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Black cakes and branded buckets: welcome to the White House premiere for Brett Ratner’s Melania movie
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Black cakes and branded buckets: welcome to the White House premiere for Brett Ratner’s Melania movie
Monochrome catering was all the rage at the VIP screening on Saturday for Ratner’s officially sanctioned $75m feature-length documentary about the First Lady. Have the photos whetted your appetite?Stuart Heritage (The Guardian)
Press conference with Federal Open Market Committee [#FOMC] Chair #JeromePowell at 2∶30PM ET∶
#FederalReserve #Fed #InterestRates #economy #money #Trump #tariffs #inflation #recession #trumpcession #Affordability #CostOfLiving
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"pushed Treasury yields higher, sent gold and silver to record highs, and revived fears of a destabilizing U.S.–EU trade war that European leaders are now weighing retaliatory tariffs to counter."
#Trump #Greenland #StockMarket #economy #affordability #tariffs
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"Global markets tumbled sharply after President Trump threatened new tariffs on multiple E.U. countries and the U.K. unless they back U.S. control of Greenland, erasing more than $1 trillion in U.S. stock market value as investors dumped stocks and bonds," (continued in /6)
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Greenland #StockMarket #economy #affordability #tariffs
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"Natural gas prices soared Tuesday, as heating demand is expected to spike due to a blast of frigid weather across the U.S.
Prices surged about 26%, or 80 cents, to $3.91 per million British thermal units. Natural gas is used primarily for heating and electricity generation."
~ Spencer Kimball
#Trump #economy #affordability #NaturalGas #EconomicElites
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cnbc.com/2026/01/20/natural-ga…
Natural gas prices soar as cold snap blasts across the U.S.
A big winter storm is forecast to dump heavy snow, sleet and treacherous freezing rain across large areas of the U.S. this weekend.Spencer Kimball (CNBC)
"In order to recognize the spectacle now afflicting the American people, you don’t have to consult your favorite therapist, psychiatrist, or mental health expert. Just look at the U.S. stock tickers. The U.S. markets just suffered their worst trading losses in several months. Why? Because Donald Trump threw a temper tantrum at Europe over Greenland and threatened new tariffs."
~ David Shuster
#Trump #Greenland #StockMarket #economy #affordability #tariffs
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Trump's Greenland Tantrum Sinks Stocks
Donald Trump’s Greenland tantrum rattles markets, alarms allies, and exposes a presidency governed by impulse, not strategy—with global consequences.David Shuster (Blue Amp Media)
"Stock markets fell on both sides of the Atlantic on Tuesday, with Wall Street suffering its worst day since October, as investor concerns persisted over the fallout from Donald Trump’s push for US control of Greenland."
~ Lauren Almeida, Heather Stewart, and Graeme Wearden
#Trump #Greenland #StockMarket #economy #affordability #tariffs
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Wall Street sees worst day since October after Trump tariff threats
Sell-off hits US stocks in first trading day since president threatened tariffs against eight countriesLauren Almeida (The Guardian)