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Democrats push to remove parasite hedge funds from housing market to improve affordability

December 19, 2023 -

Two bills proposed by Democrats this week would require all hedge funds with single-family homes in their portfolios to sell them all off within the next 10 years. The bills would also prohibit hedge funds from owning any single-family homes at all.

In case you have not noticed, housing in America has become just another "stock" that rich people are buying up and hoarding as assets rather than using as a place to live. This has not only driven up housing prices to unsustainable, ...

Home Depot looking to take advantage of America’s housing affordability crisis by offering tiny house kit for under $44,000

June 16, 2023 -

The offering comes at a time when the National Association of Realtors found that 75 percent of homes are currently too expensive for middle-class home buyers to afford. The problem is being pinned on high mortgage rates as well as the prices of the homes themselves. Rents have also been climbing.

The current state of real estate prices has given rise to the tiny home trend, with many Americans choosing very small and much more affordable dwellings and abandoning dreams ...

Nearly 800,000 Californians behind on rent, with over $5B accumulated rental debts

August 01, 2023 - affordability crisis. Average rents in these places have surged by as much as 40 percent since 2020.

For these inland and small California cities and towns, the rental spikes are being caused by the surge of new residents competing for housing with locals. Many of these new residents are usually educated, coastal white-collar workers who work remotely. This means that not only are these people potentially displacing locals, they aren't even working for local businesses ...

BAD NEWS for home buyers: U.S. house mortgage rates SKYROCKET to HIGHEST level in two decades

August 27, 2023 - affordability hurdles buyers are facing."

According to ZeroHedge's Tyler Durden, the reason for the collapse is simple. The average monthly mortgage payment has exploded to a record $2,322 per month -- more than double from pre-pandemic levels. This is considering housing affordability at or near the lowest on record with the average monthly mortgage payment being based on a median home price and an average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, and assuming ...

Ford Motor Company scales down EV investments at Michigan plant due to declining demand and inflation pressures

December 08, 2023 - affordability continues to be an issue for consumers.

As part of its plan to scale back, Ford plans to instead invest in manufacturing low-cost lithium-ion batteries by 2026 based on technology licensed from CATL. (Related: Ford pauses construction of $3.5 billion EV battery plant in Michigan amid scrutiny over CCP involvement with the project.)

Ford is also seeking approval from the Department of the Treasury for lithium-ion batteries made at the Michigan ...

Bill Gates says Africans need GMO seeds, chickens to survive climate change

December 05, 2023 - affordability of 100 per cent renewable power globally when such a consensus simply does not exist – certainly not among energy systems experts, when they consider real-world constraints. Claims that it will be cheaper for African countries to use only renewable energy to grow their economies rather than a mix of fuels are unrealistic."

In 2021, Scientific American published an article with a similar bent that challenges the mission and claims of Gates and his ...

Connecticut’s Democratic governor pulls plug on plan to ban sale of gas cars by 2035

December 04, 2023 - affordability and the impact it's going to have on residents, especially people that live in the cities," said Candelora. "So we really need a broader conversation, looking at the electric grid and the feasibility of being able to do something like this."

Should this new attempt to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles in Connecticut pass, it would join a growing number of states following in the footsteps of California's aggressive plan to move toward becoming ...

Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit outlook from “stable” to “negative” amid political drama

November 15, 2023 -

Moody’s kept the U.S. at its highest rating of AAA, which means it was not a full downgrade. Nevertheless, a reduction in its outlook can be interpreted as a sign that Moody's expects its rating to drop in the future.

The ratings agency noted in its latest report that deficits would remain big and continue to negatively impact the U.S.’s debt affordability “with higher interest rates and without effective fiscal policy measures to reduce government spending ...

RFK Jr. to push for government-guaranteed 3% mortgage if elected president

September 07, 2023 - affordability crisis by offering tiny house kit for under $44,000.

Fake 'fact-checker' Politifact ripped after lie claiming there is a 'housing crisis' on Martha’s Vineyard to justify shipping migrants out.

Airbnb listing revenue COLLAPSES, driving fears of housing market crash.

HOUSING COLLAPSE: Existing home sales drop for 12th straight month.

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Disney announces price hikes for Disney+ and Hulu ad-free plans to compensate for several box-office flops

August 21, 2023 - affordability and value proposition of these platforms, especially as consumers juggle multiple subscription services.

The industry's landscape is evolving rapidly, as streaming platforms continue to compete for market share, content, and ultimately, subscribers' wallets.

Disney+ and Hulu are raking in revenues for Disney this year. Recent reports peg Disney’s total revenues at $1.27 billion in the first three months alone, an increase from the previous years....

India not turning away from Russian Urals crude even as discount to global benchmarks narrows

August 17, 2023 - affordability compared to alternatives," explained Samiran Chakraborty, chief economist for India at Citigroup Inc. Chakraborty stressed that as long as discounts continue to outweigh higher logistics costs, Indian refiners will likely continue to opt for Russian imports.

For instance, the average cost in June of Russian crude, including freight, was $68.17 per barrel – the lowest since the Ukrainian invasion. In contrast, shipments from Saudi Arabia averaged $81....

Far-left Human Rights Campaign partnered with Pfizer to push transgender mutilation on children

May 18, 2023 - affordability, including for those with HIV," Newell said.

Pfizer, conversely, did not respond to a request for comment.

Anything that the HRC deems as "discriminatory," including objections to harming and mutilating children, will lower a hospital's HEI score. And with that score deduction comes the threat of reduced funding or other "woke" punishments, which incentivizes hospitals to push as much LGBT perversion as possible to attain the highest score.

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Electric cars lose value TWICE as fast as gas vehicles, study finds

May 08, 2023 - affordability have been on a long-term upward trend," J.D. Power said in a statement.

"... but beneath those headline numbers we are starting to see some consumer behaviors that suggest a possible bifurcation of the automotive marketplace."

The percentage of car shoppers that is "very unlikely" to consider purchasing an EV in the next 12 months reached 21 percent in March, up 2 percent from 19 percent the month prior. According to J.D. Power, this is the highest ...

Nearly 4,000 car dealers urge Biden to abandon “unrealistic” electric vehicle agenda amid plummeting sales

December 05, 2023 - affordability, developing domestic mineral sources for batteries and establishing reliable charging infrastructure. (Related: Shifting to green energy is currently impossible due to global shortage of batteries and minerals needed for energy storage.)

This, in turn, would allow the American consumer time to become comfortable with the technology and make informed choices regarding their vehicle preferences.Car dealers face sluggish EV sales despite discounts ...

Automakers cut programs and reassess future plans for EV production as consumer demand plummets

November 27, 2023 - affordability and produce at least two million EVs globally by 2026 to help reach President Joe Biden's target of 50 percent EV sales by 2030.

However, factors like higher labor costs, rising interest rates and inflation have left car makers with no choice but to cut programs and review future plans. According to automotive research company Kelley Blue Book, the average EV price in July was $53,469 -- higher than the $48,334 for gas-powered vehicles. (Related: EV ...

Interest rate for 30-year fixed mortgage rises to 8.45% – the highest it has been since 2000

October 19, 2023 - affordability has diminished over the past few years with little relief in sight. The National Association of Realtors has also reported that the ability of a family to own a home is now at a decade-low.

Watch this episode of "Flyover Conservatives" as host Colton Whited interviews financial expert Kirk Elliot about how mortgage rates could continue exploding as the U.S. economy enters a recession.

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Biden’s tariffs to drive up prices of canned goods, solar panels as “Bidenflation” intensifies

August 24, 2023 - affordability of canned foods.Tariffs on solar panels, too

Now comes the Commerce Department's ruling that solar power panels manufacturers in four Southeast Asian countries are evading U.S. trade rules by using Chinese-sourced materials subject to tariffs without paying applicable duties.

The findings revealed that Chinese companies, including BYD, Trina Solar, Longi Green Energy and Canadian Solar, were utilizing minor processing in countries like Cambodia, ...

Artemisinin from sweet wormwood treats not just malaria but also CANCER

July 05, 2023 -

Research published in the journal Pharmacology & Therapeutics explains that repurposing drugs for other purposes, such as artemisinin for cancer, "can significantly shorten new therapeutic discovery pathways, ensuring greater accessibility and affordability globally."

"Cancer is a leading cause of death globally and the majority of cancer related deaths occur in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) where conventional treatment options are often limited by financial ...

RBNZ’s rate hikes destroying New Zealand’s economy – supposed solution to INFLATION leads to RECESSION

June 20, 2023 - affordability comes the heightened risk of defaulting, causing the real estate and mortgage industries to be one of the first corners of the gargantuan-but-fragile American economy to falter.

Ed Dowd, a financial analyst and former portfolio manager for investment firm BlackRock, said: "There are so many indicators that I follow with some other people that suggest that the rate-hike cycle was over before it started. So, they're tightening into a disaster."

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Global warming fanatics claim that TERRORIZING school children improves their climate behavior: “Engages them with positive actions”

June 15, 2023 - affordability. Change will be slow and incremental, like all social policy reform."

Up until the early 1900s, "drugs," as the government defines them, were legal. Edible opium was taxed and regulated in Australia until 1906, for example, and Coca-Cola in the United States contained actual cocaine until the year 1903.

Then came the War on Drugs, which accompanied a globalist takeover of the government, including that which sets the curriculum for public schools....