The two words from Jerome Powell that rocked the financial markets. https://t.co/jExYE8Qawq
— CNBC (@CNBC) July 31, 2019
in explaining rate cuts, Fed Chair Powell cites weak manufacturing and business investment data
these are things Trump and Republican lawmakers said the 2017 tax-cut was going to jump-start
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) July 31, 2019
Analysis: If the U.S. economy is in good shape, why is the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates? https://t.co/46SfvqoVrW
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 31, 2019
JUST IN: President Trump blasts Fed chair Powell after central bank cut rates. "As usual, Powell let us down…" https://t.co/dXzfx0qPzz pic.twitter.com/WH0OdDkIjq
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) July 31, 2019
Elsewhere in Trumpworld…
Three Things To Watch During Round Two Of The CNN Debates https://t.co/oEqzxOHiF5 pic.twitter.com/kGdmF0uc2u
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) July 31, 2019
These people are basically writing Biden’s obituary before this debate begins. I have no idea way of knowing what’s going to happen tonight, and I’m not going to prejudge it.
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) July 31, 2019
Superb on CNN's default to sports spectacle, by the always incisive @megangarber. https://t.co/FaXbsfwYu3
— Todd Gitlin (@toddgitlin) July 31, 2019
New: As the election heats up, billionaire financier George Soros is creating a new super PAC for his (and potentially family's) 2020 spending, Democracy PAC. More here: https://t.co/BXrcJLMSiQ
— Maggie Severns (@MaggieSeverns) July 31, 2019
JUST IN: Immigrant mother sues private prison company over death of 1-year-old daughter https://t.co/ss1g4yhvuu pic.twitter.com/ZIjHHo0hNc
— The Hill (@thehill) July 31, 2019
If Obama had done this, the Republicans would’ve stayed in all night session to impeach and the Senate would’ve convicted by morning. https://t.co/h68BSk5Hsq
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 31, 2019
#MoscowMitch #MoscowMitchTraitor #LindseyGrahamTraitor #PutinsMitch #ComplicitCorruptGOP #LockThemAllUp pic.twitter.com/jNFrGAQ1gs
— Mindful Primate (@MichellesDude) July 31, 2019
ANALYSIS: Why cheap Canadian drugs are part of Donald Trump’s re-election strategy https://t.co/KnmBfdrUCa
— Jackson Proskow (@JProskowGlobal) July 31, 2019
The Washington National Cathedral, church of presidents, takes on the President. Everything about this is extraordinary.
>>> Have We No Decency? A Response to President Trump https://t.co/BmqCZFowme— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) July 31, 2019
President Trump has picked a name for the horse that is being gifted to the president's son, Barron, by Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga: “Thank you very much for the horse." https://t.co/WtdV7hKn1e
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 31, 2019
Trump sends envoy for hostage affairs to Sweden "on a mission" to bring back A$AP Rocky https://t.co/uin3dI50mv
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 31, 2019
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BREXITSHAMBLES BRITAIN
“Whatever faults the British may have, they understand independence and freedom.” Is this… parody? https://t.co/YWIFUrsRCp
— Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley (@lottelydia) July 31, 2019
Boris Johnson flies into Northern Ireland, has dinner with the DUP, meets other political parties briefly, doesn't take questions from the media, doesn't meet members of the general public, achieves nothing and buggers off.
A total charlatan. https://t.co/U4bLQOQl4M
— Planet Belfast 🇪🇺🏳️🌈 (@Planet_Belfast) July 31, 2019
The EU want to break up the UK?? The EU who didn’t want U.K. to leave and who accommodated May’s red line making the backstop UK wide to appease the DUP? A strange narrative, but one we might hear more of amid growing calls for NI & Scotland to decide their own future. https://t.co/OadTAXwxHm
— Andrea Catherwood (@acatherwoodnews) July 31, 2019
I don’t know how anyone could live with forty thousand actual human beings losing their jobs in Northern Ireland for any reason.
— Declan Lawn (@DecLawn) July 31, 2019
Yet again BBC fails to recognise the reality of Northern Ireland, ignoring the 20% of us who are neither unionist nor nationalist. https://t.co/Joln6EXZxS
— David Ford ex-MLA (@DavidFordMLA) July 31, 2019
Sajid Javid commits additional £2.1bn to reduce no-deal Brexit disruption https://t.co/IbNwbNZWBD
— The Independent (@Independent) July 31, 2019
The interview appeared to be set up exactly as Bannon would have wantedhttps://t.co/HLDjVwJ6UM
— The National (@ScotNational) July 31, 2019
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WORLD
NEW: US has obtained intel that Hamza bin Laden, the son and potential successor of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, is dead, according to three US officials. https://t.co/MXiXPIkUZT – @ckubeNBC pic.twitter.com/Vd2SjIMUiN
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 31, 2019
One of the more bizarre tidbits in this NYT story: that Epstein wanted his head and his penis frozen. https://t.co/RXdwZnmmzn
— julie k. brown (@jkbjournalist) July 31, 2019