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“We are not Enron” – NVDA Kind of things only an Enron would say. 😂 — tic toc (@TicTocTick) November 25, 2025 Oculus warns about nvda and its down -6% in just a couple hours That’s the difference — 👁 (@Oculustrade) November 25, 2025 Deeper into the jaws of death. It is highly unlikely it …
View post on imgur.com View post on imgur.com View post on imgur.com https://earthquakes.volcanodiscovery.com/ According to Volcano Discovery and the Smithsonian / USGS Daily Volcanic Activity Report: Europe & Atlantic: Stromboli, Etna, Campi Flegrei (Italy) Santorini (Greece) Svartsengi, Katla (Iceland) Africa & Indian Ocean: Erta Ale, Fantale, Dofen (Ethiopia) Nyiragongo, Nyamuragira (DR Congo) Piton de la …
Private payroll losses accelerated in the past four weeks, ADP reports The U.S. labor market is showing further signs of weakening as the pace of layoffs has picked up over the past four weeks, payrolls processing firm ADP reported Tuesday. Private companies lost an average of 13,500 jobs a week over the past four weeks, …
Overall, unemployment is rising across white-collar roles, and fresh college graduates are facing one of the toughest job markets in years. Even Harvard MBA graduates aren’t exempt.Yet the market continues to sit near all-time highs. https://t.co/HR4KSgoP44 — optionGeek (@StockShark16) November 25, 2025 Today’s rally has all the hallmarks of a bearish setup. As I mentioned …
by Michael They are getting all of their ducks in a row for a war with Venezuela. Do you think that it is just a coincidence that Southern Command just canceled leave for Thanksgiving and Christmas? And do you think that it is just a coincidence that the Trump administration just designated “Cartel de los …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Borrowing more to maintain spending is hanging on by one’s fingernails, not middle-class security. The middle class is cracking, but if you want a statistic that “proves” this, there isn’t one. The cracking isn’t a statistic,it’s the culmination of observations logged over the past 15 years about these critical measures …
“We have to bring out material to destroy her reputation. – Mary Barr Daly, former senior DOJ official. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Project Veritas (@project_veritas) https://www.instagram.com/p/DRcVmdKDVdH/?img_index=1 h/t SafeandSound
by Michael The elite aren’t stupid. They can see that our society is coming apart at the seams all around us, and so they want to live some place safe. In fact, for many among the elite security has become the number one priority when choosing a new home. Unfortunately, the vast majority of us …
$SPY is in danger of forming a Head & Shoulders… A 675 rejection would form the right shoulder After that, a 654 break would give us maximum downside to 480s😬😬 pic.twitter.com/mrOgdFMA62 — ThiccTeddy (@ThiccTeddy) November 24, 2025 GROK: Based on current charts (as of Nov 24, 2025), SPY shows elements of a potential head and …
AI, Private Credit: Blue Owl Is the Sum of All Investor Fears [BBG.com] Blue Owl Capital Inc. is caught in a trifecta of market worries about private credit, artificial intelligence and the flightiness of wealthy individuals who’ve been the new growth hope for alternative managers in recent years. Its abortive effort to give investors an …
Gold is still just 2% of global assets, even as physical supply runs a 1,000-ton deficit and new demand surges from central banks and a surprising new source. UBS sees silver outperforming gold in the short-term for similar reasons. Here’s what you need to know… By Peter Reagan Your News to Know rounds up the …
The explosion of the “greatest carry trade in financial history,” explaining how for 30 years, Japan’s zero-interest policy artificially suppressed borrowing costs worldwide, fueling everything from cheap mortgages to sky-high stock multiples. For risk assets, the sudden reversal of the decades-old yen carry trade is the actual nightmare. For years, global funds borrowed almost gratis …
In anticipation of imminent U.S. airstrikes on Venezuela, 7 European and Latin American airlines announced the suspension of flights to and from Caracas effective today, following an FAA warning of “heightened military activity in the Caribbean region,” prompting carriers to… pic.twitter.com/hqqPmLDQhr — khaled mahmoued (@khaledmahmoued1) November 24, 2025 https://twitter.com/mhmiranusa/status/1993046599291777358 https://twitter.com/MilitaryObs2222/status/1993043873262969108 Multiple unidentified aircraft’s are flying …
Markets, especially the major financial stocks globally, have begun to respond to dramatically altered liquidity prospects. Marketplace liquidity is mercurial, especially late in the cycle. Market blowoffs fueled by speculative leverage guarantee acute liquidity instability. On the upside, self-reinforcing speculation and leveraging propagate liquidity overabundance and the perception of endless liquidity. But speculative melt-ups set …
Trump’s second term has turned his family’s crypto adventure into something far more dramatic than a simple market wobble. What started as a bold push into digital assets is now colliding with a trillion-dollar crypto drawdown, pulling the family’s net worth from about $7.7 billion in early September to roughly $6.7 billion. A Trump-branded memecoin …
Politicans and the courts killed it before US citizens could actually experience the benefits Now we have to keep watching the deficit slowly eat away at our fiscal future pic.twitter.com/fObg99Rj5a — Illiquid Insights (@IlliquidInsight) November 23, 2025 The US has officially added +$2.1 TRILLION of debt since the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was formed …
This is exactly why futures whipsaw right before the open — sentiment vs liquidity is never aligned.I’ll take the actual order flow over the overnight emotions every time. — Nafees Khaiser | HedgeLong Wealth (@fees75) November 24, 2025 It’s amazing to me how much a .25% point rate cut from the Fed can have on …
Misty Pellew’s family lived in the dark for several days this month. Pellew’s power was shut off Nov. 13 because of $602 in unpaid bills, the latest in a string of financial humiliations that began six months ago after her husband lost his $20-an-hour excavation job in northeastern Pennsylvania. The recent government shutdown dealt another …
BREAKING: U.S. foreclosure rates surge 32% YoY. — Polymarket (@Polymarket) November 23, 2025 2025 is hitting Americans hard: – 2.2 million+ cars repo’d, heading toward a 3M record year. – 326,000 homes in foreclosure filings. – Commercial real estate drowning: delinquencies at 7.46%, office over 11%. This is what real financial stress looks like across …
$12 TRILLION CRISIS | Leveraged Loan Defaults EXPLODE 0:00 – Intro 01:19 – Sourced Data 1:50 – #1 Private Credit New Sub-Prime 3:06 – #2 Large Banks Exposed 5:30 – GFC Made Things Worse 9:30 – Bancorp Bad Debt 11:49 – #3 Private Credit Defaults Hidden 14:45 – Intentionally Unregulated 17:39 – #4 $12.4 Trillion …
Wow, look what is replacing the once booming timber & oil mining county. Data centers that will stress the power grid and divert the water resources. “Mingo County, West Virginia, was once thriving, but the coal industry’s decline left it one of the poorest counties in the US. Now, multiple data centers could be built …
So many stories about Trump v. MAGA and MAGA v MAGA broke out this week that it is hard to know where to begin and how to organize it all. by David Haggith Some rifts opened; others widened significantly, as separation between Trump and several of his biggest MAGA supporters expanded to levels that were referred to …
by Michael It feels like peace is slipping away. In the Middle East, Israel is fighting with both Hamas and Hezbollah once again. In Europe, the Ukrainians and our European allies have rejected President Trump’s 28 point peace plan. Meanwhile, the Russians continue to march forward and capture more territory. In the Pacific, the …
It’s concerning that insurance companies now have significant exposure to private credit based on questionable ratings Better systemic bank exposure, but still not great — Illiquid Insights (@IlliquidInsight) November 19, 2025 U.S. Insurers Are Binging on Private Credit, Moody’s Says A handful of insurers are buying much of the investments, which are hard to trade …
Charlie Sheen turned off the leftist propaganda on TV and started doing his own research 🔥👏🏼 More of this! “I felt really stupıd. Just some of the stuff I bought into and some of the stuff I was worshipping and some of the people I was hating because I was told to hate them.” Charlie …
The 28-point plan hammered out by US and Russian envoys and put to Ukraine this week came with a deadline and an implicit threat: Sign up or face the risk of being abandoned. US President Donald Trump said Friday that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky would “have to like” the US plan, suggesting he is in …
Comparison: 2020 (COVID crash): ~610 large bankruptcies. 2021: ~400. 2022: ~450. 2023: ~500. 2025 YTD: 655 already. (Reuters) -Large U.S. corporate bankruptcies are on pace to hit their highest level in 15 years, S&P Global data showed on Thursday, underscoring mounting stress across corporate America at a sensitive time for public market investors. Total bankruptcy …
A.I DEBT BUBBLE Amazon (AMZN): The highest total debt at $160.4 billion. Microsoft (MSFT): Total debt stands at $120.4 billion, Meta Platforms (META): $51.1 billion in total debt Alphabet (GOOG/GOOGL): $44.2 billion total debt, CoreWeave (CRWV): Total debt at approximately $14 billion (extreme leverage- Insurance spreads have skyrocketed and default bets sit at 40% next …
Americans are worried about their jobs: Consumers aged 18–34 now perceive a ~33% chance of losing their job over the next 5 years, the 2nd-highest on record. The 3-month moving average of this metric has risen ~10 points over the last 3.5 years and now exceeds the 2008 peak. For Americans aged 35–54, the 3-month …
via Claudio Grass This was the conclusion of the assessment of legendary investor Michael Burry regarding the current market conditions. To be precise, his take as recently posted on X, in full, was “Sometimes, we see bubbles. Sometimes, there is something to do about it. Sometimes, the only winning move is not to play.” The insight behind …