Trump and Putin Discuss Ukraine and Iran in Phone Call

Midterm Elections: Not A Mandate, Just A Rejection Authored by Ed Dowd via Ed Dowd Beyond the Narrative,The midterms delivered what a handful of clear-eyed observers had been flagging for months: a decisive Democratic sweep that handed them the Senate and put the House firmly in their column. Flips in Texas, South Carolina, Ohio, Kansas, and Iowa were not supposed to be realistic under standard models. Yet they happened, along with gains elsewhere that pushed Democrats past the thresholds needed for both chambers. This is not a mandate for the...

Sternlicht's Starwood Real Estate Fund Gates Redemptions Earlier this month, when much of the attention was largely focused on private credit, we warned that one of the old, familiar credit market time-bombs, commercial real estate which for many years had been penned as the "Next Big Short", was deteriorating rapidly: according to the latest TREPP CMBS monthly report, March saw a surge in the CMBS delinquency rate, which jumped by 41bps to 7.55%, the highest in years, led by a surge in the lodging rate, a category which until now was...

USDA Investing $180 Million For American Seed Sovereignty Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced a $180 million investment to launch the Seed Sovereignty Initiative for strengthening domestic agricultural security by protecting plant genetic resources. The USDA will use the funding to sequence the genetics of major crops to "unlock the tremendous potential of the plant genetic resources the United States holds and identify critical gaps," the department said in an Oct. 6 statement. Plant genetic resources can include seeds, plants, and plant...