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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been managing the federal deficit through what critics are calling financial engineering, leaning on short-term bill issuance to avoid raising long-term auction sizes. But the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee is now warning that approach has quietly created a one point four five trillion dollar funding shortfall, a structural gap that bond markets may be forced to absorb whether they're ready or not.
Shifting to equities, JPMorgan continues to be the benchmark against which every other major bank is measured. Jamie Dimon's firm posted a return on tangible common equity of twenty-three percent in the second quarter, well above the seventeen percent internal target the bank has consistently beaten under his tenure. The question for investors is whether that premium performance is already priced into the stock.
And in the tech supply chain, a reported chip deal between Nvidia and SpaceX is raising serious concerns for neoclouds like CoreWeave and Nebius. Analysts at Bernstein suggest Nvidia could effectively move SpaceX to the front of the allocation queue, tightening an already constrained GPU supply and putting pressure on the smaller cloud providers who depend on that access for their entire business model.
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