Trump Assassination Attempt
From me, personally, any assassination attempt on former President Trump is unacceptable and I condemn it without qualification. I would express exactly the same message if it were an assassination attempt on our current president, Joe Biden, or on any candidate for any American public office. Murderous behavior is disturbing and distressing. It is a total violation of America’s Rule of Law.
Biden, Trump, Putin, Kim, Xi, Khamenei, et al.
Biden and Trump: They have been and are being observed in real time by Putin, Kim, Xi, Khamenei, et al.
Houthis & Putin Raise Shipping Costs Again
Peter Boockvar routinely updates the shipping costs being imposed on the world by behaviors of certain bad actors like Putin in Russia and like the Houthis in Yemen. Here’s a recent update, from June 20th.
Cuba Updated
We’re going to start this commentary about Cuba with a Reuters report describing Vladimir Putin’s disappointing May 9 speech on the occasion of Russia’s victory in World War 2. From Putin’s remarks you would think the allies, including the US, were minor players in defeating Nazi Germany.
Putin, Maduro, Oil, Defense
IMO, America’s enemy, Mr. V. Putin, is using his Venezuelan proxy, Nicolás Maduro, to open a third front against the US. At the end of this discussion is a list of citations in support of my view.
Hearts and Bones
We will start this commentary with an excerpt from “Hearts and Bones,” a famous Paul Simon song of the early 1980s. At the end is a link to a YouTube of the song and a detailed explanation of how the song and its album came about.
Doug Kass & Me on Debt & Deficits
We are on an unsustainable path of government debt creation and fiscal imprudence. The unprecedented partisanship that exists in Washington, D.C., is unlikely to change as we lean into a Presidential election in November.
Putin, Ukraine & Me
While the news flow in the US seems fixated on the daily Trump trial revelations, the daily ouster of campers in universities or the coming presidential debates, the war activity and risk in Europe is expanding. This has major implications for Europe’s financial markets which will soon have to deal with the political change in the forthcoming European Parliament elections.
Mother’s Day
I wish all Sunday readers and their mothers the very best celebration of their special day.
More on Debt & Deficits
For newer readers, the links to the original four-part series are at the end of this commentary.