Milquetoast has been taking victory laps concerning August’s jobs reports. I heard that something’s fishy so I did a little investigation of my own using data directly from the BLS and it appears that the BLS is cooking the books.

I went back to Sep-22 to compare the difference between the final adjustment made to the jobs report for that month compared to the original report and found some interesting “stuff”.

From Sep-22 to the end of last year nothing looked out of the ordinary with the differences for each month being fairly close and the final number being higher than the original report.

HOWEVER, since Jan-23, the final number has been significantly less than the original report with June’s final report being 50 percent less than the original.

What does this mean? I’ll let you be the judge of that.

Federal Suspect H****r B***n Forced to Downgrade to $15,800-Per-Month House with ''Mesmerizing Ocean Views': Report

Poor, downtrodden convicted tax evader and gun criminal H****r B***n has been forced to downgrade his standard of living to a mere $15,800-a-month Malibu home. And the move is costing the U.S. taxpayer $16,000 a month for the residence next door that the Secret Service has to rent to protect the Biden scion.

The U.K. Daily Mail reports that H****r and his wife Melissa Cohen just moved into the three-bed, three-bath 1950’s Malibu home with a “stunning, panoramic sea views, perched on a hill in a gated community.”

Almost slum-like, isn’t it?

H****r is reportedly paying the $189,600 rent for the year out of his own pocket. This is the same guy who only a few months ago claimed he had no money when he appeared in court in May during the case to elicit child support payments from him for the child he and his father spent four years refusing to acknowledge.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t think I could figure out how to go from telling a court I “have no money” to paying $189,600 rent a year in only a matter of three months.

That is quite a change in circumstances, isn’t it?

Still, one surely has to feel for this poor son of a president. The new home is a bit of a downgrade from his previous Malibu residence, after all.

He was living in a $20,000-a-month home that ABC News described as a “four-bedroom, three-bathroom ‘resort-style’ home with an open floor plan, vaulted high ceilings, chef’s kitchen, and French doors.”

The Daily Mail also notes that his latest Malibu home is the fourth California residence H****r and his family have moved into in nearly as many years.

H****r B***n getting preferential treatment from the DOJ?
Yes: 100% (1411 V**es)
No: 0% (4 V**es)
I mean, how does he hold his head high at all those swanky dinner parties and meetings with Ukrainian energy firms after taking such a downgrade in homes?

That previous Malibu home was also costing the taxpayers a pretty penny, by the way. The Secret Service was forced to rent a nearby “six-bed ‘Spanish-style’ estate home” to the tune of $30,000 a month during that Malibu residency.

But maybe H****r is paying for the new digs with his world famous art work?

His famed paintings, ridiculed as child-like and hasty “macaroni art” by critics, reportedly brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars on reprints alone.

The originals were at one time reported to have sold for up to $500,000 a piece.

So, maybe he whipped up a few of his masterworks to pay for the new joint? And maybe his “sugar daddy” lawyer, Kevin Morris, bought a few more to help H****r pay his bills?

Or maybe some of his dad’s deep-pocketed political donors ponied up the cash for more of H****r’s fabulous “art” like they have in the past?

Speaking of lawyers, H****r may have a few shekels freed up since at least one of his lawyers recently walked out on him. So, you know, he doesn’t have those bills to pay any more.

Of course, there are plenty of jokes to be had at H****r B***n’s expense, but all to drive home the fact that this is all a perfect example of how these left-wing elites truly live in a whole other world than real Americans.

Real Americans can’t simultaneously tell a court they have no money while paying nearly $200,000 a year for a rental home, or stay out of jail even after being convicted of tax evasion and gun charges, or whip up some world class “art work” to bring in a few hundred grand in proceeds at a moment’s notice, or pull in millions from foreign operatives for a no-show job. Real Americans would find themselves truly impoverished by rapacious government sentences over all of that.

The way H****r B***n continually skates carefree past being held accountable for his actions is truly one of the most d********g examples of how out of control Washington D.C. is, and just how out of touch it is with real America.

https://www.westernjournal.com/federal-suspect-h****r-biden-forced-downgrade-15800-per-month-house-mesmerizing-ocean-views-report/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriotupdate&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance

The price of a McDonald’s hamburger in the United States has inflated 3.75 percent annually over the last seventy years. McDonald’s has grown from a tiny hamburger stand in Des Plaines, Illinois, to the second largest fast-food chain on earth. Economies of Scale alone (never mind process and productivity improvements) should’ve allowed the price of a burger to decline materially over this period.

Why didn’t it? What forces and institutions have conspired to inflate the cost of a simple meal by more than thirteen times over two generations? Many know the answer, but few Americans are economically astute enough to understand or describe what Vladimir Lenin called the “surest means of overturning the existing basis of society.”

Simply put, inflation is a giant “skim”—perpetrated in a symbiosis of money creation by bankers and government-affiliated central bank bureaucrats, the two institutions with the power to create money from nothing. Inflation creates a nice, cushy existence for each group. And the bankers and bureaucrats always get their money.

If steady price deflation were operative—as is the case in a properly functioning consumer economy, where productivity improvements flow into lower consumer prices—the world would be quite different today and far more difficult for bankers and bureaucrats.

With steadily falling prices, bankers must do proper credit analysis. They must set aside ample reserves and generally run their institutions more conservatively. Credit analysis is far more difficult in deflation as borrowers must continuously sell more goods to service their loans rather than relying on boosting prices. Secured loans become problematic as pledged assets devalue. Banking generally becomes a lot more work—and riskier. The period of 1865 to 1910 in the United States was a perfect example of this sort of environment. Record bank failures and enormous financial volatility accompanied steady deflation and one of the greatest periods of economic prosperity and innovation in our nation’s history.

In short, deflation creates risks for banks, so banks conspire with the government to create enough money so they don’t have to deal with it. The “balls to the wall” and “heads I win, tails you lose” practices we’ve become familiar with in banking today are both allowed and inspired by the permanent inflationary regime.

The other major inflation conspirator (and greatest beneficiary) is government. Think of inflation as oxygen for politicians and carbon monoxide as a public v**e cast to raise taxes. Steady (2 percent, say?) inflation creates a reliable ratcheting effect on every taxpayer in the land, and a nice, smooth, foamed runway for bureaucrats. And should our benevolent leaders decide the inflation/tax runway isn’t wide enough or smooth enough? They simply borrow the difference (i.e., the deficit) and inflate that away too!

Inflation created by central banks allows government to ALWAYS have the money it wants—and be first in line to get it. If deflation were operative—as would be the case in a properly functioning economy where productivity improvements flow into lower prices—government would have to explicitly tax instead of relying on inflation to drive revenue and devalue debt. Politicians’ careers would be much, much shorter.

In summary, there’s a reason deflation rarely (if ever) happens. Inflation makes bankers’ and bureaucrats’ lives easier and keeps them in power. The cost of a simple hamburger would be far lower without ever expansive government and the willful destruction of our money. But it will never happen as long as bankers and bureaucrats work in perfect symbiosis to execute a massive skim on the American people.