Stories by Terry Ponick

Biographical Note: Dateline Award-winning music and theater critic for The Connection Newspapers and the Reston-Fairfax Times, Terry was the music critic for the Washington Times print edition (1994-2010) and online Communities (2010-2014). Since 2014, he has been the Senior Business and Entertainment Editor for Communities Digital News (CDN). A former stockbroker and a writer and editor with many interests, he served as editor under contract from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and continues to write on science and business topics. He is a graduate of Georgetown University (BA, MA) and the University of South Carolina where he was awarded a Ph.D. in English and American Literature and co-founded one of the earliest Writing Labs in the country. Twitter: @terryp17

Video of the week, Hunter and Joe Biden

Video of the Week: Hunter and Joe Biden, together again

Our first CDN Video of the Week stars a vintage Senator Joe Biden, circa 1991, and a controlled substance loving Hunter Biden, circa unknown.

Civil War II, Disunited States of America, DSA

Civil War II: It’s already underway in the Disunited States of America

Civil War II may already be underway in many parts of the country. The USA is rapidly morphing into the Disunited States of America (DSA).

CDC says, unsettled science, masks onKaufman, Covid, Masks, CDC, Big Tech

CDC says ‘Masks on!’ Today: ‘Stocks off!’ as unsettled science zaps market

Those Federal Carnacs are at it again. The CDC says it’s “masks on” time again. So Mr Market turned stocks off. Unsettled science does that.

Blue States, Red States

Blue States to Red States: America’s most serious immigration problem

The mass exodus of voters from Blue States pouring into traditionally Red States: An immigration problem no American wants to discuss.

Covid terror, Friday markets

Covid terrorism returns, but Friday markets ignore it and rally again

The government and its media allies are cranking up Phase II of their latest Covid terror campaign. New mask mandates and shutdowns coming?

faceplant, stocks soar

Faceplant! Resurrection! Monday markets crash. But Tuesday, stocks soar

In an epic faceplant, Monday markets took a nosedive off their lofty cliff. But Tuesday, we're watching stocks soar again? WTF?

Wells Fargo, credit ratings

Wells Fargo screws consumers. Again. Bye-bye credit ratings…

Wells Fargo announced this past Thursday that it's shutting down all of its existing personal lines of credit. Consumer credit ratings tank.

deadly covid variants

Deadly Covid variants: Delta, Alpha, Gamma. How many should we fear?

Alpha, Delta, Gamma and beyond: Will these deadly Covid variants really kill us all? Or is this just Deep State propaganda at work?

Wells nonsense, Covid variants

Wells nonsense, Covid variants, hurt stocks Thursday. But Friday does a 180

Wells nonsense vs its retail customer loans plus more terrorism via Covid variants clobbered stock Thursday. But Friday proved a new day.

big tech, class action lawsuit, Trump

President Trump filing class action lawsuit vs Twitter, Facebook and Google

Donald Trump formally launched his long-anticipated legal attack against Big Tech social media giants. His upcoming class action lawsuit targets their anti-democratic censorship of those opposing the Democrats' ruinously pro-socialist policies.

oil stocks, Chinese techs

Oil stocks, Chinese tech in turmoil, in wild Wall Street Wednesday

Oil shares were immersed in chaos Wednesday. Worse, China’s punishment of new IPO DiDi Global shares has Chinese tech stocks in a tizzy.

Amazon shares, Microsoft, JEDI

Amazon shares soar, orbit Earth ahead of retiring boss Bezos as JEDI falls

Amazon shares (NASD:AMZN) have beaten retiring boss Jeff Bezos into earth orbit. Reasons why? DoD canceled the huge JEDI contract Amazon had lost to Microsoft.

stock market fireworks

Stock Market Fireworks: A surprisingly positive pre-holiday Friday rally

Though techs continued to suffer throughout the week, Friday's stock market fireworks proved a welcome antidote overall this week.

Delta panic porn, malaise, September decline, ignoring the headlines

Delta panic porn lingering on Wall Street? Or just pre-holiday malaise?

The media's seemingly never-ending Covid-19 Delta panic porn continues polluting stock market patterns this pre-holiday trading week.

July 4, Independence Day trading schedule

Independence Day trading schedule for US stock exchanges

Since July 4 falls on a Sunday this year, banks, Wall Street's Independence Day Trading schedule designates July 5 as its day off.

Covid, Delta variant

Delta variant bugging US stocks Tuesday? It’s hard to tell…

Some pundits speculate that the much-ballyhooed Delta variant of the increasingly overhyped Covid-19 virus has investors scared stiff.

Red State economies, Blue State, Blue States

Red State economies vs Blue States: You already know who’s better off

The American system is now pitting the largely successful Red State economies vs the badly crippling Blue State lockdown regimes.

Shares of Amazon, Google

Shares of Amazon, Google hammered as UK investigates product reviews

Techs and retail got hit with news the UK was zeroing in on shares of Amazon and Google, attacking their anticompetitive practices.

Quadruple witching, Bullard, tech heavy NASDAQ, Coyote, Roadrunner, Acme, post-Memorial Day Blues, recession fears

Quadruple Witching, Fed’s Bullard worsen stock market face-plant

Friday’s quadruple witching action and bearish remarks by the Fed's James Bullard worsened this past week’s market face-plant Friday.

Fed economic outlook

Fed economic outlook tanks stocks, which were ready to tank anyway

Wednesday’s FOMC report and the Fed economic outlook for the next few quarters didn't help the market, as stocks tanked across the board.