Kyle Nowak

🏛️ Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the US government a percentage of their chip sales in China in exchange for being allowed export licenses, marking a first-of-its-kind agreement, according to multiple reports published late Sunday.

"Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles."

–Walter Cronkite (1916-2009)

❓ Our question to you (long-form): What are your thoughts on the separate peace proposals submitted to the Trump administration this week by Russia and Ukraine?

🏛️ President Trump announced plans to deploy National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and place the city’s police department under federal control, marking an unprecedented attempt by the US government to take charge of America’s capital city.

"You are now, and you do become, what you think about."

–Earl Nightingale (1921-1989)

❓ Our question to you: How would you best describe your personal confidence in the scientific community?

🌍 Russian President Vladimir Putin last week presented the Trump admin with a proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine, while European leaders and Ukraine countered with their own proposal for peace that rejects some of Russia's requests.

Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

"Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time."

–Gary W. Keller (b.1957)

"It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude."

–Hilary "Zig" Ziglar (1926-2012)

🤔 How do you feel about President Trump’s decision to fire the top BLS official after the agency published a weaker-than-expected July jobs report?

📺 ESPN revealed its flagship streaming service will go live on August 21—the exact same date that Fox is launching its new “Fox One” streaming service.

📝 On Friday, President Trump fired the top official at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It came after the agency published a weaker-than-expected July jobs report with significant downward revisions in data from previous months.

"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."

–Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)

🏛️ On Friday, President Trump fired the top official at the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the agency published a weaker-than-expected July jobs report with significant downward revisions in data from previous months.

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

–Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

❓ Our question to you: In general, do you support or oppose the EPA’s push to rescind its 2009 declaration that greenhouse-gas emissions pose a threat to public health and welfare?

🌎 Last week, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to rescind the agency’s landmark 2009 declaration that greenhouse-gas emissions pose a threat to public health and welfare.

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

–Ronald E. Osborn (1917-1998)

❓ Our question to you (long-form): What are your general thoughts on America’s trade situation following the Trump admin’s latest deadline?