Hochul Targets NYC's Multimillion-Dollar Second Homes In $268 Billion Budget Framework

Walmart Tumbles On Disappointing Guidance; Warns Low-Income Consumers Drowning, High Fuel Costs Will Hit Profit Extending concerns about US consumer weakness - now that the bumper OBBBA tax refund period is over - after yesterday's earnings by Home Depot and Target, this morning Walmart reported Q1 earnings (the last big company to report, rounding out earnings season) and warned that fuel costs are squeezing the company’s bottom line and could lead to higher prices for shoppers.  In the latest quarter, the world’s largest retailer said comparable sales in US stores rose 4.1%,...

Who's Afraid Of Emmanuel Macron? Authored by J.B.Shurk via AmericanThinker.com, French President Emmanuel Macron is doing that peculiar French thing again…acting tough while looking weak.   He gave a speech last Friday at Yonsei University in Seoul during which he demanded that nations not become “vassals” of China or the United States.  Macron wants South Korea to join Canada, Australia, and the European Union in forming what he calls a “coalition of independence” (because “coalition of the willing” was taken) united by shared love for “international order,” “democracy,” and wasting money on “climate change.” What a tool.  I...