Key Events This Week: Trump-Xi Meeting, Fed Speakers, PMIs And Durables

15 Tied To Antifa Charged With Violently Interfering With ICE Operations In Minnesota Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times, Fifteen suspects are accused of conspiring with two Minneapolis-based Antifa groups to violently interfere with federal immigration enforcement, authorities announced on Tuesday.  Daniel Rosen, who heads the U.S. attorney’s office for Minnesota, told reporters at his Minneapolis headquarters on June 16 that agents arrested 12 of the 15 suspects; one was already in custody for other offenses. Two defendants remain at large. Rosen said both are aware that federal agents are seeking...

It's Time For The Right To Return Fire Authored by Tom Klingenstein via TomKlingenstein.com, In this essay, Thomas Klingenstein argues that the Right has made a category error: treating lawfare as a series of discrete legal disputes when it is better understood as a system of political power. His answer isn't simply better defense, but counterpressure - a new public-interest law firm, led by Jeff Clark, meant to defend conservative lawyers and make lawfare more costly to practice. The deeper question, however, is whether an adversarial legal order can remain genuinely adversarial...

Private Credit Bank Run Begins: Blue Owl Gates After Shocking 41% Of OTIC Investors Ask For Their Money A week ago, in an attempt to calm the market, Goldman's economists published a lengthy, if at times disjointed, report discussing why a crisis in private credit would not lead to another financial crisis. We are about to find out if they were right.  Recall that in mid-March, while attention was understandably focused on the Iran war, we explained why Blue Owl's February decision to commence liquidations of loans in its three core private...