Pour one out for the poor Union Station Circle flag person who has to lower flags after notable deaths.

A little back-of-envelope math yields a $3T-$3.5T debt limit hike needed by Trump to not face it again til after midterms. We're right at $36 trillion now and CBO projects $39.3T as of Sept. 30 '26. But that's if all goes to forecast - no recessions, no bond mkt woes, etc.

Nonpartisan CBO says Trump tariffs would hike inflation by a full percentage point. (And that's on the Personal Consumption Expenditures index - probably more on the more loosey-goosey CPI).
www.cbo.gov/publication/...

US households were richer than ever in the third quarter, at $168.8 trillion in net household wealth, per the Fed, as the horrible economy dragged on.

Oh, not much. Just a paper in a country that believes it's fighting for its life and democracy in Europe posting about Georgians doing the same below a post about a Korean lawmaker scaling a wall to vote against an illegal martial law declaration in one of Asia's biggest democracies. So, Tuesday.

Anyone wanna guess when Trump posted about tariffs tonight?