As expected, U.S. factories received fewer new orders in April after customers surged their inventories in March to beat Donald Trump’s 2 April “Liberation Day” tariff announcement.
Category: 10 June 2025
IS OFFICIAL U.S. INFLATION DATA STILL ACCURATE?
Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) told a group of economists that a federal hiring freeze had left it unable to contact the usual number of businesses it uses to monitor price changes.
PRIVATE CREDIT COULD BE “LOCUS OF CONTAGION” IN A FINANCIAL CRISIS
Lending by private equity firms and other nonbank financial businesses has become so widespread that it could become a “locus of contagion” in any new financial crisis, a research group that includes researchers from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Moody’s Analytics said last week.
WALL STREET DISCOVERS THAT THE U.S. NATIONAL DEBT IS A PROBLEM
Now that the U.S. government’s interest payments on the national debt have topped $1 trillion—about 14 percent of the annual federal budget—more of the financial industry’s leaders are speaking, and speaking more urgently, about it.
U.S. MANUFACTURING SLOWS FURTHER IN MAY
U.S. factories’ output diminished a little more last month as manufacturers hesitated to make commitments amid Donald Trump’s swirling trade policies, The Wall Street Journal reported.
AS FORECAST, PRES. TRUMP DEMANDS FED LOWER INTEREST RATES
As we had long forecast, President Trump will keep pushing the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. After the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the U.S. economy added 139,000 jobs in May—more than expected—Donald Trump took to social media to demand that the U.S. Federal Reserve and its Chairman Jerome Powell lower the central bank’s interest rate.
U.S. ECONOMY ADDED 139,000 JOBS IN MAY
The number of U.S. nonfarm jobs grew by 139,000 last month, less than the adjusted 147,000 in April but still more than the 125,000 economists forecasted in a Dow Jones poll.
LAYOFFS UP 47 PERCENT IN MAY FROM A YEAR EARLIER
In May, U.S. businesses announced they plan to drop about 100,000 workers from their payrolls, 47 percent more than were announced in May 2024, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported in new data.
BIDEN PIER 2.0: MILITARIZED HUMANITARIAN AID DISTRIBUTION CENTERS IN GAZA BECOME MURDER MILLS
Over 100 Palestinians have been killed at Israeli- and U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites in southern Gaza since 27 May, and hundreds have been injured, after warnings from the UN and NGOs that the project was doomed to fail from the start.
GAZA DEATH TOLL
The death toll in Gaza reached 54,927 on Tuesday and 126,615 have been wounded. There are another 11,000 missing.