House passes updated version of the Senate budget, which includes $34.2 million in capital project earmarks for House Majority members “Amazing how fast the House majority abandoned the bigger dividend today. That issue seems to have just died. $35 million goes a long way!”

Amazing how fast the House majority abandoned the bigger dividend today. That issue seems to have just died. $35 million goes a long way! #akleg — The Alaska Landmine (@alaskalandmine) May 19, 2023 They didn’t fix the oil taxes, they …

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Credit Suisse watches ~$17billion in Tier 1 Contingent Convertible Capital Instruments (CoCo) bonds become worthless. What are Contingent Convertible Capital Instruments (CoCo) bonds? More details inside.

by Dismal-Jellyfish This is starting to come up in corporate media and expect it to make its way here next as more folks are digging into: https://www.barrons.com/articles/credit-suisse-s-coco-bonds-how-17-bn-disappeared-6283ee5f https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/redemption-delay-fears-send-yields-european-banks-coco-bonds-spiking-2023-03-17/ https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-275-billion-bank-convertible-bond-market-thrown-into-turmoil-after-credit-suisses-securities-wiped-out-3cf8e295 https://www.ft.com/content/b5cd8ff0-4c0e-418c-8e4b-dda1d00fa5a7 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/20/why-credit-suisse-coco-bonds-are-causing-anxiety-quicktake/b50cd2a4-c729-11ed-9cc5-a58a4f6d84cd_story.html https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-are-cocos-and-why-are-credit-suisses-now-worth-zero-634a65e5 https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisse-bond-wipeout-threatens-250-billion-market-10be7d04 Contingent Convertible Capital Instruments (CoCos) AKA Additional Tier …

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Liabilities and Capital: Liabilities: Earnings Remittances Due to the U.S. Treasury (-39.774 billion as of 3/8/2023)–Let’s talk about the Fed’s cumulative losses.

by Dismal-Jellyfish Good afternoon, resident jellyfish here! I hope everyone is enjoying a great Thursday. I want to take a minute to discuss a graph I am sure is going to catch some folks attention pulled from today’s H.4.1 release: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RESPPLLOPNWW …

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Pakistani capital of Islamabad ordered to be ‘locked down and sealed’ indefinitely

https://twitter.com/UKR_Report/status/1588223019624927232 Country wide protests which are spreading like wild fire. The assassination attempt on Imran Khan has shocked the country and situation at very places have become sensitive. Please stay safe. #isbtoday #islamabad pic.twitter.com/J8cqsQzYfR — Islamabad Today (@isb_today) November 3, …

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Capital Flows Confirm War is Coming!

by Martin Armstrong Our models have confirmed that Biden’s sanctions against all Russians have undeniably destroyed the global economy unfortunately precisely on time from its birth in 1950. Our capital flow models have confirmed that there has been an unprecedented …

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