Notes in the Margin

Low interest rates are a type of subsidy to home prices, and rising prices reflect falling mortgage rates. 

Napolitano: The argument is that less liberty produces more safety. That premise is historically and morally erroneous.

May PCE inflation rises to 2.3%. Remember when Powell predicted inflation would soon be back at 2 percent back in September? 

Trump wants more inflation. Warsh, Hassett and Bessent are among those under consideration as Trump evaluates their commitment to cutting rates. 

President Trump called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial to come to an end in a strong show of support for the Israeli leader.

The Venezuelan bolivar comes in as the WORLD'S WORST currency.

The Israeli state and its supporters view the American taxpayers as people to be exploited and defrauded for the benefit of a regime that offers Americans nothing in return.

The US assessment goes against claims from Israeli PM Netanyahu, who launched the war under the pretext of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Trump is now weighing sending in the US military. This presidency looks like an extension of George W. Bush's. 

Tucker Carlson opposes Trump's new war, so Trump claims to have invented "America First" and repeats banal slogans about weapons of mass destruction.