Why Sovereign Debt Is Structurally Insulated from Market Discipline

These Are The Top Races To Watch This Midterm Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, Voters' decisions in the upcoming November midterms are set to reshape the balance of Washington and beyond. Democrats are seeking to capitalize on favorability ratings that fell below 40 percent for Republicans in the latest RealClearPolitics summary of polling. That's expected for the sixth year of a president's tenure, called the "six-year itch," a time when the president's party has historically lost seats in the House. With the House already closely divided, observers expect Democrats...

Spain's World Cup Hero Rocks 'Make Spain Great Again' Hat Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Spain are the world champions again. Ferran Torres came off the bench and smashed home the only goal of the 2026 World Cup final in the 106th minute against Argentina. The next day, as the open-top bus rolled through Madrid and nearly two million Spaniards packed the streets, the hero of the final stood shirtless, draped in the national flag, and wearing a bright red baseball cap that read "Make Spain Great Again." The image...

Meta Developing Prediction Market App Called "Arena" To Compete With Polymarket, Kalshi The company formerly known as Facebook which has yet to change its name from the terribly outdated Meta to something more AI-related, even if Meta has so far lost any hope of being a leading frontier model, is developing a new app called “Arena” that mirrors a prediction market platform to compete with the runaway success of Polymarket and Kalshi, according the New York Times. The product - which would operate independently from Facebook and Instagram - would allow...