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Day: October 5, 2026
🇺🇸 The 30-YEAR TREASURY yield has now climbed to roughly 5.7% !!
Look at that chart.
You have to go ALL THE WAY BACK to the late 1990s to find yields around here.
Except America looked completely different then.
Federal debt was around $5.5 trillion. The government was moving toward budget surpluses. Debt held by the public was falling relative to GDP.
Today, federal debt is above $38 trillion, deficits are enormous, and Washington has to refinance an extraordinary amount of debt into this rate environment.
That’s what’s worrying about this chart.
5.7% wasn’t particularly remarkable in 1998.
5.7% on the America of 2026 is a very different experiment completely.
Writer: Oliver
🇬🇧🇮🇱 Britain is ready to send 27 Israeli diplomats packing, one for every British diplomat Israel kicks out.
It started last month when Britain banned goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank and sanctioned people and companies it says profit from them.
Israel hit back by ordering the closure of Britain’s consulate in East Jerusalem, which deals with Palestinians and has 27 British diplomats, giving them just 30 days to leave.
Now London has privately warned that if the closure goes ahead, it will expel 27 diplomats from Israel’s embassy in London.
That would hurt, since the embassy doesn’t have many more than 27 diplomats to begin with and hasn’t had an ambassador in over a year.
Israel’s deadline for the closure is Thursday, so the clock is ticking.
Source: ynet / Writer: Daniyal
A total of 96,000 people were now living, working and studying in Karabakh and Eastern Zangazur, Anar Guliyev, Chairman of Azerbaijan’s State Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture, said in a post on X.
According to Report, Guliyev noted that the day marked World Architecture Day and World Habitat Day.
He said the themes of both observances this year were related to housing, including adequate housing for all and the right to housing.
Guliyev added that 2026 had been declared the Year of Urban Planning and Architecture in Azerbaijan, while in Karabakh and Eastern Zangazur these issues had already become part of everyday life.
He said new settlements were being built under the Great Return program and people were returning to their native lands.
According to Guliyev, former internally displaced persons had already been resettled in 48 settlements, while a total of 96,000 people were now living, working and studying across the region.
He added that the Great Return was continuing and said the true measure of urban planning and architecture was whether people were able to build their lives in the spaces being created.
During his visit to Tehran, the #Armenia|n Foreign Minister also held meetings with the Speaker of the Parliament and the President of #Iran.Karina Karapetyan (@KarinaKarapety8)Negotiations between the foreign ministers of #Armenia and #Iran took place in Tehran.— https://x.com/KarinaKarapety8/status/2107024915345932789
Что известно о вспышке чумы в Иркутске. Заявление Пескова. Ограничения для призывников. Мурал Земфиры. ВИДЕО-НОВОСТИ
Также в выпуске:
– В Минобороны ответили на заявление Зеленского усилить атаки на НПЗ, после ударов России по мостам через Днепр;
– Давление на срочников и ограничения для призывников: избежать контракта на войну становится всё сложнее;
– новые случаи гибели людей от нападений медведей. youtube.com/watch?v=YbT2LoY6…
Также в выпуске:
– В Минобороны ответили на заявление Зеленского усилить атаки на НПЗ, после ударов России по мостам через Днепр;
– Давление на срочников и ограничения для призывников: избежать контракта на войну становится всё сложнее;
– новые случаи гибели людей от нападений медведей. youtube.com/watch?v=YbT2LoY6…
The Smashing Pumpkins – Barclay Center in Brooklyn, NY – October 4, 2026
Partial Setlist of songs from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Partial Setlist of songs from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
0:00 Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
10:56 Jellybelly
13:54 Galapogos
18:29 Thirty-Three
22:29 Here Is No Why
26:15 To Forgive
30:16 F*** You (An Ode to No One)
34:36 Muzzle
38:24 By Starlight
44:24 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
