US states and local governments have sold a record amount of debt for the second year in a row, borrowing over $500 billion in the municipal market in 2025, in part as they tackle lingering infrastructure needs https://t.co/vimnrdIeFM ...

Are you worried about the air froth. So, you know, there's something by the way, this is a time of year. You tend to get momentum, gets chased out of the markets, particularly today, where you have ambiguity around some trends that are taking place.So, by the way, I know I don't think it's an air bubble and I don't think there's too much froth in depending on where you go. If you look at some of the big hyperscalers that trade at 22 to 25, 26 times earnings and they throw off ROIC return on equity of 30, 35 ...

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For more on the hyperscaler debt explosion, let's bring in Bond Click CEO Chris White. And we by explosion, we mean just the amount of issuance, not that anything bad has happened. Chris, great to have you with us.Just wanted to be clear on that. How do you interpret uh the widening spreads that we've seen recently. Is it is it fears about how this money is being spent, fears about the companies themselves, or is it the anticipation that there's going to be so much more supply hitting the market.Well, first ...

Well, as this doubt has been brewing about the hyperscalers, they have been rushing to the bond market to help fund their AI ambitions. The amount raised by companies like Met and Oracle ballooned to more than $75 billion. That's just since September.The chairwoman has been watching this trend. She's got the fine print tonight on it. As she does the fine print, I want to thank Andy Conson at Damp Spring uh for putting this together.So this is some hyperscalers how their spreads have moved which is a sign of ...

The International Monetary Fund is working hard to reach a new program for Senegal, mission chief Edward Gemayel said following talks to resolve the fallout from billions of dollars in undisclosed debt that have strained the nation’s finances https://t.co/VDwfGbXVEg ...

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Javier Cuellar is making big bets. Upon launching a complex $9 billion debt deal in Swiss francs, dollars, and pesos, Colombia’s public credit director said he was taking an unprecedented risk https://t.co/6mJR1Cio7P ...

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 US Treasury just bought back $2,000,000,000 of its own debt.Bullish for markets. https://t.co/Nie6Tph4gL ...

We've got 1 million lawyers and a little fewer than 1 million lawyers in the United States. And a lot of them are just so you can displace farm workers. What are they going to do about it.You can displace factory workers. They'll just kill themselves with drugs and fast food, which they have done. And you'll feel sort of guilty, but then ignore it.If you do that to lawyers and nonprofit sector employees who I lived around in DC, you will get a revolution. And I mean that. I'm dead ser.Where did Paul come fr ...