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Everyone In The Democratic Party Has Money - Except The Democratic Party Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), On April 30, Maine’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills dropped out of the race for a U.S. Senate seat. In a statement about suspending her campaign, Mills was blunt: “While I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else—the fight—to continue on, I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today: the financial resources.” As Mills said, financial resources matter in today’s political...

U.S. Wheat Futs Hit Two-Year High As Wall Street Sounds Alarm Over Drought Shock Hard red winter wheat climbed to a two-year high by the end of the week, as our coverage of the drought shock now hitting America's Breadbasket raises serious alarm bells on commodity desks. The concern is not just reduced crop yields and quality. It is colliding with fertilizer shortages and elevated diesel prices, creating a broader inflationary transmission channel that could work its way through the food supply and translate into higher supermarket prices down the road. Hard...

EU Wants Crisis Powers To Seize Control Of Chip Supplies, Seeks Restrictions On Chinese Imports The EU - which is badly lagging the rest of the world when it comes to AI development - is preparing sweeping emergency powers to intervene in Europe’s semiconductor supply chains during shortages, including by forcing chipmakers to override existing contracts, the FT reported. So much for the sanctity of those "contract-backed" backlogs...  The draft law also enables common purchasing to boost the bloc’s negotiating power, and would mark a clear expansion of the EU’s powers to...