Month: January 2023

Closing Prices for Crude Oil, Gold and Other Commodities (Jan. 31)

January 31, 2023
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Benchmark U.S. crude oil for March delivery rose 97 cents to $78.87 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude for March delivery fell 41 cents to $84.49 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for February delivery rose 4 cents to $2.54 a gallon. February heating oil rose 7 cents $3.18 a gallon. March natural gas was unchanged at $2.68…

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Biden Admin Plans to Borrow Another $1.2 Trillion Amid Debt Ceiling Standoff

January 31, 2023
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury said on Monday that it expects to borrow $1.2 trillion over the first half of the year, broken down by $932 billion in the first quarter and $278 billion in the second quarter, the agency said. In the last three months of 2022, the Treasury borrowed $373 billion and ended the…

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Harnessing the Multitudes of Garlic

January 31, 2023
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I still have a lot of garlic from last year’s harvest. So to make sure I get through it all before the new crop comes in, I have increased my consumption. Thanks to this project I’ve been cooking garlic as if it’s a vegetable, rather than a spice. And given that garlic is plant material,…

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Hollywood Is Beijing’s Lap Dog

January 31, 2023
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Commentary With Oscar nominations released for 2023 recently, one may look forward to Hollywood’s grandest moments of the year. But the sad truth is that Tinsel Town isn’t what it used to be, which was no great moral paragon, for sure. But what it’s become is even worse than what it was before. Bowing to…

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NTD Business (Jan. 31): Pfizer Expects COVID Vaccine Sales Dip; Exxon Sets New Record for Western Oil Profit

January 31, 2023
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Pfizer stock lost $43 billion in value this month, and it’s expecting a big drop in sales this year for its COVID-19 products. Oil giant Exxon, breaking the profit record for the Western oil industry. How did it make so much money? The Federal Reserve set to raise interest rates again this week. We talk to…

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More Gun Laws Would Not End Massacres

January 31, 2023
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Commentary Like everyone else, I’m horrified at the recent spate of massacres using guns in California. My hopes and prayers go out to the victims and their families. But in my job, it’s always incumbent on me to point out the policy implications of any proposed attempts at remedies. The emotions of the moment must…

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Canada’s Signing on to WEF Agile Nations Charter Marks ‘Radical Policy Shift,’ Says Tory MP

January 31, 2023
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Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis commented on Jan. 28 on the information she helped surface about Canada’s involvement in a World Economic Forum (WEF) project seeking to streamline federal regulations, saying it represents a “radical policy shift” from the current governance model. “First of all, how did Canada become a member state and who recognize this…

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Way-Too-Early Glance at 2024 US Senate Races Gives GOP Clear Path to Take Chamber

January 31, 2023
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With the first United States’ 2024 presidential primary slated for South Carolina on Feb. 3, elections forecasters are already posting way-too-early projections on Congressional races even before candidates in many contests formally launch campaigns. But when it comes to the U.S. Senate, it’s less prognostication than math in acknowledging Republicans are favored to do what…

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PREMIERING NOW: Are Black Police Officers Discriminating Against Blacks as Well? | The Larry Elder Show | EP. 120

January 31, 2023
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It became national, even international news that five Memphis police officers grabbed, beat, punched, pepper sprayed and tased a black suspect, named Tyre Nichols, who later died at the hospital.  When asked about the fact that the five police officers are also black, the new mayor of Los Angeles, a black female, said in an…

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Canada Really Has to Reassess Which World Citizens It Is ‘Rescuing’

January 31, 2023
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Commentary When I was in high school I was quite proud to read that average Canadians, as well as the government of the day, were front and centre in the effort to bring Vietnamese “boat people” (as they were called then) to our shores. Upwards of 60,000 refugees fleeing the new communist regime which arose…

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