Paul Derleth

Finance, Economics, Red Sox, Eagles, Sabres, Lakers. End the Political Duopoly.

[Paul Derleth @PaulDerleth]

@JeffKerrPHL Some would say, “the worst to do it” last year

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Hey Jasmine…

Black pilot here.

I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.

I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.

Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.

Nobody lowered the standards for me.

Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”

That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.

Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.

I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.

And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.

They care whether the pilot is qualified.

Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.

And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.

[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

Inflation is so high that it's erasing all wage gains.

Inflation: 4.2% in May for the past year
Wage growth: 3.4% in May for the past year.

Americans are getting squeezed financially. This isn't just "bad vibes" about the economy. There is real pain, especially for middle-class and lower-income households. It's tough because so many basic items are seeing sizable price increases: gas, electricity, food, medical care.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Someone is confused.

[Liz Ann Sonders @LizAnnSonders]

In y/y terms, May CPI #inflation +4.2% vs. +4.2% est & +3.8% prior … core CPI +2.9% vs. +2.9% est.& +2.8% prior

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Rep. Crockett (D) says the knife used to kill Metcalf "was not a deadly weapon"

[Paul Derleth @PaulDerleth]

@SandraK76963 The result of bad state energy policy

[Paul Derleth @PaulDerleth]

@FirstSquawk This is a useless indicator. If the numerator (stocks) grow at a long term average of 5-7% each year and the denominator (GDP) grows at a long term average of 2-4% each year - then this will continue to grow out of whack each year. It’s so useless and no one should care.

[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

BREAKING: U.S. SPR declines 7.9 million barrels in the last week to 349.2 million as of June 5, meaning that at any moment in the next few days the SPR will decline to its lowest since 1983, when it was being filled for the first time.

[Brandon Fuller @fuller_brandon]

10 years ago, Governor Cuomo killed the Constitution Pipeline by denying a routine Clean Water Act permit that would've carried cheap Pennsylvania natural gas through Albany and on to New England.

Cuomo has been gone since 2021. The blockade isn't. Six states are still paying the price. Great piece from @ManhattanInst's @PolicyEngineer in @BostonGlobe https://t.co/R96sxzqVYP

The absurdity? The gas still moves. It gets trucked north in "virtual pipelines" at a premium. Upstate NY plants burn it to sell power to Quebec. Quebec turns around and sells electricity back to New England.

Everyone pays more. This past winter, MA customers paid about 80% more for natural gas than their counterparts in PA.

Crazier still: New England retired its coal plants on the promise that cleaner natural gas would replace them. But with NY choking off the supply, the region's "fuel-switching" plants now fall back on oil. During January's deep freeze, New England burned oil for 40%+ of its electricity.

Congress should stop letting NY weaponize the Clean Water Act to veto energy infrastructure an entire region depends on. A permit meant to make sure developers dig carefully around creek beds was never supposed to be a six-state energy blockade. End it.

[Thomas R. Petersen @thomasrp93]

According to ESPN, AJ Brown, one of the most targeted WRs who won a SB 2 years ago, chose to be miserable due to...

Lack of tight window targets against zone coverage...

Huh.

#Eagles

[Shane Haff @ShaneHaffNFL]

Jalen Hurts ranked 8th and 6th in the last 2 seasons in tight window throw rate among QBs with double-digit starts.

AJ Brown ranked 2nd and 3rd in the last 2 seasons in yards on tight window throws.

Brown continues to invent excuses for being a bad teammate.

[Paul Derleth @PaulDerleth]

@Kalshi @ewarren @BernieSanders - those egg producers are real greedy aren’t they?

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

US AIRLINES FUEL COSTS ROSE BY 78% IN APRIL TO NEARLY $6.5 BILLION - USDOT

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

The Dividend Yield on the S&P 500 ETF moved below 1% this week and is fast approaching the all-time low yield of 0.94% in 2000. $SPY

[Paul Derleth @PaulDerleth]

Trading Mookie Betts was the worst move the Red Sox made in 75 years. But the 2nd worst move in that timeframe was picking Trevor Story over Xander Bogaerts.

Since Story was has come to Boston, he is a AAA player at best. In Xander you lost the fan favorite and franchise Leader.

[Paul Derleth @PaulDerleth]

@unseen1_unseen Or it just costs less to get it to you. Regional differences in gas stations have been around forever. Gas station profits are typically single digit cents per gallon.

[Paul Derleth @PaulDerleth]

@unseen1_unseen Great RBOB and WTI are both down 17-19% over the last 2-3 weeks.

Price at the pump? Holding steady at $4.59. Same as it was 2 months ago.

This particular station was at $2.99 the day before the war started. Up 53% and hasn’t looked back.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Florida counts 90% of ballots in 1 hour and the other 10% that night

California is at 55% two days later