Inflation Fears Fade As War Drags UMich Sentiment Lower

Bank Of Japan Governor Ueda Hospitalized, Will Miss June Meeting Bank of Japan's 74-year-old Governor Kazuo Ueda has been hospitalized for medical treatment and will miss the June 15 to 16 ‌policy meeting, the central bank said on Wednesday. It is the first time for the governor, who chairs the BOJ's policy discussions, to miss a scheduled meeting since the central bank began deciding policy ​under the current arrangement in 1998. The governor will submit a written statement on his view on policy but will not participate in ​next week's vote, the...

Zero Sum: Cities Have Little To Show For Big Spending Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, America’s largest cities are increasing their spending at almost unprecedented rates. A RealClearInvestigations (RCI) analysis of cities with at least 500,000 residents found they cumulatively raised their per-person spending by 18 percent over the last 10 budget cycles, accounting for inflation. The only equivalents on record are the spending surges ignited by the Great Society programs of the 1960s and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal during the 1930s. But unlike those past eras, today’s cities do not have...

Hasan Piker Says Quiet Part Out Loud, Maps Radical Left NGO Network To China-Based Marxist Financier Far-left Turkish-American millionaire and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker appears to have committed an operational-security mistake by publicly identifying American Marxist tech financier Neville Roy Singham, who has reportedly been living in China and has been linked by The New York Times to CCP-aligned propaganda networks, as a major financier of pro-Marxist revolutionary NGOs operating inside the U.S. On Sunday, Piker discussed the U.S. Treasury's "Requests for Information" subpoena related to his "humanitarian trip" to Cuba with...