How Can We Restore Freedom and Sound Money in the US and the UK? Some Ideas

NATO Mulls Nixing Annual Summits, Wary Of 'Trump Drama' Overshadowing Fresh reporting in Reuters says that NATO leadership is mulling ending its practice of holding annual summits as the Trump presidency has "cast a long shadow" over such meetings and as member states are looking for "less drama". For example, at the 2018 summit Trump threatened to walk ⁠out after bitterly complaining over allies' low defense spending. Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary general at the time, wrote in a recently published memoir, "Had he made good on his threat to leave ​in protest,...

Private Credit Firesale Begins: World's Largest Asset Manager Gates Investors In $26 Billion Fund Three weeks ago, when the largest US Private Credit-focused asset manager Blue Owl, was faced with a flood of redemptions due to its outsized exposure to software loans (which are very rapidly being repriced to zero thanks to the disruption from AI), the firm opted against reinstating quarterly redemptions on a retail fund and decided to return investor capital through assets sales instead (effectively also freezing the money in it and gating investors ) announcing a massive...

UK PM Starmer Faces "Judgment Day" Over Epstein Pal Mandelson's Appointment UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing for a showdown with the senior official he fired over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, as calls for the prime minister to resign grow. The controversy stems from Starmer's decision to appoint veteran Labour politician Peter Mandelson (Lord Mandelson) as Britain's ambassador to the United States in late 2024/early 2025, despite Mandelson's well-known past associations with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The scandal has escalated dramatically in recent days due...