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Author: admin (Kendrick Williams)
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Merger and Acquisition took a break when the Federal Reserve and EU began aggressively raising interest rates from their zero and negative levels back in March and July 2022 respectively. Now, with The Street betting that the Fed will lower interest rates, the equation is simple: The lower interest rates go, the higher the M&A activity will rise.
SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S ECONOMIC STRUGGLE
At a 30 April meeting, China’s Politburo—the small group that sets government policies—signaled that mortgage interest rates will be lowered again and that aid would be offered to floundering real estate developers.
SPOTLIGHT: JAPAN’S ECONOMY IN FLUX
Japan’s central bank intervened in markets last week for a second time, buying $23 billion worth of yen to prop up the country’s sinking currency, Bloomberg reported after analyzing the bank’s current account figures.
TOP TREND 2023, OFFICE BUILDING BUST: NEAR-RECORD NUMBER OF U.S. OFFICE LOANS TEETERING ON DEFAULT
More than $38 billion worth of loans against U.S. office properties are delinquent in their payments or facing foreclosure or default, according to data service MSCI.
TOP TREND 2024, EV GO FU: WHITE HOUSE EXTENDS EV TAX CREDIT
The Biden administration has made a one-year extension to 2026 for $7,500 in federal tax credits for consumers buying electric vehicles (EVs) containing Chinese graphite.
CNN COMPARES PROTESTERS TO NAZIS
In one of the most appalling propaganda segments I have ever seen in my life, CNN’s Dana Bash launched into a fire-and-brimstone sermon on Wednesday comparing anti-genocide university protesters to the brownshirts of Nazi Germany—doing so in defense of a fascistic police crackdown against those very same protesters.
BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
More people than ever are making the connections between failed government and failed money.









