responsibility to the community,” he said.

He still opposes total bans on firearms

—he believed they could be necessary for the self-defense of vulnerable groups.

Many of his direct policy concerns are about making Montana livable for middle- and
lower-income people. Most of the voters in his area are strongly conservative, and
Adams tries to avoid sweeping cultural and social issues. He would rather focus on
the challenges directly facing Montana residents.

“There has to be a consistent eye on ensuring that people can afford to still live
here who are not moving in with $200,000-a-year remote jobs,” he told the AP. “If
it’s too expensive to build a life in Montana, then everybody who’s trying to do
that is going to leave.”
In a salute to belief in the statements of Fed Chair Jerome Powel about the
eventual appearance of interest rates cuts (later to late this year?), investors
last week poured into the really big, big cap financial institutions. The flood of
money was great enough to take several well-known names up to new highs.

Well-known would include, for example, Bank of AmericaBAC -1.2%, Citigroup,

Deutsche Bank and J. P. Morgan Chase — the money giant

Amanda Yen
Amanda Yen
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