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If President Biden has nightmares, he probably wakes up in the middle of the night terrified of gasoline prices. Rising gas prices — up 50% during the last year to around $3.50 per gallon — compelled Biden to announce the release of 50 million barrels of oil from the U.S. national stockpile on Nov. 23. Before the announcement, crude oil futures traded at around $76 a barrel. After the Biden announcement, crude futures spiked to about $78 a barrel. Whoops. Prices went up rather than down… Source link

President Biden now has his very own pandemic: The one driven by the Delta variant of the coronavirus. Hiring retreated in August, largely because the highly contagious Delta strain is now ravaging parts of the country with tenacity rivaling the original coronavirus outbreak last year. Employers created just 235,000 new jobs in August, barely one-third of what economists were expecting. The average for the three prior months was 876,000 new jobs per month. Job growth in August was the slowest… Source link