Saturday, July 12, 2025

Breaking News -- Tariffs -- Mexico, EU -- 30% -- 9:07 A.M. CT -- July 12, 2025

Locator: 48716TARIFFS.

Canada is threatened with 35% tariffs. Reported earlier this week. 

Link to NY Times here

Right now there's no evidence of significant inflation occurring in US due to tariffs.

US customs duties top $100 billion for first time in a fiscal year. Link at Reuters.

And, again, no no evidence of significant inflation occurring in US due to tariffs.

And jobs being brought back to America. 

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The Book Page

Without question, one of the best “history” books I’ve read in a long time is Assyria, The Rise and Fall of he World’s First Temple, Eckart Frahm, c. 2023.

For those who want to add to their knowledge of the Bible, highly, highly recommended.

It was hard for me to get into the book, but once I seriously paid attention I realized how good it was. The chapters developed a pattern and it was easy to move through the middle chapters fairly quickly because they tended to “repeat the theme” of the Assyrian Kingdom. And then just when I thought I was coming to an end, the author surprised me with several incredible chapters relating the history of Assyria to specific books of the Bible. At that point, I did not want the 500+ page book to come to an end.