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HUGE: Steve Bannon Also Calls for President Trump for Speaker – RELIABLE SOURCE Says President Trump Would Do It!
Earlier today in the 7th vote for the US House of Representatives, GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz called for President Trump for Speaker.
Steve Bannon on the War Room just called for Trump as Speaker as well.
From a reliable and trusted source – President Trump would do it if voted as Speaker.
Bannon made a case for Trump on the War Room moments ago.
At the beginning of the segment, Bannon showed the misdirection play from RINOs like Rep. Ben Crenshaw who made fun of Rep. Bob Good for doing what’s right and not electing McCarthy.
Bannon then shared:
It can’t continue on like this. This fight has been brewing for 10 years…since the Tea Party revolt in 2010.
All of the big guns running the GOP House are gone except McCarthy.
I said on here over a year ago, that Donald Trump should be the Speaker. At least come in for an interim of 100 days. Why did I say that? I knew this was going to end up…
… [after talking about a modern day Church commission to investigate the weaponization of the government] …What about Trump and do it for some interim period, maybe 100 days?
Would you not rather have Trump leading in the negotiation of the debt ceiling and the spending than some of these other people? Would you not? And that’s what it’s going to come down to. We’re hurling towards an economic and financial crisis just like the 1930s. We’re going through a dark valley…
Listen to this historic segment from Steve Bannon on the War Room.
(How awesome it would be if President Trump was sworn in as Speaker tomorrow on Jan 6?)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/momentum-steve-bannon-also-calls-president-trump-speaker-reliable-source-says-president-trump/
“We Can’t Trust Him Around Actual Power… He Sells it to the Lobbyists” – Rep. Matt Gaetz Slams RINO McCarthy After Failed Negotiation
Kevin McCarthy (R-CA 20th District) was huddling with his detractors in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday after two days of brutal losses.
Following the meeting, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL 1st District) blasted McCarthy following closed-door meeting.
“He’s a desperate guy whose vote share is dropping with every subsequent vote, and I’m ready to vote all night, all week, all month, and never for that person,” Rep. Gaetz told reporters.
On Wednesday night, Rep. Matt Gaetz provided details on the negotiations regarding who will serve as Speaker of the House during a Twitter Space discussion.
The topic turned to his criticism of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and he declared that “there is blood in the water” in the race for the speakership.
“The Republican Party right now is in need of change, and Washington is in need of change, and McCarthy kind of embodies a lot of the things that are the worst features of Washington and the worst features of the Republican Party,” Gaetz said.
“So I am in the Lauren Boebert camp. If we can’t wake this guy up every day and put him in a straight jacket right after the prayer of the pledge where basically he is a disembodied portrait, we can’t trust him around actual power because we know what he does with it. He sells it to the lobbyists and the special interests for money that he then redistributes. It is a crazy game that you almost never actually want to win,” Gaetz continued.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/cant-trust-around-actual-power-sells-lobbyists-rep-matt-gaetz-slams-rino-mccarthy-failed-negotiation/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/cant-trust-around-actual-power-sells-lobbyists-rep-matt-gaetz-slams-rino-mccarthy-failed-negotiation/
Citadel Posts Record $35.5 Bilion In Revenue For Hedge Fund, Securities Operations
Yesterday we listed some of the best and worst performing hedge funds of 2022: we missed the most important one.
After a stellar 2021, when it generated $16.2 billion in revenue, in 2022 Ken Griffen's Citadel hedge fund - which had $54.5 billion in AUM as of Jan 1 - had a blowout year, and according to the WSJ, it generated about $28 billion in revenue, citing sources. It wasn't immediately clear what exactly is meant by "revenue" here: new funds, services rendered, or unbooked and booked gains, but whatever it is, the number is a lot, and follows an impressive 38.1% return at the company's flagship multi-strategy fund, Wellington. It also far outstripped the hedge fund's prior record of $16.2 billion the year before.
Additionally, Citadel Securities, a separate entity and one of the world’s biggest electronic-trading firms, had $7.5 billion in revenue, also up from the prior record of $7 billion in 2021. Although in a market where there has been virtually no "lit" (or exchange liquidity) and where most trades have gone through internalizers like Citadel, this particular success is easier to comprehend.
And yes, those pointing out that companies which control both a hedge fund and a trading operation are not that different from SBF's empire, which consisted for the FTX exchange and the Alameda hedge fund, are not too far off.
As the WSJ recounts, after its near-death experience in 2008, Citadel has outpaced many rivals in recent years, and each of its hedge funds posted double-digit gains after fees in 2022. Operating under tight risk controls that leave Citadel with little directional exposure to markets, the firm’s 1,000-plus traders make bets across asset classes in markets around the world. The firm doesn’t provide detailed information to clients about significant trades, though earlier in the year it told them it had benefited from successful commodities bets.
As for Citadel Securities, regular readers are quite familiar with it (not lease because of their threat to sue Zerohedge for suggesting it was frontrunning client orderflow just days before securities regulator FINRA accused it of doing just that) as a global market-making operation that handles more than 20% of the shares that change hands in U.S. stock markets each day. The business, which also trades futures, options, Treasuries and currencies, benefits from increased volumes and volatility, as well as reduced liquidity allowing it to pocket huge bid/ask spreads and prosper even when markets fall.
Furthermore, the pandemic-era boom in activity by retail investors benefited Citadel Securities’ so-called retail-wholesaler unit, which executes orders for brokerages such Robinhood and, to a lesser extent, Schwab.
The revenue bonanza will add to Griffen's already considerable fortune who in addition to regularly breaking records in the real-estate and art markets, has emerged as a major GOP donor. Forbes estimates his wealth at around $31 billion.
To be sure, most other hedge funds have had a rougher year. As we noted yesterday, Goldman told its prime-brokerage clients that hedge funds betting on and against stocks lost an average 12.9% for the year, on an asset-weighted basis, while the S&P 500 lost about 18% including dividends.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/citadel-post-record-355-bilion-2022-revenue-hedge-fund-securities-operations
Florida orders universities to account of how money is spend on diversity, critical race theory
State law mandates “dutiful attention to curriculum content,” governor’s office says.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week announced that public institutions of higher education in the state will be required to detail the total amount they spend on programs and initiatives related to diversity and "critical race theory."
The governor's office said in a press release that “each Florida College System and State University System institution ”will be required “to provide a comprehensive list of all staff, programs, and campus activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and critical race theory.”
Schools will have to provide descriptions of said programs, “positions, including full and partial FTE” that staff the programs, “total funding” spent on them, and the amount of that funding that comes from the state.
Schools have until Jan. 13 to collect the data and submit it to the governor's office.
“I appreciate your assistance in this matter as we continue to work to provide our students with a world-class higher educ
https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/florida-orders-universities-account-how-money-spend-diversity-critical-race
Hi-Rez - 2+2=5 (Official Music Video)
Premiered 20 hours ago
https://youtu.be/D_tXQo1yz0o
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-05/australia-population-statement-key-takeaways-shrinking-outlook/101830454