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The housing market didn’t collapse. It was looted. The 2008 crash wasn’t a failure. It was a transfer. The Fed absorbed $2.7 trillion in toxic mortgage-backed securities from its bankster accomplices, dumped the fallout onto taxpayers, and called it stability. “The Fed still holds about $2.7 trillion in mortgage-backed securities, down only slightly from its …
The White House didn’t burn. It leaked. Through a window that is not supposed to open. A viral video shows someone, maybe Melania, maybe a contractor, maybe a ghost, tossing objects from the second floor of the most secure residence in America. And the internet lost its mind. DailyMailA figure in white pants. A dark …
Troops in cities. Elections in question. Billionaires warning of autocracy. The system isn’t bending. It’s being hollowed out. “A federal judge has declared President Donald Trump’s use of military troops in Los Angeles illegal… warning that Trump appears intent on ‘creating a national police force with the President as its chief.’”Politico That is not critique. …
It started with a ruling. Not a warning. Not a debate. A federal judge declared the president’s deployment of troops in Los Angeles illegal. Not unusual. Not controversial. Illegal. The kind of word that should stop everything. It did not. “A federal judge has declared President Donald Trump’s use of military troops in Los Angeles …
You did not notice because it felt like progress. A new iPhone. A new line. A new payment. Every September, the same ritual repeats. Behind the glass and aluminum, something was breaking. That viral tweet claiming that $17,000 spent on iPhones would have turned into $367 million is fiction (Benzinga). Even Benzinga admits the math …
by Michael This has been a crazy year for earthquakes. At one point this summer, we witnessed a total of 494 earthquakes of at least magnitude 5.0 within a 30 day period. That was about four times as many magnitude 5.0 earthquakes as we normally see during a 30 day period. Unfortunately, our planet continues to shake …
The bond markets are failing? View post on imgur.com Key trendline support broken on S&P 500. View post on imgur.com
The UK has no choice but to start cutting its welfare bill, this could happen here in the US. The UK faces the doom loop of rising borrowing costs, growing deficits and a government facing a lot of bad choices to raise revenues. Yields on 30-year gilts have reached their highest levels since 1998. (1 …
Unlike the 2008 crash, where lies were exposed, today’s central bankers pump liquidity to fake prosperity, propping up stocks while economy craters. Politicians nod along, ignoring the rot as markets dance on borrowed time. The system’s not clueless, it’s complicit. Just hit a new cycle high of 39% probability pic.twitter.com/NpGRRoQ4FG — Acquiring Knowledge, Enjoying Life …
Rep. Ilhan Omar, elected on a $174,000 salary, now reports a net worth between $6 million and $30 million. That is not drift. That is detonation. “Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s net worth reportedly skyrocketed to upwards of $30 million in 2024 after claiming she’s ‘barely worth thousands’ earlier this year,” reports IJR. source The …
The rupture is sanctioned. The betrayal is bureaucratic. Across classrooms in America, children are being separated by race, not metaphorically, not historically, but administratively. The language is soft. The impact is brutal. “Over 100 districts in 26 states and Washington, D.C., have offered employees identity-based affinity groups to separate staff and provide ‘safe spaces’ for …
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit did not signal unity. It revealed fracture wrapped in ceremonial silk. Xi Jinping’s unveiling of the Global Governance Initiative was not a blueprint. It was a warning. “Global governance has come to a new crossroads,” he said. source The crossroads is a mirage. The road behind is scorched. The road …
arak, a former Israeli PM, schemed with a sex offender to fund Carbyne, a surveillance startup tied to Israel’s Unit 8200, while plotting an unsecured island visit. Recently leaked emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak show that he and Jeffrey Epstein discussed arranging a meeting with Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel in 2014. The …
Beazer Homes is bleeding. A $754 million builder dangling mortgage rate buydowns like meat in a trap. In Dallas-Fort Worth, the pitch is this: “Enjoy 2.99 percent 1st Year* 3.99 percent 2nd Year and 4.99 percent Fixed, Years 3 plus on Select Quick Move-In Homes with Beazer’s Buydown. Hurry. Offer Ends Sunday, August 25” source …
Australians and Europeans at risk citizens losing political influence while governments press forward with no regard for public will. Gather more, rally every day, investigate enemies within, trust no one but patriotic citizens, doubt electoral systems, enlighten more youngsters, the enemy is way bigger than you think it is, get ready for a long fight, …
by confoundedinterest17 So much for the defeatist mentality in the main stream media, Congress and economists! The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the third quarter of 2025 is 3.5 percent on August 29, up from 2.2 percent on August 26. After recent releases from the US Census Bureau and the …
The dotcom crash was a tremor. Bitcoin is the earthquake. The bubble of 2000 swallowed fortunes, but what’s happening now will devour whole economies. The old collapse wiped out portfolios. This collapse threatens to hollow out belief itself. Every signal points to a reckoning bigger, darker, and more permanent. The numbers on the chart are …
Gold is making new highs, measured, in this case, against the US dollar, which is making headlines. The chart below, however, is far more interesting. The asset management industry runs on two asset classes only: stocks and bonds. Sure, asset managers talk a lot about other asset classes or invest in ‘other’ asset classes that …
Crime is legal. https://t.co/KygCe6u0VT — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) September 2, 2025 “The Trump family itself controls about 22.5 billion of the $WLFI tokens, suggesting that its holdings as of Monday afternoon were worth about $5 billion, making it one of the most valuable Trump assets” https://electionlawblog.org/?p=151872 That’s not a side hustle. That’s state-sponsored enrichment. The token …
Britain’s government is a panicked machine, crushing speech to save itself. A retweet drags you to jail, 1200 posts flagged for riots, 741 arrests, 302 charged. An England flag near a mosque? Two years locked up for “racially aggravated harassment.” While the US First Amendment guards your right to speak, Britain’s elites wield law like …
France’s economy is a rotting husk, and its leaders are complicit. Debt at 113% of GDP, a 5.5% deficit, bond yields topping Greece’s, it’s a fiscal bloodbath. Britain’s 101% debt-to-GDP is ugly, but France’s 57% state spending is a gluttonous beast eating its own entrails. Politicians shuffle numbers while markets lay bare their incompetence. It …
The system’s crumbling, gold’s at $3500, a dead canary in a coal mine. Central banks cut rates as inflation hits 3%, pure sabotage dressed up as policy. Yields at 30-year peaks shout panic, not control. They’re pumping a bubble to dodge the collapse. This isn’t economics, it’s a knife in your back. Your money’s burning …
by Michael During the month of September and the early portion of October, we will witness a remarkable convergence of events. Of course this convergence of events just happens to be occurring at a time when it feels like this period of history is building up to some sort of a crescendo. 2025 has been a …
Prices are flying in the worst of ways and going nowhere in the least of ways. by David Haggith Prices are flying. You’ll soon need to fly, too, just to keep up. The theme of the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index (PCE), which measures inflation and which came out on Friday, was that the smallest …
by Michael For centuries, Islam unsuccessfully attempted to conquer Europe by sending armies. In our time, Islam is attempting to conquer Europe in a completely different way, and it is working. In 2016, there were approximately 26 million Muslims living in Europe. Today, there are approximately 46 million Muslims living in Europe and that number …
by confoundedinterest17 I feel like we are in the financial Twilight Zone. Home builder stock prices have surged, while home builder sentiment has plunged. Of course, The Fed’s endless money printing isn’t helping the supply side of home building. To make matters worse, pending home sales remain in the doldrums. Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook …
Britain: West Drayton residents out in force today 💪💪🏴🏴 pic.twitter.com/OdU81AVKjN — Matthardybladerunner (@Matthardy_BR) August 30, 2025 Australia: https://twitter.com/_/status/1961996338750714086 Japan: WOW! Today, Japanese citizens organized anti-immigration protests. Here’s a video from tonight’s march in Midosuji in Osaka, Japan 🇯🇵 pic.twitter.com/TUBWZIEtUK — I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) August 31, 2025 A message from Poland. pic.twitter.com/tugJJfrngJ …
via notayesmanseconomics This morning the focus is back on the Bank of England and we cam start with something which will match the new autumnal mood for the weather at least for the research student presenting the morning meeting. “August saw a slight softening in the rate of annual house price growth to 2.1%, from …
Last year, whopping 1.3 billion e-commerce packages were shipped from around the world to the US under “de minimis” exemption. I.e., they were worth less than $800. That privilege ended on Aug 29. American small businesses & consumers alike are going to suffer.#MAGA pic.twitter.com/nAmxR3uV8m — S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) August 30, 2025 “The de minimis rule, …
Target is doing the same thing that we caught Walmart doing which is taking the actual retail tags off clothes and then charging more for the item because of Tariffs. Target is doing the same thing that we caught Walmart doing which is taking the actual retail tags off clothes and then charging more for …