Kevin Warsh Takes Center Stage, France’s Debt Divide, America Bets on English Football

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On today's podcast:

(1) A chorus of investors is urging Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh to provide a strong rebuke of high inflation to boost the long end of the Treasury market.

(2) Federal Reserve officials continue to send mixed signals on their outlooks for inflation, with some arguing higher interest rates are needed to tame prices while others signaled less urgency.

(3) France’s first presidential election debate was largely consumed by bickering among the candidates on how to deal with the country’s swelling debt, including a dispute over a far-left proposal to simply cancel a portion of it.

(4) Nvidia added $442 billion to its market value on Thursday in the second-largest one-day gain by any stock in history.

(5) The Trump administration must lift its ban on Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology for federal agencies, a US judge ruled.

(6) President Donald Trump announced he was moving to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, escalating his clash with Canada after trade negotiations between the two nations collapsed.

(7) UEFA, Europe’s governing football body, said that it’s pursuing a criminal case against FIFA President Gianni Infantino in Switzerland, intensifying the fallout from his failed plan to monetize the World Cup.

(8) US Money Pours Into English Football. But Can It Fix the Wi-Fi?

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