Financial Risk Consultant & Trainer: Banks, Emerging Markets, Basel III, & Leveraged Lending. English, Spanish & Russian. Senior Contributor at Forbes.
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.@CrunchGym is owned by private equity firm Leonard Green and Partners, whose financial engineering led Joann Fabrics and Prospect Medical to bankruptcy. pestakeholder.org/news/joann…
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South Texas Builders Association Vice Chair Benny Melendez to White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller: "If you want to continue harassing our communities...These same communities you're now harassing will make sure you lose the White House."
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Life is about to get tougher for Americans with any variable debt such as credit cards and HELOCs. My latest @Forbes.
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In 1946, a Black Army veteran was returning from World War II when a white police officer pulled him off a Greyhound bus and beat him blind. No one was sure about the officer's identity.
Orson Welles learned about the shocking crime and pledged to find the officer who did it. motherjones.com/politics/202…
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“.. The Tariffs Stole Christmas.”
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An 8-year-old child. Detained by ICE. No child should endure this trauma.
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@SenWarren has a message to all the Wall Street executives, Big Tech CEOs, and giant corporations that have been lining their pockets by wronging the American people: you should be worried.
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Thank you to six former Speakers for agreeing to serve as my transition team as I prepare to become Speaker of the Texas House. They are all friends who understand how the House works best for the people we serve.
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US CPI: the devil is always in the detail and that is quite true inside the October CPI report.
It's clear from the detail of the report that there are clear signs of passing through from rising oil, energy, gasoline and diesel prices to transportation services and food at home.
The underlying data screams stubborn and sticky inflation is a problem that is likely to grow in coming months despite the recent decline in oil and gasoline costs over the past few weeks.
This data demands a December rate hike & it's appropriate that the Fed consider a 50bps move given how the PPI and PCE are likely to arrive.
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Inflation is back up to about 4%, double the Fed’s 2% target.
It was 2.4% before the Iran war began.
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Ugh. Latest inflation numbers just came out, and it's still running hot, and hotter than most expected. One hopes inflation starts returning to normal, but that's a hope right now, not a reality.
Monthly change of 0.4% (headline) and 0.3% (core), was 0.1 points above consensus.
ALT Line chart titled "Headline and core inflation both remain above 2%" showing percent change over the year and from the previous month for headline and core inflation. As of October 2026, headline inflation reached 4.0% year-over-year with a 0.4% monthly increase, while core inflation excluding food and energy measured 2.8% with a 0.3% monthly gain. Both measures remain above the 2% target, with headline inflation experiencing a sharp acceleration since March 2026 when it jumped from 2.4% to 3.3%, reaching its highest level since early 2024. Core inflation has remained relatively stable between 2.5% and 3.4% throughout the period, suggesting the recent headline spike is driven primarily by food and energy prices.
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Wage growth has been running below inflation consistently since the Iran War.
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Data centers are a political third rail. West Virginia is grabbing it anyway. marketwatch.com/story/data-c… via @MarketWatch
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Cybertruck’s run comes to an end as Musk kills off pricey pet project marketwatch.com/story/is-it-… via @MarketWatch
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US CPI Food at Home Prices: one gets the sense that consumers experienced a sharp increase in food prices prior to heading to the polls last week.
One could see it in array of food products that refrigerated trucking to get to market.
In October uncooked beef increased 0.9%, uncooked steaks 1.5%, bacon & breakfast sausage 1%, uncooked poultry 2.3%, processed fish and seafood 2.1%, fresh veggies 2.1%, lettuce 7% and tomatoes 1.5%.
It was not just you or a figment of your imagination that food prices jumped sharply last month. That was a sharp increase in an array of in demand food products.
The disruption of distillate products-jet fuel, diesel, gasoline and fertilizers-all will contribute to higher food prices heading into the holidays and the first half of 2027.
That is the price of the war induced disruption of that supply.
