Ben Walsh
Reporter at Substack
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1 month ago |
nz.finance.yahoo.com | Ben Walsh
After a spike in U.S. bond rates forced then-President Bill Clinton to back down from his spending plans in 1993, James Carville, one of his top advisers, told The Wall Street Journal, “I used to think, that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.” For the next couple of decades, interest rates on U.S. government debt fell and stayed down.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Ben Walsh
The U.S. has already lost Donald Trump’s trade war. It’s now up to the president to decide how disastrous that loss will be. The best-case scenario for the U.S. economy right now is the Trump administration fully backing down and acknowledging this loss, and quickly. Each day that passes locks in more economic damage. Like a recalcitrant general, Trump doesn’t appear ready to surrender, saying Friday that he wants to reinstate the tariffs he put in place in early April and paused shortly thereafter.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Ben Walsh
NBC's 1980s Superhero TV Show Was An Intriguing But Disappointing Sci-Fi FlopIn the days before cable television got serious about creating original programming, the networks were just about the only game in town if you wanted …
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2 months ago |
motors.mega.mu | Ben Walsh
There's something to be said about staying in the lane you know best. Yes, I've always believed that the full adage of "A jack of all trades is a master of none, but still better than a master of one," rings more true than anything. But when companies get too big or too unwieldy, there's some wisdom in dialing it all back. In the powersports space, none is as big as BRP, which is the parent company of some of RideApart's editor's favorite brands.
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Mar 7, 2025 |
theatlantic.com | Ben Walsh
Donald Trump wants to get back into the casino business. These days, the onetime owner of the infamous Taj Mahal casino is not interested in slot machines. He is set on a much newer kind of gambling: crypto. Yesterday, the president signed an executive order creating both a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” and a “Digital Asset Stockpile” made up of different kinds of cryptocurrencies.
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