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Dollar General CEO Warns Even "Upper-Middle Acting Like Lower-Income" Amid Fuel Crisis Speaking at Goldman Sachs' 33rd Annual Global Retailing Conference on Tuesday morning, Dollar General CEO Todd Vasos offered a downbeat assessment of its customer base, warning that financial stress is spreading up the income ladder to middle- and upper-middle-income households.  Years of elevated prices for everyday goods, compounded by gasoline prices above $4 a gallon nationally and $6 a gallon for diesel, are certaintly reshaping consumer habits across income cohorts. Vasos said that even customers earning $100,000 or more, whom Dollar General...

Russia Condemns US Attack On Iran, Warns Of Possible 'Radiological Catastrophe' As fully predictable, Moscow has blasted the major overnight and early morning US-Israeli strikes on Iran, calling the attack "a preplanned and unprovoked act of armed aggression against a sovereign and independent U.N. member state" and has demanded an immediate halt to the military campaign and a return to diplomacy. The Foreign Ministry in a statement on Telegram accused Washington and Tel Aviv of "hiding behind" concerns about Iran’s nuclear program while actually pursuing regime change, as also cited in...

Trump's 48-Hour Houthi Strike Whiplash Was Triggered By Desire To 'Help His Friend' MbS President Trump's abrupt Saturday return to the White House from Camp David, where he had been slated to spend the whole weekend, had set off an avalanche of speculation on potential military escalation in the Middle East. The NY Times and Axios are reporting that the Commander-in-Chief was close to a ordering new anti-Houthi intervention but that he backed out, TACOing once again but this time in pretty rapid order. Source: White House "President Trump over the weekend considered...