The Iran War Exposes the Farce of American "Representative Democracy"

Average 2Y Auction Stops Through, Has Highest Yield Since Jan 2025 In the week's first coupon auction, moments ago the Treasury sold $69BN in 2Y notes at a high yield of 4.189%, up from 4.071% and the highest yield since January 2025; the auction also stopped through the When Issued 4.192% by 0.3bps, the biggest through since January. The bid to cover was perfectly average at 2.643, unchanged from last month's 2.640 and right on top of the recent average of 2.61. Internals were a bit on the weak side, with Indirects...

Is This A Sign That The Schumer Era Is Coming To An End? Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spent months cultivating what appeared to be a solid roster of Democratic recruits for 2026. He cleared the field in Ohio, North Carolina, and Alaska — all states where flipping the seats would be a major victory for the Democrats and potentially hand them a majority in the upper chamber in a year with an otherwise brutal map for their party. But in the races that may ultimately define Democratic fortunes this November,...

Uranium Transfer, Nuclear Limits: US Issues 5 Peace Ultimatums To Iran According to a Sunday report from Iran's semi-official Fars news agency, the United States has laid down a firm, take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum to Tehran. Both sides are still trying to patiently wait out the Hormuz crisis, hoping to inflict more economic pain on the other until they blink. At the top of the list, the US is demanding a near-total dismantling of Iran's atomic ambitions, "allowing only one Iranian nuclear facility to remain operational."  Anadolu Agency The list includes direct rejections in response...