Trump Announces One-Time $90 Payments To 20 Million Seniors In Medicare

Prime Minister Keir Starmer Resigns As UK Faces 7th Leader In A Decade The Keir Starmer experiment is officially over, as was growing increasingly clear over the weekend, especially with an interestingly-timed Trump Truth Social statement. Just under two years after capturing the keys to Number 10, the British Prime Minister has thrown in the towel after succumbing to an internal party mutiny following days of intense, closed-door speculation regarding his political survival. Stepping up to the lectern outside Downing Street on Monday morning, a visibly defeated Starmer delivered the inevitable...

Last Monday, a day before the Republican-controlled House passed a resolution condemning socialism, the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital announced that it had acquired a 35 percent stake in North American Blue Energy Partners, one of Venezuela’s largest private oil producers. In the deal, the Venezuela government gives the company a hundred years lease for […]

Private Credit: The New Junk Bond Market Authored by Ed Dowd via Beyond the Narrative, Private Credit: The New Junk Bond Market...Except It Lacks Transparency, Liquidity & Is About To Be Stress Tested History Private credit was born from the ashes of the Great Financial Crisis. In the aftermath of that debacle, regulators moved to limit the risks banks could take. Loans deemed too risky were no longer being originated by commercial banks. To fill that void, non-bank lenders stepped in, creating what is known as private debt or direct lending market. You...