Chair Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) is also juggling childcare and markup duties here

A major billionaire power player is pumping millions into GOP causes as the 2024 election heats up. Brian Schwartz reports.

Trump's campaign trail promos for sneakers, bibles are unprecedented, experts tell ⁦Kevin Breuninger⁩ cnbc.com/2024/03/29/tru…

AMERICAN BANKERS ASSO:

“.. Recession risks have diminished, inflation continues to moderate, and employment gains remain robust.” 🇺🇸

American Bankers Association

⛏️ A global gold rush is underway for geologic hydrogen, a long-overlooked resource that advocates say could play a significant role in the energy transition.

🗣️ “The potential is there but we’ve got to do the work.'

👇 Here's the full story:

cnbc.com/2024/03/26/nat…

NEW: Joe Biden's team have brought on board donors that helped fundraise for Nikki Haley's campaign. They're now going to help Biden take on Donald Trump.

At least half a dozen Haley backers are trying to raise money for Biden's campaign.
cnbc.com/2024/03/19/bid…

NEW: Kari Lake has been quietly meeting with lobbyists as she gets endorsed by Republican Senate leaders.

More on Lake’s meeting with those that work on K-Street 👇 cnbc.com/2024/03/07/kar…

Except billionaires don’t have income to tax. They have assets.

NEW: A New Orleans magician says a Democratic operative working for Dean Phillips paid him $150 to make the fake Biden robocall. ⁦Alex Seitz-Wald⁩ has the exclusive story nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…

That brought it back to the policy uncertainty issue, which is clearly much higher with this election than other elections, despite the known entities who are the presumptive leaders of the two party tickets.

Still collecting my thoughts, wishing we lived in less interesting…

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the American Bankers Association tells me it wants help from law enforcement and the social media industry to fight back against devastating online romance scams that are costing Americans billions of dollars a year: cnbc.com/2024/02/13/ban…

Graham says the funding to aid Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan should be a loan 'as suggested by President Trump.'

Most of the $95B appropriated in the bill doesn't go overseas. It stays in the US to buy new weapons to replace what's been sent to those countries, etc.

There's nothing like a Russian oil tanker performing an immediate u-turn after being designated by OFAC to illustrate the efficacy of sanctions. Like other sanctioned tankers, this one is unlikely to haul another cargo.

bnnbloomberg.ca/russian-oil-ta…

NEW Businessweek cover story on green jobs & Shawn Fain, the UAW's paradigm-busting, incumbent-ousting, trash-talking, scripture-citing, Malcolm-X-quoting, billionaire-bashing, EV-embracing, Biden-pressuring, Trump-blasting, Musk-taunting, history-making president:
bloomberg.com/news/features/…

smart reporting from @cnbc @SCHWARTZBCNBC

‘Mnuchin has not been in the room’: Trump Treasury secretary absent from 2024 campaign

cnbc.com/2024/01/04/tre…

‘We Need More American-Made Semiconductors,’ Says Man Who Barely Understands How A Stapler Works theonion.com/1850299048

Researchers gave homeless people $750 per month for a year, no questions asked. The recipients spent the money on food, housing, transportation, clothing, and health care. And after six months, only 12% of those who received funds were still homeless.

latimes.com/california/sto…

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and Microsoft President Brad Smith on stage now at AFL-CIO headquarters in DC making a first of its kind announcement about labor, management and AI. I’ll have details on CNBC in a few minutes.

Amazing new evidence shows early humans built wooden structures 476,000 years ago.

That’s 465,000 years earlier than the next oldest evidence of human carpentry. archaeology.org/issues/537-fea…

“The good news for workers is that even as wage growth has moderated since earlier this year, rising by 4.1% over the previous 12 months in October, inflation has slowed more, meaning average hourly earnings are beating price increases, boosting Americans” washingtonpost.com/business/2023/…