Poltics Corner May 5

   

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MTG made a lot of money off tariff fluctuation. Knowing when to buy and when to sell makes money at either end. Not even Trump can keep tariffs flailing wildly forever. GOP donors will object. But there are oh so many new ways to cheat the system. DOGE effectively defanged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The 25 year old Gavin Kliger owns a bunch of stock in companies like Tesla and Apple and a few cryptocurrencies, all of which had been under he CFPB. Tesla and Apple were there because of their credit divisions. Eliminating all of those employees leaves these corporations untended and free to do what they want. Kliger also knows who stays and they owe their jobs to him. This is better than your average insider trading. This is a way to control the market to your own advantage. 

Do you trust your 401k to Gavin Kliger? He's not worried about your retirement. [ProPublica]

via ProPublica

Israel now wants to conquer Gaza. Move all Gazans to the south, again. Israel will control all humanitarian aide and they've proven to be not humanitarian. And they plan to occupy Gaza indefinitely. And they do mean forever. [The Times of Israel] [CNN]

I can't wait to see Egypt's response to this. Gaza and the West Bank (and the Golan Heights?) were critical to the signing of the Camp David Accords.

via CNN

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