Mastodawn

That vulnerability is starting to worry investors. Already uneasy about the way higher interest rates are raising borrowing costs, some have begun withdrawing their money from the private credit funds of well-known companies like Blue Owl, BlackRock and Blackstone.
#finance #recession #depression #risk #macroeconomics #collapse #crisis #polycrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/opinion/financial-crisis-private-credit-ai-iran-taiwan.html

Opinion | I Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis. What Is Coming May Be Worse.

Richard Bookstaber warns that what appears to be disparate forces adding risk to our economy are all part of one deeply connected system.

The New York Times

SPQR 6d ago

To be absolutely alone, while the world leers, laughs, and empathizes.

"“Punch is the most loved creature on the Earth right now.”
#culture #Japan #zoology #mentalhealth #rejection #abandonment
https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/03/02/punch-a-young-japanese-macaque-has-hit-a-nerve

Punch, a young Japanese macaque, has hit a nerve

Punch, a seven-month-old Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo, has become a global sensation.

The Economist

SPQR Mar 14

George Takei

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Mar 11

I was told the GOP cares about fraud, waste and abuse.

SPQR Mar 14

He said the 84,000-position decline is the kind of reading you typically only see in the depths of a recession. “I don’t believe we’re in a recession,” Porter said, “but clearly the economy is struggling out of the gate in 2026.”
#Canada #economics #recession #depression #collapse #cdnecon #ontario #labor #jobs #employment https://share.google/98rprNDYC4xwP4M4J

‘Empty pit of despair’: Job seeker describes struggle as Canada posts biggest job loss in decades

In a drop that some economists are calling 'worrisome,' Canada’s labour market shed 84,000 jobs in February, one of the sharpest monthly declines seen outside the COVID-19 pandemic.

CTVNews

SPQR Mar 13

America has been in the Persian Gulf continuously since the 1980s. It shot down an Iranian Airbus carrying 290 people in 1988. The 5th fleet is anchored at Bahrain. Central command is located in Qatar. Kuwait used to be called the 52nd state, given the amount of US hardware there. Of course Israel sucks up hundreds of billions. Yet, these dumbf*cks want us to believe no one thought about the strait of Hormuz being closed?
#Iran #USPolitics #Trumpism #war #MiddleEast https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/armstrong-iran-trump-supply-chains-strait-hormuz-us-israel-9.7126304

ANALYSIS | War in the Middle East is disrupting supply of key resources — and it'll only get worse each passing day | CBC News

Rising oil prices are just the start. By blocking the Strait of Hormuz, global supply chains are at risk. For every day the war drags on, the list of product shortages grows. Shortages of fertilizer for farmers, critical minerals, and helium for semiconductor production are already being felt around the world.

CBC

SPQR Mar 12

Andrea Junker

Mar 11

Pete Hegseth spent $2 million on Alaskan king crab, $7 million on lobster tail, and $15.1 million on ribeye steak in just one month. — But please, tell me again how the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security are bleeding this country dry.

SPQR Mar 12

Nowhere Girl Mar 11

"DOGE" didn't find any slack or waste in social programs because Republicans and Democrats have cut them to the bone over the years.

Meanwhile, the DOD fails an audit every year, loses billions of dollars, and blows billions more on luxury goods for senior officers so they can say they maxed out their budget and need more.

I just wish Americans cared more about Pete Hegseth buying lobster dinners for his friends than some poor child getting a cookie through SNAP.

SPQR Mar 11

George Takei

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Mar 11

Perhaps his fear center in the amygdala was activated while his reasoning center in the prefrontal cortex was impaired? Or maybe he just became mean and weird.

SPQR Mar 9

What stage of fascism is this?

"The case files show how officers repeatedly detained people under a reinterpretation of a 1996 law that states that anyone in the United States illegally “shall be detained” without bond, indefinitely, even when courts had ordered they be granted a bond hearing or set free. Most were quickly transferred to detention centers in Texas or Louisiana."
#fascism #authoritarianism #legal #USA #politics #ICE #Trumpism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/03/10/trump-immigration-detention-minneapolis-courts/

How ICE officers defied court orders as immigrant arrests soared in Minneapolis

Officers have repeatedly detained people under a reinterpretation of a 1996 law that states that anyone in the United States illegally “shall be detained” without bond, indefinitely.

The Washington Post

SPQR Mar 9

If we had committed to transitioning to a fully sustainable world back in the 1990s, we wouldn't need to worry about the Middle East. We would be free of fossil fuels and would have stable and abundant green energy platforms. Instead, we got oil wars, terrorism, and Middle Eastern despots ruining civilization.
#Iran #economy #oil #Israel #collapse #recession #depression #markets #trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/09/iran-war-stock-markets-oil-prices-gas/

Markets drop over oil price fears as analysts warn of $4-a-gallon gas

World leaders are scrambling to confront the surging cost of oil, as its fallout also threatens to revive inflation in an array of other products.

The Washington Post

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