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"Strain Is Spreading": FT Exposes Private Credit Distress At Decade Highs
"Strain Is Spreading": FT Exposes Private Credit Distress At Decade Highs
Since last fall, we have repeatedly flagged the private credit sector’s growing vulnerabilities.
Earlier coverage detailed how the asset class ballooned into a $2-3 trillion opaque market after banks retreated from riskier lending, only to face a wave of high-profile defaults (First Brands, Tricolor), surging redemptions that forced gates at major vehicles, rising PIK usage, and AI-related risks to software-heavy portfolios.
In February, the red flag got about as red as it gets...
Private Credit Rocked By UBS Shock Outlook: Record "Cascading...
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Aug 14, 2026 / Tyler Durden
The Delusional Premises Of Woke Greens
The Delusional Premises Of Woke Greens
Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness,
While the burgeoning democratic socialist movement is getting a lot of attention in advance of the 2026 midterm elections, a parallel dimension of wokeism quietly continues to advance. For now, the Trump administration has attenuated its most extreme threats, but its institutional support is unwavering, and its slow progress is unrelenting. The woke greens are pursuing their own long march.
The agenda of the woke greens is synergistic with democratic socialism. Its currency is fear and resentment. The Earth...
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Aug 10, 2026 / Tyler Durden
US SPR Falls Below 300 Million Operational Limit As Oil Drain Unexpectedly Surges To 6.1MM Barrels, Most In 2 Months
US SPR Falls Below 300 Million Operational Limit As Oil Drain Unexpectedly Surges To 6.1MM Barrels, Most In 2 Months
As negotiations between the US and Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz go nowhere, oil prices continue to slide lower on some naive hope that a resolution to the conflict will magically emerge. Meanwhile, both commercial and strategic stocks continue to be drained at a historic pace, and one day virtually every tank bottom will be hit, sparking a historic surge in commodity prices as the market realizes that...
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Feb 23, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Enablers
Enablers
Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
There’s an obvious growing failure at the center of modern markets that, as a former short seller, has become beyond obvious to me over the years.
It isn’t just fraud or aggressive accounting. It’s the ecosystem that allows both to thrive: financial media that won’t press, and a sell side that won’t risk upsetting management teams they depend on for access.
We’ve seen this movie before. Enron did not implode because there were no warning signs. It imploded because the warning signs were inconvenient. There were whistleblowers. There...
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