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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GET BIGGER

Each week, we report instances where the money junky hedge funds, private equity groups and the already big companies swallow another piece of the global economy. Here are some more of what the BIGS have been gobbling up and how the Bigs keep getting bigger and the rich keep getting richer. DRUG MAKERS COLLECT HUGE...

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BLACKSTONE ENDS NEW INVESTMENTS IN OIL AND GAS E&P

Blackstone Group, the world’s largest private equity firm with more than $900 billion under management, has told clients that it will no longer invest in, or lend to, ventures exploring for or producing oil and gas, people familiar told Bloomberg. The decision follows two years in which petroleum prices have ridden a rollercoaster of COVID-era...

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U.S. HOME PRICES RISE RECORD. MIDDLE CLASS DREAM DYING

Home prices rose a record 18.8 percent last year, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, the fastest rate since the index was created in 1987. The index tracks average home prices in major metro areas across the U.S.  The Federal Housing Finance Authority calculated a 17.6-percent increase in home prices through...

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FED GOVERNOR: RAISE RATES A HALF-POINT NOW

The U.S. Federal Reserve should raise its key interest rate a half-point when it meets this month, Christopher Waller, a U.S. Federal Reserve Bank governor, said in a 24 February speech at the University of California Santa Barbara. “We constantly say we have the tools to fight inflation,” he said, referring to the Fed’s policy...

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CHINA CALLS FOR RESTRAINT IN UKRAINE, BLAMES WEST FOR CALAMITY

As the saying goes, “It’s the economy, stupid.” Not wanting to damage its trade relations and financial security, China is trying not to turn its back on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, while also maintaining its diplomatic relationship with the West, which is a tough balancing act. One thing is certain: Beijing believes the...

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“EMPIRE OF LIES”: PUTIN RESPONDS TO WEST’S SANCTIONS

Yesterday, in response to the wave of new sanctions being imposed upon Russia by the United States and western nations following Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin, condemned them as an “empire of lies”: “All [the US] satellites not only dutifully agree, sing along to its music, but also copy its behavior,...

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