Oil Prices Just Surged 4% -- June 18, 2019 -- 10:08 A.M. CT

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Dow up 400 points.

Strange things are happening.

Jay Powell getting anxious: first Fed chairman in quite some time to lead US into recession? Trump, of course, will get the blame on "Main Street," but Jay Powell will get the blame on "Wall Street."

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Update On The Granddaughters

Arianna and Olivia rested yesterday in Paris after an exhausting two weeks:

• Rome, the Vatican, Kinder Eir in the Sistine Chapel
• Athens
• seven days sailing on the Aegean Sea
• Sunday: Paris -- the women's soccer team defeat Chile, 3 - 0; the granddaughters on the Chile side of the field, row 5, at center line
• yesterday, resting, laundry, charting four days in Paris
• then, on to London for a long week