Last week in the Gulf Coast, it was raining cats and dogs….. but fortunately nobody ate them. It could have been much worse, but the damage from Category 2 Hurricane Francine was not too severe despite the 6 – 9 inches of rain. A notable event was that a huge oak tree in Watson, Louisiana split apart […]
US Senator Lindsey Graham has proposed new legislation to impose tariffs on nations buying crude oil or petroleum products from Iran. Due to growing demand, Iran is now looking to increase its output by 20% increase over its existing production. So the way this would work would be that any country buying Iranian oil would then be penalized […]
Last week saw headline prices declining during the month for the first time in four years. Along with it, annual inflation fell below 3% for the first time in a year. Core inflation was better than forecast, coming in at 3.3% which was the lowest in three years. Supporting this positive economic news was the fact that there […]
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