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The public interest is a tedious thing. Sparing a thought for others is of no immediately obvious benefit. Private interests are easier to understand and pursue.
In a speech on Friday in North Carolina, Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to take on the issue of price gouging by large corporations. Researchers for U. K. think tanks Institute for Public Policy Research and Common Wealth found in late 2023 that profiteering, or “greedflation,” “significantly” boosted prices, leading to increases of 30% or more in corporate profits. “Excessive profits were even larger in the US, where many important sections of the economy are dominated by a few powerful companies,” wrote Phillip Inman of The Guardian.
The July report for consumer prices from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which came out yesterday, showed that prices rose less than 3% in the previous twelve months. Core inflation has fallen to its lowest rate since April 2021. For well over a year, wages have grown faster than inflation.
Responding to today’s news that inflation is coming down, the stock market ticked up in expectation that the Fed will now be more likely to cut interest rates in September. Applications for small businesses continue to boom across the country, with 19 million new business applications since Vice President Harris and President Biden took office, an annual growth rate 90% higher than prepandemic averages. Congressional Republicans are trying to cut the Small Business Administration and to cut taxes for big corporations.
Politico greeted today’s economic news with a headline saying, “Inflation is easing. Now, Harris has an even bigger problem with the economy.” And the New York Times reported that in a speech in North Carolina, “Harris Is Set to Lay Out an Economic Message Light on Details,” adding that she is expected to tweak Biden administration themes “in a bid to turn the Democratic economic agenda into an asset." Seems out of step with reality.

Only twice in the past nine presidential elections has the GOP candidate gotten more than 50% of the popular vote or won the popular vote. George HW Bush in 1988 and George W Bush in 2004.

Despite the obvious hypocrisy over gun registries…they seem disturbed there’s no…certificate of “pure femaledom” with this boxer.

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Google was found last week to have violated antitrust law by illegally maintaining a monopoly in internet search. Now discussions over how to fix those violations have begun.

Justice Department officials are considering what remedies to ask a federal judge to order against the search giant, said three people with knowledge of the deliberations involving the agency and state attorneys general who helped to bring the case. They are discussing various proposals, including breaking off parts of Google, such as its Chrome browser or Android smartphone operating system, two of the people said.

Other scenarios under consideration include forcing Google to make its data available to rivals, or mandating that it abandon deals that made its search engine the default option on devices like the iPhone, said the people, who declined to be identified because the process is confidential. The government is meeting with other companies and experts to discuss their proposals for limiting Google’s power, the people said.

The deliberations are in their early stages. Judge Amit P. Mehta of U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia has asked the

Google’s competitors and other critics have proposed — either publicly or in discussions with the government — several options for how Judge Mehta should rein in the company.

The most extreme is for Google to split off a substantial part of its business. That could mean the company would have to spin off Chrome, its web browser, or Android, its software for smartphones. Both of those products use Google as the automatic search engine, which helps fuel the company’s dominance, Judge Mehta said.

The government is also considering asking for Google to have to divest a tool that runs text ads in search, the two people with knowledge of the deliberations said.

Do you think she will truthfully certify the election results?

VP Kamala Harris can certify the election results even if she’s a presidential candidate
- The vice president can still oversee the counting of Electoral College votes if they are a presidential candidate. It’s happened multiple times throughout history. - www.verifythis.com/.../536-6eb8fc15-c36f-4ca9-87c3-376a2e16442a

Do you think Harris will assume the presidency before Biden finishes the end of his term?

Do you think Harris assuming the presidency before Biden finishes his term will help or hurt her chances at re-election?

Do you want such a horrible woman as the first female president?

Sen. Cruz Predicts Harris Will Assume Presidency Before Biden's Term Ends
'I think if they can bully Joe Biden into doing it, it’ll happen' - scnr.com/.../sen-cruz-predicts-harris-will-assume-presidency-before-bidens-term-ends_0663867e5a0f11ef9c930242ac1c0002