@indianndon@GardinerIsland Guessing it has got to be private credit exposure. Or maybe software debt. Whatever is being marked down to market, $VVR must have a disproportionate share of.
There is no way the republicans would be anything less that outraged if Obama had taken almost $2 billion of taxpayer dollars and given it to people he pardoned for trying to steal an election. Every republican in congress who doesn’t speak up and prevent this is complicit
Let me put this another way: The US economy has LOST jobs since April 2025.
Total job gains since from May 2025 to February 2026 are now -19,000.
Companies are not hiring in the face of all of these headwinds and uncertainty. And even healthcare is starting to slow down.
Absolutely right. There is nothing stopping Europe from deploying troops west of the Dnipro and closing the sky completely from russian missing and drones.
The idea that this would cause russia to "escalate" or expand the war elsewhere in Europe is nonsense.
Putin only escalates when he sees weakness. In reality, given how precarious russia's situation is on the front line, other European countries getting involved in the war on Ukraine's side would be a disaster for russia.
Actually growing a pair and showing russia that we mean business would make a wider war far *less* likely, and make peace far *more* likely.