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Commerce Secretary Lutnick crushes CNBC Squawk Box substitiute hosts in interview
The woman and the dude with the British accent are not normal Squawk Box (the 6-9AM CNBC business show) hosts. And they were not helped by the questions their producers had them ask Lutnick. He is normally pretty average when interviewed but I thought he gave an excellent defense of Trump economic policies. Well worth…
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J D Vance on gerrymandering and “everybody does it”
Very unfortunate that it’s true. And Vance gives some good stats proving it. A couple of years ago in New York we almost got pro democrat gerrymanderng, but it was so egregious the courts stopped it.
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CBO projects Trump’s tariffs will reduce US deficit by $4 trillion
It's the law of unintended consequences – but in this case a good consequence. This came up while he was discussing the Soccer World Cup with the President of FIFA.
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FOX: “This Trump deal might ‘raise eyebrows’: Bartiromo”
She is certainly correct. Free market people do not believe the government should own parts of private companies. Of course the original Biden deal of giving Intel billions was also stupid. So the Trump argument would be that we converted a gift and loans int equity in the company.
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Big tech and AI accused of genocide!?!
The protest is outside the DC offices of Palantir, who have government contracts and have aided Ukraine. These don't look like your normal protestors.
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Friday cocktail – Five bourbon cocktails in seven minutes!
Our fave's the first one – The Old Fashioned – and the last one – the Boulevardier. Farandaville Boulevardier recipe is below the Anders video. Farandaville boulevardier – As the drink is a riff on the Negroni, subbing bourbon for gin, we usually go with the classic 1:1:1 ratio. 1 oz. Bourbon 1 oz Compari…
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Pope Leo calls for tomorrow, August 22nd as day of Fasting and Prayer for peace
For peace and justice in the Middle East and Ukraine
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Yesterday’s Yankee game – all nine home runs!
Ties the Yankee record and one short of tying the all time major league record of ten.