Merchandise from Silicon Valley Bank fetches hundreds of dollars as former employees flog old swag

Merchandise from Silicon Valley Bank fetches hundreds of dollars as former employees flog old swag

After Silicon Valley Bank went insolvent last week people have turned to eBay to sell their now-vintage company merchandise.  The various pieces of company swag, which include mugs, bags, cheeseboards and even cardboard boxes, are attracting surprisingly high bids – a counterintuitive testament to health of the US economy.  Official SVB mugs appeared to be…

Silicon Valley Bank collapse LIVE: Stock news as US and UK markets brace for financial contagion

Silicon Valley Bank collapse LIVE: Stock news as US and UK markets brace for financial contagion

LIVE Silicon Valley Bank collapse LIVE: Trading is halted at dozens of regional banks as First Republic falters By Melissa Koenig For Dailymail.Com Published: 08:33 EDT, 13 March 2023 | Updated: 16:26 EDT, 13 March 2023 Follow along as DailyMail.com brings you the latest updates from the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank. Share or…

Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus warns Americans to wake up after woke Silicon Valley Bank goes bust

Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus warns Americans to wake up after woke Silicon Valley Bank goes bust

The co-founder of Home Depot, Bernie Marcus says Americans need to ‘wake up’ to the reality that the US economy is facing tough times following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Marcus also laid some of the blame for the bank’s failure with the Biden administration over prioritizing ‘global warming’ instead of shareholder returns. Marcus argued…

More than 30% of work was done remotely in January as employees refuse to return to the office 

More than 30% of work was done remotely in January as employees refuse to return to the office 

The US economy is losing billions as stubborn workers continue to refuse to return to the office, with more than 30 percent of work done remotely last month. Work from home resistance is plaguing major US cities, with New York, Los Angeles and Washington DC all losing over $4,000 per worker every year due to…

WSJ has a money-saving tip to help you scrape by while Biden's constructing economic utopia

WSJ has a money-saving tip to help you scrape by while Biden's constructing economic utopia

If you check any of the White House social media accounts on a daily basis, you’ll often find the Biden admin patting themselves on the back for how great the economy is doing and how the middle class finally has some breathing room. Last night, when I reported that the state of our union is…

April Ryan's attempt to tie gas price increases to race was even too much for Jennifer Granholm

April Ryan's attempt to tie gas price increases to race was even too much for Jennifer Granholm

As we told you Monday evening, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm tried to spin gas prices that are back on the rise as being the fault of “international and climate events” (naturally Biden would have been credited if prices were still dropping). The amount of the increases are of course regional: 12 states saw average #gasprices…

ChatGPT can pass the United States Medical Licensing Exam and the Bar Exam

ChatGPT can pass the United States Medical Licensing Exam and the Bar Exam

ChatGPT – a recently released AI with the uncanny ability to mimic human writing – has passed some of America’s most challenging professional exams, studies have shown, raising concerns it could soon put many white collar workers out of a job. The artificially intelligent content creator, whose name is short for ‘Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer,’ was released two…

WH/Dems celebrate 2 years of 'transformational' Biden presidency (here's what's been transformed)

WH/Dems celebrate 2 years of 'transformational' Biden presidency (here's what's been transformed)

The White House along with Democrats such as Elizabeth Warren are celebrating the two-year anniversary of the Biden presidency that ushered in the “Build Back Better” era: Two years down. https://t.co/IdjtbWNl0l — President Biden (@POTUS) January 20, 2023 Two years ago today, we turned the page on a dark chapter of our history, and @JoeBiden…

Biden’s plans to lower student loan payments goes to Supreme Court as Republicans challenge program

Biden’s plans to lower student loan payments goes to Supreme Court as Republicans challenge program

Biden plans to lower student loan payments for millions and pausing them out for anyone making less than $30,600 a year as he battles his multi-billion dollar forgiveness program in the Supreme Court The Biden administration took a step Tuesday that will lower student loan payment for millions  It will pause payments altogether for borrowers…

Sam Bankman-Fried planned to tell Congress he ‘f***ed up’ before arrest for FTX fraud

Sam Bankman-Fried planned to tell Congress he ‘f***ed up’ before arrest for FTX fraud

Groveling and disgraced, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried planned to tell Congress how he ‘f****d up’ before he was arrested in The Bahamas last night on a spate of fraud charges that could put him in prison for the rest of his life.  Bankman-Fried, 30, was arrested in The Bahamas shortly before 6pm on Monday at…

US state treasurers say small businesses will suffer ‘cataclysmic’ consequences of proposed SEC rule

US state treasurers say small businesses will suffer ‘cataclysmic’ consequences of proposed SEC rule

GOP state financial officers are sounding the alarm over what they predict will be ‘cataclysmic’ consequences if the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finalizes a rule that requires businesses to add their climate damage risk assessment to their financial disclosures.  The SEC voted 3-1 in March to address a lack of standardization in corporate reporting…

Autumn Statement – Live Budget Update: Jeremy Hunt is slammed for ‘tricks and stealth taxes’

Autumn Statement – Live Budget Update: Jeremy Hunt is slammed for ‘tricks and stealth taxes’

LIVE AUTUMN BUDGET 2022 LIVE: Jeremy Hunt is slammed for ‘tricks and stealth taxes’ that will see more than half of UK households worse off – with anger from pub landlords to parents and pensioners Follow MailOnline’s main coverage of the 2022 autumn statement HERE  By Jack Wright For Mailonline Published: 03:31 EST, 17 November…

MIDTERMS 2022: Dow rises 330 points as US economy and investors await midterm results

MIDTERMS 2022: Dow rises 330 points as US economy and investors await midterm results

Wall Street embraced the prediction of a red wave ahead of Tuesday’s midterms, with the Dow increasing for the third consecutive day after months of depressed rhetoric and recession fears.  Soon after the opening bell, the Dow rose 115 points, or 0.35 percent, to 32,953. The S&P 500 gained 0.34 percent and the Nasdaq Composite ticked…

Rishi Sunak on the brink of a major deal for the US to supply fracked gas to avoid winter blackouts

Rishi Sunak on the brink of a major deal for the US to supply fracked gas to avoid winter blackouts

Rishi Sunak is on the brink of a major deal with Joe Biden which could bring fracked gas from the US to avoid blackouts this winter The agreement would see the US supply billions of cubic feet of natural gas The deal would shore up UK energy supplies and reduce the risk of blackouts Mr…

Biden says foreign involvement in Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition ‘worth being looked at’ 

Biden says foreign involvement in Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition ‘worth being looked at’ 

President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that any foreign involvement in Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition – including by Saudi Arabia – is ‘worthy of being looked at’. He made the comments in a press conference on the midterm elections after Democrats performed better than expected.  The president was asked if he considered the billionaire and…

Republicans admit disappointing initial midterm results

Republicans admit disappointing initial midterm results

Top Republicans have admitted their predicted ‘red wave’ has not materialised after a disappointing night in the midterm elections. Pollsters had forecast a heavy blow for Joe Biden at the midpoint of his four-year term, believing Republicans would make huge gains in the House and tip the balance in the Senate to seize control of…

US Midterms 2022: Biden AVOIDS spotlight- as exit poll shows 73% of voters unhappy with state of US

US Midterms 2022: Biden AVOIDS spotlight- as exit poll shows 73% of voters unhappy with state of US

Biden AVOIDS the spotlight on Election Day – as exit poll shows 73% of voters angry or dissatisfied with the state of the US: President lays low in the White House to conduct radio interviews and make calls as he braces for Democrat defeats The president, who has rallied for Democrats over the past few…

Biden says inflation won’t hit families so hard because they can switch to generic raisin bran – twitchy.com

Biden says inflation won’t hit families so hard because they can switch to generic raisin bran – twitchy.com

President Biden and his administration have one strategy and one strategy only when it comes to spinning the messes they’ve created: Gaslighting and then gaslighting some more. Biden provided more proof of that this week while trying to convince people how much better off they are these days when it comes to their bottom line:…

Joe Concha does some quick fact-checks on Biden’s latest economic brags – twitchy.com

Joe Concha does some quick fact-checks on Biden’s latest economic brags – twitchy.com

A little over a week before the November midterm elections there has been a coincidental positive economic estimate from the Commerce Department: The U.S. economy grew at a 2.6% annual rate from July through September, snapping two straight quarters of contraction and overcoming high inflation and interest rates just as voting begins in midterm elections…