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al? How many of you think that the Chinese actually think of Harvard as a top party school? Does that seem likely? I'm going to say maybe not. According to Redfin, there are nearly half a million more people selling homes than buying them right now. And six of the top ten buyers' markets are in Florida. So I guess all those people who moved to Florida during the pandemic have decided that a few y…

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Trump said he's increasing the steel tariffs from 25 percent to 50 percent. And has it been blocked by an activist judge yet? I'm completely lost. So we've got hundreds of countries, and then within each country there are dozens of key products, and then we've had different proposed tariffs on each of them which first were high and maybe they got pulled back but they got delayed. So every time I read a story like this, like steel tariffs go from this to that, I don't know what is real. Has it already been blocked by an activist judge? And if it's been blocked by the activist judge, has the Supreme Court already overruled it or will they?

It's impossible to just follow the story about what's happening with tariffs. So I feel like that's good for the stock market because the stock market can't be sure it's bad because nobody knows what it is. It's just sort of confusing and then it gets boring. If it's boring and confusing, then the market can adjust to it. So maybe that's what's happening.

According to CNN, the latest inflation numbers are almost exactly where the Fed would want them, 2.1 percent. The Fed would like it to be 2 percent. And that's a seven-month low. That's basically, like I said, right where the Fed would want it. Now that's CNN. So far employment looks good. And then I think there is also the next story is according to th

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e *Daily Wire* and NBC, personal incomes increased by 0.8 percent in April, well ahead of the forecasted 0.3. CNBC is talking about that. So employment looks pretty good. Stock market looks pretty good. Inflation looks pretty good. Energy prices are coming down. And personal incomes have risen more than we thought. At the same time that we're in the middle of this tariff chaos, how can any of thi…

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