SCHWAB: “.. The labor force participation rate has given up all gains since February 2021.”
RENMAC: “.. The FOMC statement currently describes productivity growth as ‘strong.’ That would have made sense from 2023-25 not the present. In H1 2026, nonfarm business sector productivity has advanced just 1.1 percent at an annual rate. That's not exactly ‘strong.’”
Trump's mercurial global tariffs plus his war of choice in Iran have goosed retail inflation
https://blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/aff...-are-even-moreAffordability concerns have continued to dominate the electoral conversationthis cycle, with House Democrats making it their signature campaign issue, and some congressional Republicans are worried their party isn’t doing enough to address rising costs. Those are good instincts: According to polls from YouGov/The Economist, Americans are rating inflation/prices as even more important now than in 2024, and by a significant margin. In October 2024, 24 percent of Americans said inflation was the most important issue facing the country. Those numbers have grown steadily over the past year, reaching 30 percent in May and jumping to 36 percent in the most recent poll released this week.
These rising concerns aren’t just happening in the abstract — polling has also shown that Americans have changed their spending habits in response to persistent inflation. Over half of respondents in a recent poll from Ipsos (Jun. 2 - 3, 2026) said they had cut back on non-essential spending after seeing an increase in gas prices and the cost of living, while over a third said they had postponed larger expenses and bought less-expensive brands.
Threatening US Senators for voting against when he wins the vote
uber-petty, but suits his caudillismo
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b3029762.htmlPresident Donald Trump lashed out at Sen. Lisa Murkowski early Saturday, calling the Alaska Republican a “traitor” on social media after she joined Democrats in opposing the confirmation of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Writing on Truth Social at 7:10 a.m., shortly after the Senate confirmed Blanche in a dead-of-night 50-49 vote, Trump posted that Murkowski had “no problem voting for Democratic President Joe Biden’s AG pick Merrick Garland” but claimed Blanche would “weaponize the DOJ and is too political.”
Trump added: “The same Garland that personally signed off on the raid of President Trump's home. Murkowski is owned. Traitor.”
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https://www.ms.now/news/conditions-s...ncoln-iran-war
https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.../3msj2wxnubk2gIt sometimes feels like we're living in a ridiculously exaggerated folk tale with wildly implausible villains. For example, as the president takes billions for himself and his family and *coats his things in gold,* the soldiers fighting his war can't get toothpaste, hot water, or a clean toilet.
SAVE didn't get done, the votes weren't there in the Senate
no World Cup bump
Two people who don't like each other but are joined in the interest of making billions of dollars off of you. Or, two people who genuinely love each other, enjoying some pancakes together.
leopards-eating faces party eats another friendly face
AES knows proper usage of apostrophes.
Lol. Trump's America is stupid.
slimming piss-colored AI filter
WSJ sounds doomy
Gulf States Accept a New Normal in Hormuz: Iran Is in Control
Oil-and-gas exporters dislike the emerging deal to reopen the waterway but see it as the least-bad option
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-eas...ntrol-6db8908dPersian Gulf energy producers are concluding that Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz will become permanent, disrupting their oil and gas exports and global energy supplies indefinitely.
The problem is they worry the alternative—going back to war—would be worse.
wrecked US credibility to provide security in the Persian Gulf and depleted strategic stockpiles to make things worse than they were before
because he's a criminal trying to overthrow our form of government
a man who swears to uphold the law then mocks when it rules against him it has no honor
breaking the law systematically, wrecking lives arbitrarily
www.politico.com/news/2026/08...ICE’s detention tactics are not just cruel—they’ve also been ruled unlawful on more than 16,000 occasions, in a major rebuke to Trump’s extreme immigration agenda by the judicial system.
under 80% GOP approval is really bad, under 20% independent approval could be catastrophic for Rs in November
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3q5nxpgk1oMore than 10 firms pay up to $100,000 a month for fast access to Truth Social posts
More than 10 customers have signed up to Trump Media's controversial service that offers faster access to market-moving posts made on its Truth Social platform.
The service, Truth API, launched at the beginning of August and gives Wall Street traders first sight of posts from the social media site's most influential accounts.
Its earliest customers are mostly in high-frequency trading firms who are being charged between $60,000-$100,000 (£44,000-£74,000) a month for the service, interim chief executive officer Kevin McGurn said during an earnings call.
He was speaking after Trump Media reported a loss of $238m between April and June.
The quarterly loss is more than 10 times the amount reported during the same period a year earlier, according to the Trump Media and Technology Group, and comes as the group branched into ventures unrelated to media, including cryptocurrencies.
The group, which is yet to make a profit, says it will refocus on its social media mission.
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