Reporter: More soaring prices at the grocery store. The cost of beef is hitting record highs across the country. Prices are up 9% since January, and beef is retailing at the grocery store for on average $9.26 a pound. That is a dramatic increase since the beginning of the year

The House GOP just proposed blocking the enforcement of something called the "Combating Auto Retail Scams" Rule. Ladies and gentlemen, the party of the working class!

Construction spending powered the economy forward post-covid. Its now pretty clearly contracting.

Is Matt Stoller in too good a mood? Well boy does the NYT have a solution to THAT problem.

We don't talk enough about how a handful of midsize Midwestern winner cities have become magnets for younger people from rapidly shrinking cities and towns in their region. Classic example is Columbus, drawing in tens of thousands from the rest of Ohio. Such a stark contrast with metro Cleveland. See also Indianapolis, Grand Rapids and Madison.

The American Dream is IMPOSSIBLE without home ownership and home ownership has become impossible for so many Americans. It wasn't always this way in the USA. Let's talk about it, and some things we could do to fix it for your kids and mine. 🧵

From me: Antitrust policy has gone from Lina Khan to dust. Signaling leniency on mergers has become the method to boost asset prices and keep Wall Street happy. It's a path to greater risk and inevitable crash. (link below)

This is a deeply disappointing red flag for those traveling to China. It chills vitally important people to-people ties. But the reality is that you too could be trapped — possibly for years — if Beijing decides it needs leverage in talks with the US.

Post-2010, 72% of non-orthodox American Jews marry someone who isn’t Jewish. So this whole debate is stupid, and data on college campuses centers on annoying people obsessed with being Jewish, not actual Jews.

It's kinda funny that the NFLPA is in shambles because Bill Simmons called Pablo Torres a wanna-be journalist