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🚨 $20.35 BILLION Borrowed from the Federal Reserve Lender of Last Resort this morning! This is an All Time High since the $GME Sneeze! BOJ is helping out today with ~$1B too. pic.twitter.com/uILF9TbkNM — WhatCanIMakeToday (@WhatCanIMT) October 31, 2025 US BANK RESERVES FALL TO $2.8 TLN, LOWEST SINCE 2020 Liquitity is draining from the system …
No one is calling it a war yet. But the Caribbean looks like the start of one. The U.S. has ships in places it hasn’t parked them in years. The air out of Puerto Rico hums all night with heavy engines. Crews on the water talk about a storm that already started, just not on …
by Martin Armstrong President Xi Jinping has grown suspicious of his People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Nine senior generals, including CMC Vice-Chair He Weidong and Rocket Force commander Wang Houbin, were dismissed from their positions. The military has never seen such an intense campaign to eliminate corruption and consolidate power. The precise nature of Xi’s suspicions …
Australia’s CSL said on Thursday its vaccine arm, CSL Seqirus and Vaccine Industrial Company, had inked a deal with Saudi Arabia’s Health Ministry to localize manufacturing of cell-based seasonal and pandemic influenza vaccines. The deal comes a few days after biotech firm CSL said it was no longer targeting to complete the spin-off of Seqirus …
” Billy Joe Cagle was on a FaceTime call where he allegedly threatened to “shoot up the airport.” The airport he referenced was Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. On the call while he was driving, Cagle allegedly stated, “I’m at the airport, and I’m gonna go rat-a-tat-tat,” after which he abruptly ended the call. ” “After …
Fresh Israeli Strikes Again Test Trump-Brokered Gaza Deal https://t.co/6QAnLcqoRB — zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 30, 2025 The Israel-Hamas ceasefire continues hanging by a thread, now about two-and-a-half weeks in, but there are new reports of airstrikes in Gaza by Israeli warplanes. Israeli warplanes and tanks struck targets in eastern Gaza on Thursday, according to Palestinian residents …
Me here: Sadly this will only be available to the “financially righteous” (the wealthy). In our world, the rich represent the chosen of god (the god of this world, that is). Your best bet is hope and pray for a spiritual resurrection instead of physical resurrection. Video here: View post on imgur.com DERIO, Spain — …
Sometimes, we see bubbles.Sometimes, there is something to do about it.Sometimes, the only winning move is not to play. pic.twitter.com/xNBSvjGgvs — Cassandra Unchained (@michaeljburry) October 31, 2025 23M gov employees + 40M SNAP EBT begin pulling liquidity out of the banking system November 1. The government shutdown was orchestrated to cause a regional banking crisis. …
And the avalanche of stock values begins? by David Haggith Today looked a lot like the start of the long avalanche in stocks that became known as the dot-com bust. Yesterday, I wrote the following … The internet was transformational. AI will be, too. Maybe on a bigger scale even than the internet eventually; but the same rules …
Mortgage rates jump 20 basis points following Fed cut While the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate this week, mortgage rates responded by doing just the opposite. The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage has jumped 20 basis points since Chairman Jerome Powell announced the cut on Wednesday and held a news conference, …
And no magic liquidity indicator or fancy theory will change that. Major layoffs announced in 2025: • UPS: 48,000 employees • Amazon: up to 30,000 employees • Intel: 24,000 employees • Nestlé: 16,000 employees • Accenture: 11,000 employees • Ford: 11,000 employees • Novo Nordisk: 9,000 employees • Microsoft: 9,000 employees • Chevron: 8,000 employees …
It’s happening quietly. You have to watch the numbers more than the headlines. The liquidity that once made the system feel invincible is slipping away. The US banking system’s reserves, a key factor in the Federal Reserve’s decision to keep unwinding its balance sheet, tumbled for the third straight week dropping to the lowest level …
by Michael The people that are organizing the occupation of Washington DC that will begin on November 5th actually believe that it will result in the end of the Trump presidency. Anti-Trump groups have been planning this occupation for months, but it has kind of gone under the radar because the government shutdown and the imminent …
by Michael I suppose that we should not be surprised, because they told us exactly what they intended to do. For weeks, food stamp recipients have been posting videos on social media telling us what will happen if their food stamp benefits are cut off. We have been warned that they will go to their local …
BREAKING: Buckingham Palace says King Charles has initiated a formal process to strip Prince Andrew of his style, titles and honours. Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the palace says. pic.twitter.com/lTrhXdAhs9 — Fox News (@FoxNews) October 30, 2025 Farewell to the man formerly known as Prince…Maybe he'll join Harry and Meghan …
This is how recessions start, one empty table at a time. If 30-year-olds can’t afford Chipotle, what happens when the real slowdown hits. Either Chipotle has collapsed as a brand or young Americans are out of money. Or, both. What is happening here? pic.twitter.com/1gIAEzmrf1 — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) October 30, 2025 They tried college …
Latest update UKHSA is aware of small numbers of locally-acquired cases of clade Ib mpox in the USA, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal which have no connection to countries with known clade Ib mpox transmission. The UK has a routine mpox vaccination programme in place for eligible groups, including those who: have multiple sexual …
A prelude of things to come in the US? In the ongoing favela violence, gangs bombed police with drones in revenge for the deadly crackdown in the Penha district. ‘This is how the Rio police are treated by criminals: with bombs dropped by drones,’ said a police spokesperson. ‘This is the scale of the challenge …
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are facing a dramatic and disturbing surge in death threats and violent attacks, new statistics from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) show. Death threats targeting ICE officers have skyrocketed an unsettling 8,000% in fiscal year 2025 — with sick thugs even putting bounties on their heads as they look …
via James Hickman Protestant firebrand and political activist Hugh Latimer must have known he was risking his life when he stepped into the pulpit at St. Paul’s Cross on January 12, 1549. His sermon that Sunday morning was hardly religious in nature. Rather, Latimer publicly expressed the view– the deep, deep frustration– that nearly all Englishmen …
And it wasn’t his interest cut, though that is not going to help matters, but his Mr. Magoo blindness to the massive coming crash. by David Haggith The only thing remarkable about the Powell Presser after the Fed decided predictably to lower interest rates one more time was his naive claim that AI stocks are …
🚨 LMAO! South Korea's President heard about the "No King's" stupidity and gifted a GOLD CROWN to President Trump Here comes the Liberal MELTDOWNS 😂pic.twitter.com/JBcT12ckic — The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) October 29, 2025 What Was Gifted Item: Replica of a Silla-era gold crown Occasion: Ceremony at Gyeongju National Museum, October 29, 2025 Symbolism: The crown …
🚨#BREAKING: At this time, the FAA has issued a ground stop at Newark Airport, citing staffing shortages caused by the ongoing government shutdown — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) October 29, 2025 A ground stop was briefly issued at Newark Liberty International Airport on Wednesday, with the Federal Aviation …
GODDAMN IT, ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DEMOCRAT SCANDAL BLOWING UP MASSACHUSETTS LIKE A FENTANYL FUSE, AND THIS TIME IT’S GOV. MAURA HEALEY’S OWN WESTERN MASS AIDE, LAMAR COOK, GETTING HIS ASS ARRESTED FOR COCAINE TRAFFICKING AFTER 8 KILOS OF BLOW GOT DELIVERED STRAIGHT TO HIS STATE OFFICE ON DWIGHT STREET IN SPRINGFIELD ON SATURDAY! We’re talking …
The Fed is ending QT on Dec 1st. If you think wealth inequality in the United States is bad now… wait until QE5. pic.twitter.com/tD6kz7ZuaF — Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) October 29, 2025 HOLY SH**$CMG pic.twitter.com/olsjYrOqA3 — Just a Dude Who Invests (@DudeWhoInvests) October 30, 2025 Cars will be free in 5 years. Just grab one off …
I voted for Sliwa, in case you want to know.Video here: Early Voting Turnout (as of Oct. 30, 2025) Total ballots cast: 297,718 in the first four days By borough: Brooklyn: 92,035 Manhattan: 89,474 Queens: 68,873 Bronx: 24,919 Staten Island: 22,417 This turnout already dwarfs the 2021 early vote total and even beats the June …
Two military sites earmarked as asylum seeker accommodation Hundreds of asylum seekers could be housed in two military sites in Inverness and East Sussex as the government seeks to end the use of hotels. Discussions are under way over the use of the sites to accommodate 900 men, as first reported in the Times. There …
Normally, SOFR rates should be below the Lender of Last Resort borrowing rate (i.e., the Primary Credit Discount Rate which should be a last resort rate for borrowers); and nobody wants to be seen as a scrub going to the Fed Discount Window. If SOFR stays above this for a while, that can be a …
The National Guard is building a “quick reaction force” (QRF) of some 23,500 troops trained in crowd control and civil disturbance that can be ready to deploy to U.S. cities by early next year, according to a leaked memo reported by multiple outlets Wednesday. The Oct. 8 memo, signed by National Guard Bureau Director of …
Trump wants more nuclear weapons testing and he wants it fast. I wonder why? The last time we tested nuclear weapons was in 1992. This will force other countries to also start and ramp up their nuclear weapons testing as well. This is a huge escalation. BUSAN, South Korea (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump …