Marty Leary

Forgive me Twitter, for I have trolled.

@unusual_whales Yup - time for another bailout

Commercial mortgage-backed securities are at their highest delinquency rate in history, per Trepp.

I know historians have lost the battle re the historical reality of populism (as defined by the actual leaders of the US social movement in 1870s-1890s) vs the cartoon version peddled by the right and the media, but still this headline is absurd on.ft.com/4e6HgJK

“What investors face today is a looming tail risk rather than an imminent, tangible disaster.. . [M]arkets are not grappling with a single ‘heart attack’ shock but a spreading economic cancer, in the form of metastasising uncertainty around future hurt. This is not 2020.

“Call this, if you like, the “death by a thousand cuts” problem. Right now, there is no single shock that is clearly big enough to spark a market crash.”

The markets are silent — that is worrying via @FT ⁦@gilliantett⁩ “became fascinated by the concept of ‘social silence’— or the idea advanced by intellectuals such as Pierre Bourdieu that what we do not talk about is more important than what we do.” on.ft.com/4n9Ldld

ICE lacks the legal authority to do half of what it’s doing - that obviously doesn’t deter them. I’m sure NY lacks the legal authority to send National Guard in to keep ICE out of public spaces. But what stops them from doing it anyway? nytimes.com/2025/06/17/nyr… via @NYTimes

I did not have MAGA becoming neocon on my 2025 hellscape bingo card.

BREAKING: I have secretly green-lit regime change in the United States

High quality American folk music is a recession indicator. Please be aware of any of your friends suddenly reapplying themselves to the banjo

Hard agree on this one ——> Ignore Elon Musk. Pay Attention to Russell Vought.v jacobin.com/2025/06/trump-…

Agree. But there’s also a cost-of-news consumption factor that’s worth considering here. Young people are not as accustomed to paying for content as earlier generations, and they are less able to afford subscription services.

LOL Amtrak making staff open doors manually at all stops in NJ due to transit strike. Paranoid much Amtrak? All you’re doing is making it harder for disembarking passengers and your staff.

Monopolists and financiers can coexist, quite symbiotically, with fascists. Saving democracy and protecting the powerless requires a strong, organized civil society - especially an independent and strong labor movement

But when it comes to curbing assaults on immigrants, the judiciary, or democracy itself… crickets.

Corporations will flex when it serves their narrow needs —> Feed the gorilla’: How corporate America fought Trump’s tariffs threat via @FT on.ft.com/3GHnLuM

“… chief financial officer Steven Zaat said there had been a shift in booking patterns as demand from American travellers flying to Europe grew, while some Europeans turned away from US trips.” Airlines warn of weakening demand for US travel via ⁦@ft ft.com/content/5d71ee…

The Rs have added a fourth plank to their brand. No longer are they just the party of deregulation, wealth/inequality preservation and white male supremacy. Now they apparently also embrace public corruption

“These judges who insist on seeing legitimate judge-issued warrants before handing people over to federal agents are obstructionist and must be arrested and maligned by DOJ”

LOL Fox News logic: Office of Govt Ethics targets Republicans frequently and Dems infrequently, therefore it’s partisan and must be abolished. - Fox News apple.news/A2A_NrrN0QmWen…