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I'm lucky enough to be able to do some of my work from home.

To be honest, I kind of like it as part of a balanced working diet.

Turns out it seems that feeling is shared particularly by workers in the English-speaking world.

And electric vehicles are absolutely positively, unequivocally hands-down better for the environment when it comes to tailpipe emissions.

But that's not the only kind of environmental impact that vehicles have. I would say the Fed really owes it to the American people to get interest rates down.

That's the only thing he's good for.

Here's a pattern that we've come to know well in the second Trump administration.

It starts with an incendiary statement.

This time, a week ago, a vibe straight out of Mr. Trump's time telling contestants

on The Apprentice that they're fired. Oh, he'll leave. If I ask him to, he'll be out of there,

but I don't think he's, I don't think he, I don't think he's doing the job. He's too late,

always too late, a little slow, and I'm not happy with him. I let him know it, and

if I want him out, he'll be out of there real fast. Then the backing off, the climb down,

a claim that that's not what he meant, or someone else is to blame for the kerfuffle.

The press runs away with things. Now. I have no intention of firing him.

I would like to see him be a little more active in terms of his idea to lower interest rates.

This is a perfect time to lower interest rates.

If he doesn't, is at the end, no.

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