Step Aside Private Credit: Partners Group Is First Private Equity Fund To Gate Investors The private credit gating-gate is spilling over to private equity.  Partners Group Holding AG has capped withdrawals at one of its evergreen private equity funds amid heightened redemption pressure, as the investor anxiety that hit private credit vehicles is now spilling over to other asset classes within private markets, Bloomberg reported. […]

SpaceX Reportedly Targets $135 IPO Price As Morningstar Says Valuation Should Be Halved Last week, Elon Musk called Bloomberg’s “SpaceX Said to Cut IPO Value” story “false,” marking the latest clash between Musk and the MSM over coverage of his companies. Reuters has released a new report, which, based on sources, says SpaceX is planning an IPO at a price of $135 per share, aiming to raise a record $75 billion by selling about […]

Family Of Henry Nowak’s Migrant Killer Sparks Outrage After Asking For “No Further Pain” In Tone-Deaf Statement Via Remix News, The family of Vickrum Digwa has been accused of adding insult to injury after issuing a statement asking that Henry Nowak’s murder not be used to cause “further pain,” despite fierce public anger over the way the 18-year-old was stabbed, falsely accused, handcuffed and left dying in the street. […]

Major Iranian Attack On Kuwait International Airport Leaves One Dead, 63 Injured Kuwait International Airport has come under Iranian missile and drone attack on Wednesday, in a significant strike that killed one person and left 63 people injured – according to the country’s health ministry, with several of the victims being seriously wounded. A passenger terminal was directly struck, damaging facilities including diplomatic […]

Futures Drop, Yields And Oil Rise On Latest Middle East Hostilities US equity futures are mixed as oil prices, bond yields, and USD move higher in response to the latest overnight attacks in the Middle East with no public progress on a deal. As reported previously, the US struck Iran’s Qeshm Island, which was then met with retaliatory Iranian strikes on US bases in Kuwait; explosions were also reported in Saudi Arabia, and air […]

ADP Reports US Economy Added The Most Jobs In 16 Months In May Following a shockingly strong JOLTS report, ADP just reported a stronger than expected rise in jobs added in May. ADP says 122k jobs were added in May – better than the 120k expected – and the biggest monthly addition since January 2025 Source: Bloomberg “Hiring was more broad-based in May than we’ve seen in the last few years,” said Dr. Nela Richardson, Chief […]

These Two Things Are Not The Same… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity, Viral images of a grand classical arch and a twisted modernist one reveal the unbridgeable divide between leaders who celebrate America’s heritage and those who seem determined to replace it with something cold, crooked, and alien. The contrast could not be clearer or more deliberate. On one side stands towering marble, golden eagles, and inscriptions […]

Trump Team Proposes New Tariff Round On 60 Countries Over Forced Labor Practices The U.S. Trade Representative has issued an overnight statement and proposed a new round of tariffs of at least 10% on imports from 60 trading partners, marking the administration’s largest attempt yet to rebuild its tariff empire after the Supreme Court struck down earlier levies. The new duties stem from Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which […]

Bass Advances To Runoff In LA Mayor’s Race; Pratt Leads Contenders Authored by Jackson Richman and Beige Luciano-Adams via The Epoch Times, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass advanced to the November runoff election for Los Angeles mayor. The Associated Press called Bass’s advancement after 1:30 a.m. ET on June 3. Reality TV star Spencer Pratt and Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman lead 11 other candidates in the race for […]

“Dramatically Less Accessible To The Average Fan”: Knicks Finals Tickets At MSG Sell From $3K To $280K For the first time since 1999, the New York Knicks are heading to the NBA Finals. For fans, it’s a dream decades in the making. For anyone hoping to attend a game at Madison Square Garden, however, that dream comes with a staggering price tag in the thousands of dollars.  The 2026 NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the […]

Commodity Markets Are Living On Borrowed Time Authored by Helen Thomas via City AM, Governments and industry have softened the impact of energy and commodity supply disruptions by releasing reserves, reducing inventories, and increasing operational flexibility. These measures are temporary, and continued inventory drawdowns are pushing oil and metal markets toward historically tight conditions. Once inventories become […]

Iran Sends Missiles, Drones Targeting Airbases Across Gulf After US Nighttime Attack On Qeshm Island Summary: Two bases come under fresh missile attack in Kuwait, Fars and Reuters report. Iran state media says retaliation for night US attack on Qeshm Island. Explosions & air raid sirens also being reported in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Bahrain. It seems that war is popping off once again. rump insists reports that Iran & US […]

Reactor Developers Advance Sweden’s Nuclear Ambitions While State Puts Up $3.7 Billion Sweden advanced its nuclear revival with two major filings for new capacity and a government proposal to commit up to $3.7 billion in state capital for SMR projects. On May 18th, Blykalla submitted the first application for an advanced reactor park under Sweden’s new siting process. The Norrsundet site would host six 55-MWe SEALER lead-cooled […]

Welsh Police Officers Ordered To Log Anti-Islam Comments In Chilling Free Speech Crackdown Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Britain’s free speech traditions face fresh erosion as South Wales Police directs officers to record conversations and comments about Islam that stray beyond what the force deems “legitimate” discussion. The policy, exposed in recent social media posts, risks logging lawful criticism as […]

Opposite Of Drawdown: US Mulls Expanding Nuclear Weapons Deployments In Europe The White House has been talking about reducing America’s military presence across the European continent, amid long-running Trump complaints over lack of NATO burden-sharing. There are even plans to draw down 5,000 US troops from Germany on a permanent basis (though for now it appears thousands are just being moved to Poland). Such a military […]

White Girls Raped By Dogs, Whisky Bottles, & 100s Of Men: Britain’s Migrant Grooming-Gang Scandal Exposed Via Remix News, Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe used a Westminster Hall debate on Monday to confront MPs with harrowing testimony from White girls and women who were raped, tortured, trafficked, and degraded by migrant grooming gangs, and abandoned by the very authorities that should have protected them. The debate […]

US Warns Ally Oman That It Better Pick The ‘Right’ Side In Hormuz Standoff The saga of rare Washington pressure on its longtime regional ally Oman continues, with on Tuesday The Wall Street Journal reporting that US officials are growing “increasingly frustrated” with Muscat’s neutral stance, which they now view as hostile to US interests. Oman has stood accused of cooperating with Iran on a proposed toll collection scheme which […]

Russia Weighs $50 Million Plan To Influence Armenia’s Election Via Eurasianet, Reuters reported that Russian officials discussed influence operations aimed at weakening Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ahead of Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary election. One alleged proposal involved temporarily bringing Armenian passport holders living in Russia back to Armenia to vote for opposition candidates. Despite the reported […]

Early Returns Show Surprises In California As Other States Wrap Up Update (0030ET): Voters in six states went to the polls today for key primaries. While many races followed expectations, California delivered notable early drama with slow-counting mail ballots still to come. California Governor (Top-Two Primary) The race to replace term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom remains the biggest story. In a crowded nonpartisan jungle primary, […]

Barbarian Mindset: How Leftists And Third-World Invaders Think Alike Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us The fall of the Roman Empire is often presented as symbolic of the slow but steady decline of the western world today, and it’s true, this comparison might be more accurate than many people realize. The disastrous collapse which escalated over the course of the 5th century was driven by economic crisis, a split of the […]

How China Is Remaking Its Vast Western Frontier China is undertaking a vast effort to reshape its western frontier, transforming Xinjiang and Tibet from remote borderlands into strategic hubs for industry, energy, tourism and trade, according to a new lengthy report from Financial Times. Under President Xi Jinping, Beijing is pouring investment into highways, railways, renewable energy projects, manufacturing bases and tourism […]

Cliffwater Private Credit Fund Gates Investors For Second Straight Quarter After Redemption Requests Soar To 17% The market may be in full-blown face-ripping bubble mode, and software stocks are now gripped in by a category 5 gamma squeeze hurricane, but not even that is helping the ongoing debacle that is private credit. The flagship private credit fund of Cliffwater, a fund which has was slammed by redemption requests in the past […]

Feds Seize Over A Ton Of Cocaine At Massive US-Mexico Drug-Smuggling Tunnel Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Authorities charged four suspects on June 1 with felony drug distribution violations after finding a hidden tunnel used by drug runners inside a retail store in San Diego County that led into Tijuana, Mexico. Investigators also seized more than a ton of cocaine worth about $45 million in connection with the […]

Whistleblower Leaks Stanford’s Private Foreign-Funding Records, Exposing CCP-Linked Donors Some of America’s top universities have become soft targets for foreign espionage and influence operations, creating potential gateways for adversarial powers to access sensitive research, elite policy networks, and federally funded innovation pipelines. The latest report from The Stanford Review should be viewed as yet another warning about […]

“The Value Didn’t Arrive”: Bain Finds Cost-Savings From AI Are Falling Far Short Of Projections Now that attention within the AI revolution has one again firmly turned toward the cost-benefit equation (i..e., ROI) of tokens (see “From Singularity To Tokenomics: The AI Narrative Just Hit A Serious Snag”) in particular, and the trillions behind the AI spending rollout in general, and we say once again because every few months we get […]