"Strain Is Spreading": FT Exposes Private Credit Distress At Decade Highs

Conservatives In Disbelief Over Democrat's Answer: "One Of The Craziest Things I've Ever Heard A Politician Say" Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is facing backlash after suggesting that concerns over transgender students in girls' sports and locker rooms are so-called manufactured political issues.The controversy erupted after El-Sayed appeared on CBS's "60 Minutes," where correspondent Ross Douthat pressed him about parental rights and transgender students participating in school sports.El-Sayed attempted to turn the tables on Douthat, questioning the premise of the question instead of directly answering whether biological males should...

How Can This Be Real? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The Home Office in the United Kingdom is now handing asylum seekers a nine-page booklet and posters spelling out that rape is illegal, sex with children is a crime, women are equal to men, and you cannot mutilate girls' genitals. Yes, really. This is how bad it's gotten. Britain's borders have become so porous that the state feels obliged to tutor new arrivals in the most basic rules of civilised society. If you have to publish these and send them out to...

French FinMin "Vigilant" After Economy Unexpectedly Contracts In Q1 “We remain vigilant, without giving in to being alarmist,” said French Finance Minister Roland Lescure on social media after the Gallic nation saw its economy unexpectedly shrink at the start of the year. French gross domestic product fell 0.1% in the three months through March, the first quarterly contraction since the COVID pandemic, raising concerns over its resilience to the fallout from the Iran war. Statistics office INSEE had initially reported zero growth for the quarter, but a sharper decline in consumer spending than expected...