Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Treasuries gain most since 2020 amid tariff chaos, Fed rate cuts

The Treasury market in 2025 had its best year since 2020 as US trade policy shifts curtailed economic activity and the Federal Reserve cut interest rates in response to weakening labor-market conditions. Processing Content At the same time, Treasury yields remained confined to ranges in place roughly since the end of the Fed’s historic 2022-2023 […]

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Mamdani digs in on progressive agenda at NYC mayor inauguration

Zohran Mamdani promised to lead New York City as a democratic socialist during a frigid inauguration ceremony on the steps of City Hall, a warning to those who believed he might moderate his positions after taking office. Processing Content The nearly two-hour long event Thursday featured speeches by two of the US’s most liberal members

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Judge Valderrama’s ‘roadmap’ for successful antitrust litigation in affordable housing crisis

“The Court accepts as true all of the well-pleaded facts in the Complaint and draws all reasonable inferences in favor of Plaintiffs.” So said U.S. District Judge Franklin Valderrama on 12.4.2025. According to Reuters: “A group of companies that lease land for mobile homes has convinced a federal judge in Chicago to dismiss a proposed

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