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Gas prices continue to surge: Trump says that's good news
3+ hour, 46+ min ago (360+ words) Gas prices are up 74 cents per gallon since Donald Trump launched war on Iran on Feb. 28, but there is good news underlying: that just means we're all making more money, according to the president. Not sure who the "we" are…...
The Golden Age: Gas prices up, Dow Jones, jobs down
1+ week, 1+ day ago (281+ words) Donald Trump lied a week ago when he said most of the country was paying $2.30 a gallon for gas. Somebody in the inner circle needs to tell him that the average is now $3.32 a gallon. That's what GasBuddy has as…...
Gas prices up sharply due to sanctions on Iran, cold weather
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (215+ words) Gas prices were down in the $2.50 a gallon range in my home base, Waynesboro, just a couple of weeks ago. Now we're paying $2.89 a gallon, as prices everywhere are rising rapidly. The main culprit: oil is back over $60 a barrel,…...
Families paying more, and Trump's Greenland fetish isn't helping
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (472+ words) A new congressional report has it that U.S. families spent $1,625 more on daily living things due to inflation, and that's not counting what happens if Europe responds to Donald Trump's threats to Greenland by pulling the rug out from under the…...
Paul Tudor Jones sees tough times ahead
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (655+ words) Paul Tudor Jones " yes, that Paul Tudor Jones, the UVA Athletics benefactor " said on CNBC today that market conditions are feeling to him a lot like what we saw ahead of the burst of the dot-com bubble in 1999. Which, no,…...
No surprise | Trump/DOGE cuts killing Northern Virginia economy
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (526+ words) Democrats told you the Northern Virginia economy would take a hit from the Trump/DOGE government job cuts, and guess what, it's happening. The Abigail Spanberger campaign highlighted the bad news in a press release on Saturday, and I've been…...
Grocery costs stressing out Americans, likely to get worse
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (833+ words) People are fed up with high grocery prices, and the impact of cuts from the Trump administration to food-assistance programs and Medicaid could further harm the most vulnerable Americans. The administration's on-again, off-again tariffs, and cuts made through the One…...
Trump fires the BLS Commish: The economy is about to take off
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (147+ words) This just in: the Trump-era economy is going to add 10 million jobs in August, and another 20 million in September. I'm kidding, of course. It's going to be 20 million in August, and 50 million in September. The BLS report showed a net…...