The Yield Curve Has Inverted!
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Generally speaking, the yield on a 5-year treasury bond should be higher than it is on 3-year bond. After all, the longer term means you’re taking on a little more risk. Today, however, after years of breathless waiting, this is no longer true. The yield…
Are People Dropping Health Insurance Because the Obamacare Fine Is Gone?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The LA Times tells us the story of a California woman who decided to go without insurance this year: Without an Obamacare penalty, many are planning to drop health plans. The consequences could be dire Dana Farrell’s car insurance is due. So is her homeowner’s…
Legal Experts Say Trump Just Committed Witness Tampering on Twitter
Ralf Hirschberger/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday morning, the president took to Twitter to praise Roger Stone, his longtime political adviser and associate, for refusing to speak to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team. Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference and Trump has zeroed in on Stone as…
Which Investigations Will the Dems Launch First?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rob DobiSometime in the mid-1990s, I was talking to a senior Clinton White House official who was in a lousy mood. After Republicans had seized control of the House of Representatives in 1994 for the first time in four decades, they had launched a blizzard…
A Runoff Election Tuesday Could Reverse Brian Kemp’s Voter Suppression in Georgia
Democratic secretary of state candidate John Barrow speaks during a campaign stop in Augusta, Georgia, on November 5.Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. John Barrow is the only former member of Congress with the unfortunate distinction of being drawn out of his district not once,…
The Mueller Investigation Grows More Ominous for Trump and His Inner Circle
Special Counsel Robert Mueller departs a closed-door meeting with US senators about Russia and the Trump campaign, June 2017J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “The time that he can get away with lying to the American people all the time and evading accountability is coming to an end.”…