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👀"Wall Street has also warmed to Trump, with billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman considering endorsing Trump, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday"

Proud Boys led the assault on the Capitol on J6 but the far-right group is back in force, offering support to Trump again in 2024. I've been spending months talking to members. My story: reuters.com/investigates/s… via @SpecialReports

.Tom Bergin / Reuters Investigates tackles BetMGM 🦁 FanDuel

Sub-Saharan Africa’s average debt ratio has almost doubled in the past decade — from 30% of gross domestic product at the end of 2013 to nearly 60% in 2022. The region today has the highest rate of extreme poverty in the world reut.rs/4cdgRHE

The United Nations, backed by the United States, had a plan to fuel the expansion: sovereign credit ratings. These metrics would for the first time allow a wide swath of the poorest region on Earth to tap yield-hungry investors in the global bond market 2/4

Good thread and story Reuters finds no evidence of bias in credit rating agencies in Africa The article does suggest the ratings unleashed a torrent of lending to the continent. I’d argue it was low Fed funds (and China’s desire to lend) that led to the torrent of lending

New story on Africa's debt disaster, with ace team Tom Bergin, Libby George, Lawrence Delevingne and Tom Lasseter reuters.com/investigations…

From Bill Ackman to George Soros, where Wall Street stands on Kamala Harris & Donald J. Trump #Election2024 reuters.com/markets/us/whe…

Trump earns big from Florida golf resorts as his other businesses flag - reuters.com/world/us/trump… By ⁦Lawrence Delevingne⁩ ⁦Tom Bergin⁩ & Koh Qing

Building from our Slavery’s Descendants project last year: Members of the U.S. congress whose ancestors enslaved people have had a higher median net worth than those whose ancestors did not, according to a new analysis published on Wednesday in PLOS ONE. scientificamerican.com/article/wealth…

New, via Lananh Nguyen: Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of the Trump transition and the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, has already begun calling Wall Street contacts to staff a potential second Trump admin reuters.com/world/us/trump…