Vance Vanquishes 'Knucklehead' Walz & Muting Moderators; Panic-Buying Already Spreading As Dockworker Strike Gets Underway; Alabama Port Authority working to minimize impact of worker strike

John Maynard Keynes: Mathematician, Investor, and Economist | Mark Thornton

Post-Debate: Vance Vanquishes 'Knucklehead' Walz & Muting Moderators

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“Vance’s dominant debate performance earned him rare praise from some liberal media outlets...”

“While both were plainspoken and civil, Vance provided a crisp defense of former President Donald Trump’s America First policies while Walz, in defending the policies of the administration co-helmed by his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, stumbled at times.”

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@ScottJenningsKY on the #VPDebate: "It's pretty clear Vance outclassed Walz tonight. I mean, I was watching this and all I could think of was -- man, Walz is so in over his head. I mean, can you imagine this guy sitting in the White House Situation Room with that facial expression that's like 50% sheer terror and 50% extreme bafflement? I mean, it was amazing the split-screen difference between a competent Vance and a totally in over his head, Walz. The answer on why he lied about his trips to China and the Tiananmen Square thing was probably the worst VP debate meltdown since Stockdale in '92, you know, 'who am I and why am I here?' It was two-and-a-half minutes of absolute terrible. For Vance, night of redemption. All the political media has told us that Vance was a terrible pick and Walz was going to bring in all these voters. That charade is now over. Walz does not belong at this level of American politics. Vance does. Final verdict? Tim Walz wandered into the wrong bar tonight."

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Panic-Buying Already Spreading As Dockworker Strike Gets Underway

“As union dockworkers began striking against employers at East and Gulf Coast ports early Tuesday morning, reports of panic-buying at supermarkets almost immediately started spreading across social media...”

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Alabama Port Authority working to minimize impact of worker strike; Biden not acting

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Erica Thomas

“Governor Kay Ivey told 1819 News ILA is holding the economy hostage at an already vulnerable time.

“Alabamians want to work and provide for their families, but, once again, big labor is exploiting them," Ivey said. "If the ILA was genuinely fighting for their workers, they would be at the table negotiating for them."

"Instead, at a time when families across the country are struggling to afford the rising cost of goods and as several Southeastern states are reeling from a devastating hurricane, the ILA is showing their true colors," she said. "They have chosen to hold hostage our economy, American consumers and its own workers they claim to support."

Mobile Chamber president and CEO Bradley Byrne said the port would need six days to catch up for every day of the strike.

“It's going to have a significant economic impact in Mobile, but it is also going to have a significant economic impact nationwide,” he said.

Goods from international sources could take much longer for businesses such as Walmart, Home Depot and furniture stores.

“It's really going to impact an awful lot of the consumers in America right before Christmas,” Byrne added. “

An estimated 900 of the 85,000 ILA members nationwide work in Mobile, with 200-300 on-site daily.”

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Mark Thornton

“John Maynard Keynes was an English “economist” who spawned a revolution in economic thinking that emerged out of a cesspool of socialist thinking in Britain, creating a tidal wave of anti-economics that overwhelmed and dominated the economics profession worldwide, known as Keynesian economics. His experience as an investor is very instructive of his mindset—and the unfortunate revolution that he brought to the world.”

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