Notes in the Margin

The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note — the key benchmark for U.S. government borrowing — rose more than 3 basis points to 4.325%.

Perhaps Thiel will help build a surveillance state for for the Argentine regime similar to the illegal American spy state that Trump and Thiel wholeheartedly support. 

It's unclear if the move will clear the way for Kevin Warsh's nomination as new Fed chair. 

The Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon (which includes many Christian communities)  subjects the locals to routine looting and desecration of religious sites. 

The UAE, one of the US regime's favorite dictatorships in the gulf, may get a currency-swap bailout similar to the Trump bailout for Argentina. 

It's just the latest move from this anti-capitalist administration for which bailouts, easy money, and war are the answer to everything. 

Approval fell further below 40 percent while disapproval has now surged above 60 percent since February. 

"I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people, and it was not intentional. That’s all I’ll say.”

The US's non-Israel Middle Eastern allies (i.e., the Gulf dictatorship states) apparently still are not concerned that an all-out US attack would be bad news for the Gulf states.

"Jerome Powell has said that he would serve as 'chair pro tem' until his successor is confirmed. So Powell could sue, suggesting that he, not Miran, is chair. It's quite messy..."