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A report from NBC News. “Today’s housing market has two competing realities: a cost crunch that shows no signs of stopping, and a stretch of rising inventories and slowing competition that could offer relief — for those who can afford it. The decrease in competition is reflected in the time homes stay on the market, which has increased to near pre-pandemic levels. And the share of homes that sell within two weeks, 36%, is among the lowest it has been in the past five years. ‘Inventory has certainly increased [nationwide], but sales have yet to really get going,’ said Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors. ‘So if inventory lingers for longer, that’s when we’ll really start to see price reductions.’ Yun said he sees hope ahead. With inventory increases across the country, homeowners are less tethered to the home they own, what he called a ‘golden handcuffs situation.’ ‘With each passing month, the strength of golden handcuffs is beginning to weaken.'”

Banker & Tradesman in Massachusetts. “In Boston’s Back Bay, two single-family homes on Commonwealth Avenue were recently listed for nearly $30 million each. Not to be outdone, another Back Bay property was offered (off the MLS) with an asking price of ‘$60-$70 million.’ According to MLS records, the highest price ever paid for a Back Bay single-family currently stands at $13 million. In the past 12 months, MLS PIN indicates that zero single family properties have sold in Back Bay proper. Yes, we know that there was a non-MLS sale, but this is clearly a highly illiquid market. It’s been my view that limited inventory has been masking weak underlying demand. The inventory of available condominiums in Boston’s Back Bay is currently 37 percent higher when compared with the pre-pandemic trailing five-year average. In Wellesley, single family home inventory is still 60 percent below pre-pandemic levels, but it’s now 54 percent above the post-pandemic three-year average.”

“By April 2023, 18.6 percent of conventional mortgage originations by dollar volume were ARMs. No doubt homeowners with these adjustable-rate mortgages bought into the Realtor sales pitch of ‘marry the property, date the rate.’ Many high-end transactions are financed with mortgages, and in recent years they’re mostly ARMs. A penthouse condominium unit in the Seaport District recently sold for $8.5 million. The purchase was financed with a $6.37 million mortgage – not unusual. What is noteworthy is the structure of the mortgage which has an initial 10-year interest-only period.”

“In the wake of the financial crisis, these types of loans were viewed as the ugly cousin of the ‘liar loan’ – apparently IO’s are back in vogue. Valuations feel a little frothy, inventory is piling up, interest rate resets are on the horizon, and the cost of home ownership is skyrocketing in the form of property taxes, insurance and other expenses. Is the real estate market whistling past the graveyard?”

Northwest Florida Daily News. “Newly released data from Realtor.com for March shows that potential buyers and sellers in Okaloosa County saw houses sell for lower than the previous month’s median sales price of $364,000. The median home sold for $325,000, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows. Compared to March 2023, the median home sales price was down 7.1% at $325,000 compared to $350,000. Condominiums and townhomes decreased by 29.7% in sales price during March to a median of $320,000 from $455,000 in February. Compared to March 2023, the sales price of condominiums and townhomes was down 24.7% from $425,000. In March, the number of recorded sales in Okaloosa County dropped by 30.1% since March 2023 from 505 to 353.”

The Star Telegram in Texas. “Fort Worth’s red-hot home market seems to have cooled just in time for summer. The city’s housing inventory climbed to 3.2 months this past May, according to the Greater Fort Worth Association of Realtors latest market analysis. Cowtown’s housing inventory — a measurement of how long it would take to sell off the city’s existing supply of homes — hasn’t surpassed the three month mark since 2013. ‘The increased demand that was created by the pandemic and a drop in mortgage rates really highlighted an overall shortage of housing in the area,’ Blake Barry, the president of the Greater Fort Worth Association of Realtors, said in a statement. ‘There were many more eager buyers than available homes for sale. Things feel very different now, and buyers have more options than they’ve seen in years.'”

From KVVU. “Hundreds of thousands of people have moved to Nevada since the pandemic, and a class has helped Northern California residents make informed decisions before the leap to relocate to the Silver State. The class is titled ‘Exit Strategies for Leaving the Bay Area,’ offered in San Jose. Realtor Punam Navalgund created the class in 2019 and tells FOX5 that the concept was born out of necessity: clients needed direction for how to leave California, what state or city to choose, and what to expect from a major move. Brian Cronin, 35, said he weighed the pros and cons on paper before a move from San Francisco to Henderson in 2020.”

“‘The cost of living in my [San Francisco] apartment was $2,600 a month for a small studio,’ Cronin said. Homelessness and needles on sidewalks were conditions he also described as ‘depressing.’ ‘When I moved here, I got $1,000 off my rent. I completely eliminated all my personal income tax. So I basically gave myself like a 15 to 20% raise,’ he said.”

CBS Sacramento. “FBI agents conducted an early-morning raid on the home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Thursday morning, one of several federal raids on other properties in the city. Agents served warrants at Thao’s house on Maiden Lane in the city’s Lincoln Highlands neighborhood at around 5:30 a.m. Federal agents also served warrants at a nearby home on Viewcrest Court in the city’s Ridgemont neighborhood and at the Embarcadero offices shared by the Vietnamese American Business Association (VABA) and California Waste Solutions which manages the city’s curbside recycling program. The San Francisco Chronicle reported another search at the Skyline Boulevard home of VABA chairman David Duong, who is also CEO of California Waste Solutions.”

“California Waste Solutions has previously been investigated over campaign contributions to Oakland city officials, including Thao when she was a city councilmember, according to Oaklandside. The raids come two days after the Alameda County Registrar of Voters announced there were enough signatures on a petition to recall Thao from office to move the process forward. Supporters of a recall blame the mayor for not doing enough to fight crime which has led many businesses to close down in the city. They also blame Thao for the city’s failure to apply for millions of dollars in state money to fight retail crime.”

“Thao was also criticized for firing former police chief LeRonne Armstrong and not hiring a replacement for more than a year. On Thursday, Armstrong called the FBI raids ‘a sad day for the City of Oakland’ in a prepared statement. ‘Oakland is a city in crisis. Crime, violence, shootings, uncontrolled homelessness, unmitigated encampments, the budget deficit and more,’ said Armstrong. ‘The biggest obstacle to overcoming these crises are the failures of leadership in City Hall. Even before today’s news, some city leaders have done nothing to help–and much to hurt—our city.'”

El Nuevo Dia in Puerto Rico. “Residents of the San Ignacio condominium in San Juan experienced this year an increase of almost double in the cost of their insurance policy, an issue that is replicated throughout the island, according to Myrna Vélez, administrative assistant of the residential complex. According to Vélez, who is also a resident of the condominium, the master insurance payment for a three-bedroom apartment increased from $600 to more than $1,200 annually, which is divided and added to the mortgage payment. Those numbers do not take into account the private insurance, which has also increased. ‘It is very difficult, and since 2020 it has been worse, because many things have changed and nobody wants condominiums anymore, honestly,’ said Vélez, referring to the insurance companies that are not willing to insure condominiums.”

“The situation worsened after the impact of the natural disasters that affected Puerto Rico in 2017 and 2020, and worsened when some insurers opted not to assume the risk of condominiums, particularly, those on the coasts, Velez explained. ‘It’s going to continue to drive up the cost of insurance. They are drowning us,’ said Vélez. ‘It’s not just us, it’s all the condominiums.””

St Thomas Times Journal in Canada. “Alan Kats had angry words for two people he came looking for at a low-rise office building in Toronto on Monday afternoon — a witness heard arguing before the gunshots — but he also had much more in mind. He came to kill them, and then kill himself. Kats, 46, left his wife a note before setting off to the North York office, where he found Arash Missaghi, described by a judge as a ‘predatory fraudster,’ and Samira Yousefi, a pushy mortgage agent, who he blamed for defrauding the couple of their home and savings through an investment swindle that Missaghi had unrelentingly pulled on many people over many years, according to victims and police allegations.”

“Kats’ note says his death is on the hands of four people, and then lists the two people he killed as well as two lawyers who allegedly facilitated the transactions. ‘Stop these criminals from destroying peoples lifes,’ says his note, handwritten with misspellings in blue ink on a folded sheet of paper. What’s more, Kats and Pogorelovsky learned they were not the first people Missaghi had swindled, and were convinced they wouldn’t be the last. He seemed incorrigible and unstoppable, not by police, the courts, or investor complaints. Despite criminal charges, police probes, and lawsuits in Canada and the United States, Missaghi kept on swindling.”

From Metro UK. “The day before she was due to exchange contracts, the people buying Katharine Storr’s family home slashed their offer by £30,000. ‘They were bringing up all kinds of things which were in the survey, but weren’t issues at all,’ said the mum, 38, who lives in Tooting with her husband Matt and their kids. ‘They had us over a barrel and knew it, as we have three children and were moving house for schools.’ Like many selling a property in the current market, Katharine had been gazundered – when a buyer reduces their offer at a late stage of negotiations to pressure the seller into accepting less money. According to research by House Buyer Bureau, 31% of UK home sellers over the last six months of 2023 were victims of gazundering, with a third saying it happened within a week of their exchange date.”

“‘We were so upset and angry,’ writer Katharine told Metro.co.uk. ‘It felt awful, everything had gone so smoothly until that point and then it felt like they were inventing issues that weren’t there to try to get money off.’ But the tactic worked for the buyer and, backed into a corner, they accepted £15,000 less than the original offer. Three quarters of sellers who’ve been gazundered reported that they also gave into the pressure and accepted, with reasons including believing the lower offer was still fair, not wanting to jeopardise their onward sale, and not wanting to waste more time finding another buyer.”

“This was the case for Evie Richards, 25, who was keen to sell the house she shared with her boyfriend after they broke up, so she could move on with her life. The deputy SEO editor from South London and her ex put the property on the market in February last year but didn’t accept an offer until June. ‘The offer was already around £20,000 below asking,’ she told Metro.co.uk. ‘But it was at the bottom end of what the house was valued at and we weren’t making a loss (breaking more-or-less even) so reluctantly agreed – knowing that this is just how the market is, and we both wanted out of our current situation.’”

“By September, they were ready to sign on the dotted line when Evie got a call from her solicitor while she was at work. The buyer claimed that unless they were willing to accept an offer £30,000 less than agreed, he’d ‘walk away’ completely. She recalled: ‘My world shattered, and it took me a while to compose myself and get back to work. He said unfortunately this is common practice we’re seeing more and more, where buyers prey on desperation and time pressure and make ridiculous requests like this that you can’t afford to turn down.’”

“After a lot of back and forth, they were able to negotiate the price to £7,000 less than originally offered, along with amenities such as the brand new fridge and garden furniture thrown in. Yet Evie remembers the nerve-wracking ordeal as ‘a waste of time and money’ that left her ‘terrified that the buyer would pull out.’”

From YLE. “At the end of last year, Helsinki City Housing Company (Heka), Finland’s largest landlord, made news for raising rents by an average of 12 percent. Today more than 1,000 Heka flats sit empty. Heka has some 1,500 vacant apartments. At the same time, 10,500 housing applications await processing. Helsingin Sanomat has reported that the vacant rental apartments mean million-euro monthly losses for Heka, which had to increase rents last year due to financial difficulties. Heka houses more than 90,000 of the capital’s residents. These apartments are allocated by the City of Helsinki’s housing services, with priority given to the homeless and other applicants of limited means and low income.”

“Heka CEO Jaana Närö meanwhile said the current market situation means that people have more choice than a year ago. ‘There are apartments available in Helsinki, so residents can choose. When we make an offer, they may have already found housing elsewhere,’ she said.”

DPA News Agency. “Germany’s Federal Statistics Office released figures on Friday that showed domestic property prices slipping further in the first three months of 2024. The country’s property market has declined since mid-2022 — a phenomenon largely attributed to a steep rise in interest rates. Prices fell by 5.7% year-on-year. The biggest declines compared to the same quarter last year were seen for single and two-family homes in Germany’s seven largest cities (Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart and Düsseldorf), at -9.5%. Plummeting prices have been largely attributed to reduced demand as the cost of borrowing increased, making buying less attractive for private buyers and large investors.”

South China Morning Post. “Singapore’s cooling property market suffered a blow after a housing site put up for sale by the government failed to attract any interest from developers for the first time in more than two decades. The Upper Thomson Road site was one of two earmarked for construction of some apartments requiring a minimum three-month stay, up from the current seven-day requirement. Tepid foreigner demand and economic uncertainty are making developers think twice, according to CBRE Group Inc., which added that this was the first time such a site saw no bids in more than 20 years. The other pilot site for long-term serviced apartments on the fringe of the city centre drew only one bid, which was accepted in April. ‘Market sentiment is weak, and caution rules the day’ for developers, said Nicholas Mak, the chief research officer at Mogul.sg, a property portal.”

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  1. The Canadian article is one of the most detailed I’ve seen on how these crooks operated, worth reading in full.

    1. “Officers found three bodies: Missaghi, 54, of Toronto, and Yousefi, 44, of Concord, north of Toronto. Police haven’t publicly identified the third, saying only a 46-year-old man believed responsible for the shooting was among the dead.”

      The prey becomes the predator. Well done, sir!

  2. ‘ the people buying Katharine Storr’s family home slashed their offer by £30,000. ‘They were bringing up all kinds of things which were in the survey, but weren’t issues at all,’ said the mum, 38, who lives in Tooting with her husband Matt and their kids. ‘They had us over a barrel and knew it’

    That’s the spirit buyers, ask for more money off at the last minute!

  3. ‘By April 2023, 18.6 percent of conventional mortgage originations by dollar volume were ARMs. No doubt homeowners with these adjustable-rate mortgages bought into the Realtor sales pitch of ‘marry the property, date the rate.’ Many high-end transactions are financed with mortgages, and in recent years they’re mostly ARMs. A penthouse condominium unit in the Seaport District recently sold for $8.5 million. The purchase was financed with a $6.37 million mortgage – not unusual. What is noteworthy is the structure of the mortgage which has an initial 10-year interest-only period’

    ‘In the wake of the financial crisis, these types of loans were viewed as the ugly cousin of the ‘liar loan’ – apparently IO’s are back in vogue. Valuations feel a little frothy, inventory is piling up, interest rate resets are on the horizon, and the cost of home ownership is skyrocketing in the form of property taxes, insurance and other expenses. Is the real estate market whistling past the graveyard?’

    Senator running deer really heap angry now, right out side her own wigwam!

    ‘

  4. Wall Street Journal — Will Debt Sink the American Empire? (6/21/2024):

    “America is cruising into an uncharted sea of federal debt, with a public seemingly untroubled by the stark numbers and a government seemingly incapable of turning them around.

    History, however, offers some cautionary notes about the consequences of swimming in debt. Over the centuries and across the globe, nations and empires that blithely piled up debt have, sooner or later, met unhappy ends.

    Historian Niall Ferguson recently invoked what he calls his own personal law of history: “Any great power that spends more on debt service (interest payments on the national debt) than on defense will not stay great for very long. True of Habsburg Spain, true of ancien régime France, true of the Ottoman Empire, true of the British Empire, this law is about to be put to the test by the U.S. beginning this very year.” Indeed, the Congressional Budget Office projects that, in part because of rising interest rates, the federal government will spend $892 billion during the current fiscal year for interest payments on the accumulated national debt of $28 trillion—meaning that interest payments now surpass the amount spent on defense and nearly match spending on Medicare.

    Washington has been adding to the national debt at an alarming pace. Not so long ago—beginning in the late 1990s—the federal government’s budget was actually in surplus, at least for a time. This year, it will be some $1.9 trillion in the red, the Congressional Budget Office forecast just this week.

    Only a dozen years ago, the aggregate government debt amounted to about 70% of the nation’s gross domestic product. This year, it will be about equal to the entire gross domestic product (and by some measures higher when additional government accounts are included). By 2028, it is forecast to reach a record 106% of GDP, matching the record hit during the heavy spending to finance World War II. By 2034, barring changes in tax and spending policy, it is projected to hit 122% of GDP, the highest level ever recorded.”

    https://archive.ph/Q1x9j

  5. “Hundreds of thousands of people have moved to Nevada since the pandemic,”

    And it has absolutely ruined one of my favorite places to live for a good portion of my life. The 395 corridor from Gardnerville to Reno and beyond is officially ruined.

  6. Nightmare Situation as Tesla Dies in Heatwave, Trapping Toddler Inside (6/22/2024):

    “When the battery on a Tesla dies, the interior can be little more than a giant oven for someone trapped inside, as an Arizona woman learned.

    Renee Sanchez recently learned how quickly owning an EV can turn into a horrifying experience on a scorching Arizona day as the Scotttsdale woman planned to take her 20-month-old granddaughter into her car seat for a trip to the Phoenix Zoo, according to KPHO-TV.

    “And I closed the door, went around the car, get in the front seat, and my car was dead,” she said. “I could not get in. My phone key wouldn’t open it. My card key wouldn’t open it.”

    Sanchez called 911. Scottsdale firefighters responded.

    “And when they got here, the first thing they said was, ‘Uggh, it’s a Tesla. We can’t get in these cars,’” she said. “And I said, ‘I don’t care if you have to cut my car in half. Just get her out.’”

    Eventually, the girl was pulled free.

    “After I knew she was safe, then the anger,” Sanchez said. “Then, all the thoughts of, oh my God, this could have been so much worse.”

    Although Tesla is supposed to give owners a warning when the battery is ready to die, Sanchez said, and the Tesla service department backed her up, that she received none.

    “When that battery goes, you’re dead in the water,” she said.

    She said she is reconsidering her faith in Tesla.”

    https://www.westernjournal.com/nightmare-situation-tesla-dies-heatwave-trapping-toddler-inside/

    1. Isn’t at least one car door supposed to have an old school keylock to open the car should the battery die?


        3. Tesla’s have emergency buttons to manually open doors.

          It pays to RTFM.

          From the inside or outside? Was the toddler supposed to RTFM?

          1. If you bought a car where the doors are 100% electric, you should probably RTRM before putting an infant inside and shutting the door.

            I’m more careful with my dog.

          2. If you bought a car where the doors are 100% electric

            Yet another reason to not buy one.

          4. So I get out of the car, and I have to be careful not to close the front door before opening the rear one, because otherwise the battery might fail in between the two actions, thereby trapping the kid inside?

            And everyone’s supposed to know this because it says it in the manual?

          5. So I get out of the car, and I have to be careful not to close the front door before opening the rear one, because otherwise the battery might fail in between the two actions, thereby trapping the kid inside?

            The software on the car informs you when the 12V battery that powers the doors (and other systems) is low. So yes, you should read the manual about what a low battery means and how to solve it.

          1. The doors must be opened from the inside.

            The software informs the driver ahead of time when the 12V battery that powers the doors is low and needs replacement.

          2. A poor design. I can rent any ICE car from Hertz and I don’t need to RTFM to operate it, because it conforms to accepted standards. One of those standards is that if the battery is dead you can open it with a key,.

  7. A former Fairfield Inn hotel, located in Dedham, about 30 minutes outside of Boston, currently has all 149 rooms of the hotel filled with migrants. During an investigation into state contracts with these hotels, it was discovered that these rooms which were previously rented out for $129 per month, are now being rented for $180, or $5,400 per month for a room— without a kitchen.

    https://thepostmillennial.com/savanah-hernandez-reports-massachusetts-spending-5400-monthly-per-room-for-migrants-overwhelming-small-towns-and-cities-outside-of-boston

    1. Savanah Hernandez
      @sav_says_

      MA-Got an inside look at the migrant hotel, 30 minutes outside of Boston, where rooms are being rented out for illegal immigrants for $5,400 a month.

      $9 million in taxpayer dollars are going toward this hotel and Boston has done a good job of hiding their migrant crisis by shipping illegals to smaller towns and cities throughout Massachusetts |
      @FrontlinesTPUSA

      3:51 PM · Jun 20, 2024
      ·
      https://x.com/sav_says_/status/1803878327683613031

      1. FRONTLINES
        @FrontlinesTPUSA

        MASSACHUSETTS: State leaders are preparing the Bay State Correctional Facility, 45 minutes outside Boston, to house 450 illegal immigrants later this month.

        The small town of Norfolk, MA, with a population of only 11k, is concerned the influx could impact emergency services and schools.

        @sav_says_ @TPUSA

        Jun 21, 2024
        ·
        https://x.com/FrontlinesTPUSA/status/1804192840458866966

  8. Because the solution to weather is communism.

    Salon (no link provided) — We need a national climate action plan — and an exit strategy from fossil fuels (6/23/2024):

    “It could hardly be clearer that the world is already in the throes of a climate catastrophe. That means it’s high time for the U.S. to declare a national climate emergency to help focus us all on the disaster at hand.

    Such a declaration of a climate emergency is long overdue. Some 40 other nations have already done so, including 2,356 jurisdictions and local governments representing more than a billion people. Of course, a declaration alone will hardly be enough. As the world’s wealthiest and most powerful nation, and the one that historically has contributed the most legacy greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, the U.S. needs to develop a coherent exit strategy from the stranglehold of fossil fuels, a strategy that could serve as an international example of a swift and thorough clean-energy transition.

    Fortunately, there is a historical precedent for just such a comprehensive mobilization of government and citizenry in dire circumstances: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s and the World War II years provide examples of the scale and intensity of the response needed today to reverse climate change. However, instead of gearing up to produce jobs for the unemployed or planes and tanks for a war, a concerted nationwide industrial effort is needed now to upgrade our electrical grid and produce millions of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, carbon-capture machines and zero-emission vehicles. All too sadly, this country and the world are now in a situation even more perilous than either the Great Depression or World War II.

    To create a common consensual vision around which the national climate movement could mobilize, a broad civil society gathering should be convened to attract the leadership of all environmental and climate action groups and set the stage for the National Climate Action Plan. That gathering would, of course, focus on the roadblocks to implementing such a plan and to a swift national clean-energy transition — and how those roadblocks could be dismantled.

    Put all this together and you would have a nation mobilized against the fossil fuel industry, ready to create a climate action plan and mobilize Americans in an all-of-society effort on behalf of slashing national carbon emissions in a radical fashion, accelerating a clean-energy transition and protecting our endangered world. What more could you ask for?”

    Dismantling roadblocks? Related quote:

    “The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign within the People’s Republic of China from 1958 to 1962, led by the Chinese Communist Party … Millions of people died in China during the Great Leap, with estimates ranging from 15 to 55 million, making the Great Chinese Famine the largest or second-largest famine in human history.”

    Sounds about right.

    1. Such a declaration of a climate emergency is long overdue. Some 40 other nations have already done so, including 2,356 jurisdictions and local governments representing more than a billion people.

      So the other 7 billion are not on board with this nonsense.

      The global south might not be able to dethrone Uncle Buck, but hopefully it can resist this idiocy.

  9. Ozempic products came on the market about 5 years ago and now over 15 million people are taking the drugs. If you take it for weight loss it will run you about a thousand a month out of pocket.

    They use venom in that product that ends up making the stomach be paralyzed and not function.Thyroid cancer and all kinds of side effects listed with that drug.
    This is Big Pharmaceutical idea on losing weight is to poison you so your stomach won’t function , so you can’t eat because food is stuck in your stomach. What could go wrong with this idea.

    And even if you go off the drug, the poison takes a long time to clear, so you still have a stomach that doesn’t function.
    I knew two people that took phen phen and got heart valve damage before they took that junk off the market.
    But, the FDA approved these Ozempic products . So the business model of Big Pharmacy is make a fortune off a bad drug until the lawsuits start, in which the payouts will be low in comparison to the profits made. Try suing Big Pharmacy and usually it ends up being a class action where the victims get low pay outs and the Attorneys end up with millions and millions. My friend got 4 thousand dollar settlement from phen phen class action, for a damaged heart valve, that leeks all the time, and her doctor said in future heart surgery will probably be needed.
    Individuals filing a lawsuit against Big Pharmacy is such a overwhelming money investment and time investment that usually victims opt for the Class Action low payout nonsense.

    And if one of their drugs kills you , a dead person isn’t going to sue, maybe the family will.
    Its all so rigged in favor of unsafe products by Big Pharmaceutical companies.
    And with anything labeled a vaccine , they have immunity to death and injury caused by those products. So now they are calling numerous products a vaccine, because CDC changed the definition of a vaccine with no authority to do so.

    So just saying that if FDA has approved a product that doesn’t mean its safe or effective . And remember pharmacy products and med system is listed as the third cause of death in US. The Covid vaccine , or the mRNA technology, marketed as a vaccine, is a failed technology they won’t take off the market. The PCR test is a fake diagnosis test that they are fraudulently using to fabricate Panademics.
    The Climate Change Doomsday fraud and the bizarre solutions is the other global emergency that
    they use to basically create a One World Order dictorship. Banks, Big Pharmacy, Rich Elites, Monopoly Corporation and other co conspirators have captured 195 global governments to surrender to Transferring by Treaty unlimited power to a unelected, corrupt puppet UN organization. The UN powers, if adopted ,would override all Sovereign States, freedoms and constitutional protections, standing law, governmental authority in Countries, for the global dictates of UN/WHO.
    Just saying this is a insurrection and power grab to create a One World dictorship, under the pretense of Global Emergencies . Monopolies plan to rule the world, and basically control all resources and consumption in a facism partnership with global Governments and the unelected corrupt puppet the United Nations and WHO.
    Unbelievable and hard to get your head around that Entities want to enslave humanity, genocide humanity, deprive humanity, and populations will be forced to eating bugs and owning nothing, with mandated vaccines,surveillance 24/7, hacked , altered and replaced.

    1. So just saying that if FDA has approved a product that doesn’t mean its safe or effective .

      Sad, but true. Whenever I hear about some new miracle drug, I expect it to be chock full of very problematic side effects.

      1. Colorado,
        I have 2 friends right now that are battling for their lives who took the safe and effective Covid vaccine .

        I don’t know anyone taking a Ozempic products currently. But, I can’t believe how many Ozempic type products are being advertised right now by big Pharmacy. Big Pharmacy must think this is going to be a big money maker for them.
        At least because it cost a thousand a month out of pocket, poor people might not be able to afford this new miracle weight loss injection , that makes your stomach paralyzed by the venom used in the drug.

  10. Illegal immigrant in Iowa pleads guilty to sexually assaulting 12-year-old girl

    By Anna Giaritelli
    June 21, 2024 10:19 am

    EXCLUSIVE — An illegal immigrant from Honduras who was released into the United States after coming across the southern border during the Biden administration has pleaded guilty in Iowa for the sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl.

    Junior Manuel Dubon Benitez, 18, was arrested on Feb. 14 on suspicion of “sexual abuse upon Jane Doe a 12 year old child” at a residence in Waterloo, Iowa, days earlier, according to court documents obtained first by the Washington Examiner.

    An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson told the Washington Examiner that Dubon Benitez was a citizen of Honduras who illegally entered the U.S. near Hidalgo, Texas, in April 2022 as a 16-year-old.

    Nearly 10 million non-U.S. citizens have been encountered by federal law enforcement attempting to enter the country in the more than 40 months since President Joe Biden took office — more than any other period in history.

    Dubon Benitez was charged with second-degree sexual abuse but accepted a plea deal for third-degree sexual abuse, according to the court documents reviewed by the Washington Examiner.

    He pleaded guilty in Iowa District Court for Black Hawk County on May 14. The final judgment was entered into the record on June 7.

    Judge Melissa Anderson-Seeber will sentence Dubon Benitez in the coming weeks. He faces up to 10 years in state prison.

    Dubon Benitez is being held by the Iowa Department of Corrections until sentencing. ICE has lodged a detainer with the state, a request that Dubon Benitez not be released after serving his sentence but immediately turned over to the federal agency to begin deportation proceedings.

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3051196/illegal-immigrant-iowa-pleads-guilty-sexually-assaulting-12-girl/#:~:text=Illegal%20immigrant%20in%20Iowa%20pleads,assaulting%2012%2Dyear%2Dold%20girl&text=EXCLUSIVE%20%E2%80%94%20An%20illegal%20immigrant%20from,12%2Dyear%2Dold%20girl.

    2. Golly gee, I sure hope this won’t affect his prospects of getting into a top medical school. Or lose his internship at NASA.

      Real Journalists.

  11. Seven Years Later, Snopes Says Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis ‘Very Fine People’

    JOEL B. POLLAK
    23 Jun 2024

    Snopes.com, perhaps the most well-known fact-checking website, has finally confirmed — seven years later — that President Donald Trump did not refer to neo-Nazis in Charlottesville in August 2017 as “very fine people.”

    The false claim was central to President Joe Biden’s election in 2020. He used it to launch his campaign in April 2019, claiming he had been inspired to run against President Trump because the latter called neo-Nazis “very fine people.”

    The reality was that Trump had actually condemned the neo-Nazis and white supremacists, and had used the phrase “very fine people” to describe non-violent protesters on both sides of the issue of the removal of a Confederate statue.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/23/seven-years-later-snopes-says-trump-did-not-call-neo-nazis-very-fine-people/

    1. https://nitter.poast.org/ScottAdamsSays/status/1769333247358676996#m:

      I updated the Hoax Quiz.

      Hoax Quiz

      How many of these hoaxes do you still believe are true?

      Russia Collusion Hoax

      Steele Dossier hooker story

      Russia paying bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan

      Trump called Neo-Nazis “Fine people.”

      Trump suggested drinking/injecting bleach to fight COVID

      Trump overfed koi fish in Japan

      Trump cleared protestors with tear gas for a bible photo op

      Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation.

      Elections were fair because no court found major fraud.

      January 6th was an “insurrection” to overthrow the government

      Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of The Beast

      Border Patrol Agents whipped illegal border crossers

      Trump stored nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago

      Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot

      Trump mocked a reporter’s disability

      Government spending to subsidize green products reduces “inflation.”

      Trump invited Nick Fuentes to dinner at Mar-a-Lago

      Twittergate was a dud. We learned nothing new or worrisome.

      Twitter doesn’t shadow ban.

      Twitter hate speech got worse under Musk

      Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd

      NATO Funding Hoax

      Trump vowed there would be a “bloodbath” if he’s not re-elected.

      Russia Hoaxes broken out

      1. Russia collusion hoax (the original)

      2. Russian bounties on American soldiers hoax

      3. Hunter laptop was Russian disinfo hoax

      4. Trump responsible for Navalny’s death hoax

      5. Trump invited Russia to attack a NATO country that doesn’t pay its bills hoax

      6. FBI informant for the Biden bribes is a Russian spy (probable hoax)

      7. Putin blew up his own pipeline hoax.

      8. NEW: Trump is romantically attracted to Putin.

      9. Russia is behind the anti-vax movement (Peter Hotez)

      10. Alfa Bank hoax

      11. Hamilton 68 Hoax

      12. Embassy sonic weapon hoax

      13. Navalny died of a blood clot

      14. Russia is losing in Ukraine

      1. “How many of these hoaxes do you still believe are true?”

        I have never seen them all lined up like that before. Truly amazing how many lies we are fed by the Betters/MSM/Democrats/Marxists.

        As Rush Limbaugh used to say the Democrats tell one big lie and by the time it is found to be a lie they are already on to the next big lie.

  12. “…said Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors. ‘So if inventory lingers for longer, that’s when we’ll really start to see price reductions….”

    Just to let all HBB readers know, Lawrence Yun has economic super power insights that the rest of us can only dream about..

  13. ‘So if inventory lingers for longer, that’s when we’ll really start to see price reductions.’

    Such observations of the blindingly obvious are why NAR Chief Economist Yun pulls down the big bucks.

  14. ‘With each passing month, the strength of golden handcuffs is beginning to weaken.’”

    What Yun means to say is that it doesn’t matter if you have a low interest rate if your shack is shedding thousands of $$$ in Yellen Bux “value” as Housing Bubble 2.0 bursts.

    1. The next four months are going to be “interesting”. As for the all but declared war on Catholics, I don’t expect to see any Bishops jailed, though their dioceses will get to experience lawfare at an unprecedented scale.

      1. DHS ‘Intelligence Experts Group’ Classified Military Service, Religion, & Trump-Support As Indicators Of Domestic Extremism & Terrorism

        The dogmatic Leftists who set the agenda for the Biden regime fail to realize that America’s warrior class has always been drawn from Midwestern and Southern white males who lean conservative and have a bedrock sense of morality drawn from their religious convictions or upbringing. So while the DHS Stasi are further insulting and alienating the few combat-capable troops remaining in our “woke” military, AIPAC and the neocons need a strong U.S. military to fight their wars for Greater Israel. One of these things is not like the other.

      2. Isn’t Archbishop Viganò being excommunicated? It must have been something he said.

        1. Well, if you call Francis the servant of the devil, then I would say you’ve gone into schism. Curiously, some sedevacantists who are ins chism, like the Society of St. Pius, are not excommunicated. However, I don’t think Lefebre ever called the Pope the servant of Satan.

          I understand Vigano’s anger, tough perhaps not his method.

          1. I’m not Catholic, so normally wouldn’t weigh in on Church theological matters, but WRT the Pope, lemme just say, the Good Book says you can tell a tree by its fruits.

          1. Election Day, or Selection Day?

            “Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” — Joseph Stalin

  16. No doubt homeowners with these adjustable-rate mortgages bought into the Realtor sales pitch of ‘marry the property, date the rate.’

    Any time I read such trite nonsense, my pimp hand starts to rise of its own volition.

  17. “The solution to weather is communism.”

    Actually the power grab in process is facism. Private Party Monopoly Corporations, Rich Elites, and other co conspirators , want a One World dictorship where these Entities tell global governments what to do in what they call a partnership with surrendering global governments.
    These Entities will tell the governments what to do in the final analysis.

    This insurrection is based on the Rockefeller Monopoly model of destroying all competition until
    you own it all and have all power.
    Like John Kerry said at the WEF, “no government can stop the ” market forces .”
    So, the market forces are Monopoly Corporation , Rich Elites and other Entities that want to rule the world , and captured global government will partner in the implementation of a One World dictorship.
    Under Communism the Government would own all resources and means of Production to allocate to people in accordance with that ideology.
    Under this power grab Monopolies, Rich Elites , etc would own all resources and means of production and dictate population consumption.
    Its Monopolies owning the World, and governments implementing their policies.
    They have already disclosed their endgame is humanity enslavement, control of resources and consumption , deprivation, famine, genocide , forced vaccines, you will eat bugs and own nothing.

    IMHO, they talk communism as a bribe to make people think that resources will be dispersed in accordance with equity by the government. Not the end game plan at all.

  18. Compared to March 2023, the median home sales price was down 7.1% at $325,000 compared to $350,000.

    When you consider how much purchasing power the dollar has lost over the past 12 months, the evaporation of Yellen Bux “value” is even more pronounced.

  19. In March, the number of recorded sales in Okaloosa County dropped by 30.1% since March 2023 from 505 to 353.”

    Is that a lot?

  20. According to research by House Buyer Bureau, 31% of UK home sellers over the last six months of 2023 were victims of gazundering, with a third saying it happened within a week of their exchange date.”

    It would take a heart of stone to read about these poor sellers being gazundered, and not laugh.

  21. He said unfortunately this is common practice we’re seeing more and more, where buyers prey on desperation and time pressure and make ridiculous requests like this that you can’t afford to turn down.’”

    Anyone buying a shack right now faces far more downside risk than upside potential. If greedy sellers can’t afford to turn them down, then clearly the last-minute buyer demands to do more sawin’ and slashin’ were not “ridiculous” – they were prudent.

    1. I’ve been watching a newer Brit cop lately. What is interesting is that one of the cops “go tos” is to look at camera footage. If the show is to be believed, there are cameras everywhere in Brit cities. Everywhere.

    2. ULEZ carbon tracking cameras?

      Cameras that run every plate that drives by. If your vehicle doesn’t adhere to the stringent environmental standards for that area, you get fined.

      1. This is a prelude to 15 Minute Cities. For the globalists & their Quislings, the idea of private autos is anathema because it gives the proles freedom of movement – and the Comrades of Proven Worth want to be able to approve or disapprove your every movement, as well as surveil and monitor you at all times. Slapping motorists with 15 GBP fees for each trip into or around London gets prohibitively expensive for most drivers, which is intended to force them to use public transportation – with all the blessings of vibrant cultural enrichment that that entails. Remember: you are the carbon they want to reduce.

      2. “Cameras that run every plate that drives by.”

        A prominent feature of our interstate freeway system. Early versions were used to track large freight trucks for road tax enforcement, but now every vehicle is analyzed and stored as metadata.

  23. Yet Evie remembers the nerve-wracking ordeal as ‘a waste of time and money’ that left her ‘terrified that the buyer would pull out.’”

    If it’s any consolation, Evie, that unscrupulous knife-catcher unwittingly just boarded the express train to Schlongville.

  24. The country’s property market has declined since mid-2022 — a phenomenon largely attributed to a steep rise in interest rates. Prices fell by 5.7% year-on-year.

    Try as I might, I can’t work out how this is building muh generational wealth.

    1. “House prices in Gallatin have jumped by two-thirds since the pandemic. The above three-bedroom, three-bathroom property is listed for sale at $275,000″

      The creeping infestation of townhouses.

      1. A bathroom for each bedroom? This is a feature designed for the “house poor” mortgage slave to rent spare bedrooms as a last stand effort before succumbing to foreclosure.

  26. The only time I have ever seen Joe Biden interacting with a youngster it was a little girl he was either groping or sniffing her hair.

    Collin Rugg
    @CollinRugg

    NEW: Young Trump supporter who is seen wearing a wig and a suit to look like Trump starts crying while meeting the former president.

    Trump then pulled out a $20 bill and signed it to give to the kid before taking a photo.

    The meeting happened in Philadelphia where Trump is set to hold a rally at the Liacouras Center at Temple University.

    Video:
    @margommartin

    6:11 PM · Jun 22, 2024
    ·
    https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1804638455542296993

  27. Paul Ryan Was First One to Receive Copy of Debunked Steele Dossier in 2016 — Hid For Years, Says Former White House Adviser

    by Jamie White
    June 23rd 2024, 1:02 pm

    Former House Speaker Paul Ryan was the first individual to actually receive a copy of the infamous Steele Dossier that kicked off the FBI’s Russia collusion witch hunt against Donald Trump, according to former Trump White House adviser Kash Patel.

    “Remember in 2016, let’s rewind the tape. It was Russia collusion, Russia collusion, Russia collusion. And then speaker Paul Ryan enlisted me and Devin Nunes to investigate the Russia collusion. Nobody knew what the Steele dossier was in 2016. They had already gone to the federal court and unlawfully surveilled Donald Trump with it,” Patel explained.

    “But what we didn’t find out until after we completed our investigation in 2018 was that the Speaker, Paul Ryan, who charged us with investigating Russiagate was the first guy to ever get a copy of the Steele dossier in 2016. He never told us. He still never admitted it. It finally was admitted in a British court where Christopher Steele was being sued.”

    “Just think about it, Steve. We could have asked, where did you get it? Who did you get it from? How was it paid for? All of these secrets could have come out under this man’s very investigation, but he rigged it from the beginning,” he said.

    Patel’s remarks come days after Ryan appeared on Fox News to disparage Trump as “unfit for office” and announce he would be writing in a different Republican candidate for president in November.

    Patel noted the irony of Ryan criticizing Trump over his character and principles when he was the one who “kneecapped” Trump from the very beginning in defiance of the Republican base who overwhelmingly supported the 45th president.

    “He kneecapped him from the beginning. That guy’s talking about not going to the RNC. No one wants him there. He’s so arrogant. He doesn’t understand the simple fact that we put out the truth,” he added.

    Trump ripped the former Speaker last week as a “very disloyal person” and a “dog” over his critical remarks on Fox.

    “Nobody can ever trust Fox News, and I am one of them, with the weak and ineffective RINO, Paul Ryan, on its Board of Directors,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

    https://www.infowars.com/posts/paul-ryan-was-first-one-to-receive-copy-of-debunked-steele-dossier-in-2016-hid-for-years-says-former-white-house-adviser/

  28. Do you pity cost burdened homeowners whose good fortune to own during the pandemic turned them into overnight millionaires?

    1. ECONOMY
      Some homeowners are doing surprisingly badly, even as their homes grow more valuable than ever
      Eliza Relman
      Jun 23, 2024, 5:37 AM ET
      A home for sale in Belmont, North Carolina.
      Jeff Greenberg/Getty Images

      – A severe housing shortage has made both buying and renting increasingly unaffordable.

      – But those lucky enough to own a home are struggling, too.

      – Harvard report finds cost-burdened homeowners rose by three million from 2019 to 2022.
      …
      https://www.businessinsider.com/housing-crisis-homeowners-struggling-mortgage-interest-rates-insurance-home-equity-2024-6

      1. Skyrocketing home prices have resulted in huge property tax cash gushers for municipal governments.

        There will be two Colorado property tax ballot issues this Nov. One will roll back property taxes about 30%. The other one will limit annual increases to 4%.

        The fine people at the state capitol are telling that we can kiss our TABOR refunds goodbye if those issues pass. Since they are going to now give the bulk of the TABOR refunds to low income people who haven’t paid much tax at all and are turning our refunds into transfer payments, then fine with me. If there is no TABOR surplus that means we weren’t overtaxed to begin with.

        I will hand it to them Dems, announcing they are going to be giving most of the TABOR refund money to people who don’t pay income or property taxes was very clever. That state can’t keep the surplus, but TABOR does not specify how it is to be refunded.

        1. I’m waiting impatiently for the 10 northern Colorado counties to decide they’ve had enough Democrat-Bolshevik malgoverance from Denver, and move to join with the free state of Wyoming.

          1. If Wyoming is so great, why don’t more people move there?

            It’s a pretty place, but opportunity is next to zero. The young people all move to Utah, Colorado, and other places with real jobs that can build a family.

          2. If Wyoming is so great, why don’t more people move there?

            Probably the weather, especially in Cheyenne and Laramie. I’ve considered retiring in Cheyenne, but their winters make Colorado Front Range winters look mild.

            There are good paying jobs in Wyoming, but they are often in the energy and transportation sectors.

          3. “There are good paying jobs in Wyoming…”

            A coworker spent many years in Casper until his wife said, “enough is enough.”

  29. Housing is now ‘impossibly unaffordable’ in these 4 cities — and they’re all in the same state
    Theron Mohamed
    Jun 18, 2024, 5:36 AM ET
    Aerial view of luxury beachfront homes along the coastline of the northern San Diego community of Del Mar, CA located about 15 miles north of downtown shot via helicopter from an altitude of about 500 feet over the ocean.
    Art Wager

    – Four of the world’s 11 “impossibly unaffordable” housing markets are in California, a study found.

    – There are seven of these pricey markets across the US and Canada, per the Demographia report.

    – The study blamed land use policies for constraining housing supply and driving up prices.

    Fans of “Selling Sunset” know just how expensive property in California can be.

    In fact, four of the 11 most unaffordable housing markets in the English-speaking world are in California — and seven are in the US and Canada, a new study has found.

    San Jose, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego are all “impossibly unaffordable,” according to the 2024 Demographia International Housing Affordability report.

    The median house price in San Jose last year was 11.9 times the gross median household income in that market, per the report published by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a Canadian think tank.

    The median price-to-income ratio was 10.9 in Los Angeles, and not much lower in San Francisco (9.7) and San Diego (9.5). In other words, if the median household income was $100,000 in those markets, the median home cost more than $900,000 in the two most affordable locales, and almost $1.2 million in San Jose.

    The researchers classified a ratio of 9 or higher as “impossibly unaffordable,” saying it was virtually unfeasible for a middle-income household to raise enough financing to afford a typical home in the area. That level of unaffordability didn’t exist three decades ago, they noted.

    The study analyzed housing affordability in 94 major markets across eight countries including the US, Canada, Australia, China, and the UK. Hong Kong (16.7) topped the ranking for a 13th time, followed by Sydney (13.3) and Vancouver (12.3), which have secured top-three spots in 15 and 16 of the last 16 years respectively.

    Honolulu (10.5), Melbourne (9.8), Adelaide (9.7), and Toronto (9.3) rounded out the list of “impossibly unaffordable” markets.
    …
    https://www.businessinsider.com/california-demographia-housing-markets-affordability-crisis-home-prices-selling-sunset-2024-6

  30. The Trudeau Liberal government – another symptom of an internationalist problem.

    The Celtic Canuck

    4 hours ago

    While foreign interference fingers are pointed everywhere – the biggest meddler of all continues to be ignored by the powers that were supposed to be. But it seems like they are all just different mascots for the same team.

    But hey – Loblaws!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH_3pD1KpnY

    9:11.

    1. It is not surprising since Castro’s son is running the place. In the U.S., it is far worse. Here, it is a culture of treason. All the storms since Camille have been controlled. Look at the storm tracks. They are looped, tied in knots, run all over the Atlantic. They attempted to hide the treason behind ‘climate change.’ Weather is modified using plasma. Plasma is used to modify the weather as the excuse to hike insurance rates. All mass deaths of birds occur during storms. The technology has been perfected to the point 180 waterspouts (tornados) were created on Lake Erie last year. The traitors intend to flatten the U.S. grain crops for a planned famine for the gun grab. Treason in the US is very broad and deep. It is a setup for a Coup d’etat like Venezuela.

  33. ‘Inventory has certainly increased [nationwide], but sales have yet to really get going,’ said Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors. ‘So if inventory lingers for longer, that’s when we’ll really start to see price reductions.’ Yun said he sees hope ahead. With inventory increases across the country, homeowners are less tethered to the home they own, what he called a ‘golden handcuffs situation.’ ‘With each passing month, the strength of golden handcuffs is beginning to weaken’

    You should rub yer hands together when you say that Larry. Welcome to the vultures.

  34. ‘apparently IO’s are back in vogue. Valuations feel a little frothy, inventory is piling up, interest rate resets are on the horizon, and the cost of home ownership is skyrocketing in the form of property taxes, insurance and other expenses’

    We have sound lending. None of what you said matters if we have sound lending.

  35. ‘There were many more eager buyers than available homes for sale. Things feel very different now, and buyers have more options than they’ve seen in years’

    Gosh, I hope no one overpaid in such an environment Blake.

  36. ”The San Francisco Chronicle reported another search at the Skyline Boulevard home of VABA chairman David Duong, who is also CEO of California Waste Solutions…California Waste Solutions has previously been investigated over campaign contributions’

    Organized crime moved into garbage because it’s like a utility. Guaranteed money flows. See Waste Management.

  37. ‘It is very difficult, and since 2020 it has been worse, because many things have changed and nobody wants condominiums anymore, honestly,’ said Vélez, referring to the insurance companies that are not willing to insure condominiums….‘It’s going to continue to drive up the cost of insurance. They are drowning us,’ said Vélez. ‘It’s not just us, it’s all the condominiums’

    It’s still way cheaper than renting Myrna.

  38. ‘We were so upset and angry,’ writer Katharine told Metro.co.uk. ‘It felt awful, everything had gone so smoothly until that point and then it felt like they were inventing issues that weren’t there to try to get money off.’ But the tactic worked for the buyer and, backed into a corner, they accepted £15,000 less than the original offer. Three quarters of sellers who’ve been gazundered reported that they also gave into the pressure and accepted, with reasons including believing the lower offer was still fair, not wanting to jeopardise their onward sale, and not wanting to waste more time finding another buyer’

    That may all be true Katharine, but it’s still a red hotcakes sellers market in Tooting. You were just made a fool!

  39. ‘The offer was already around £20,000 below asking,’ she told Metro.co.uk. ‘But it was at the bottom end of what the house was valued at and we weren’t making a loss (breaking more-or-less even) so reluctantly agreed – knowing that this is just how the market is, and we both wanted out of our current situation’…By September, they were ready to sign on the dotted line when Evie got a call from her solicitor while she was at work. The buyer claimed that unless they were willing to accept an offer £30,000 less than agreed, he’d ‘walk away’ completely…’After a lot of back and forth, they were able to negotiate the price to £7,000 less than originally offered, along with amenities such as the brand new fridge and garden furniture thrown in’

    So yer taking an a$$ pounding at this point Evie.

    ‘My world shattered, and it took me a while to compose myself and get back to work. He said unfortunately this is common practice we’re seeing more and more, where buyers prey on desperation and time pressure and make ridiculous requests like this that you can’t afford to turn down…Evie remembers the nerve-wracking ordeal as ‘a waste of time and money’ that left her ‘terrified that the buyer would pull out’

    This is a postmortem of what not to do if yer gonna be a winnah! Evie. You just gave it away, out of fear. You coward, how dare you?

  40. ‘the current market situation means that people have more choice than a year ago. ‘There are apartments available in Helsinki, so residents can choose. When we make an offer, they may have already found housing elsewhere’

    How do you like those 5% cap rates now Jaana?

  41. ‘The biggest declines compared to the same quarter last year were seen for single and two-family homes in Germany’s seven largest cities (Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart and Düsseldorf), at -9.5%’

    Most expensive segments fall broadly in unison, consistent with a bubble popping.

  42. ‘Tepid foreigner demand and economic uncertainty are making developers think twice, according to CBRE Group Inc., which added that this was the first time such a site saw no bids in more than 20 years’

    Oh dear…

  43. CA Gov Newsom RATIOED For BS Border Photo Op!

    The Jimmy Dore Show

    6 hours ago

    California governor Gavin Newsom has been accused of fabricating a claim about National Guard troops from his state helping to solve the border crisis. On Twitter he claimed that California had doubled the amount of National Guard troops at the border in an effort to stem the flow of fentanyl, which some have suggested is an outright fabrication.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L99dVqyVUZ0

    12:48.

  44. VIRAL MOMENT: Crowd Bursts Out Laughing As Trump Uses Tic Tacs To Mock Biden’s ‘Inflation Nightmare’

    Forbes Breaking News

    2 hours ago

    Speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference in Washington, D.C. Saturday, former President Trump used Tic Tacs to demonstrate inflation rates under the Biden Administration.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJiLLSlTKxg

    1:21.

    1. The video has been removed by youtube.

      I suspect that he is on his way to winning by a landslide, and tin desperation the media will be censoring everything he says.

      2. Democrats Push Civil War Fears as Trump Dominates Biden in All Swing States Ahead of Debate — Sunday Night Live

        Sunday Night Live
        June 23rd 2024, 5:55 pm

        1. “Our Democracy” serves only a corrupt and venal .1% in the financier oligarchy at the expense of everyone else. If the people who work hard, play by the rules, & pay the bills don’t want to live under a tyrannical system that imposes taxation without representation, it shouldn’t surprise anyone when they decide enough is enough.

  45. Maria Bartiromo
    @MariaBartiromo

    Biden’s plan ‘from the beginning’ was to get illegal migrants here voting: Ken Paxton https://foxnews.com/video/6355565455112 #FoxNews
    @SundayFutures

    @FoxNews
    foxnews.com

    Biden’s plan ‘from the beginning’ was to get illegal migrants here voting: Ken Paxton | Fox News…

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joins ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ to discuss the deepening impact President Biden’s border crisis is having on national security.

    2:30 PM · Jun 23, 2024
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    https://x.com/MariaBartiromo/status/1804945114097205296

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