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BREAKING: US credit card debt has reached a record high of $1.29 trillion, with the average balance per consumer now at $6,678.
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Our @bankonroger account holders typically receive their pay 4 days before their "payday". With same day ACH ability, this gap doesn't exist for @citizensedmond or ROGER.bank.
BREAKING: Water is wet.
Of course the woman who wanted to recruit an “anti-crypto army” is unwilling to acknowledge the many positive things digital assets have done for affordability and everyday Americans, so allow me to name a few:
-Payroll processing takes 5 days on average today, as you can see below. Stablecoins permit employers to pay their employees nearly instantly. For most Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck, getting paid 5 days earlier is a big deal.
-Warren’s beloved big banks charge nearly 15% to send $200 overseas, and the money takes days or weeks to arrive. Digital assets spare its customers many of the unnecessary fees and can move the funds nearly instantly, any day of the week.
For someone who claims to champion affordability and hates junk fees, she sure loves protecting them. Ultimately, digital assets have made a clear case, but she just keeps voting against them and the rules of the road she claims she wants, because she actually wants to kill crypto.
Builders should plan accordingly.
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The best PR folks I worked with were either former journalists or ones that worked in corporate communications. They never asked for hyperlinks, to add a quote after an article was published or to change a quote. I was rarely asked when the article would publish.
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Capping credit card rates at 10% would cut off a big chunk of the lower-income population from access to credit cards generally. The economics stop working for the banks that issue the cards.
Let’s cap credit card rates at 10%. Take action on affordable housing. Protect rural hospitals. End price gouging.
Democrats have the bills ready.
@SenWarren says now it’s up to Trump to work with us and get things done.
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Politico: Elizabeth Warren Gears Up to Take On Wall Street
Brace yourself for the most progressive — and aggressive — Senate Banking Committee chair in decades
Elizabeth Warren, the longtime Wall Street antagonist poised to take over the Banking panel next year, is preparing a sweeping policy and oversight agenda that will put her in a key position to influence the Democratic Party’s debate over economic populism ahead of 2028
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My property taxes are up. Meal taxes are up.
Control spending. Then lower taxes.
Car taxes are ridiculous.
If you work full time in Virginia, you should be able to live in Virginia.
You should be able to keep up with your rent or your mortgage, fill your medications, and save for your kids’ futures.
That’s why we are raising Virginia’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. We’re investing in our workforce and our neighbors who power our economy.
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Great news! Because banking has been such a scourge of our society. #sarcasm ->Sen. Warren is about to take the controls of the Senate Banking Committee, giving her the kind of expansive authority over the financial industry she has long sought wsj.com/politics/policy/eliz… via @WSJ
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House Financial Services Committee lost eight members in the election. Replacing them will be hard, given their experience and knowledge of the issues.
Don't forget, checks suck. #fintech
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Our first chance for rain in weeks is on our doorstep as a cold front moves in. Scattered showers will be possible today, but the steadier rain will develop tonight into Fri. There will likely be a corridor of 1.5-2+" totals across eastern areas as locally heavy rainfall occurs.
ALT Map on the left shows rainfall totals through Saturday morning. Richmond, 1.2". Farmville, 0.5". Norfolk, 1.3". Salisbury, 2.3". Elizabeth City, 1.5". Kilmarnock, 1.5". Louisa, 0.2". Emporia, 1.1". Table on the left shows timing of the rain chances. Light showers possible through the day today, then chances increasing from west to east tonight into early Friday morning. Chances end from west to east Friday evening.
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Controversial take: It's a great position to not care about the results of any election because you know you'll win regardless.
No stress, no outrage, just locked in.
Bet on yourself always...external things can change like the wind.
I think if Trump acted less like Trump, with all his mindless rhetoric, some might have given him a pass. His arrogance and ego cost all republicans.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
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