Russian crude output rises as global oil market returns to surplus, IEA says
Friday, November 13, 2026
Wholesale price increases in October indicate no end in sight to inflation
Wholesale prices rose 0.3% in October, putting annual rate at 6.5%, the highest in nearly four years
Core producer prices are up 5% year over year, overall producer prices are up 6.5% year over year.
Ouch.
F. Chuck Todd takes heavy incoming for a tweet suggesting expanding U.S. House representation to 800
Nothing screams ignorance of the Article The First debate from the founding era to the present time like the angry comments to Todd's tweet. Todd is also ignorant. The comments also scream complete complacency with the current state of arrested and poorly rated representation.
The state of New Hampshire has a population of 1,415,342 and 400 representatives in its state house, a ratio of 3,538 citizens to 1 representative. Representatives get paid $100-$200 . . . per year, plus mileage lol. New Hampshire ranks 46th for its low public debt load because it has a balanced budget requirement, and most things are funded through property taxes instead of income and sales taxes.
The United States has a population of 343,011,044 and 435 representatives in the U.S. House, a ratio of 788,531 citizens to 1 representative. 45% of representatives have a net worth of $1 million or more. America's public debt load is the highest in the world, with most things being inadequately funded.
America should be more like New Hampshire.
Meanwhile the Buttigiegs of the world want representation to shrink!
Thursday, November 12, 2026
CBS News doesn't have a clue about Trump's failed deportation policy
ICE deportations and arrests hit record high as Trump faces reckoning over immigration crackdown
Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported a record 483,200 people in fiscal year 2026, according to new Department of Homeland Security figures obtained by CBS News, marking a historic escalation in President Trump's signature immigration crackdown, even as voters grapple with the increase in interior enforcement.
The total number of individuals deported represents the highest annual figure in ICE's reported history, surpassing the law enforcement agency's previous record of 442,640 in fiscal year 2025. ICE also reported more than 491,000 immigration arrests during the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, including nearly 475,000 administrative arrests — another record, according to DHS. Administrative arrests are those in which alleged undocumented immigrants are arrested for civil violations rather than criminal charges.
... According to DHS, the new deportation total is approximately 18% higher than the 409,849 removals ICE recorded in fiscal year 2012, during the Obama administration, a longstanding agency benchmark. ...
America's resident illegal alien population in July: 13.5 MILLION.
Donald Trump is such a terrible president that Mississippi, a state Real Clear Politics had no polling data for, sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate instead of incumbent Republican Cindy "pick another protein" Hyde-Smith
Mississippi, where America's outrageous beef prices came home to roost.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Asset inflation is often fueled by abundant money supply, which is why Wall Street incessantly clamours for it at the lowest interest rate possible in order to maximize its arbitrage
Asset inflation is a sustained, nominal increase in the market prices of financial and capital assets—such as stocks, bonds, real estate, gold, and derivatives—rather than everyday consumer goods and services.
Unlike consumer price inflation, asset inflation is not tracked by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and is not a component of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
It is often fueled by low interest rates, abundant money supply, or cheap corporate and investor borrowing rather than direct production increases.
Rising asset values increase household net worth for owners (particularly higher-income groups), which can indirectly drive spending and fuel broader economic pressures.
Because asset prices can disconnect from underlying economic fundamentals or production capacity, sharp run-ups frequently carry the risk of a market correction or crash.
Just because it's a Tuesday, a lousy Tuesday.
In all the hullabaloo about the GOP election loss, I have yet to hear anyone point to Trump's repeated promises in 2024 to halve Americans' energy bills and his spectacular failure to do so
It's like The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name.
IYKYK.
Like Social Security taxes and food prices, energy costs are highly regressive.
That's a fancy word meaning that when they go up they impact you more if you don't make much to begin with.
Electricity prices are up 8% since Election 2024, not down 50%.
The price of natural gas to heat your home is up 13.7% since Election 2024, not down 50%.
The price of gasoline is up 40% since Election 2024, not down 50%.
Yes, there's been lots of talk about high gasoline prices, but not about Trump's incredible promises to halve them, as in to $1.59/gallon.
I don't care if it was dumb for Trump to promise such price reductions. He made the promises repeatedly, and deserved everything he got and more a week ago for failing spectacularly at it.
If you think Democrats are going to do what Trump couldn't, however, well, you'll deserve what they give you, good and hard.
10-year trend for consumer price inflation remains higher in October 2026
The respective unrounded seasonally adjusted percent change monthly figures are 0.35% for overall cpi inflation and 0.29% for core cpi inflation in October 2026.
In September 2026 the year over year figures are 3.71% and 2.56% respectively. Year over year figures for October 2026 are not available because of the absence of data collection during the government shutdown last year.
The 43-day government shutdown last year was over Democrats' insistence that ACA emergency premium subsidies from 2021 during the pandemic be continued despite the end of the pandemic.
They were not continued, underscoring Obamacare's expensive inadequacy.
The consumer price index rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4% in October, more than expected, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday.
The core CPI, which strips out volatile food and energy costs, increased 0.3%. That was also more than expected.
The BLS did not estimate a yearly inflation rate, as last year’s government shutdown prevented the bureau from collecting data. ...
One week after Election 2026 19 U.S. House races remain uncalled, 2 in the U.S. Senate
House:
AK-at large
CA-4
CA-7
CA-23
CA-40
CO-4
FL-27
LA-5
LA-6
ME-2
MN-1
NC-3
NC-5
NC-7
NC-8
NC-10
NY-1
NY-2
TN-4
Senate:
AK
MS
Monday, November 9, 2026
Six days after Election 2026 and the U.S. House is divided Democrats 252 to GOP 160 with 23 races still uncalled and Republicans leading in 12
And 2 of the 23 will go to a runoff in Louisiana.
If Republicans win the 12 races in which they are leading today they will seat only 172 in January, 48 fewer than in the current House with 220 seats, an outcome worthy of 1948.
Republicans went from 179 seats in the U.S. House in January 2009 to 242 in January 2011, a gain of 63 seats in the 2010 election.
I think the last time Republicans had fewer than 179 seats in the House was after the election of 1948 with just 171 seats. Truman famously defeated Dewey that year 303 electoral college votes to 189, with Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond pulling away 39 in the south.
The average number of seats held by Republicans in the U.S. House in the last ten victories 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2022, and 2024 has been 231, and 198 in the last four defeats in 2006, 2008, 2018, and 2020.
OMG, those things didn't include moving out of Ohio or getting rid of her electric car, instead she signed up for a new rewards card with a $495 annual fee
Which she is s e l l i n g in the story.
ROFLMAO.
Let's put more women like this with their luxury beliefs in charge of the economy!
I'm guessing that she just voted for that drunk babe in Ohio, too, not Vivek.
Her household obviously has money to burn. The whole story is TMI.
My electricity bill jumped to $400 — here’s what I did to make it less painful
Honda at capacity in the U.S. plans new plant in Ohio
Ohayō gozaimasu!
Honda to invest $3 billion in new vehicle assembly plant in Ohio
... The facility is expected to be capable of producing traditional vehicles with internal combustion engines, all-electric vehicles and hybrid models, which have been growing in popularity in the U.S.
The plant is expected to increase Honda’s light-duty vehicle capacity to 1.3 million units annually in the U.S. It currently has 12 manufacturing plants in United States, eight of which produce engines or light-duty vehicles for the auto industry.
... American Honda Motor Co. executive Jennifer Thomas recently emphasized the Japanese automaker’s commitment to the U.S. and need for additional capacity.
“In order to be competitive in this market, you’re going to need to build products here,” Thomas, senior vice president of corporate affairs, said Oct. 27 in Detroit. “We are focused on trying to maximize the existing capacity that we have, but we are at capacity, and so we’re exploring all options.”
... Honda said it has built more than 33 million vehicles and more than 39 million engines in the U.S. since it started auto production in the U.S. in 1982.
The Japanese automaker currently has more than 30,000 employees in the U.S.
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