Temporary Subscription Pause with Today's Headlines

I’m going to be taking ten days of vacation—this time a real vacation, not a working vacation where I keep writing the whole time. Therefore, I’m going to put all subscriptions on pause this afternoon until August 7th—basically two weeks—to make sure no one loses any of the value they’ve paid for.

Going “on pause” means all billing will stop today and will restart on the 7th, and the time I currently owe to you will keep right on ticking from that point forward with your plan unchanged when billing restarts.

During my vacation, if some really big news happens and if I just cannot stop myself, I may still send an editorial on the news of the day. Otherwise, you’ll next hear from me on the 7th when everything starts back up as usual. Thank you for your support.

And here are some headlines for everyone from today:

Economania (national & global economic collapse plus market news)

The Stock Market’s Most Unserious Season Is Back and Dorkier than Before

Empty Shelves, Rotten Odors Plague Gov't-Funded Supermarket In Missouri

US applications for jobless benefits fall for sixth straight week, remain at historically low level

Real-Estate Rubble (housing, commercial & global real-estate bubble trouble)

Single-Family Home Sales Drop Below 1995. Condo Supply at Housing Bust Level

Money Matters (monetary policy, metals, cryptos, currency wars & going cashless)

Conditions already as loose as 2021 call into question more Fed cuts

Inflation Factors (from too much money chasing too few goods due to weather, sanctions, tariffs, quarantines, etc.)

“The rise in selling prices for goods and services in July … was one of the largest seen over the past three years”

Trump Trade Wars & Turf Wars

Ford, GM and Jeep stunned as loophole in Trump's latest tariff deal hands huge win to foreign rivals

Political Pandemonium & Social Senescence (socio-political issues & events)

Governmental Self-Preservation: Why We’ll Never See The Real Epstein List

Here's What Alan Dershowitz Thinks Ghislaine Maxwell Will Do During DOJ Meeting

‘The rule was going down’: Inside the House GOP’s Epstein meltdown

White House Pushes Back on Reports Bondi Told Trump he’s in the Epstein Files

House panel votes to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton over possible links to Ghislaine Maxwell

Epstein’s Brother about Unreleased Bannon Documentary: “Jeffrey said he stopped hanging out with Trump when he realized Trump was a crook."

U.S. birth rate hits all-time low, CDC data shows

Politically Traded: Elon Musk Warns of Potentially ‘Rough’ Times Ahead for Tesla

Doomer Humor

Get some pretty far-out humor from Counterpoint.

P.S. I figured congress decided to leave early for vacation, so why not take one myself? After all, with all of them on summer vacation for the whole month of August, starting yesterday, there may be less mischief to write about.