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Grant Cardone says a $500,000 house can cost $320,000 in interest before taxes or maintenance “Bank of America is gonna charge you 8% for 10 years. You put 8% on $400,000, that’s 32K a year, times 10 is 320K” “So you need to sell your house for 500K plus 320K to break even, and… pic.twitter.com/mRd3xK6SzC …
Bank of America just agreed to pay $72.5 million for helping Jeffrey Epstein traffic underage girls. The settlement dropped late Friday night. Buried under war headlines and protest coverage. Almost like they planned it that way. And this is literally the FOURTH major bank settlement tied to Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. JPMorgan paid $290 million …
Epstein and the Rothschild ties are under investigation. Around the world, the millions of documents from the US DOJ-released ‘Epstein files’ continue to generate ripple effects affecting people and institutions connected to the late pedophile and power broker Jeffrey Epstein. In France, financial prosecutors said that searches were conducted at several locations, including the Paris …
China’s financial sector is entering another phase of pay compression, with senior bankers at state-backed institutions bracing for bonus cuts of at least 30% as regulators push forward with compensation reforms. Department heads at two major state-owned banks saw their 2025 bonuses reduced by 30% to 50%, while division chiefs at a mid-sized national lender …
via notayesmanseconomics This morning has brought some bad news for the central banking fraternity and sorority. It comes from a land down under so let us take a look. At its meeting today, the Board decided to increase the cash rate target by 25 basis points to 4.10 per cent. That is from the Reserve Bank of Australia …
MrBeast’s finance app for kids is backed by a bank that’s faced regulatory scrutiny and a fintech partner’s failure The YouTuber’s new fintech venture relies on Evolve Bank & Trust, a partner bank of the now-collapsed Synapse that has dealt with numerous setbacks. On a chilly October morning last year in Memphis, Tenn., a federal …
kristen shaughnessy @kshaughnessy2 “Bank of America has a stark warning for stock investors” “The stock market may be just one bad day away from forcing Washington and Wall Street to act. That is the message Bank of America chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett sent to clients on Friday….. The four market thresholds to watch •S&P …
🚨 WARNING: OIL IS PRICING A BIGGER CRISIS THAN STOCKS Deutsche Bank just released the WHOLE crisis setup. Across previous oil-related geopolitical shocks, oil rose 26.9% on average, while equities fell 6.0% over 14 trading days. Now, oil pumped 46.6%, while the S&P dumped… pic.twitter.com/Dy0aOjmfyF — Wimar.X (@DefiWimar) March 15, 2026 Jeff Currie from Goldman …
Source: Investing(.)com pic.twitter.com/9CC2b0AUXd — Wimar.X (@DefiWimar) March 4, 2026
Shanghai rolls out a gold ATM that melts your jewelry at 1200°C and wires the cash straight to your bank account Turn hard assets into digital numbers in minutes 🤯 pic.twitter.com/xsD82eTHLR — Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) February 15, 2026
The people with the best data are protecting themselves first, period. 🚨 WARNING: INSIDERS ARE DUMPING EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW!! Just look at the screen below. Literally EVERY transaction is a SELL. For the last 7 days, insiders: – Sold: $11.6 BILLION– Bought: $59.04 MILLION And that's ONLY what we can see. I'm sure the biggest …
BANK OF JAPAN QUIETLY BEGINS ETF SALES PROGRAM SET TO LAST A CENTURY – NIKKEI — First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) February 9, 2026 Per AI: Multiple major Japanese financial outlets — including Nikkei Asia, which is the country’s most credible economic newspaper — reported that: The BOJ has started selling ETFs from its balance sheet. The …
Former World Bank Director, Erik Bethel, breaks down a US dollar collapse scenario. “How are they buying it? Well they buy it by printing money. The artificial demand for dollars around the world is largely due to the fact that 60% of central banks have the dollar sitting in… pic.twitter.com/8JpWSluhNj — Shawn Ryan (@ShawnRyan762) January …
🤣 pic.twitter.com/4J6I6T067O — Dr. Tororu (@DrTororu) January 26, 2026 Factcheck: Yes, the Bloomberg article is accurate: Goldman Sachs’ head of precious metals trading, Benjamin Binet-Laisne, is leaving the bank amid talent competition in a bullion boom. No evidence supports the bank suffering losses on short positions; Goldman forecasts gold rising to $5,400/oz by end-2026.
via notayesmanseconomics After yesterday’s disappointing employment numbers then there may have been some hopes of a further fall in UK inflation this morning. But such hopes were in for a rude awakening. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 3.4% in the 12 months to December 2025, up from 3.2% in the 12 months to …
BANKS Big move pending. Wont be long. https://t.co/kpvL0qjSyl pic.twitter.com/3RnV60LSbV — The Great Martis (@great_martis) January 15, 2026 Talked with a higher up at a bank today He said the level of fraud out there is insane Risk management departments are freaking out And there’s more to come down the road Banks have weak internal controls …
Cash hasn’t shrunk this fast in nearly two decades, yields are spiking, and the BoJ is finally leaving stimulus behind. They fear the collapsing yen more than the historic rates due to inflation. Problem is, even raising rates to multi-decades highs isn’t helping the yen much, which means much more hikes on the way. And …
via notayesmanseconomics Hello again and a Happy New Year to you all. That theme links to today’s subject because the research student at the Bank of England morning meeting will have been hanging out the bunting for this, FTSE 100 opens back above 10,000 The FTSE 100 rose 0.4% to 10,008.06, propelled by gains in heavyweight producers. Shell climbed 0.9%, while …
There’s nowhere else to park cash with bonds broken, crypto unstable, Japan hiking, and China already heated. Metals aren’t just a trade, they’re the last real safe harbor left before the next wave hits. BofA's contrarian sell signal got triggered Since 2002, 16 sell signals have been followed by a median 2.7% decline in global …
via notayesmanseconomics As we approach Christmas the pace has really picked up in economics and financial markets and let me start my look at the UK with an international perspective. TOKYO (Kyodo) — The yield on Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bond hit 2.020 percent on Friday, its highest level since August 1999, after the Bank …
This is how trouble sneaks in, quietly and all at once. When every major bond market starts pushing yields higher together, it means money is getting expensive everywhere, not just somewhere. Stocks can ignore that for a while, but balance sheets cannot. By the time equities notice, the damage is already baked in. A HUGE …
If the BOJ missteps even a little, yields move fast and nothing stays local anymore. This is one of those quiet moments that only feels boring until it isn’t. Japan's🇯🇵 bond market is displaying consolidating flag patterns across the board , poised to react sharply if the BOJ makes any major policy error. We await. …
The world is about to pump massive liquidity into the system: – The US pauses QT, runs record deficits, and is considering $2,000 stimulus checks – China is running the largest deficit in its history – Japan is preparing a $110 billion stimulus package – The EU is planning to spend ~$1 trillion on military …
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 no longer necessary. Once you …
Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM, has argued that the recent surge in spending by Big Tech on AI-data centers is economically unrealistic. On the “Decoder” podcast he estimated that building and fully outfitting a one-gigawatt AI data center costs about $80 billion. Given that industry announcements suggest firms are planning up to 100 gigawatts of …
Only very large institutions can tap the overnight repo window at that scale. That means a major bank or a primary dealer needed the money. A regular hedge fund cannot walk in and take $25 billion overnight on top of $50 billion last week. That kind of access and size belongs to big banks that …
⚠️China is DUMPING US Treasuries: China has sold $32 BILLION of US government bonds in 3 months, bringing its total to $700.5 billion, the lowest in 17 YEARS. China’s holdings have declined +$600 billion since 2013. China is diversifying from USD 👇https://t.co/PbgYVyVclh — Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) November 29, 2025 The crypto industry is now …
Time to mail the keys back to the bank and walk away. https://t.co/aaesJz7sCR — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) November 26, 2025 Subprime mortgages are on the rise again – Newsweek Subprime mortgages, in both originations and balances held by less creditworthy borrowers, are on the rise in 2025, reflecting to a lesser degree the conditions that …
