Henry R. Greenfield

Former Senior Consultant Global Digital Twin Technology at Integrated Facility Management (2019–2023)

The US Fed Reserve said no more increases and forecasts 3 rate cuts next year which along with the excellent job report, UI at 3.7%, gas way down, inflation 3.1%. Does this mean Biden will win in a landslide as the markets will now take off again?

It is all but impossible to ignore the excellent economic news and data coming out of the US. Fed Chair Jerome Powell directly said there is no recession on the horizon, he plans to cut interest rates at least 3 times next year and everything is in place for the long sought and rarely found, soft landing.

By far the highest closing level in history, the DJIA at 37,090 Dec 13 2023 WOW

Let’s pause for a moment and give a major round of applause to Powell, the Fed, the Biden administration, the investors, the various hundreds of billions that Biden has put into infrastructure, the CHIPs act which has increased manufacturing construction by 200%. Let us also thank the American consumer, the millions and millions of women who have come back to the market, especially black women who are now at or above pre-pandemic employment levels with much higher wages than before that yes, are beating inflation.

Let us thank Biden for not changing the Trump drilling strategy and quietly carrying on to the point where the US is now the acknowledged #1 oil producer in the world thus balancing off OPEC+ and anything they want to do to hurt economies around the world.

Let’s thank COP28 that also signed an historic 200 country agreement to end the use of fossil fuels, signed no less in Dubai which only exists because of oil production.

Let’s thank employers who have invested in people, in billions in new equipment to become more efficient. Let’s thank the community colleges and tech schools around the world including the USA, UK, Australia, Germany and more who are turning out hundreds of thousands of tech grads in everything from electricians to plumbers to IT specialists.

And let us thank the American consumers who have once again come to the rescue of the world, buying and buying and upgrading everything they own and traveling the world and spending all of those $$ they received from the COVID times from the govt and more.

And let me ask a simple question, is there anything the republicans could have done better?

Is there anything they would like to take back? Like nothing for single moms, they didn’t like that one which reduced child poverty in the US by 50%. Or infrastructure, 90% didn’t like that either or the CHIPS act, most voted against that and on and on it goes. Yet they are all there, cutting ribbons on new factories, fighting for more infrastructure $$ and taking credit for everything Biden fought for and got done.

Is it a perfect time? Of course not, the southern border is still a real crisis and the democrat's solution is terrible while the GOP's is better but draconian.

What we need to do though is look at those market numbers folks. All time high today, day after day after day. the DJIA is not the economy but it sure is a hell'uva lot better by 25% since Trump left office and way higher than anything he did to juice it with a tax cut.

Biden did it the old fashioned FDR way and my goodness it is morning in America or better yet, happy days are here again.

Well done team America, you shocked the world and the republicans and frankly me too. Who would'a thunk Biden who took office in a recession in the middle of a pandemic and fought his way out of it investing in America and people and the Fed who blew it for so long, could now get it so right?

The Totalitarian Three-Step

By: Paul Scates

For at least half a century, the Left has been luring this nation into a deadly dance. Like the sirens of Greek myth, their music hits all the right notes: true equality, fairness, justice for all, health, peace, etc. Because the music is so beautiful, and the steps to the dance so familiar, again and again, we’ve accepted their invitation and blindly followed their lead.

This simple political dance can be done to many types of “music,” for it has only three steps. We have seen its familiar choreography in efforts against racism and crime, in steps to preserve our national security, in efforts to support agriculture and education, etc.; whatever the tune, the steps are the same:

Manufacture a “crisis”
Offer “emergency solutions” people would never accept except for the “crisis.”
Results achieve the hidden goal, unrelated to the supposed problem

We’ll look at three examples below, but in her excellent book Behind the Green Mask, Rosa Koire describes this three-step process as “communitarianism,” which claims that in matters of public policy, we must “balance” individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution with (imagined) community rights to assure “fairness.” So here the three-step process is:

Individual rights are selfish, harming the community
Individuals cede some of their rights to the community
Results: fewer rights/freedoms for individuals, more power for local, state, or federal government

The “problem” (i.e., lack of community rights) didn’t actually exist but was manufactured by those whose true goal was abolishing individual rights and freedoms and increasing the power and reach of government to impose their social and political visions.

Imagine, Koire wrote, that individual rights are a glass of milk, and community rights are a glass of water. To “balance” those rights, pour each glass into a pitcher. The result is watery milk, i.e., lessened, “watered down” individual rights. Community rights are strengthened (i.e., more government power/control)… the activists’ true goal.

We can see how this “dance” played out in the 2008 housing bubble collapse:

Step One, the “Crisis”: Bill Clinton manufactured the “crisis,” saying poor people couldn’t afford to buy their own homes. Of course, poor people have never been able to afford their own homes, so why was this suddenly a crisis? That situation is actually a motivation for good behavior: work, save money, defer children until you’re more financially secure, use alcohol (or drugs) only moderately, if at all, etc. But no, to Clinton and the left, it was suddenly a “housing crisis.”

Step Two, Emergency “Solution”: Force banks and mortgage companies to lower housing loan standards so people who can’t afford homes are able to get loans anyway. Using the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to force Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make 30% of their mortgage purchases these sub-prime loans in 1977, that requirement grew to 50% by 2000. Bush43 continued this “affordable housing” boondoggle. In 1991, CRA sub-prime loans were $8 billion; by 2007, they were $4.5 trillion. By 2008, half of all outstanding mortgages in the U.S. were sub-prime (high-risk) loans.

Step Three, Actual Results: When financial firms sold these sub-prime loans as mortgage-back securities, the stage was set. When a major increase in loan defaults occurred in 2008, the housing market crashed, taking the stock market with it. The manufactured housing “crisis” wasn’t fixed, but the U.S. economy was devastated… which was the true goal all along by the globalist Clinton and his leftist cronies.

But that makes no sense, you might say; why would anyone want that result? Because the Left has always supported global government (UN, World Economic Forum, World Health Organization, et al.), but the U.S. has long been the major barrier to that dream, so anything that weakens the U.S. politically, socially, or especially economically, then, is a good thing.

Your mistake is in assuming that the Left (whether Clinton, Obama, Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, et al) actually wants what’s best for this nation and its citizens… they don’t. They want what’s best for them and the other global elites with whom they share a self-serving globalist fantasy.

Another example is the pandemic:

Step One, the “Crisis”: the COVID-19 ‘pandemic’ was supposedly an existential threat to humankind that demanded draconian “emergency” measures (turns out that for healthy people, it was barely more deadly than seasonal flu).

Step Two, Emergency “Solution”: business lockdowns, schools closed, vaccine mandates, social distancing, etc. Many small businesses operate on narrow margins, so such lockdowns forced their permanent closings, and even major industries were impacted.

Step Three, Actual Results: devastated U.S. (and world) economy… again, the global elites’ primary goal all along, making Western democracies weaker against their globalist push from the UN, WEF, et al.

Finally, the biggest example, “climate change”:

Step One, the “Crisis”: ‘climate change’ is an existential threat to the earth; if something isn’t done immediately, the earth will burn up in “X” number of years.

Step Two, Emergency “Solution: eliminate fossil-fuel usage (curtail all manufacturing production, reduce/eliminate gasoline-powered cars, trains, trucks, planes, and ships), drastic restrictions on agriculture and cattle raising, make CO2 (behind oxygen the most beneficial element in the world) a pollutant, etc.

Step Three, Actual Results: Agenda 2030 is the UN’s supposed response to climate change; if its 17 Sustainable Development Goals are actually implemented, the world will be reduced to mid-1800s-levels of food production, transportation, manufacturing, etc… except for the globalist elites behind the “climate change” scam.

More and more scientists are finding the nerve to speak out against the climate hoax, but they’re decades behind the climate-industrial complex that is making trillions of dollars from “green” energy like solar and wind farms.

But it’s becoming clear even to the environmentalist Kool-Aid drinkers that those “renewables” won’t come close to replacing the cheap and reliable fossil fuels that drive the world’s economy. Eliminating meat and dairy and crippling agriculture will result in the mass starvation of millions of people.

Again, who would want those results? Only the globalist elites at the UN, the World Economic Forum, the Club of Rome, et al. -- many of whom are U.S. politicians, industrial magnates, and Big Tech oligarchs -- whose globalist fantasies are based on Malthusian ideas of “sustainable” levels of world population being limited to one billion people. They know that only a world government with unrestricted power can achieve what they call the “peaceful elimination” of over 7 billion people, so they see Agenda 2030, the WEF’s Great Reset, et al., as the paths to achieve that global power and control.

Those globalists use their three-step process in every area of life to bring about the ruination of the U.S. and the Western democracies that are the major barriers to their dreams. That’s the true goal behind all their supposed “solutions.”

It's way past time to stop dancing to the leftists’ globalist tune, to stop accepting their phony “crises” and, especially, their crippling “solutions” that are designed to destroy our republic.

On Monday, Dr. James Thorp joined Ivory Hecker on Gateway: Beyond the Headlines to discuss the discovery of DNA fragments in the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and its impact on human DNA.

When you read this, from Dr. Ladapo, saying there’s a detection of DNA fragments in COVID MRNA vaccines, the average American is going to think, ‘Oh my gosh, are my genes being…is the DNA being changed in my body?’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/this-is-unprecedented-injury-kill-ratio-dr-james/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=2023-12-14

It’s now ~3%, down from 9% high. Many things have come down or discontinued rising, some items have increased or stabilised leading currently to downward trend. Trump was at ~+2% which is desired Fed level. Getting closer to 2%.

I was around in 70’s and it hit ~14% and did not normalize for ten years(wages didn’t keep up either), jobs were not as strong, unemployment high( specially after Vietnam War ended, )government contractor and their jobs reduced significantly. Tough long time.

I do a majority of grocery shopping and I drive 40-50 miles a day to volunteer to coach Basketball. So I know gas has come down as some of the others.

Thanks for sharing.