🇺🇸 Footage of Blinken threatening action against China if it continues to support Russia.

Just read this terrifying little column. It's a must read (link below) because it suggests Europe is on the road to war. It's written by the former staff director of the Near East Subcommittee of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, so it should be reasonably...

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Exxon Mobil CEO shares his thoughts on campus protests. 'Harassment and intimidation, I think there's no place for that at those universities and certainly no place for that at a company like Exxon Mobil.'

This is clearly not heading in the right direction: 3-month annualized change in core PCE #inflation up to +4.4% in March

The Fed forecasts core PCE inflation of 2.6% y/y in Q4 2024. Even with today's 'in-line' core PCE, there's now significant upside risk to that and it'll need to be raised in June. Red bars are how much inflation needs to slow to meet the Fed forecast. Hard to see this happening.

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Candidate Brandon Johnson was asked whether the Bears should receive a $2 billion public subsidy to build a new stadium.

His answer was no.

Here’s what he said ⬇️

'Let me be clear: I want the Bears to stay. But Chicago could also use $2 billion to remove lead pipes, house…

Here’s the dirty secret of emergency medicine:

We don’t have to do prior auth. Like ever. We just order what the patient needs, and the patient gets it done in the ED.

But here’s why we care about prior auth anyways:

B/c not a shift goes by where a patient doesn’t land in the…

Read the Paul Vallas column here: When violent predatory criminals believe they won't be held accountable, you have what's going on the Democrat National Convention city. 'Chicago's Criminal Industrial Complex Denies the People Their Right to Safety.'
johnkassnews.com/chicagos-crimi…

Wow, I've never seen a top-level US politician being lectured like this.

I don't know how I missed it because it dates from 2019. It is an exchange between Dick Cheney and former Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing. It happened at the Arab Strategy Forum in Dubai (full video…

Game over for Germany and its coalition of EU member states against the nuclear energy. #trends #energy #foresight

Wang warns Blinken that negatives in U.S.-China ties are ‘building’ asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter…

Check out the “Most Read by Psychiatrists” article on Medscape!

It’s exciting to see growing interest in the ketogenic diet as a treatment for mental illness.

BREAKING: Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis say they have targeted an Israeli vessel in the Gulf of Aden

With CTA, Metra, and Pace facing a $730M fiscal cliff, a key civic group says funding to save transit service should be tied to a merger of the three long-siloed agencies WTTW - Chicago PBS news.wttw.com/2024/04/25/muc…

'Russia now has the right to confiscate all Western assets in Russia, worth more than $288 billion.' -Russian Parliament Speaker

The U.S. government's interest expense is now an annualized $1.06 trillion.

A respected civic watchdog is recommending that the state abolish the beleaguered cta and turn its responsibilities over to the RTA. Crain's Greg Hinz has the details:

chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-poli…

The rooftop solar industry is teetering on the verge of collapse.

SunPower, one of the largest US solar companies, said it will wind down its residential installation service & stop direct sales.

It plans to cut ~1,000 out of ~3,800 total employees.