What Else Are They Hiding?

Israel Detains NY Congressional Nominee In West Bank Olive Grove, Sets Free After Learning Who He Is Some candidates kiss babies two weeks before an election. Brad Lander picked olives in the West Bank. Lander, the former New York City comptroller and the Democratic nominee in deep-blue NY-10, posted this at 6:29am ET on Wednesday: I've been detained by the IDF, along with a group of rabbis & volunteers. We were simply harvesting olives in a grove near Nehalim in the West Bank. The occupation is a crime under international law. Harvesting olives...

Ugly 3Y Auction Stops Through At Highest Yield In 20 Years Despite Plunge In Foreign Demand, Record Directs With bond traders still bruised from the catastrophic, "mega-tailing" 5Y auction two weeks ago, some were looking toward this week's restart of Treasury coupon auctions with trepidation, although after the brutal selloff in recent weeks, there probably was enough concession to avoid another disaster. And sure enough, after we got the results of of today's $58BN three-year auction, everyone can exhale because the auction was a bit better... even if the internals...

Medvedev Calls For International Law Mechanism Banning Western Military Bases Abroad In a hard-hitting Wednesday address at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (SPILF), Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, didn't mince words regarding the sprawling global footprint of Western military power. The former Russian president called for the immediate creation of aggressive "legal mechanisms" to counter and dismantle Western military bases stationed on foreign soil, framing them as a direct threat to global stability. Russia has long accused both Washington and NATO of being hegemonic powers -...