Diversity, equity, and inclusion practices negatively impacted the U.S. economy, according to the 2026 White House Economic Report released April 13.

Researchers calculated that DEI policies reduced output and lowered the country’s gross domestic product by about $94 billion each year, amounting to approximately $1,160 per year for families with two working adults.

“These estimates imply that DEI promotion has led to inefficient management, raising the cost of doing business,” the report reads.

“These costs lead the companies practicing DEI to hire fewer people and pay their workers less.”

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 Why Microsoft is Secretly ERASING Copilot

 Microsoft's trillion-dollar AI brand, Copilot, is facing a massive crisis. With paid subscriber market share plummeting and a negative net promoter score, Satya Nadella has internally initiated a "Code Red." Instead of fixing the core issues, Microsoft is quietly stripping the Copilot branding from Windows 11 and hiding behind generic labels. Dive into the staggering financial costs, the shocking "entertainment purposes only" legal clause, and why users are actively fleeing the most expensive autocomplete function in human history.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6KB-_TUCTw

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 Appeals Court Terminates Criminal Contempt Proceedings Against Trump Admin

 An appeals court has put a stop to criminal contempt proceedings initiated by a district judge against the Trump administration.

In a brief, unsigned order on April 14, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated a previous order by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, and ordered him to terminate the contempt investigation he launched in December.

The contempt proceedings stemmed from the deportation of illegal immigrants—suspected gang members—to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, last year.

Boasberg had ordered planes carrying those detainees halted and turned around, but the men were sent to El Salvador anyway.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/appeals-court-terminates-criminal-contempt-proceedings-against-trump-admin

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 Jaw-dropping moment as Rep. Eric Swalwell accuser SPILLS IT ALL on national TV

"He r*ped me and he choked me."

 Omg.

"While he was choking me I lost consciousness. I thought I died."

 "I believe he DRUGGED MY DRINK...I only had one glass of wine."

 "I did not consent to any s*xual activity."

 "He was married at the time and his wife was pregnant."

 "He said he needed to get paperwork from his hotel room. When I arrived to his hotel room I was already incapacitated, I couldn't move my arms or my body."

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Paula White needs to be removed from The White House.

THE FED IS NOW PRIVATELY PREPARING FOR A POSSIBLE $2 TRILLION CREDIT MARKET COLLAPSE.

For the first time in over a decade, the Fed has started directly asking U.S. banks to hand over their exposure numbers to the private credit market.

This is the exact move regulators make when they stop trusting public numbers and start preparing for real stress.

Bloomberg reported on April 11 that the Fed has formally reached out to major U.S. banks for detailed information on how much risk they’re carrying from private credit firms, and whether stress inside that sector could spread into the wider financial system.

Here’s why this is happening now.

Over the past few weeks, three of the largest private credit funds in the market have limited investor withdrawals:

– Blue Owl Capital restricted redemptions on its $14B fund

– BlackRock capped withdrawals on its $26B HPS Corporate Lending Fund after investors requested $1.2B in redemptions

– Cliffwater capped withdrawals on its $33B fund after investors tried to pull 14% and only 7% was allowed to exit

Three of the biggest names in the industry, all hitting redemption limits within a short period. That’s not random. That’s investors trying to get out faster than the funds can return their money.

At the same time, Apollo executive John Zito publicly said private equity marks are wrong across the board. He said he “literally thinks all the marks are wrong.”

His estimate: loans to a typical mid size software company bought between 2018 and 2022 could recover only 20 to 40 cents on the dollar in a slowdown. That implies losses of 60 to 80 percent.

So the pattern:

– Investors trying to withdraw from private credit funds

– Funds blocking those withdrawals

– A senior Apollo executive saying valuations across the industry aren’t real

– The Treasury calling a meeting with insurance regulators this month to discuss the $2T private credit market

– The Fed directly asking banks for their exposure numbers

Now here’s why this matters far beyond the U.S.

Private credit has grown to around $2T over the past decade, but it’s not isolated. It sits in the middle of the global financial system. Pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, and foreign banks all have money parked in these funds because they were marketed as higher yielding and more stable than public bonds.

If valuations are revised down the way Apollo’s own executive is suggesting, the losses don’t stay with a handful of U.S. firms. They flow directly into:

– Public and private pension funds across Europe, Canada, Japan, and the Gulf that allocated heavily to private credit for yield

 – Insurance companies, some of the largest buyers of private credit whose solvency ratios are tied to these valuations

– Banks in the U.S., Europe, and Asia that lend to the private credit firms themselves, which is exactly what the Fed is now trying to measure

Most people miss this part. A private credit fund limiting withdrawals isn’t just a problem for that fund. The banks lend to the funds. The funds lend to private equity. Private equity owns thousands of mid sized companies. Those companies employ millions.

When valuations at the top are wrong, the entire chain underneath is mispriced.

The exposure also ties directly into the AI infrastructure buildout. Blue Owl alone is behind some of the largest AI infrastructure deals in the world:

– $27B joint venture with Meta in Louisiana

– $15B deal with Crusoe in Texas

– $5B backing CoreWeave

Oracle now carries over $100B in debt, much tied to AI infrastructure that will take years to generate returns. Companies like CoreWeave, Crusoe, and others are funding their buildouts through private credit rather than public bond markets.

The structure works as long as AI revenue grows fast enough to service the debt.

If it slows, the stress doesn’t stay in tech stocks. It moves straight into the credit side of the system, which is the exact part the Fed is now trying to get a clearer picture of.

Globally, this is also colliding with:

– Japan dealing with the weakest yen in decades and rising bond yields

– Europe trying to manage weak growth and stretched sovereign balance sheets

– China still working through its own property and local government debt problems

– A U.S. consumer already showing signs of strain at the lower end

The world financial system has been running on elevated debt and loose valuations for years. Private credit is one of the largest and least transparent parts of that system.

If the valuations are wrong, if redemptions keep accelerating, and if AI revenue assumptions disappoint, losses could cascade through pensions, insurers, and banks across multiple countries at the same time.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell said last month he doesn’t currently see private credit issues infecting the wider financial system. St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem said stress is “largely limited” to the sector.

But the fact the Fed is now pulling exposure numbers directly from banks suggests the central bank wants to verify that for itself rather than take those statements at face value.

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/from-private-credit-fund-withdrawals-to-the-fed-pulling-bank-exposure-data-and-pressure-now-spreading-through-the-financial-system/

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New law being proposed in Germany

 Now in addition to any other thing they can block if you disagree with the government, now they will block you from renting or buying a home.

 If this passes in Germany, it will migrate to the UK, Canada and elsewhere very quickly

 Thank you PAUL JOSEPH WATSON for speaking out about it

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O’Keefe Media Group: LA Housing Department Financial Officer Admits Witnessing Fraud – Embezzlement Helps Mayor Karen Bass Maintain “Re-Election Funds” (VIDEO)Cristina Laila

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/okeefe-media-group-la-housing-department-financial-officer/

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Israeli leaders admit defeat