Topical cream

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Topical cream

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A quarter of an hour

It gets you out two cents topical cream.

Scott Besson, you know, my favorite, was recently testifying on Capitol Hill.

And because I followed Treasury, I thought there might be something useful there.

And so I suffered through hours of insufferable testimony, first to the House and then to the Senate.

And spoiler alert, there was nothing useful because these hearings are just Kabuki Theater.

And then I saw John Kennedy, who used almost his entire allotted time not to ask about the Treasury Department's policies,

not to address the national debt or declining inflows, debasement of the dollar or threat

of alternative currencies further debasing the dollar, a failed tariff policy, heightened PPI

that foreshadows inflation, persistent elevation at the long end of the yield curve,

the strategic Bitcoin reserve we supposedly have, or managing custodial accounts of stolen

Venezuelan funds, you know, stuff like that.

No, he used his time to argue about the veracity of the poverty rate before making a stunning

conclusion.

So I'm going to restrain myself here

and make you suffer through most of this, but you're welcome in advance that I've condensed

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