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...And better destroy American families while you’re at it.”...
...When Robert Hur was appointed in January 2023 to oversee the politically delicate investigation into US President Joe Biden’s handling of classified information, US attorney-general Merrick Garland hailed...
...Traders are marking a riskier £250mn “class B” bond at little over 60 pence in the pound....
...We’re wondering to what degree Jay Powell will acknowledge slowing pace of disinflation, and what he will attribute it to. Send me your thoughts: robert.armstrong@ft.com....
...Democrat Henry Johnson also accused Hur, a registered Republican, of seeking to curry favour with Trump, who had previously appointed Hur to a stint leading the US attorney’s office in Maryland....
...Robert ArmstrongThanks for the hat, man. Ethan WuYou’re welcome. We’ll have you back soon. And listeners, we’re back in your feed on Thursday with another episode of Unhedged. We’ll catch you then....
...Slok: In some cases triple C, even single B credit looks more vulnerable, because those are the firms that are more vulnerable to higher interest rates....
...The best way to understand Trump’s appeal is to re-read Robert Penn Warren’s novel All The King’s Men, based on Huey Long, the Louisiana rabble rouser governor....
...These are hard calls and we’re in no position to forecast the EV supply-demand balance....
...We’re not saying it doesn’t matter at all. But for investors interested in a quick temperature check of the economy, money may not have much to offer....
...Let us know how you’re feeling: robert.armstrong@ft.com. Five questions for 2024 This time last year, Unhedged was in the grip of a bad forecasting error: we were firmly in the recession-in-’23 camp....
...If we are in a slowdown, it’s a very gentle one. Or are we missing something? Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...Robert ArmstrongYeah. That’s the business we’re in. Ethan WuIt’s the holy grail....
...(In case you’re wondering about the book’s content, it is filled with photos from Trump’s time in office and features him waving from Air Force One on the cover.)...
...He points out the Republican Attorneys General Association, which has received millions of dollars in company contributions, is a major contributor to state attorneys-general who attack firms for supporting...
...The key loophole in that text was that, A, the language wasn’t binding, and B, there was no clear date....
...Rieder: I’d say it’s a B-. But it’s not a C. Why are you getting these sorts of yields in credit today? You’re getting them because the risk-free rate is so darn [high]....
...We’re still in the Covid shadow....
...“When politics matter, in terms of [briefs] they’re going to file, it’s at least partly if not mostly a function of those politics and not the legal arguments.”...
...Send us your thoughts: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...I’m having a pause in which I re-read Percival Everett’s Erasure, the enjoyable novel that became the movie American Fiction, before diving into Herron’s standalone novels....
...But Weissmann, who was a lead prosecutor during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation while Trump was in the White House, argued this does not apply in the federal elections case: “The indictment...
...A group of senior officials who worked in the past six Republican administrations — including ex-judge Michael Luttig and former acting US attorney-general Stuart Gerson — filed a brief in support of Colorado...
...Northrop Grumman said in January it would take a $1.2bn charge against the new B-21 Raider bomber that it is building for the US Air Force due to rising costs on the contract it won in 2015....
...Before New York attorney-general Letitia James more than halved the original bond, Trump’s lawyers said 30 surety companies refused to underwrite such a large amount....
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