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d at least one pumping station were attacked by Ukrainian drones. Now, do you think that Trump has already sort of approved or authorized or said it's okay with me if Ukraine takes out Russia's energy production capacity? Because I feel like that's going to happen. I feel like Trump is going to say to Putin, here's the deal. The only reason Ukraine hasn't taken out your entire energy infrastructur…

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y always do as part of the cover up.

Well, how do you know that it's summer? Well, one way is that one of the most interesting stories is about the new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I'm hoping that when the summer is over and the news becomes more meaty that I will no longer be talking about the new person at the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But apparently this new guy E.J. Antoni is getting a lot of push back from Democrats who say that his resume is kind of weak. He hasn't he's not enough of a superstar to be in that job. But other people like Wall Street Mav on X was saying that he's a huge fan of E.J. Antoni and that he's been on TV a bunch of times. He's been on Steve Bannon's podcast. And then I understood, oh, I get it. He's good on TV. So his resume is a little bit light. But he's a loyal MAGA guy, it looks like. And he's been on all the right shows and he must be good on TV. So those are I think that's enough to put him in the job because his job is to figure out how to fix the numbers. I don't think he has to make up the numbers. I don't believe he has to sit at a desk and call upon his economics expertise to just make up numbers. I believe that the job is how to find better, more reliable and timely sources. Is he capable of doing that? Probably most people would be able to do that. You wouldn't have to be an economist to say, all right, can somebody tell me where we can get good numbers and what's stopping us from using them? So no, you don't need to be the world's most published economist to figure out that the numbers were bad and they need a better source. And you'll talk to smart people who know where those numbers can be improved and presumably have better numbers someday.

So there's a topic which people are ma

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d at me all the time about which is that I don't talk enough about the H-1B visas. And the reason is that I feel like you have to be pretty close to it to have a smart opinion. And I've never been close to the topic. In other words, I've never worked in a business where I had to hire somebody like that or I was working with a lot of people who had H-1B visas. So I don't have even a glancing experi…

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