it crashes back below $100 like a baseball thrown at old milk jugs at those city carnival games. You know this sht is being gamed by those in the know and those in control. Insider trading on information is supposed to be illegal but yet it is what greases the money machine and pays everyone down to the Market Makers, to the Institutional fund managers, to the 401K, IRA Money Market portfolio managers, and likely extends to our own brokerages...all dived up nice and tidy. Stock trading is a criminal enterprise because it feeds off the lay. From the retail's perspective - it is a way to make an honest buck. From those running the system it is a way to steal somebody's honest buck.
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Why doesn’t anyone talk about stock?
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It was a random Brit, acting alone, turning up at a random location....next story ( I'm not allowed to say but you know what I'm talking about)
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After reviewing the Atlanta speech, sounds like someone took their eye off the ball...that's all I'm allowed to say but you know what I mean based on today's event.
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Mandates appear to work!!
"January 11, 2022 By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - United Airlines Chief Executive Scott Kirby said on Tuesday that the company had about 3,000 employees who have tested positive for COVID-19 but its vaccinated employees had neither died nor recently been hospitalized with the disease.
Chicago-based United was the first U.S. carrier to mandate vaccines for its employees in order to facilitate travel and flight operations. Airlines have cancelled thousands of flights since late December, when the surge in Omicron cases and winter weather began impacting schedules.
Kirby said in a memo Tuesday that "since our vaccine policy went into effect, the hospitalization rate among our employees has been 100x lower than the general population in the U.S."
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"Florida-The state breaks infection records for the third week in a row as hospitalizations and deaths mount.
Florida won't enforce federal health care worker vaccine mandate "
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Our descendants will curse us, rightly so:
"The past seven years were Earth's warmest on record "by a clear margin," according to new research released this week by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, a group affiliated with the European Union.
Specifically, 2021 was the planet's fifth-warmest year on record, the group said. The two warmest years, according to the Copernicus group, were 2020 and 2016.
And despite the global COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane – the main drivers of global warming – continued to increase in 2021.
"Carbon dioxide and methane concentrations are continuing to increase year on year and without signs of slowing down," Vincent-Henri Peuch, director of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, said in a statement.'
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Ask Americans which date is more important, January 6 or August 26.....
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In 1990, the top 1% controlled approx. 5% of U.S. wealth. By Q3 2021, the top 1% controlled approx. 44% of U.S. wealth.
This signals a move to more serious charges against the leaders:
"Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, has been indicted — counts against him and 10 others include seditious conspiracy, the first time we've seen that charge in connection with Jan. 6. More to come, here's the document:
Lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of Ohio on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Ohio (LWVO), A. Philip Randolph Institute of Ohio and several individuals challenging Ohio’s new General Assembly maps passed after the release of 2020 census data. The complaint argues that the new maps are drawn to lock in Republican veto-proof supermajorities in both chambers of the legislature and are therefore a partisan gerrymander in violation of the Ohio Constitution. The suit asks the court to declare the new maps invalid and order the creation of fair maps. Oral argument for this case and two related cases was held on Dec. 8. The Ohio Supreme Court struck down the maps, holding that they were partisan gerrymanders that violated the Ohio Constitution. The court ordered the Commission to adopt new plans that comply with the constitution within 10 days of the ruling."
"Maybe Senator Manchin can explain to the millions of children who have been lifted out of poverty, in part due to the Child Tax Credit, why he wants to end a program that is helping achieve this milestone—we cannot."
Goolsbee gores Hannity:
"Hannity repeatedly tried to attack president Joe Biden over energy production and gas prices, only to be fact-checked by Goolsbee, a professor at the University of Chicago.
"He inherited energy independence, and we were a net exporter of energy, and now he's begging OPEC," Hannity said of Biden at the beginning of the clip.
"He inherited an economic downturn bordering on catastrophe and in times like that, the price of oil tends to go way down, that's for sure," Goolsbee responded.
"We need to focus," Hannity said. "Did he or did he not inherit — well, three vaccines and monoclonal antibodies — did he also inherit that we were a net exporter of energy, and did he cut energy production by 40 percent? The answer is yes."
"No, he did not cut energy production by 40 percent," Goolsbee responded. "Energy production fell because we were in an economic catastrophe — (a) catastrophic downturn.
"No, he fired Keystone XL pipeline workers," Hannity insisted.
"The Keystone pipeline wasn't built yet, Sean," Goolsbee said flatly. "That had no effect on energy production."
"Then why is he begging OPEC?" Hannity said of Biden. "Donald Trump didn't beg OPEC. Why is he begging OPEC?"
"He's not begging OPEC," Goolsbee said. "He convinced OPEC, and OPEC is increasing their production."
"They keep rejecting him," Hannity claimed.
"They didn't reject him. They said they're increasing production," Goolsbee said. "Why are you complaining about that, Sean? You're all over the map here. You were saying you didn't like to pay high gas prices. I told you gas prices went down and Biden convinced OPEC to increase production, and then you said, 'Why is he asking them to increase production?'"
of a carefully planned and staged assault on American democracy"
Emily McCormick · Reporter
Thu, January 6, 2022, 8:30 AM
New unemployment claims ticked up but remained near a 52-year low last week, with the weekly pace of new claims holding below pre-pandemic levels as the labor market sees job openings near a record high.
The Labor Department released its latest weekly jobless claims report Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main metrics from the print, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg:
-- Initial jobless claims, week ended Jan. 1: 207,000 vs. 195,000 expected, 198,000 during the prior week
-- Continuing claims, week ended Dec. 25: 1.754 million vs. 1.678 million expected, 1.716 million during the prior week
The U.S. economy likely saw a back-to-back week with new jobless claims coming in below the psychologically important 200,000 level. In the pre-pandemic period throughout 2019, new claims averaged around 220,000 per week.
But given that this week's data encompasses the holiday period, some economists warned that this report may be subject to some additional distortions.
"Signal-to-noise ratio is high at this time of year, because seasonal adjustment over the holidays is extremely difficult, so all forecasts are tentative," Ian Shepherdson, chief economist for Pantheon Economics, wrote in a note. "The trend, though, is falling."
Every single time that MS hits the 52 week high it crashes back below $100 like a baseball thrown at old milk jugs at those city carnival games. You know this sht is being gamed by those in the know and those in control. Insider trading on information is supposed to be illegal but yet it is what greases the money machine and pays everyone down to the Market Makers, to the Institutional fund managers, to the 401K, IRA Money Market portfolio managers, and likely extends to our own brokerages...all dived up nice and tidy. Stock trading is a criminal enterprise because it feeds off the lay.
From the retail's perspective - it is a way to make an honest buck. From those running the system it is a way to steal somebody's honest buck.
"January 11, 2022
By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - United Airlines Chief Executive Scott Kirby said on Tuesday that the company had about 3,000 employees who have tested positive for COVID-19 but its vaccinated employees had neither died nor recently been hospitalized with the disease.
Chicago-based United was the first U.S. carrier to mandate vaccines for its employees in order to facilitate travel and flight operations. Airlines have cancelled thousands of flights since late December, when the surge in Omicron cases and winter weather began impacting schedules.
Kirby said in a memo Tuesday that "since our vaccine policy went into effect, the hospitalization rate among our employees has been 100x lower than the general population in the U.S."
Florida won't enforce federal health care worker vaccine mandate "
"The past seven years were Earth's warmest on record "by a clear margin," according to new research released this week by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, a group affiliated with the European Union.
Specifically, 2021 was the planet's fifth-warmest year on record, the group said. The two warmest years, according to the Copernicus group, were 2020 and 2016.
And despite the global COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane – the main drivers of global warming – continued to increase in 2021.
"Carbon dioxide and methane concentrations are continuing to increase year on year and without signs of slowing down," Vincent-Henri Peuch, director of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, said in a statement.'
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/01/13/texas-denying-most-guard-troops-border-chance-help-families-suffering-hardships-home.html
"Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, has been indicted — counts against him and 10 others include seditious conspiracy, the first time we've seen that charge in connection with Jan. 6. More to come, here's the document:
https://justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1462481/download?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
Lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of Ohio on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Ohio (LWVO), A. Philip Randolph Institute of Ohio and several individuals challenging Ohio’s new General Assembly maps passed after the release of 2020 census data. The complaint argues that the new maps are drawn to lock in Republican veto-proof supermajorities in both chambers of the legislature and are therefore a partisan gerrymander in violation of the Ohio Constitution. The suit asks the court to declare the new maps invalid and order the creation of fair maps. Oral argument for this case and two related cases was held on Dec. 8.
The Ohio Supreme Court struck down the maps, holding that they were partisan gerrymanders that violated the Ohio Constitution. The court ordered the Commission to adopt new plans that comply with the constitution within 10 days of the ruling."
https://bullish-trades.com/top-trade-ideas
"Maybe Senator Manchin can explain to the millions of children who have been lifted out of poverty, in part due to the Child Tax Credit, why he wants to end a program that is helping achieve this milestone—we cannot."