RBNZ Governor Orr was seen dovish, which seems to be applying pressure to the NZD. GDP and Initial Jobless Claims cushion the USD. Weak Chicago PMI figures limit the upside. Markets adjusted their expectations for a June rate cut which also adds strength to the USD. The NZD/USD is currently traded…

The wife of an American detained in Afghanistan is deeply concerned about her husband’s well-being, and pleading for the chance to tell President Joe Biden about the urgency of his case. Ryan Corbett, who has been detained by the Taliban since August 2022, was able to call his wife Anna…

Shōgun’s sixth episode is appropriately titled, “Ladies Of The Willow World” and is focused heavily on the cast’s female characters, including the important backstory of Mariko (Anna Sawai) and her once-friend Ruri—now Ochiba No Kata (Fumi Nikaido)—the mother of the heir to the Taikō. We already learned bits and pieces…

Food prices, both “at home” (think grocery stores) and “away from home” (think restaurants), are up 25% during the Covid period from January 2020. This high cost change of a consumer necessity is cause for recessionary actions. Reuters just published this timely article that explains the food inflation’s reality effects:…

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House Oversight Chairman James Comer officially invited President Joe Biden to testify at a public hearing as House Republicans look revive interest in their stalled impeachment inquiry into the president – even as the White House has shot down the move as “a sad stunt.” Comer suggested the hearing occur April 16, but said he was willing to negotiate with the White House on a date that worked with the president’s schedule. “Comer knows 20+ witnesses have testified that POTUS did nothing wrong. He knows that the hundreds of thousands of pages of records he’s received have refuted his false allegations,” White House spokesperson Ian Sams posted on X last week…

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Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for defrauding customers and investors in his failed crypto exchange FTX, a Manhattan court ruled Thursday. Before announcing the sentence, Judge Lewis Kaplan said there was a risk “that this man will be in a position to do something…