SCHWAB: “.. Stagflationary trend for #ISM Services PMI continues, with prices (blue) remaining in an uptrend and employment (white) in a downtrend.”
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JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
EVERCORE: The projected exhaustion of Social Security “is a bona fide forcing event on the horizon. If Washington’s fiscal trajectory changes meaningfully before then, .. it will likely be because Treasury markets deliver a clear signal that the fiscal status quo has become too costly ..”
(Reuters) - A proposed deal between Iran and Oman would give Tehran control over ships entering the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, a senior Iranian source and two regional officials told Reuters on Wednesday, in one of the biggest concessions yet to Iran. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."
“.. he is so set on avenging his election loss and pursuing retribution against his political enemies that he has Americans looking backward when many have signaled they would rather he explain why the country is at war ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
The successor to Washington and Lincoln and Roosevelt and Reagan👇
DUY: Warsh “probably helped ensure that Biden appointees do not leave the board voluntarily ..” (via @weisenthal.bsky.social)
Iran Says No Current Talks With U.S. After Trump Cites Progress on the Strait of Hormuz www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/w...
Iran Says No Current Talks With U.S. After Trump Cites Progress on the Strait of Hormuz
President Trump cited progress in the negotiations when canceling a threatened attack on Iran over the weekend. Iran said there were no current talks with the United States.
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BASH: How do you prepare for next pandemic? RFK Jr: We did almost everything wrong B: But what about now? K: We need to protect our rights B: ? K: During covid we dismantled our rights B: But I'm asking what *to* do K: You were part of the problem B: You want to sit here and attack me?
BRENNAN: Should there be an ethics probe to look into Max Miller? REP. MIKE TURNER: This is a matter of litigation. This is best handled in a courtroom, not a TV studio. This type of speculation is better for TMZ than CBS B: So it doesn't matter to you? TURNER: The court needs to handle this
RFK Jr: Dana, you probably don't understand this because you're not a scientist BASH: Well you're not either! RFK Jr: I know you're flustered now
Priceless montage of Trump lying that vandals cut up the reflecting pool.
If Cornyn and Tillis don’t believe Blanche’s clear but unwritten promise to kill my $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, then I’m just going to have to bring back my $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund
Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. The strike hit a densely populated neighborhood .. .. the evidence raises questions about what the United States was targeting and why such a large munition was used.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w...
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
This is the best he can come up with? "Just trust the AI companies"?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoBARTIROMO: It feels like we're moving into a Terminator-type world HASSETT: I hope not and I think not. AI companies definitely have an incentive not to destroy the world. That would destroy their companies too.
“.. health insurance costs are growing at their fastest rate in almost two decades ..” $XLV
Guy Berger@econberger.bsky.social · 5d ago3/ I didn't include it in the prior chart, but health insurance costs are growing at their fastest rate in almost two decades - that's probably at least a partial explanation for acceleration non-wage benefit costs.
Epstein files aren't worth seeing or discussing, but Fauci's personal diary...? THERE's our new distraction. I'd listen to this remarkable woman.
We used to be a dead country. We were dead. But now we’re the hottest. 🙄
