Birthright Citizenship Is National Suicide Authored by Daniel Greenfield via The Gatestone Institute, Last year the Trump administration designated Mexico's Jalisco New Generation Cartel ( CJNG ) as a terrorist group, allowing the military to carry out strikes against it and its leadership, but the massive drug cartel across the border understands the weaknesses of our system all too well. That's ...
Birthright Citizenship Is National Suicide Authored by Daniel Greenfield via The Gatestone Institute, Last year the Trump administration designated Mexico's Jalisco New Generation Cartel ( CJNG ) as a terrorist group, allowing the military to carry out strikes against it and its leadership, but the massive drug cartel across the border understands the weaknesses of our system all too well. That's why its new leader has American citizenship. Law enforcement, intelligence agencies and the military will have to jump through all sorts of legal hoops to spy on, target or take out Juan Carlos Valencia Gonzalez, who has a $5 million bounty on his head, but he has the best protection in the world because he was born in California . The new cartel leader's drug-dealing Mexican parents had a baby in America. That child became a US citizen who runs a Mexican drug cartel that the government has designated as being at war with the United States, and yet we can't simply remove his citizenship. And targeting the cartel boss without removing his citizenship will set off wails from Democrats and the Tucker Carlson wing of the GOP, who still whine that the United States took out Anwar Al-Awlaki, the head of Al Qaeda's Yemeni operation, a sworn enemy of America, who happened to be born here when his father, a grad student, was in New Mexico on a Fulbright scholarship. Americans of a century ago would have been baffled that foreign enemy leaders who happened to be born to foreign nationals in this country were somehow immune to being killed in battle or that their citizenship couldn't be quickly and easily removed. Back then most of our modern problems were unthinkable because committing treason, aligning with any foreign government, including joining its army or voting in its elections, marrying a foreigner or just returning to your home country meant denaturalization. (As did dodging the draft or deserting from the military.) Had the common-sense provisions of the Expatriation Act of...
Chinese biotech firm Hua Medicine sees robust growth in 2026 after reporting a 93% jump in full-year revenue. Speaking exclusively to Bloomberg's "The China Show," Chief Strategy Officer George Lin discusses the outlook for the company’s flagship drug dorzagliatin and plans to expand to additional markets. (Source: Bloomberg)
Chinese biotech firm Hua Medicine sees robust growth in 2026 after reporting a 93% jump in full-year revenue. Speaking exclusively to Bloomberg's "The China Show," Chief Strategy Officer George Lin discusses the outlook for the company’s flagship drug dorzagliatin and plans to expand to additional markets. (Source: Bloomberg)
PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images Fidus Investment ( FDUS ) has suffered greatly in 2026, as a confluence of factors weighed on the BDC sector, including growing fears over the performance of loans made to the SaaS sector as well as the recent outbreak of war in the Middle East. Amid the confrontation with Iran, the Federal Reserve did not lower rates in March, which may ultimately benefit ...
PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images Fidus Investment ( FDUS ) has suffered greatly in 2026, as a confluence of factors weighed on the BDC sector, including growing fears over the performance of loans made to the SaaS sector as well as the recent outbreak of war in the Middle East. Amid the confrontation with Iran, the Federal Reserve did not lower rates in March, which may ultimately benefit the BDC sector as a whole. Fidus Investment, as a result, has dropped to 52-week lows, which creates a contrarian buying opportunity for investors, in my opinion. Most importantly, because consumer prices have been rising lately, prospects of a rate increase have actually improved, which would benefit BDCs with variable rate-paying loans in their portfolio. Data by YCharts A Long History of Steady Loan Expansion, Growing NII Fidus Investment is a variable rate-focused BDC that originates loans to the middle market: about 75.3% of all investments bore variable rates as of Q4'25. The investment firm had a portfolio valued at $1.3B as of the end of the December quarter, and it consisted chiefly of first liens. These loans, which are the most heavily protected in the capital structure, represented 78.1% of investments for the BDC in the fourth quarter, while other investments included second lien debt, subordinated debt, and equity. Fidus Investment Fidus Investment, like so many investment platforms in the last decade, benefited from growing private credit demand after the financial crisis in 2008, during which traditional banks withdrew from lending. As a result, the investment company has benefited from steady demand for privately originated debt and equity capital, which has led Fidus Investment to publish an all-time record portfolio volume as of the end of the fourth quarter. Fidus Investment As per the BDC's latest statement of income, Fidus Investment generated $19.6M in net investment income, showing a year-over-year growth rate of 5%. Since many BDCs reported a shrink...