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Why Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About Gas Prices
Why Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About Gas Prices
Authored by Robert Rapier via OilPrice.com,
Gasoline prices can diverge sharply from crude oil prices due to refining and logistical constraints.
Tight refinery capacity and geopolitical disruptions have created bottlenecks throughout the fuel supply chain.
Policies that discourage energy infrastructure investment could worsen future fuel price volatility.
When lawmakers propose solutions to complex economic problems, the first requirement should be a clear understanding of how those problems actually work.
A recent Facebook post by Bernie Sanders comparing today’s oil and gasoline prices to those in 2011 suggests...
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Authored by Jonathan Turley via Jonathan Turley,
We have seen protesters on the left around the country mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk, even reenacting his murder. Hate traffickers like Jennifer Welch have even justified his assassination. It is all shocking and depressing, but none reached the level of Hasan Piker leading a huge crowd in mocking Kirk and his faith. Before he was murdered, Kirk debated Piker and called him a "socialist hypocrite." What is shocking is not...
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Russia's Drones Zero In On Ukraine's Data Centers, Mobile Providers
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The Russian defense ministry on Tuesday indicated that it attacked and struck two military cargo vessels in the Black Sea as well as two data centers in the Ukrainian capital overnight.
The vessels, which were sailing foreign flags, were struck off Odessa, President Zelensky also confirmed in a Tuesday statement.
DSNS UkraineThe Kyiv region along with ten other areas came under attack overnight, Zelensky acknowledged. But it is the capital which has been getting pounded, also following many weeks and months of...
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Jun 9, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Since Lockdowns, A 12% GDP Loss; Half Of US Dollar Purchasing Power Stolen
Since Lockdowns, A 12% GDP Loss; Half Of US Dollar Purchasing Power Stolen
Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute,
Many of us have had the intuition that the economic damage from 2020 – including industrial stoppages, monetary printing, supply-chain disruptions, extended school closures, and general population demoralization – was in fact far greater than official statistics indicate.
What follows will shore up this intuition, using new techniques and numbers from an innovative project called RealityIndex.co.
It’s true that official data is bad enough, showing a 26% loss in purchasing power, slow growth...
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