Le Pen Leads Every Major Rival In New French Presidential Runoff Polling

Gentlemen cry peace, peace. But there is no peace. The war has barely begun. Though its position is untenable, the empire cannot slink away now. As things stand, Iran et al. have won an overwhelming strategic victory. One that cannot be undone. And everyone that matters in the world knows this to be true. That […]

With Private Credit We See The Credit Cycle Hasn't Been Repealed Authored by Jay Rogers via RealClearMarkets.com, Something cracked in private credit this month, and the men who manage systemic risk for a living are saying so. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon's just-released 2025 annual shareholder letter warns that concerns about private credit - including "underwriting quality or exposure to software companies that may be negatively affected by AI" - are "a reminder that the credit cycle has not been repealed." His predecessor Lloyd Blankfein went further on Bloomberg's Big Take...