Thursday, June 25, 2026

When will real personal income be great again?

 Real personal income year over year in May 2026 fell 0.24%.

Are Obama and Biden still in charge?

 


Core pce inflation in May 2026 came in at 3.41% year over year


 What in the Sam Hell is golden about this age?

Absolutely nothing. 

There's nothing Greenspan about it either. 

Alan Greenspan's core pce inflation averaged 2.46% year over year 1987-2006.

 


 

 


 

Well guess what, Speaker Mike Johnson apparently never presented the housing bill to the president, so the 10-day clock is not ticking for it to become law

 Trump halts bipartisan victory lap on housing 

... One potential wrinkle in that 10-day clock is that it doesn’t start until the enrolled bill has been officially “presented” to the president.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether that had happened yet as of Trump’s social media post at 10:26 a.m. But as the day went on it became apparent the bill still hadn’t been presented to the president, according to a top Democrat.

House Minority Whip Katherine M. Clark, D-Mass., laid the blame at Johnson’s feet.

“Mike Johnson could, right now, at any time, formally present this bill to the president and make the president choose: Will he veto it or will it become law in ten days?” Clark said at a news conference. “But Mike Johnson is not choosing that path. That is a betrayal of duty.”

Aides to Johnson didn’t respond to requests for comment. ...

 

Trump moves forward with U.S. Postal Service plan to interdict mail-in ballots and prevent voting by mail in states which won't give him voter data

This is not a joke. 

Postmaster general confirms plan to hold back mail ballots in states that won’t share voter data 

Postmaster General David Steiner told lawmakers Wednesday that the U.S. Postal Service will no longer deliver mail-in ballots in states that refuse to provide sensitive voter data to the federal government, in line with a proposed rule from the Trump administration. ... 

 


 

Petroleum inventories are Wei Tu Lo

 

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