Yes, the Latest Bank Bailout Is Really a Bailout, and You Are Paying for It.

The US Dollar: From Exceptional To Average? Authored by Eva Sun-Wai via BondVigilantes.com, The dollar’s slide last year looks less like a sudden break and more like the culmination of pressures that have been gathering for a while. The fading of US exceptionalism has sat quietly in the background, and once the narrative started to normalise, the cracks became clearer: softer growth expectations, slower capital inflows, and valuations that had been leaning heavily on the idea that the US could keep outperforming indefinitely. The currency came into the year heavily owned...

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford and its strike group are crossing the Atlantic Ocean and heading toward the Middle East, a US Navy official told USNI News on Tuesday, as the US continues its massive military buildup in the region to prepare for a potential attack on Iran. The Ford left the Caribbean after […]