Bill’s commentary:
“Things getting very real …very fast!”
Operation Lone Star integrates TMD with the Texas Department of Public Safety to deploy border security assets to high threat areas to deny criminal organizations the ability to illegally move drugs and people into Texas.
Bill’s commentary:
“Yes, “strange” indeed …if you don’t have a functional brain!”
In a recent survey of 269 embalmers across four major countries and three continents, more than 70% reported finding strange fibrous white blood clots in significant percentages of corpses in 2023 — clots they were not finding pre-pandemic.
Bill’s commentary:
“Score one for the home team!”
The FBI’s seizure of contents from safe deposit boxes during a raid on a Beverly Hills vault in 2021 violated the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled on Jan. 23.
Bill’s commentary:
“So much for the rule of law?”
A California woman who fatally stabbed her boyfriend more than 100 times during what prosecutors called a “cannabis-induced” psychosis has been spared prison time, a judge ruled on Tuesday. The decision drew sobs of relief from the woman and a rebuke from the victim’s father.
Bill’s commentary:
“An issue that should not be divisive in any way, looks like a wedge growing between the coasts?”
BREAKING: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, and Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte all announced that they stand with Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott in the border dispute with the federal government.
Bill’s commentary:
“Bill, This is obscene. The FED is worse than the Mafia!” – David
“David, very true, but also not surprising in the least…” – Bill
To read main stream media headlines, one would think that the Federal Reserve Inspector General’s Office has exonerated former Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan of any legal action for trading like a hedge fund kingpin while he was privy to insider information at the Fed.
Bill’s commentary:
“Holding ANY reserves is so “passe” in today’s world …”
China said Wednesday it would next month cut the amount banks must hold in reserve in order to boost lending, state media reported, as officials look to reignite stuttering growth.
The decision comes as the world’s second-largest economy faces multiple headwinds, including a prolonged crisis in the property sector, sluggish domestic consumption and weakening foreign demand.
Bill’s commentary:
“From Wall Street on Parade”
Gerald Epstein is Professor of Economics and a Founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A book he has spent the past decade researching and writing comes out today from the University of California Press: Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us.
Bill’s commentary:
“Just a 75% drop in value since 2014. Nothing to see here!”
I have no experience in Commercial Real Estate (CRE) except that when I was an investment broker I always worked in some concrete structure that was most likely financed by a commercial real estate mortgage. The once great story of CRE is falling apart.
On Jan. 17 The New York Post broke a story that Blackrock has defaulted on its Manhattan property that it had purchased in 2014 for more than 600 million dollars.
Bill’s commentary:
“So earnings have dropped 20% and the equity market went to a new high? “
If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then, give up. No point in being a damned fool about it. W.C. Fields.
BillHolter.com 
Wonder if the owners of the safe deposit box got their belongings back.
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Its true the Greater the battle GREATER is the victory.
Grace and Peace to you Bill and your Family
qlan
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