August: Stocks gapped down, VIX surged, low on Monday. Today: Gapped down, complacency, bounce likely week’s high. The big boys are liquidating their market positions

Compare to August. On the Monday after the jobs report, stocks gapped down and the VIX exploded. Monday open was the low of the week. Today, the market gapped down amid relative complacency. This morning BTFD bounce could be the high of the week. pic.twitter.com/PnHNYjtIWw — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) January 13, 2025 This incipient bear market …

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HOLY SH*T: Something Big Is Happening To European Banks

It looks like UK Banks are ready to go first https://t.co/A3kadllQJn — JustDario 🏊‍♂️ (@DarioCpx) January 8, 2025 European banks are not acting like either inflation is breaking back out or that the economy is going to be fine and hit its widely-expected soft landing. Instead, what they are doing is the other side of …

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Something big is happening with Tether.

Something big is happening with Tether. 👋 Top exec (Stuart Hoegner) quietly quits⏳ Tether hasn't minted anything in 20+ days🚫 Banned in EU, 64%+ of its volume💸 Billions sent from Exchanges to Treasury❌ Refusing to audit $137+ billion in tokens🏛️ Under investigation for… pic.twitter.com/3MiahASzSo — Jacob King (@JacobKinge) January 3, 2025 WOW! BlackRock’s #Bitcoin ETF …

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Too Big to Care and the Illusion of Choice

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, In a functional economy with real competition and transparency, every one of these cartel-corporations would be driven out of business by their ‘too big to care’ incompetence. We’ve all heard of Too Big to Fail, a description of the consequences of consolidating capital and power in a few corporate entities, …

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Was Dr. Leana Wen paid $460,685.41 last year by big pharma?

NOW — Dr. Leana Wen Calls for the FDA to Authorize the Bird Flu Vaccine “There actually is a vaccine developed already against H5N1. The Biden Administration has contracted with manufacturers to make almost 5 million doses of the vaccine. However, they have not asked the FDA to… pic.twitter.com/AWkMxevFPv — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) December 29, …

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Another big pharma miracle? Longevity pills for dogs could help humans live longer too

Early next year, the U.S. biotech start-up Loyal anticipates the release of LOY-002, a daily pill designed to give dogs at least one extra year of healthy life. This San Francisco-based enterprise has secured a staggering $125 million in funding from companies that were previously hesitant to invest in human longevity projects due to their …

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“We should have free speech, BUT…”

No greater nightmare. This is the window they want to break through into the house. Then they will own it and you'll be in the wilderness, being tracked by drones. https://t.co/ohQXtLh7Ms — Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) December 26, 2024 h/t Glenn

Sweeping new internet laws begin in Vietnam. Big Brother is here.

New Vietnamese internet rules requiring Facebook and TikTok to verify user identities and hand over data to authorities came into force on Wednesday, in what critics say is the latest attack on freedom of expression. Under “Decree 147”, all tech giants operating in Vietnam must verify users’ accounts via their phone numbers or Vietnamese identification …

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Bird Flu kills 20 big cats in washington sanctuary.

WASHINGTON STATE — Twenty big cats at a wild animal sanctuary in Shelton have died from the bird flu. It happened within a matter of days around Thanksgiving, and now the non-profit is preparing to clean so it can reopen to the public next year. The Wild Felid Advocacy Center announced more than half of …

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Woke Journo SUES Youtuber & INSTANTLY REGRETS IT! She Got BUSTED Deleting Evidence & Will Lose BIG!!

A recent legal drama has captivated public attention, involving a journalist known for her “woke” views and a prominent YouTuber. The journalist filed a lawsuit against the YouTuber, but the case quickly took a shocking turn when it was revealed that she had deleted key evidence. This move has sparked intense backlash and raised questions …

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Trump Says Biden is Hiding Something BIG!

President-elect Trump spoke about the drones over NJ and the tri-state area and said something very strange is happening, that Biden knows what they are and who they belong to, and he needs to tell the American people the truth. Also the latest dem who flipped to the Republican party and onto Team Trump. Also …

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BIG Bubbles? Biden/Democrats Spending Spree + FED = Massive Asset Bubbles = OVERVALUATION In Stock Market And Housing (Buffett Indicator, SP500 Mean Reversion, Shiller PE Ratio, CaseShiller To Gov Spending)

by confoundedinterest17 Apparently, the late Hawaiian crooner Don Ho foresaw Biden’s irresponsible spending spree. That is, BIG BUBBLES. Let’s start with the Buffett Indicator (Warren, not Jimmy!). It indicates that the stock market is STRONGLY OVERVALUED. The S&P 500 Mean Reversion Model also shows the stock market to be STRONGLY OVERVALUED. How about the Shiller P/E Ratio? Also …

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Trump’s blessing on bitcoin could back-fire big time. Bitcoin’s rise could suppress commodity investment, harm real growth.

TLDR: Bitcoin’s rise diverts investment from commodities. This suppresses commodity prices and inflation. Money goes into crypto instead of real economy goods. Without Bitcoin, investment would boost commodities and economic growth. Crypto mainly benefits the wealthy, not the real economy. Trump’s blessing on bitcoin could back-fire big time. Many are hoping China “stimulus” helps hard …

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15 Big Grocery Stores Collapsing All Around Us

With grocery prices at record highs, you might think that grocery chains are making loads of money right now. While some of them have strong business models and are doing well in this environment, several others have never recovered from the losses they faced during the pandemic or even earlier. In the past couple of …

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This could be big…

Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in Nondelegation Case. “This case arises out of challenges to the constitutionality of the FCC’s Universal Service Fee, and may produce a major administrative law decision–but the Court also gave itself an out. . . . Note that this case both presents traditional nondelegation questions–whether there are limits on Congress’ power to …

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“We’re in ‘black swan’ territory, and diversified portfolios are a ‘big lie,'” says Mark Spitznagel.

https://twitter.com/mattykinsX/status/1844014730303926716 Top of the channel and starting to see some bearish divergence here. It looks like the months of high equity prices with low risks might be coming to an end (at least a healthy reversion to the mean). pic.twitter.com/YGsCNez0rV — Guilherme Tavares (@i3_invest) October 9, 2024 🚨 S&P JUST HIT A NEW RECORD HIGH! …

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‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry piles into physical gold fund

Michael Burry’s Scion Asset Management dumped positions in Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. during the first quarter while buying shares of an exchange-traded fund that invests in physical gold, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission released Wednesday. Burry rose to fame after his bet against mortgage bonds in the run-up to …

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