The economy stumbles towards stagflation as the Biden White House doubles down on stupid.

Another COVID wave puts blue states on edge.

And the media finally noticed Joe Biden was kind of lying about Hunter Biden and China.

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U.S. stocks and bond yields fell with very first month. All righty. So the economy is in serious, serious trouble. According to the Wall Street

Journal, U.S. stocks and bond yields fell with the S&P 500 at flirting with a bare market and a continuing

self-driven by investor fears that the economy could be pitched into a recession, the major indices

it dipped early in Thursday's session a day after tumbling 4% before recovering ground. They ultimately

finished lower, with all three on track for weekly losses of at least 2.9%. Concerns about consumer spending, which helped lift the market out of the pandemic loads, have weighed on stocks and bond yields. As well, bond yields tend to go down when people actually invest in bonds. People are rushing to bonds at this point has sort of a safe haven for investment, given the fact that there really is no great place to put your cash at this point. The NASDAQ composite index entered

bare market territory early this year. It retreated 29.66 points or 0.3%. Investors are buying

government bonds perceived as a haven asset. The yield on the 10-year treasury notes fell to 2.854%

from 2.884% on Wednesday losing

ground for seven of the past nine trading dales days. As I say, bond yields and prices

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