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o be against all caps but now that I realize it's only the people who use all caps are the drunks, that actually is helpful because you could just, oh all caps, I'll skip that one. All right so there's a Wall Street Journal story. The big story today I guess. Wall Street Journal is breaking this story that the Nord Stream pipeline was not blown up by the United States. It was not blown up by Ukra…

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e the election. So every part of this looks a little too coincidental so I'm not buying any of it. That's my take.

Rasmussen has an updated poll on Trump and Harris and still has Trump up 49 to 45. And if you throw in the third party people it doesn't change much at least in terms of the percentage lead. And of course we're at a point where we don't know what to believe about polls but it is true that the Rasmussen poll didn't change much by recent events. Other polls are showing wow big change, Kamala Harris is killing it, everybody loves her, the joy, you can feel the joy. So someday we might know what's true but at this point the polls in general are not believable. I have more confidence in the Rasmussen poll because traditionally they do well compared to other pollsters but also they don't really have a reason to lie about this. They're not so pro-Democrat that you would expect them to lie. So the ones you don't expect to lie have a different result than the one you expect to lie. I don't know, is that a coincidence?

Well inflation is weirdly low which is just good enough to confuse the stupid people because the stupid people will say my goodness inflation is now down to a reasonable number under 2% or something. 2% now if that were real that'd be great but what Republicans will say is well if you compare current prices to 2019 they're up 30, 50%. Insurance is through the roof and eggs and gas are way higher. So it's probably good news that inflation isn't still going and it's really good news but it doesn't make anything affordable because things already went up. Now why did they go up? So don't you have questions about what exactly is driving all of it?

I can tell you that in California the reason insurance went through the roof is because there was fire risk that was crazy. So the state wasn't managing the fire risk but also the state insurance commission said you can't raise rates for a while. They've changed that but then the insurance companies just said we're out, we're done. If you can't raise rates enough to make money why be in business? So yeah and some big fires that just whacked the insurance companies. So we have enough information that Democrats can claim that inflation is low while Republicans claim that it's through the roof and that the baseline went up so much that an ordinary person can't afford to live anymore. Both are true. Both are true.

So Harris is going to have some kind of meeting Friday I guess, tomorrow, and talk about her financial economic proposals. That'll be interesting. But she wants to end price gouging she says. End price gouging and especially for meat processing conglomerates. Now the question I would ask is is there one economist in the entire world, Democrat or Republican, could even be a communist I don't care, is there one economist anywhere who thinks that the government should cap prices for anything? I believe the answer is there's no such thing as any economist anywhere left or right who thinks this is a good idea.

So here's what you should look for. Look for MSNBC and CNN to have no economist on their show. Instead they'll have pundits. Do you know why there will be no economists? Because no economist thinks that capping prices is

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a good idea. None. Zero. You can't find any. Now I might be wrong about that but if you see an economist come on and say you know what in a capitalist system if you want to have a good supply of things you cap the price, nobody will say that. So watch how fake the news becomes because you might see an economist come on Fox News to say well that's a terrible idea everybody knows it but CNN and MSNB…

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