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U.S. 20-year Treasuries down 38% since 2020. Largest collapse in a century, even Volcker era pales. The money supply just hit an all time high and we’re all talking about easing.

Are U.S. Treasuries finally as risky as stocks? First, what is a Treasury? When you buy a U.S. Treasury bond, you’re lending money to the government. They promise to pay you interest (called a coupon) and then return your money when the bond matures. Safe, right? Except prices can swing if yields change. — StockMarket.News …

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What do global bonds know? Yields near one-year highs; France, Japan, UK, Germany, and Canada.

There seems to be a lot of competition for liquidity out there from the purveyors of “risk-free” assets… — Nothing To See Here (@TylerHardt) August 26, 2025 With the BOJ stepping back, foreign capital may repatriate, U.S. and European rates rise, and emerging markets brace for currency and funding turmoil, leaving investors facing unprecedented uncertainty. …

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What happened in those 23 years?

Statistical data for England and Wales can be explored through the Office for National Statistics. Germany’s rape crime statistics are obtainable from the Federal Criminal Police Office. Information for France can be found from the Ministry of the Interior. Meanwhile, Poland’s figures, by the Polish Police, are available via Statistics Poland. In the United States, reported rape crimes totaled …

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Small banks are hiding massive losses in CRE. Massive, like going out of business levels of losses; Tom Lee said he thinks Financials will be one of the sectors leading over the next 1-2 years

Are office buildings the last prop holding banks from imploding? Small banks are hiding massive losses in CRE. Massive, like going out of business levels of losses. That's why they're kicking the can hoping they don't have to foreclose. There's nothing to foreclose on. This shit would make Lehman look like a walk in the …

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Looks like US bond flows are picking up.

Are surging US bond inflows the death knell for stocks or just a bet on rate cuts? Looks like US bond flows are picking up pic.twitter.com/4z11lEnzMk — Ayesha Tariq, CFA (@AyeshaTariq) August 26, 2025 The Heavy Truck Index sinks below its cycle level, a signal that has preceded every major recession and stock market correction …

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UnitedHealth hit with widening DOJ criminal investigation into drug pricing, Medicare billing, and physician payments in sweeping federal crackdown

UnitedHealth Group is not just under review. It is under federal criminal investigation, and the scope keeps growing. What started as questions over Medicare Advantage billing has now expanded into OptumRx’s prescription management services and the way the company reimburses physicians. “The investigation is looking at how OptumRx negotiates drug prices and reimburses pharmacies,”reported Bloomberg,noting …

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$1 trillion of AI Capex spend. $20 billion of revenue. AI is a bubble. There is a NON-zero chance that tomorrow’s AI boom ends tomorrow.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but… There is a NON-zero chance that tomorrow’s AI boom ends tomorrow. I’m not betting that way, but it is important to realize that there is a non-zero chance it all ends tomorrow with $NVDA earnings. Some of ya’ll way too concentrated.… — I Sell Options Guy …

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Trump Transforms the World

He’s on top of the world now and changing everything we thought we knew about how things work. by David Haggith Trump sitting as a king on top of the world Of course, Trumpworld is sinking rapidly into recession at the same time prices are rising more quickly under the new Trump Tariffs. So, before …

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Trump posts tariff threat targeting EU digital taxes

The world’s most critical technologies are now political weapons. Chips that power defense, AI, and infrastructure are suddenly leverage in a trade war. National security is fused with tariffs. Alliances are fragile. Supply chains tremble. Everything meant to stabilize commerce, innovation, and global trust is at risk. One post, one sentence, one tweet and the …

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From Intel to Boeing, Trump floats plan for government stakes in private companies and the line between public and private blurs

The government wants control. Not oversight. Not partnership. Control. It starts with Intel. It ends wherever this administration decides. The Trump administration purchased a 10 percent stake in a private chipmaker. Now conversations swirl around Lockheed, Boeing, and Palantir. The logic is simple and raw. “We use them. We want a piece.” That is not …

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Half of U.S. workers at breaking point. Eating out collapse under inflation. Recession risks climb to 50 percent

Factories are shutting. Shops are closing. Workers are walking out under stress that has nowhere to go. The air smells of fear and exhaustion. Bank accounts are shrinking while bills climb. The institutions meant to protect us are either blind or complicit. Every metric screams warning. Every statistic is a cry ignored. The economy is …

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Germany, UK, Australia, India, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, France, Austria, Switzerland, Korea, Japan, and Thailand suspend postal services to US

It is a blackout. Thirteen nations have turned off the flow of mail to the United States. Germany. The UK. Australia. India. Sweden. Denmark. Italy. France. Austria. Switzerland. Korea. Japan. Thailand. No press release. No explanation. Just silence and severed logistics. The lifelines of commerce and family vanish overnight, and no one in Washington seems …

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Cook refused to go quietly.

“President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign.”CNBC Her attorney, Abbe Lowell, framed it bluntly. “Another reflex to bully.” This was not about misconduct. It was about control. Columbia law professor Lev Menand stripped it to …

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Walmart fires 1,200 contractors after VP accused of pocketing up to $120,000 a day in bribes from Indian staffing firms

In August 2025, Walmart’s Global Tech division terminated 1,200 contractors in a single sweep. No notice. No severance. Accounts locked. Logins frozen. Silence. The trigger wasn’t performance or efficiency. It was bribery at the top, a vice president accused of siphoning between $30,000 and $120,000 every single day from Indian staffing firms. That figure is …

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Bitcoin meltdown: price tanks, fake headlines try to resuscitate dying bubble; 25+ crypto treasury equities ready to blow up if Bitcoin and Ethereum don’t stop bleeding lower

If Bitcoin needs lies to rise, what does that make it worth? BREAKING: Michael Saylor violates promise to shareholders, dilutes MicroStrategy $MSTR with 875,301 new shares https://t.co/aOmYIOWpdn pic.twitter.com/jXqtw9ZDeR — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) August 25, 2025 As #Bitcoin demand dries up fast and the price tanks, watch the maximalists scramble to invent new fake narratives and rumors …

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Trump fires Fed governor Lisa Cook. Who in their right mind wants to lend to our government at ~4% nominal?

Trump firing Fed’s Cook pic.twitter.com/BBEgdKZJJL — TT3 (@TradingThomas3) August 26, 2025 Well Trump fires Cook. Now he can replace her with another dovish cuck and he will have enough votes to get as many rate cuts as he wants. This is terrifying shit. https://t.co/rkBClz3rde — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) August 26, 2025 We’re running an almost …

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Housing market weakness triggers Lennar to offer biggest incentives since 2009; It was only 4 states defaulting on mortgages that kicked off the GFC.

There’s nothing biased about labeling this the biggest bubble in US equity & housing history – it’s called the reality. Bubbles are rarely linear. — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) August 24, 2025 Housing market weakness triggers Lennar to offer biggest incentives since 2009#RESights #MacroEdge — MacroEdge RESights (@RESightsbyME) August 24, 2025 July 2025 saw the second …

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Trump blasts South Korea for “purge or revolution” ahead of summit while the country reels from martial law, impeachment, and church raids

The world is unraveling. A democracy is under siege, not by tanks, not by foreign armies, but by the instruments of its own government. And the United States is watching — not with concern, but with threats. The machinery of economic leverage has replaced diplomacy. Truth and law are being buried beneath the roar of …

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Bitcoin is heading for a major crash.

While the media stays silent, a critical event recently unfolded: BTC mining has become so centralized that, for only the second time in history (last time was in 2014, before mega-crash), the network is vulnerable to a 51% attack. Two mining pools now control the majority of the network. Highly centralized. Highly dangerous. Meanwhile, whales …

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Screwworm returns to US, Maryland patient infected, Texas faces $1.8 billion livestock threat. First US human case of New World screwworm confirmed

The parasite didn’t sneak in. It flew. It burrowed. It ate. On August 4, 2025, the CDC confirmed the first human case of New World screwworm in the United States. A Maryland resident returning from El Salvador carried it in their flesh. “This is the first human case of travel-associated New World screwworm myiasis from …

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Trump family turns post-presidency into billions with Gulf-backed blockchain deals and luxury perks flowing in

Most Americans still do not understand what has happened since Donald Trump left the White House. The presidency was supposed to end in January of 2021, but in reality the office never ended. It was converted. It became a machine. A mechanism designed to take foreign interest, family loyalty, and political fame and spin them …

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