The CPI-based Ecumenical Underlying Inflation measure was 3.5% in April, up from 3.3% in February and 3.4% in March. Although it is normalized to be equivalent to the PCE has been running (unusually) ~50bp higher than PCE.

Is the median of 7 measures over 3, 6 and 12 months.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant launches an unprecedented attack on Netanyahu for refusing to create an alternative government in Gaza:

'The lack of decision is a decision in and of itself. There is a trend that is creating a de facto Israeli civil and military government in

Please contribute to Ahmad’s GoFundMe. He’s a close personal friend I completely vouch for.

He canceled the last one for reasons he explains here. It physically hurts him to ask for money, because he’s such a good guy. But he really needs it and he’s a true friend to the Jewish

Star Trek is NOT SOCIALIST. If you think Star Trek was socialist, you didn’t understand Star Trek.

Technologically has progressed to a post-scarcity society on some places like earth. But, there’s private property ownership (Sisko’s restaurant, Picard’s Vineyard.) There’s

Morons

After avoiding an interim order from the ICJ to stop the war, South Africa has asked to bring it back up for discussion. The court will hold hearings on the matter on Thursday and Friday. Turkey and Egypt have announced that they will join the petition.

Israel managed to evade

This form of protest is not peaceful. Public officials should not be subject to this sort of intimidating conduct, and this behavior is unacceptable from any Michigan community member, especially one led by someone who called for the death of people they disagree with.

Around 4:40 A.M., a masked intruder came to the door of my family's home with a list of demands, including defunding the police. My three daughters were asleep in their beds, and thankfully unaware of what transpired.

Israel's Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant puts out an important statement pressing the government to finally come up with a strategy in Gaza after seven months.

'We must dismantle Hamas’ governing capabilities in Gaza. The key to this goal is military action, and the

I encourage everyone to read this thread to understand an argument that is a core disagreement in the current Israeli government and more broadly a different perspective than the one that Netanyahu and his cohort offer to Israel of despair and inaction.

Hey, can someone help me understand why Hamas would stop the Palestinians from getting humanitarian relief?

And can someone help me understand why Israel takes 100% of the blame for this and the terrorists that started the war take 0%?

1) It really is notable how Arab states went from the three no's to supporters of a two state solution

2) Israeli right wingers need to contend with the fact that building an alliance with Arab states against Iran means making progress on the conflict with the Palestinians

The moderate Arab states led by the UAE are willing to participate in governing Gaza and participating in a multi-national force. They have given the following conditions for doing so:

· An Israeli agreement to move towards a two-state solution.
· American actions to show

Idiot

STILL BREWING Y'ALL

So much is wrong here.

a. The Arab Spring was mostly and in most places an Islamist uprising, not a democratic one. It's not an accident that uprisings were effective mostly against secularist regimes, not religiously-validated monarchies.

b. Islamists are not democrats. They

There are roughly 15 million Jews and 15 million Palestinians in the world.

That's out of a global population of over 8 billion.

We have roots in the same land, similar foods, similar cultures, shared histories. Even share many of the same genetics.

We should stop fighting.

I won't make you wait for the full set of numbers. All of them slowed a bit from previous months.

CPI inflation is likely to be between 3% and 4% for 2024. Oof.

Graph via Kate Generelli at CRFB.org.

Forecasters got this month exactly right. Monthly core CPI inflation rate eased off a little from the last few months but still high.

Annual rates:

1 month: 3.6%
3 months: 4.1%
6 months: 4.0%
12 months: 3.6%