Where California Went Wrong

US New Home Sales Collapse By Most In 13 Years In January Despite falling mortgage rates, analysts expected December's drop in new home sales to accelerate in January... and accelerate they did... crashing a stunning 17.6% MoM (-2.7% MoM exp) - the biggest MoM drop since July 2013. This huge MoM drop dragged sales down 11.3% YoY - the worst slide in three years... Source: Bloomberg This huge drop dragged the new home sales SAAR down to its lowest since 2022, catching down to existing and pending sales... Inventories are up (Houses for sale...

Ramaswamy Wins Ohio GOP Gubernatorial Primary In Landslide Biotech entrepreneur and former 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy just beat the pants off of political newcomer Casey Putsch (R) by a margin of 82% - 18% (approximately 530,000 votes to 116,000) in the Ohio gubernatorial primary.  The win positions Ramaswamy to face Democrat Amy Acton, the former Ohio health director who led the state’s COVID-19 response and won her party’s nomination unopposed, in the November general election. Acton’s running mate is former Ohio Democratic Party chair David Pepper. The Republican primary lacked suspense after...

Cartels Are Going 'Broke' As US Fentanyl Supply Drops By Almost 60%: Homan Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration’s border crackdown is slowing the flow of deadly drugs into the country to the point that cartel profits have plummeted. ​Border czar Tom Homan said during an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s operation to go after the Mexican cartels has been successful, and that they are now focusing their drug operations on Europe and Asia. ​“Cartels are going broke,”...