he ran on the fine people hoax. Of course he was the biggest liar we've ever had in that office, I think.

According to Doug Macgregor, some kind of whistleblower has come forward about the autopen scandal. And I've heard some names involved with it, but I don't want to name them yet because I think it's premature. But apparently there are some names that would not be household names to most of you that had access to that thing and might have been the autopen people.

Tonkabot, go yourself. Seriously just go yourself. Can you guys in the comments straighten out Tonkabot because you just crossed the line. You crossed that line pretty hard.

According to Nike, I saw this on a post by Unusual Whales, Nike says they're going to increase their prices on footwear because of the tariffs. So if you were going to pay between $100 and $150, you might get a $5 hike while sneakers priced above $150 will see a $10 increase. To which I say, would anybody notice that? Do you think that there's anybody who is going to pay $150 for sneakers who would not buy them because they're $160? They say, "Oh, darn it. I thought these would cost 150, but it looks like they're 160." I don't know. To me, that doesn't seem like the end of the world.

Remember all the warnings we were getting that the tariffs were going to blast your prices and the economy was going to fail. I feel like they're going to sell the same amount of footwear. So they might be absorbing something, but they don't say. But then there's a story the Washington Times is reporting that Target stores think they can adapt and offset most of the tariff costs by reducing their reliance on China. So they're already working hard to make sure they don't have too much sourcing from China. So Target won't have ridiculously higher prices because of it. And Home Depot wasn't going to have much higher prices.

So we might see story after story of big companies that figured out they were just going to absorb it or adjust or something. So this would be the most surprising outcome if the Trump administration was completely right that the tariffs got us what we wanted with minimal change in prices. Could be. It's entirely possible.

I gotta say I was skeptical because I didn't know what was going to happen. We've never been in this situation before. But it would be pretty amazing if Trump was right about this that the retailers would just adjust or absorb it or find other sources if they tried hard enough. It looks like that's what's happened so far, but it's a little bit early.

You probably heard that the House, it's not a law yet, but just the House passed the big beautiful bill. Now, I gotta say that I've never heard anybody brand a spending bill before. I think Trump's the first one who ever did that. And it's kind of genius that he's calling it the big beautiful bill because it w