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Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis Slams Democrat Lawmakers For Dragging Their Feet Over Clarity Act

Authored by Mathew Di Salvo via BitcoinMagazine.com,

Pro-crypto Senator Cynthia Lummis on Wednesday slammed Democrats for holding back the Clarity Act. 

Speaking on the Senate floor, Senator Lummis, of Wyoming, spoke of the bipartisan work that had gone into the bill — but questioned why it was stalling. 

Lawmakers are hoping the Clarity Act gets passed before Congress departs for August recess.

While the bill has been drafted bipartisanly, some Democrats are unhappy with the current version. 

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis calls out the Democrats for holding up the Clarity Act:

"After nearly 11 months of giving almost everything asked of us, I genuinely don't know what else my Democrat colleagues need before we act." 👀
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— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) July 29, 2026

“This is a very good bill: good for the country, good for consumers, and good for the people we all represent on both sides of this aisle,” said Senator Lummis. 

“And after 11 months of giving nearly everything that was asked of us, I am genuinely struggling to understand what else my colleagues across the aisle think it needs before we act.” 

Major financial institutions, lawmakers and companies have thrown their weight behind the new bill, but a group of Democrats last week said in a statement that the bill in its current form falls short.  

A number of lawmakers are hoping the bill gets passed before Congress departs for August recess. 

Despite being passed in the house of representatives last year with strong bipartisan support, the Clarity Act has been in a deadlock for much of 2026, partially due to the banking lobby raising concerns over stablecoin yield. 

An updated bill of the Clarity Act was introduced last week that addressed ethics concerns - banning government officials and their families from issuing or promoting crypto. 

Republicans are hoping to gain bipartisan support for the bill this week to advance the legislation. If passed, the long-awaited bill would create a regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency market.

Conservative Lummis earned the name “Bitcoin Senator” over the years for her pro-crypto approach on Capitol Hill.

The 71-year-old senator has admitted owning the leading cryptocurrency since 2013 and has been vital in pro-crypto legislation, including by helping draft the Bitcoin Act for a Bitcoin strategic reserve, and co-sponsoring the 2025’s GENIUS Act to regulate stablecoins.

Tyler Durden Thu, 07/30/2026 - 14:05

The dynamic duo will jam at the JMA Wireless Dome on Aug. 1.

Enough is enough.

"Diesel Is At Epicenter Of Supply Squeeze,": Goldman

Goldman analysts are out with an eye-opening note showing that global refinery runs have plunged to their lowest seasonal level since the Covid era as conflict-related outages hammer Russia and the Gulf while Chinese processing remains subdued.

Analysts, including Yulia Zhestkova Grigsby and Daan Struyven, introduced a new global refinery-runs nowcast, estimating that global runs declined by 6.5 million barrels per day from a year earlier in late July.

Non-OECD throughput dropped by 7 million barrels per day, led by the Middle East, Russia, and China. Higher utilization in the Americas and Africa offset only about 30% of the weakness elsewhere, even as U.S. refinery utilization exceeded 97%, the highest since 2018.

The decline in global refinery runs is tightening fuel supplies just as demand heads toward the fourth-quarter peak season. The analysts said diesel inventories remain below seasonal norms while exports continue to slide, leaving the fuel especially vulnerable to further supply disruptions.

"Diesel is at the epicenter of the supply squeeze," the analysts warned.

Europe's benchmark diesel futures have surged this week to the highest level in almost three months. Global diesel exports have fallen by about 2.6 million barrels per day, or 35%, from a year earlier, while jet fuel exports have also slumped, further tightening middle-distillate markets.

We pointed out on Wednesday just how tight the products market is.

The European gasoil crack has surged above $70 a barrel as refiners run near capacity, with diesel and jet supplies constrained by outages, shipping risks, and reduced Russian exports.

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The analysts recommended clients seeking to hedge ongoing geopolitical turmoil to take a long position in the December 2026–March 2027 European diesel timespread:

Hedging escalation with diesel length. Given the extreme tightness in refined products supply, which we think can linger for longer, we still recommend that investors and consumers seeking to hedge persistent geopolitical shocks in the Mideast and Russia go long the Dec26-March27 European diesel (gasoil) timespread.

Readers should revisit Struyven's note from earlier this month outlining three reasons gas prices are likely to remain elevated (here).

Professional subscribers can read more on energy markets our new Marketdesk.ai portal

Tyler Durden Thu, 07/30/2026 - 13:45

The Latest Wildfire Panic Is Refuted By Data

Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org,

Wildfires are in the news. With a hot, dry summer it was bound to happen. And, naturally, this is bringing with it talk of climate change.

The Independent is screaming and rending its garments:

Europe is on fire – will the continent’s climate change deniers finally wake up?

The Guardian has an opinion piece calling for prosecutions for climate crimes. Twitter experts are calling for changes to the way we live our lives.

Prince William is saying stuff:

Wildfires ‘stark reminder’ of extreme climate challenge, says William

I suppose we should make the usual point, that wildfires are a natural phenomenon that are an important part of the life cycle of many ecosystems. And that some years are bound to be worse than others.

But there’s just one issue, wildfire activity is actually down.

A new study from the University of East Anglia, published in May, found that 2025 was 16% below the average in terms of burnt area, and that’s despite policies known to increase both the chance of wildfires starting and the area they will burn.

But that was last year, this year must be different given the coverage, right?

Wrong.

Data from the EU’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service shows that, to the end of June, this year had substantially lower wildfire activity – across every continent – than any year since they began collecting data in 2003.

Of course, this data does not yet include the fires from the past couple of weeks, and there is a chance that 2026 will not remain a record-breaking low in fire terms, but this is largely due to the known effect of El Nino years.

The authors note in the conclusion [emphasis added]:

The record low total biomass burning emissions for the first half of 2026 continues the overall downward trend related to changes in savanna fires in tropical Africa and Asia. However, the observed onset of many large-scale wildfires across Eurasia and North America in the last couple of weeks of June, could increase the global total emissions through the rest of the summer. Looking further ahead, the predicted El Niño conditions have the potential to increase global fire emissions, as we observed during the previous El Niño years of 2015 and 2019 when persistent biomass burning in Indonesia caused widespread regional haze and severely degraded air quality.

In fact, the yearly global area burnt by wildfires has been steadily decreasing for over a century (we recommend following Bjorn Lomborg on X, a great source of data):

So, why the panic?

The caveat here – according to the University of East Anglia paper – is that while the number of fires, and total area burnt is down, “severity” is up.

In short, less overall wildfire activity seems to be somehow translating to greater human cost, both in lives and money. Evacuations are allegedly up, insurance costs are allegedly up, and fatalities are allegedly up:

A new analysis of global wildfire activity in 2025 reveals the world experienced some of the most destructive and deadly fire events in recent history, despite the second lowest area burned since 2002. It highlights a continued trend toward fires becoming increasingly extreme, costly, and disastrous—both economically and in lives lost.

Now, first instinct would be this is either linguistic or statistical manipulation designed to camouflage research that failed to correctly serve the climate change agenda.

A case of cope to cover misbehaving data: 

“Fine, wildfires are down, but the ones we’ve had are SO much more DESTRUCTIVE!”.

That’s entirely possible. But supposing the stated data is accurate, what does this mean?

Well, there are several potential explanations

It could be the predictable result expanding human habitation and growing population.

It could be that the areas of fire activity shifting to more populated areas by some as yet not understood natural process.

It could be that fires being deliberately started close to inhabited areas in order to create fear.

It could be that these statistics are manipulated or fabricated.

…Or it could be any or all or a mixture of several.

We don’t know, but we can’t rule anything out at this stage.

The data is clear though, there’s no need to panic. No matter what the press says.

Tyler Durden Thu, 07/30/2026 - 13:25

Dr. Anthony Fauci beamed with delight Thursday as he collected flowers from an admirer placed on the front steps of his $2.4 million Washington, DC home.

Daniella Guzman is in a rough spot.

The woman, who had been traveling and was staying with Athens with friends, has been identified as Elizabeth Jane Ross, according to Greece's state broadcasting service ERT.

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The Amazon might not have been the untamed jungle we once thought.