re: #54 darthstar
Well, isn’t this special? Eric Cantor is shorting US Treasury bonds…in other words, he stands to profit if our economy goes deeper into the shitter.
[Link: thinkprogress.org…]
I skimmed their source material…..
But to be fair to Mr. Cantor, he also owns a lot of Treasury debt (updated to add: as part of his pension), and the TBT merely hedges some of that exposure, his spokesperson tells Salon.