Trump Says New Israeli Attack On Beirut "Should Not Have Happened" - Also Warns Hezbollah "Let's Not Blow It"

Russia Launches Springtime Offensive On Ukraine, As "That Other War" Drags On Just days after we reported that trilateral peace negotiations between Russia, Ukraine, and the Trump administration had been suspended -  likely indefinitely - thanks to Washington's escalating involvement in the Iran war, Reuters is now confirming the inevitable: Moscow is pressing ahead with a fresh springtime offensive while Kiev scrambles to hold the line. As we reported before, from the collapse of talks in Geneva and Miami to Putin's envoy shuttling back for what turned out to be fruitless...

Goldman Sachs The Latest Firm To Ditch DEI Hiring Criteria Goldman Sachs is the latest firm to scrap the DEI scam from its board policies. In fact, the bank is preparing to strip race, gender identity, sexual orientation and other demographic factors from the guidelines used to evaluate potential directors, according to people familiar with the plans who spoke to the Wall Street Journal. Which begs the question to begin with: why were we ever picking directors based on race and gender identity? Isn't that...racist? The Journal wrote that Goldman's governance committee currently considers...

"...The Entire Internet Has Doomer Fatigue" Authored by James Howard Kunstler, "I can tell the entire internet has doomer fatigue." - Catturd on X The mysterious financial repo markets - which practically no one outside of banking understands (and even some banking insiders don't) - started showing some signs of stress recently (forward rates spiking: 1Y1Y SOFR has risen nearly 50 bps in two weeks, signaling growing concern among dealers and investors about future funding costs); though not near the level they did in September 2019, just before You-Know-What sucker-punched the world with...