The private-equity industry is pressing members of Congress and senior Trump administration officials, including President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, to help them gain access to billions of dollars of stimulus funds to protect their ris
For many millions of Christians, Easter is a time to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Others may celebrate the arrival of spring and the promise of new life.
Infamous for his painful but ultimately profitable "big short" bet against mortgage-backed securities during the 2008 financial crisis, Michael Burry, the doctor-turned-hedge-fund-manager has been on a multi-day Twitter rant claiming that the lockdow
Amid a surge in demand for the first tranche, the US Treasury is preparing to ask Congress for a further $200 billion for the small business lending program, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
Having increased its balance sheet by the most ever, directly monetizing Treasury issuance, unleashing unlimited swap lines, and started buying everything from bond ETFs to personal loan paper, and promised implicitly to do the now-proverbial 'whatev
Last month's 3Y auction, which tailed by 2.7bps or the most in at least 4 years, was ugly as a result of the total chaos that hit the market in the second week of March as both the oil price war and the corona pandemic hit at the same time, and led t
My father's dark brown attache case, with its light, soft suede interior, lay invitingly open on his bed. The case was filled with intriguing goodies for a 10yr old to examine.
It's an optimistic start to the week in decidedly pessimistic times. With chatter that Spain and Italy may have crossed the Covid-19 apex and a slowing of US fatalities, global risk assets have outperformed overnight and Treasury yields increased.
Based on the shocking 6.6 million of new unemployment claims, we'd bet they'll be some explosive political fireworks soon in this country about Covid-containment versus keeping the main street economy alive.
In our second recording today, Luke and Tim pick up right where they left off in the previous video: with the stock market's soaring recovery... or is it?
The sheer speed of the coronavirus crisis means investors are way behind the curve in assessing its long-term impact on economies, companies and stock market valuations.The global business environment is being transformed - we are all socialists now.
Tucker Carlson on Friday night blasted Dr. Anthony Fauci for his lately publicly urging the Trump administration to declare a federally-imposed 'stay at home' order across all 50 states...
According to CDC: 0.2% to 1.8% of All US Deaths Since February are Confirmed or Presumed to be Due to COVID-19 -- And They Want to Destroy Economy Over This?
H8St8 comment: Wow! WOW!!! This outstanding video reveals and connects so many important dots that I can't list them all in a brief intro. This will be 50-minutes very well spent. See it near the end of the accompanying story below.
It will take 20-weeks for your pacification check to arrive. Does that seem like a ridiculously long time, even for government? Are THEY creating another problem for you, after destroying your income? Are THEY anticipating your reaction?
A record 6.6 million people applied for unemployment benefits this week as the coronavirus crisis forced the biggest number of layoffs around the U.S. in history, a roughly 83-sigma event and one which visualized looks as follows:
Having put put America straight on what we are facing and the consequences of these unelected and unaccountable officials terrifying experiments, Grant's Interest Rate Observer editor Jim Grant is back with another warning that irresponsible policy f
The U.S. economy is currently facing its toughest challenge since the Great Depression, and millions of Americans suddenly find themselves out of work.
Unlike in the 2008 financial crisis when a glut of subprime debt, layered with trillions in CDOs and CDO squareds, sent home prices to stratospheric levels before everything crashed scarring an entire generation of homebuyers, this time the housing s
Update (1810ET): Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on Friday that a fourth coronavirus bill is in the works, and that health care should be prioritized - telling the Associated Press that "there will be a next measure."
I've been warning about it for years, and now here it is right on our doorstep - The shift into a digital currency system and cashless society, a society in which all your transactions are tracked and you can never remove your wealth from the banks.
We are at a critical moment in the history of politics and markets. Everyday the U.S. government stares into the fiscal and monetary abyss and chucks trillions in hoping that will be enough to finally fill it.