$ORCL bonds crossing 8.3% for the first time after Larry Ellison used the Enron trick (first time anyone did since Enron) of “Customer Pre-Payments with a Significant Interest Component” to hide Operating Cash Flow Problems.
Notably Oracle also was the first Publicly Listed US company outside of drillers and Miners (or Covid) to use Force Majeur to avoid paying on a data center lease it couldn’t afford, since… you guessed it… Enron.
Xi told the White House dinner that Chinese and American peoples “fought shoulder to shoulder against Japanese militarist aggressors.”
That line is real. The wartime alliance was real. The Flying Tigers were real. The Hump airlift was real. Chinese civilians really did die saving downed American pilots.
What he left out is also real.
The government Washington allied with was the Republic of China. The army that fought Japan in the big battles was Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists, not Mao’s Communists. The PRC did not exist until 1949. Five years after Japan surrendered, Chinese troops were killing Americans in Korea.
A shared enemy makes a good toast. It does not rewrite who carried the war, who took power afterward, or what happened next.
Unbelievable.
3 hours later and the 10Y Note Yield is now above 5.20% for the first time in 19 years.
The 10Y Note Yield is now up +50 basis points in 30 days and +30 basis points in 2 days.
Even more remarkable is that the average American has no idea this is happening. Yet.
The bond market is imploding in front of our eyes.