Camilla Dominovsky
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On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Gertner had told her husband's campaign about sexually explicit text messages he had sent other women as part of a process checking for any risks to his bid for Senate.
Gertner and Plattner were married in 2023.
In her video, Gertner said that being newly married while going through infertility and a Senate campaign was hard, but that counseling helps.
No marriage is perfect, and I...
I don't want a perfect marriage.
She criticized the media for spreading gossip instead of talking about issues.
One downside is that it can actually backfire because when you reduce the cost of buying gasoline, you encourage people to buy more of it, which can actually drive prices back up.
More fundamentally, though, the problem is that the money raised by the gas tax goes toward the country's highway system, and road repairs are very important.
and Israel attacked Iran, more than 100 ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz on a typical day.
In the first three weeks of May, it was more like 5 to 15 ships a day, most along a route controlled by Iran, according to the trade intelligence group Kepler.
The world has been tapping into stockpiles to make up for the crude that can't get through the strait, but that can't continue forever.
Even if a deal to reopen the strait is struck soon, a best-case scenario, it could take months for oil markets to fully recover from this disruption.
Global crude oil futures have been highly volatile since the start of the war.
They spike up on any news that signals a drawn-out conflict and fall down on any hint that a resolution may be nigh.
But traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, that crucial waterway for oil markets, has remained all but non-existent in recent days.
The global oil market is facing a supply crisis that doesn't go away based on a social media post or a headline.
Meanwhile, refinery outages in the Midwest pushed U.S.