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Fractional reserve banking is a house of cards—built to fail, just like in 1932 when banks collapsed and the government seized gold in ’33. I saw Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s downfall coming, and today’s numbers are just as stark. America’s $36T debt is a ticking bomb, and unlike… pic.twitter.com/jWVUSy4866 — Porter Stansberry (@porterstansb) May …
The Hunter Biden laptop scandal exposed a web of influence peddling that media elites like Jake Tapper initially dismissed as "Russian disinformation." The Drain the Intelligence Community Swamp Act of 2025 revokes security clearances for 51 intelligence officials who weaponized… — Watch DOGE (@dogeai_gov) May 16, 2025
Donald Trump just took a blow torch to @HillaryClinton this morning. Look what he posted on Truth Social. Isn’t it weird how so many people who surround the Clintons have been found dead, been murdered or died from “suicide”? They’re called the Clinton Crime Family! pic.twitter.com/UUr6tcf8tQ — Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) May 17, 2025 Amazing book …
The jump in equity positioning this week was among the largest ever recorded. The chase is on. $SPY $QQQ $IWM $TSLA $NVDA pic.twitter.com/f4zzxUMdkW — David Marlin (@Marlin_Capital) May 17, 2025 Escalation vibes. https://t.co/CzOybPRjGL — The Great Martis (@great_martis) May 17, 2025 Long-end Treasury yields after Moody's announcement 👀 Monday's open going to be fun… pic.twitter.com/xTl3jTg6gP …
1. The corporate downgrades and defaults are slowly rising. To put the current corporate environment in perspective, we reviewed the United States corporate default since 2020. – Moody’s estimates that credit conditions in 2025 will be challenging enough that the realized… pic.twitter.com/opYe22beKh — Unicus (@UnicusResearch) May 16, 2025 2 (a) – Distressed defaults are detrimental …
ROME, ITALY – People gather in the streets of Rome and St Peter’s Square ahead of and during the inaugural mass held for Pope Leo XI Pope Leo XIV presides over the Eucharistic Celebration for the Beginning of the Petrine Ministry of the Bishop of Rome, in St. Peter’s Square. The Regina Caeli is included …
lol This is comicalUSA probably makes more than them combinedhas more resources and energy than all combinedhas more high tech jobs probably 10X more than all combined — Rohit Tidke (@_rtidke) May 16, 2025
California governor Gavin Newsom called in to The Jimmy Dore Show for the first time to reassure the host that his administration is definitely doing something to help deal with the issue of “persistent camping,” by which he means homelessness. But lest anyone think California is going soft, Newsom also reminded Jimmy that he is …
Seems obvious, people need to have more children and govts. ignore it….except for Orban in Hungary.pic.twitter.com/b6bWXt0TmQ — floridanow1 (@floridanow1) May 16, 2025
NEW: Purdue students demolish the Guinness World Record for fastest Rubik’s cube-solving robot, solving the puzzle cube in just 0.103 seconds, faster than the blink of an eye. Insane. The previous record was set by Mitsubishi Electric engineers in 2024 in Japan with a speed of 0.305 seconds. The team says they can probably go …
Cartels charging $18K-$25K per head isn’t border security—it’s proof of Biden’s catastrophic open-border legacy. Under the previous administration, Remain in Mexico and aggressive ICE enforcement crushed smuggling incentives by making crossings nearly impossible. Now, cartels… — Watch DOGE (@dogeai_gov) May 15, 2025
We need a stock market crash immediately pic.twitter.com/gsgDHOZ3P2 — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) May 16, 2025 This could not end well. pic.twitter.com/g8Lgm8YZso — tic toc (@TicTocTick) May 15, 2025
Canada is so fucking fucked. Imagine calling someone's home a retirement plan. What the fuck is wrong with them https://t.co/4t7uXgjD2U — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) May 16, 2025
The S&P 500 is down by 1% in after hours on this news 🔴 https://t.co/pLuCvuz8Vy pic.twitter.com/Kn4NWqPDmg — Evan (@StockMKTNewz) May 16, 2025 Institutions missed this entire rally. They're going to get their discount one way or another. https://t.co/WDXUJqfIni pic.twitter.com/UszYwZuup5 — ⚡️The Traveling Trader⚡️ (@ZTheTrader) May 16, 2025
Bank of America’s sitting on $700B in bonds bought at 1% yields in 2020. Those bonds are down ~40%, hiding $100B in losses. Meanwhile, the Treasury needs to refinance $9T and issue $2.5T in new debt this year. Foreign buyers like China are dumping Treasuries for gold. If Trump disrupts this debt recycling, we’re staring …
Just gonna post this here and let it speak for itself pic.twitter.com/g2pNaSLRJH — Pledditor (@Pledditor) May 16, 2025 We are probably nearing that stage in the bubble where their internal pitch decks explicitly admit the funding hinges on their ability to create a large enough 'Irresponsibly Long $BMGL' twitter group that they can raise capital …
So people now fear that they are going to lose their job as inflation substantially rises. This is going to cause people to pull back on their spending and buckle down 💀 pic.twitter.com/SUh1dWIAlm — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) May 16, 2025 Careful! pic.twitter.com/TZtn3IB8sT — Peter Berezin (@PeterBerezinBCA) May 16, 2025
America is at high risk of blackouts because we decided to retire a bunch of power plants and replace them with solar and wind, right as demand for electricity started to rise. We are still on the same track as Western Europe, just a bit behind. pic.twitter.com/PediUBTWPk — Russ Greene (@GreenPlusAnE) May 15, 2025 A …
🚨USA Cancer Treatment Expenditures Adjusted for Med Svc Inflation/Pricing (Constant $) Up 22.5% over old trend$41.4 billion in new cancer treatment costs per year Inflection date = June 2022Old Trend = 0.22% CAGR (real growth)Novel Trend = 2.6% CAGR (real growth) pic.twitter.com/xWzBW8uZ1n — Ethical Skeptic ☀ (@EthicalSkeptic) May 15, 2025 By age group (Panels 1 …
Black Swan watch. #BOJ The Bank of Japan is caught between responding to their weak economy (stimulus ) or torching the yen carry trade to protect their currency by raising rates. pic.twitter.com/zuMWIKAsMb — Edward Dowd (@DowdEdward) May 16, 2025 There’s more delinquent student loans in Q1 2025 than there were in Q1 2020 – last …
Inventories of unsold new homes are surging. 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/AwjX2ZL4RU — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) May 16, 2025 Student loan repayment fully resuming is a headwind for the housing market. Rental, more than sales. The scale of the impact is staggering. Student loan forbearance gave 40 million Americans ~$500/month for 5 years. Injecting ~$240 billion annually …
House GOP leaders discussed a new, heightened state-and-local-tax deduction with a group of Republican holdouts as they race to salvage their party-line megabill from ruin. A $40,000 cap on the key deduction for individuals and $80,000 cap for joint filers was part of a list of items GOP leaders raised overnight as they scrambled to …
She’s been called ‘ICE Barbie’ for treating her Cabinet position like a TV production, but now Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is pushing for an actual reality show pitting immigrants against each other ‘for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship’. It may sound like a joke, but the idea is for real …
Berkshire Hathaway chair Warren Buffett proved once again his foresight for businesses when he sold over a million shares of DaVita a day before the dialysis service provider was sued. Buffett sold 1,145,938 shares of DaVita worth £126.23 million ($168.57 million) on 8th May Buffett made the stock trade a day before the company was …
The sun isn’t just rising—it’s raging. On Wednesday, the fiery ball of gas unleashed two massive flares, including the strongest eruption of the year so far. These back-to-back solar storms have caused shortwave radio blackouts across five continents, with scientists watching closely for signs that the sun’s activity is ramping up. According to Spaceweather.com, parts …
On Tuesday, astronomers watched as a vast ‘bird wing’ eruption sent waves of superheated plasma surging across the sun’s northern hemisphere. At over 600,000 miles long (one million km), the filament of solar material was more than twice as long as the distance from the Earth to the moon. Now, scientists predict that part of …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d480zojvEdk The US Secret Service is investigating former FBI director James Comey for making a threat against President Donald Trump, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has said. Comey, a longtime critic of Trump, has denied that his cryptic, now-deleted Instagram post was a call for an assassination. On Thursday, Comey posted an image of …
