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*sigh* can't sleep... but where were we? Oh yes.. per CNBC:

After becoming a U.S. senator this week, Kelly Loeffler won assignment to a committee that oversees the agency in charge of regulating her husband’s business, setting the grounds for a potential conflict of interest.Loeffler’s husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, is CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, which is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and which owns the New York Stock Exchange. The Senate Agriculture Committee, which Loeffler joined following her Senate confirmation, oversees the CFTC.ICE’s annual report notes that the company is “subject to extensive regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.” Loeffler and Sprecher married in 2004, before the company went public in 2005. She had worked at ICE, leading the company’s investor relations and communications programs for 15 years before slipping into Bakkt, a crypto trading platform created by ICE, as CEO in 2018

These people, I tell 'ya.

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I had a departmental yeoman in the Navy who was named, "Hyman Lipshitz". The poor bastard.

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Dear Pony, my big fat fingers hit the down arrow, for which I am sorry. I have amended my mistake

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And you were worried? I am verklempt.

But doesn't Stone act like his Nixon tattoo has come alive, and is biting him in the spine?

P.S. Go Liz!

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Step3: Owner sticks his tongue down your throat.

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Treat everyone like a potential pirate.

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It sure looks like a conflict of interest, but I’m confident Loeffler will handle everything above board and at arm’s length, you betcha yep sure uh huh.

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"But do we love our troops, folks?"

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Those are a bitch to parallel park. Or a breeze, if you don't care about the cars you're parking between.

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I'll pay for his flight.

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I will help him pack.

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The data show a clear correlation—causality may not be lurking far behind....

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Yeah. The Desk is in the Awful Orifice.

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Very gory, but maybe his best.

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That's why they call'em machines, Charles.

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