💬 Quoted… “You stand your ground, sir, and don't get bogged down by all the haters out there.”

• Former Rep. George Santos is making his second-straight appearance in our Quoted section. The ex-congressman from New York joined personalized video site Cameo yesterday, leading Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman to put on his troll hat and request a video – in which Santos offers support and advice to embattled Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), who’s currently under federal indictment for bribery and conspiring to act as a foreign agent for Egypt.

🥇📈 Stat of the Day: The price of gold reached an all-time high of $2,135/ounce yesterday, with most of the recent increase attributed to growing investor expectations that the Fed will soon cut baseline US interest rates after hiking them 11 times since March 2022.

🤔 Did You Know?... Nesting chinstrap penguins, native to Antarctica, sleep via more than 10,000 mini powernaps of roughly 4 seconds/apiece each day, per a new study published in Science.

📰 Worth a Read: Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit → (NY Times)