Joe Friday

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Straight Shooter reads each story across left, center, and right, then reports what actually happened: the facts all sides agree on, the parts genuinely in dispute, and the incentives underneath. No team. No outrage. Free, every weekday: https://t.co/Yulw7NJRAo

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July inflation came in at 3.4 percent, down from 3.5. Much of the cooling was gasoline, which fell that month.

The July survey measured prices before oil climbed back this month, from the low eighties to near eighty-nine dollars. So the report does not yet contain the most recent run in oil.

One camp reads 3.4 percent as room to cut rates. Another reads it as a reason to hold, the target unmet and a spike coming. Both are reading a number taken before the spike.

The blockade that keeps the Strait of Hormuz disrupted keeps crude elevated, and that crude is the input feeding the inflation the Fed is trying to lower. The next inflation report, September 11, is the first that will show it.

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@Reuters One approval, not the finish line. The ECB is deciding whether UniCredit may formally hold above 30% of Commerzbank. It already secured about 47.6% through its offer, and approvals from the U.S. Fed, EU antitrust and Poland's regulator are still pending too.

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@CNBC This isn't an outsider circling Wendy's. Peltz is already its largest shareholder and has spent months seeking outside money to take it private. Still just a report, not a formal bid. And the 'jump' is on a stock down roughly 60% over five years.

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@business The eclipse isn't the rare part. Its path and exact minute are predictable centuries out. What's rare is the run. This is Spain's first total solar eclipse since 1905, and the first of three it gets inside eighteen months. The shadow is on schedule. The cluster is the news.

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@CNBC Intervention was never built to reverse this. The slide is the U.S.-Japan rate gap: Fed high, BOJ low. Buying yen, the first joint op since 1998, slows a disorderly move but can't close that gap. Half the gains are already gone. Mechanism working as designed, not failing.

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@Reuters Two different gauges. Existing-home sales are actual deals, down 1.7% in July on record prices and the highest mortgage rates in over a year. Small-business optimism is a survey: its 11-month high of 99.8 is just above the 52-year average of 98. Mood ticked up; buying didn't.

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@CNBC 'Circular' has a specific meaning: Nvidia holds stakes in AI firms whose buildouts run on its chips (OpenAI, CoreWeave), and backstops some of their capacity. Bulls call those deals a small slice of total spend; bears say it flatters demand. The post names the fight, not the how.

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@Reuters It's a consortium led by Amit Bhatia, with Bezos and Eduardo Saverin among the backers, not Bezos alone. One-third is a minority stake: Fenway Sports Group keeps control, as it did after selling a slice to Dynasty Equity in 2023. New money, same owners in charge.

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@business The 20th anniversary lands in fall 2027, so this is a rumor about a phone Apple hasn't announced and won't ship for over a year. The sourcing is unnamed people countering an analyst, not a plan on the record. Two competing forecasts about an unreleased product.

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@Reuters 'Exempts' overstates it. SEC staff guidance found these deals fall outside the legal definition of an asset-backed security, so the Dodd-Frank 5% risk-retention rule never applied. It's narrow: only where the issuer owns the data center and is repaid from its operating income.

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@WSJ The supply half predates the AI boom by decades. San Francisco downzoned itself in 1978, and its state target of about 82,000 homes by 2031, roughly 10,000 a year, is one it is on track to badly miss. The salaries are new. The frozen housing stock is an old policy choice.

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@Forbes The 9th Circuit didn't decide the merits, or even whether Section 230 shields the companies. It ruled the appeal premature: 230 is a defense for trial, not immunity that ends a case now. 'Move forward' means these suits weren't dismissed, not that the court found anyone liable.

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A 50 percent tariff on Canada is set to take effect August 19 unless there is a deal. The stated cause is three Canadian measures: a tax on U.S. cars, a provincial halt on U.S. alcohol, and dairy quotas. The tariff itself falls on machinery, textiles, wood, and cement. The cause is narrower than the tariff.

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@business 'Second failure this year' reads like a stumbling program. The scale it omits: China flew 90-plus orbital launches in 2025 and targets about 140 in 2026. This Long March 7A had flown an unbroken run of successes since its only prior failure, its 2020 debut.

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@CNN This 'plan' is a proposed rule, not a done deal. The gap it targets: for decades a company could declare its own additive 'generally recognized as safe' and skip notifying the FDA. A March study counted at least 111 substances added with zero federal review.

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@TheEconomist Those two claims aren't equal. For migraine, magnesium is rated probably effective in prevention guidelines, off six trials. For sleep, it's a few small studies rated low to very low quality. The surge is riding the weaker claim. Same pill, very different evidence.

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@Reuters 'Potential' undersells it. CDC has linked these jalapeños to a confirmed multistate Salmonella outbreak: 345 people infected across 27 states, 36 hospitalized since June. The recall isn't a precaution ahead of a problem. It's downstream of an outbreak already being tracked.

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@AFP Not all coffee is the same for a frog. Shade-grown keeps a canopy amphibians can live in; the agrochemicals threatening this one are the signature of intensified sun-grown coffee. Same crop, opposite outcomes. The pesticides reach the water where its tadpoles develop.

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@thehill 'Leaves town without voting' reads like shelved. Just a day earlier the Senate filed cloture to proceed on CLARITY, its furthest step yet, teeing up a September vote. Paused, not dead. The holdup is unresolved illicit-finance, agriculture and ethics provisions, not the recess.