Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Trump promised to cut our energy bills in half by now, but natural gas and electricity have never cost more

 



He'll drink to that

 


 Todd Blanche says he has ‘full faith’ in Kash Patel as FBI director

Overall wholesale price inflation in June 2026 was still highly elevated at 5.5% yoy, May revised down to 6% from 6.5%

 CNBC found some guy to say producers won't raise prices on consumers "as much" lol.

 



Core wholesale inflation in June 2026 at 4.7% yoy is still high and rising, May revised down to 4.6% from 4.9%

 



The Detroit News has Stevens over El-Sayed by seven after endorsement by retiring Senator Gary Peters

 


Mayor Pete Buttigieg is still peddling his radical proposal from 2019 to abolish the Electoral College

2026: Pete Buttigieg Calls to Abolish the Electoral College in Iowa Speech 

2019: Buttigieg doubles down on scrapping Electoral College: ‘It’s undemocratic’

 

Middle East tanker transits July 7-13, 2026 fall sharply to 6 per day in the Strait of Hormuz

SoH: 6.0/day
SoH E: 3.4/day
SoH W: 2.6/day
 
BAM: 16.7/day
BAM SE: 7.9/day
BAM NW: 8.9/day 


New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh says the Fed has no tolerance for high inflation, except for 82% of the time since 1965 when it's been above 2%

The Fed has met its goal of keeping inflation below 2% in only eleven of the last sixty years, which I'm sure was just an accident.