39 Going on 40 (Trillion)

Musk Seeks To Remove Delaware Judge From His Cases After She "Liked" A Post About His Trial Loss Lawyers for Elon Musk and Tesla are seeking to have a Delaware judge removed from cases involving them, arguing her neutrality could be questioned after her LinkedIn account “liked” a post about Musk losing a recent trial in California, according to Financial Times. Musk’s firm said the interaction with the “inflammatory” post created “a perception of bias against Mr. Musk in these cases, recusal is necessary and warranted”. The post referred to a federal...

Blue Owl Gates Investors Again After Top BDCs Hit With Massive 38%, 19% Redemption Requests After a catastrophic Q1 for private credit BDCs, Q2 is proceeding just as many had expected: just as bad. After alternative asset manager titans such as Apollo, Blackrock, Blackstone and Cliffwater all gated their investors for a second straight quarter following a surge in redemption requests that easily surpassed what took place in Q1, earlier today we learned that the ground zero of the private credit implosion - Blue Owl Capital - was also slammed with...

The Debt Spiral Ends In Dollar Destruction: 6 Hard Truths America Can No Longer Ignore Authored by Nick Giambruno via Doug Casey's International Man, “Whenever governments are granted power to purchase their own debt, they never fail to do so, eventually destroying the value of the currency.” – Ron Paul Let’s take a step back and look at the big picture so we can assess the US government’s financial situation, where it’s likely headed, and what these trends could mean. Observation #1: It’s Politically Impossible To Cut Spending Among the biggest expenditures for the...