This 150-Year-Old Chart Predicts A Crash In 2026
The Benner Cycle Predicts that 2026 will be the year of high prices and the time to sell, but is it correct?
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French and Chinese bodyguards clash during Macron state visit
Awkward moment caught on camera: 🇨🇳🇫🇷 INFO Lors de la visite d’État d’Emmanuel Macron, une altercation entre un garde du corps chinois et un garde du corps français a été aperçue en arrière-plan pic.twitter.com/3CILdVXC6W — Focus (@FocusinfosFr) December 7, 2025
Weekend crypto ambush wipes out longs and shorts in coordinated blast
BREAKING: Bitcoin dumped $2,000 from $89.7k to $87.7k and liquidated $171 million worth of longs. But then it pumped $3,500 from $87.7k to $91.2k and liquidated $75 million worth of shorts. All this happened in the last 4 hours. This is another example of manipulation on the… pic.twitter.com/1JxZ3rSWmu — Bull …
A supermarket worker tried to take a shortcut by pushing multiple shopping carts down a escalator, hitting a passerby and causing damage.
A supermarket worker tried to take a shortcut by pushing multiple shopping carts down a escalator, hitting a passerby and causing damage. pic.twitter.com/LaErcNfvE5 — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 7, 2025
U.S. layoffs set to surpass the Great Recession levels, on track to be worst since Great Depression.
BREAKING: U.S. layoffs set to surpass the Great Recession levels, on track to be worst since Great Depression. — Polymarket (@Polymarket) December 7, 2025 US layoffs soar past 1.1M in 2025, highest level since the pandemic November saw 71,321 job cuts announced, down 53% from October but pushing yearly total …
Bernie Moreno introduces bill that would force dual citizens to choose one passport or lose U.S. citizenship
US Senator Bernie Moreno has introduced legislation to end dual citizenship, under which Americans who hold citizenship of another country must choose a single citizenship or their US citizenship will automatically be terminated. pic.twitter.com/XpxYRdYkj4 — Babar 🌟 (@BabarM767) December 2, 2025 Ohio GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno introduced a bill Monday …
21 cases of wild mushroom poisoning in California. State warns public not to pick mushrooms.
California officials are warning foragers after an outbreak of poisoning linked to wild mushrooms that has killed one adult and caused severe liver damage in several patients, including children. The state poison control system has identified 21 cases of amatoxin poisoning, likely caused by death cap mushrooms, the health department …
REVEALED: Bondi and FBI Making List of American ‘Extremists’
Attorney General Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism,” according to a Justice Department memo published here exclusively. The target is those expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass …
UNNAMED SOURCES — Report claims Trump is considering replacement at DHS for Kristi Noem.
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a move to get rid of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — and potentially replace her with a soon-to-be former governor. According to the Bulwark, two unnamed former DHS officials — who served under both Biden and Trump administrations and are still plugged in with current staff say …
Trump Announces Two New Task Forces Will Investigate Food Prices
Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, The DOJ and the FTC will each launch a witch hunt on high food prices. Food is now a national security concern. Please note a Trump Executive Order Addressing Security Risks from Price Fixing and Anti-Competitive Behavior in the Food Supply Chain. Section 1. Background. An affordable …
Is Search Activity Forecasting An Imminent Fall For ‘AI Stocks’?
via Jesse Felder Brij Khurana writes that corporate profits, “have been inflated by massive government deficits, ambitious business investment, and debt-funded shareholder returns. If fiscal stimulus subsides and household savings rates rise—whether because of AI or any other reason—the Kalecki-Levy equation suggests the bubble that has sustained U.S. corporate profits since …
Looking good in Poland.
Meanwhile in Poland. 🇵🇱 pic.twitter.com/kTz7JXTIua — Defend the West (@real_DefendWest) December 5, 2025 We used to be, got lost along the way. We need to find it again. — Defend the West (@real_DefendWest) December 7, 2025
Indiana breaks 30 game (and 30 year) losing streak to Ohio State, wins Big Ten championship.
Conference championship weekend delivered, and now we all wait for the final rankings from the College Football Playoff selection committee. One thing that won’t be up for grabs is which team will land at No. 1 in the final iteration of the rankings Sunday, as No. 2 Indiana pulled off …
AI is spending like crazy, adoption is tiny, debt is piling up. Goldman says 1997 vibes. Are we ignoring the warning signs?
Goldman Sachs says the AI boom now looks like tech stocks did in 1997, several years before the dot-com bubble burst. The bank flagged five warning signs from the late 1990s investors should watch: peak investment spending, falling corporate profits, rising corporate debt, Fed rate cuts, and widening credit spreads. …
Beef prices look like a memecoin chart lately
Beef prices look like a memecoin chart lately byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts All current beef pricing trends are based on USDA data as of December 3, 2025. Last week’s trends refer to the USDA market for the week ending November 28, 2025. Live cattle sold mostly around $2.14/lb. last week, which is …
Former DEA agent charged with agreeing to launder millions of dollars for Mexican drug cartel
NEW YORK (AP) — A former high-level agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and an associate have been charged with conspiring to launder millions of dollars and obtain military-grade firearms and explosives for a Mexican drug cartel, according to an indictment unsealed Friday in New York. Paul Campo, 61, …
OUCH! The bond-market sell-off is continuing, w/German 30y yields climbing to their highest level since 2011
OUCH! The bond-market sell-off is continuing, w/German 30y yields climbing to their highest level since 2011 byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts If in doubt, the answer is always higher taxes or higher inflation. THE ENDGAME HAS BEGAN byu/Visible-Title6180 inWallstreetsilver h/t sunk-capital
UPDATE — Driver plows into pedestrians at Christmas market in France.
BREAKING: GUADELOUPE CRASH LEAVES 17 INJURED INCLUDING CHILDREN A vehicle struck Christmas event crowds at Schoelcher Square in Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe, injuring 17 people including children. Three victims are reportedly in serious condition after the December 5 incident in the French Caribbean territory. The driver remained at the scene with witnesses …
Massive Obamacare fraud uncovered.
Massive Obamacare fraud uncovered. In 2023, 1 in 3 subsidy recipients—$21B total—used Social Security numbers that didn’t match IRS records. Fake applicants in 2024–25? Most were approved. And yet, Congress wants to expand subsidies with no limits or safeguards. pic.twitter.com/skbd0H432w — Stephen Moore (@StephenMoore) December 5, 2025 🔥 Wait till …
World Cup reveals match times, locations.
WASHINGTON — FIFA announced the start times for the tournament’s 104 matches on Saturday, a day after the draw for the expanded 48-nation tournament, with the final set to kick off at 3 p.m. ET on July 19. The kickoff time for the final at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, …
Nick Fuentes describes Donald Trump’s tired, manipulative playbook. How they lie to you, distract you, and keep delivering nothing.
“Trump is more unpopular than ever…Any way you cut it, it is catastrophically bad.” “Rather than keep his promises, all this administration has done is enrich the people that are in it. There are rampant, criminal levels of corruption…The very people Trump brought in to drain the swamp, they are …
The Reserve Bank of India is hoping no-one checks why it cut interest-rates today
via notayesmanseconomics This morning has brought news which takes me back to my blog on the 26th of November.,when I pointed out this. It feels as though the mood music has shifted back to interest-rate cuts and let me return to the ECB. It has claimed that interest-rate cuts are …
Computer memory prices double in one month, the worst is yet to come
Prices for computers, graphics cards, smartphones etc are going up and will stay up for years because of the demand from AI companies. The RAM pricing crisis has only just started, Team Group GM warns — says problem will get worse in 2026 as DRAM and NAND prices double in …
Wall Street exits Deep South real estate
$208 million wiped out: Yieldstreet investors rack up more losses as firm rebrands to Willow Wealth As Yieldstreet tries to distance itself from a rocky past with a new name and ad campaign, its customers are dealing with a present reality that is increasingly dire. The private markets investing startup, …
Walmart ink costs more than printer
SHE JUST DISCOVERED THE DUMBEST PRICING GLITCH IN AMERICA – AND WALMART CAN’T EVEN EXPLAIN IT. This woman went to Walmart to grab the ink she always buys. It used to be around $40. Today? $79. Same box. Same ink. Then she checks the shelf and sees the entire printer …
38 percent of Stanford students claim to be ‘disabled.’
Tarconish sees the growing number of students receiving accommodations as evidence that the system is working. Ella Callow, the assistant vice chancellor of disability rights at Berkeley, had a similar perspective. “I don’t think of it as a downside, no matter how many students with disabilities show up,” she told …
Does he look like he’s enjoying it?
The stuffed mouth, the lack of swallowing, the playing with food – yip, he’s hating it. 🤢 — Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith) December 5, 2025
AI could make the internet more expensive and controlled
I tried to ask grok this crazy a** question. But how is A.I. going to make any of our lives easier or more affordable? No, AI is unlikely to make the internet free, and in some ways, it may make access more costly and controlled. Could lead to paywalls or …
Something seems broken…
pic.twitter.com/521uYf7ztA — TrendSpider (@TrendSpider) December 5, 2025 BREAKING: Bitcoin pumped $1500 on the lower than expected PCE data. But then it crashed -$3500 in 60 minutes. This wiped out $155 million worth of long positions in last 1 hour. There is no negative news or sudden FUD which could cause …