Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it.

Infliction is killing me!

But who cares? Big retailers are making record profits!

That's why we support the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill!

See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll.

This bill would cut the vital resources they need.

While increasing megastore profits, they deserve it. Don't they?

Tell Congress, stop the Durban Marshall money grab for corporate megastores.

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Is Donald Trump caught in a stray jacket in the strait of Hormuz as the war in Iran enters its third week?

The Middle East choke point for 20% of the world's oil is still largely closed.

Oil prices are up to $100 a barrel.

President Trump is calling on American allies to help the United States patrol the strait against Iran's mines and drones. What are the options to reopen the Strait of Hormuzon?

What happens if it stays closed for an extensive period? That's our subject for today on Potomac Watch, the daily podcast of

Wall Street Journal Opinion. I am Paul Giego and I am here with my colleagues, Alicia Finley,

and Joe Sternberg, to inveterate watchers of the energy markets.

Let's listen first to Energy Secretary Chris Wright talk about oil prices on ABC on the weekend.

The conflict will come to the end in the next few weeks, and we'll see a rebound in supplies and a pushing down of prices after that.

But yes, we were very aware, very aware that we would have short-term disruption.

We would cause a little bit of increased prices on Americans. Prices today are still far below

what they were in the Biden administration, where they were

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