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RT @arusbridger: What if Zuckerberg and Bezos had held their nerve? What if ABC had told Trump they’d see him in court? What if the Ivy Lea….

RT @elerianm: Last weekend, Goldman revised its US growth and inflation forecasts in a stagflationary direction. Now, it’s a set of even mo….

RT @sahilkapur: This is the US budget. Trump/GOP say their agenda won’t cut Social Security or Medicare. They’re *expanding* military spend….

RT @opinion: Howard Lutnick's refusal to consider the inflationary effects of tariffs shows he is out of touch with American businesses, @B….

RT @George_A_Callas: Yes. Over 40% of households don’t even pay income tax and wouldn’t benefit from these tax breaks — but would have to….

RT @sdonnan: It's not just tariffs. The risks to growth are piling up under Trump. Latest with @endacurran for @business & @economics:….

.@elerianm:. "While still relatively low, my probability of a recession has increased from 10% at the beginning of the year to 25% to 30% today. This is a consequential and quite unsettling development for an economy with high potential. ".

*S&P 500 ERASES ELECTION GAIN, WIPING OUT $3.4 TRILLION IN VALUE. #WINNING.

RT @AdamMinter: This is very interesting. @clive_crook and @BobOnMarkets debate whether investors are right to forgive the US's debt addict….

RT @economics: A weather-changing La Niña has developed in the equatorial Pacific further adding to drought worries in California, as well….

. the emails show pretty clearly is that Patel politicized the process. In particular, they show he coordinated efforts with high-ranking officials at the White House, Department of Justice and Republican lawmakers to declassify documents he believed were favorable to Trump.

EXCLUSIVE: More than 800 pages of Patel's emails obtained by FOIA Files, from the Office of Director of National Intelligence, raise questions about whether he’ll weaponize the FBI to settle scores if he’s confirmed as its next director via @business.

That means water is pumped uphill to a tank or reservoir, then fed down to homes and hydrants. The setup provides enough water pressure to meet daily needs like showers and watering gardens or fighting individual structure fires. (3/3).

Hydrants are part of municipal water systems and many of those in California are gravity-fed, according to John Fisher, a retired battalion chief of San Diego Fire-Rescue who spent 34 years battling blazes. (2/3).

The truth about fire hydrants running dry? The issue isn’t California’s water management, as some including Trump and Elon Musk have suggested, but rather systems that simply aren’t designed to handle fires of such ferocity burning in or near urban areas. (1/3).

And they wonder why trust in the Supreme Court is at an all time low

Neighborhoods in the path of the Palisades and the other fires have been some of the hardest-hit by insurer defections. The 90272 ZIP code of Pacific Palisades saw 1,930 policy non-renewals between 2019 and 2024, or 28 of every 100 policies. via @opinion.

Hershey is asking the US’s top derivatives regulator for permission to BUY MORE THAN 90,000 METRIC TONS of cocoa on ICE Futures via @markets.

Drill, Baby, Drill? . Big oil says "no thanks", declining to bid in a US government auction to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. via @climate.

Here's (almost) everything that @opinion will be watching and expecting in 2025 via @opinion.