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Meanwhile, rural America seems to be turning against data centers ...

Nebraska County Bans Data Centers For Up To A Year
www.gadgetreview.com

... Otoe County suspends permits for up to a year after Google-Tenaska project would need 1,000-3,000 megawatts of power ...

Will corporate CapEx (Capital Expenditure, a.k.a. infrastucture) spending result in enough profits to offset that spending?

Oracle investors seem to have an opinion ...

Stock Market Today, June 11: Oracle Falls After AI Spending Guidance Sparks Cash Flow Concerns
finance.yahoo.com

... Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), an enterprise software and cloud services provider, closed Thursday at $184.10, down 8.53%.

The stock dropped after its fiscal Q4 earnings beat was overshadowed by guidance for sharply higher AI-related capital spending and negative free cash flow. ...


So, over a 6% increase in the producer price increase?

www.investing.com


Latest Release Jun 11, 2026
Actual 6.5%
Forecast 6.4%
Previous 5.7%

The Producer Price Index (PPI) measures the change in the price of goods sold by manufacturers. It is a leading indicator of consumer price inflation, which accounts for the majority of overall inflation.


@#12

US producer inflation posts largest annual gain in 3-1/2 years as energy prices surge
www.reuters.com

... Producer Price Index increases 1.1% in May, above expectations for a 0.7% gain.
Goods prices, mostly energy, account for nearly 80% of the rise in the PPI.

Wholesale goods prices excluding food and energy post largest monthly gain since April 2022.

Weekly jobless claims increase 4,000 to 229,000. ...



@#3 ... Scrabbled? ...

scrabble - verb
www.merriam-webster.com

...
3a
: scramble, clamber

3b
: to struggle by or as if by scraping or scratching
scrabble for survival
...



@#8

The rich now own a record share of stocks (2024)
www.axios.com

... Percentage of U.S. households' equity and mutual fund shares owned by the wealthiest 10% of the population: 92.8% ...

[see the article for the graph]


Apparently Pres Trump acknowledged his dwindling support in Congress for Mr Pulte ...

Trump names Jay Clayton to serve as director of national intelligence
www.npr.org

... President Trump on Thursday named Jay Clayton, a federal prosecutor and former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, to serve as director of national intelligence.

"Few people anywhere in the Legal Community are respected at the level of Jay," the president wrote in a post on Truth Social announcing the nomination. "I encourage the United States Senate to confirm Jay as soon as possible. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" ...


How much intelligence experience does Mr Clayton have?

Related ...

Epstein Files Update: 5 Key Takeaways in Major New York Times Report
www.newsweek.com

... In a blistering new report, The New York Times presents an account of the Epstein files triggering a behind-the-scenes crisis inside President Donald Trump's White House, with top officials scrambling in secret meetings, fearing backlash from their own political base and debating strategies they knew might not fully deliver transparency.

The report comes after months of fallout tied to the government's handling of the files involving Epstein -- a sex offender and financier who in 2019 died in a New York City jail cell while awaiting his sex-trafficking trial -- beginning with a 2025 Department of Justice (DOJ) memo that found no evidence of a "client list" and fueled backlash among Trump's supporters, followed by the release of millions of pages of records mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. ...


WATCH: Trump says US and Iran 'just made a great settlement,' hours after threatening major strikes

www.youtube.com

PBS 2 mins

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I think what he said was, "we made another killing in the Market, for ourselves and our Friends", and I know it's not really a Peace Plan, but an agreement to maybe Negotiate.... and that whatever we Negotiate might be not as good as the Deal Obama got, but it will be right before the Midterms."

You know, that's what he told MTG is the reason he will never release the Epstein Files; because, he said, "they would hurt friends of mine'.

And we all know that he has only one real friend; Donald Trump.

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