In 2022, the daughter of David Rubenstein, billionaire cofounder of the Carlyle Group asset management firm, became a trustee of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. (APFC), the state’s sovereign wealth fund, with a mission of helping the fund update its investment strategy.
The state of Massachusetts could lose almost $1 billion in tax revenue annually by 2030 as well-off households flee the state’s high taxes and home prices, Boston University’s business school has calculated.
The 1,900-store Target discount chain reported a 3.7-percent drop in overall sales in its most recent quarter ending in early May, making it the fourth consecutive quarter of shrinking sales for the company.
In April, sales of newly built homes fell 4.7 percent from March and 7.7 percent year on year, the U.S. census bureau reported.
Donald Trump insists the U.S. economy is “going to hell.” According to a new Harris poll, most Americans agree.
With another round of U.S. treasury bonds to be unleashed onto an already flooded market late this summer, investors are expecting bond prices to fall, especially among long-dated bonds.
Inflation’s pace slowed steadily through the last half of 2023 but has been stuck at around 3.5 percent for much of this year.
High interest rates are not keeping investors away from high-yield bonds, also known as junk bonds.
While the vast majority of the public is mostly tuned out to what in the world is going on and only repeat the bullshit they hear on “the news” that’s dished out by mainstream media Presstitutes—media whores who put out for their corporate pimps and government whoremasters—as the weather heats up, the fact-dead public will be more tuned out and less informed.
The median compensation for CEOs of top U.S. corporations rose to a record $15.7 million last year, up from $14.5 million the year before, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.