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UBS Checks With Major Restaurant Franchisees Reveal Troubling Consumer Trends In a continuation of our note on the health of America's restaurant industry, we cite UBS analyst Dennis Geiger for a second straight week, as his coverage of the consumer and restaurant sectors has been spot on. Sentiment toward chain eateries remains "generally cautious," with macro pressures, elevated gas prices, and weak demand among lower-income consumers continuing to weigh on traffic and sales trends. Last week, Geiger warned, "Challenged traffic and sales trends likely reflect depressed consumer sentiment across several cohorts,...

Bad Signs: Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" Looks Like A Woke Disaster The signs are not looking good.  Christopher Nolan's version of Homer's classic Greek epic "The Odyssey" was, at first, greatly anticipated.  The director's filmography is largely celebrated with blockbusters like Interstellar, The Dark Night, Dunkirk and Inception.  However, woke ideology is like a virus infecting everything in Hollywood, and rumors were spreading from very early in the production that wokeness has invaded the brain of Christopher Nolan.  Even though the vast majority of "woke coded" films fail miserably at the...

Senate Defense Bill Would Establish Fund For Government To Buy Into Private Companies Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times, A new bill in Congress would enshrine into law the ability of the executive branch to buy into private companies, and create a fund to finance the purchases. The Pentagon in Arlington, Va., in this file photo. Carolyn Kaster/AP The current Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act gives the Defense Department explicit authority to take ownership stakes in companies. A provision titled "Equity Investments and Related Matters" establishes a new...