The Lockdown Disaster Must Not Be Forgiven

Subprime Crisis 2.0: Will Private Credit Be The Trigger? Via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, We have recently tackled the rising stress in the Private Credit markets. Here are a few of our previous warnings: Fitzpatrick: Soros CEO & CIO Warns of a Reckoning Private Credit Stress: Will The Fed Backstop Exuberance Again? – RIA Is Private Equity A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing? After 30 years of watching credit cycles expand, distort, and collapse, I’ve learned one reliable rule: “When enough people start drawing comparisons to 2008, it’s worth stopping to check whether the analogy holds up — or whether...

Britain Once Led The World. What Happened? Authored by Damian Pudner via the Foundation for Economic Education, An unsettling look at the economic settlement that the UK now seems willing to accept can be found in the latest fiscal forecast, published on March 3. By the end of the forecast period, borrowing will have decreased from 5.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024–2025 to about 1.6 percent. Public debt stabilizes at roughly 95 percent of national income. At those levels, even small shifts in interest rates matter: The Office for Budget...

Welsh Police Officers Ordered To Log Anti-Islam Comments In Chilling Free Speech Crackdown Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Britain's free speech traditions face fresh erosion as South Wales Police directs officers to record conversations and comments about Islam that stray beyond what the force deems "legitimate" discussion. The policy, exposed in recent social media posts, risks logging lawful criticism as hostility incidents that could surface in future employment checks. This move builds directly on the Labour government's March definition of "anti-Muslim hostility" and exposes how public bodies are "gold-plating" safeguards meant to...