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THE U.S. STOCK MARKET IS ABOUT TO CRASH COMPLETELY. 2008 GFC Crash: – S&P 500 dumped 20%, then pumped 14% before another 53% drop. 2020 Covid Crash: – $SPX dumped 15%, then pumped 9% before another 30% drop. 2025 Tariffs Crash: – SPX dumped 10%, then pumped 5% before another 16% drop. 2026 Dump: – …
Why does it seem like every person who worked a paid job in the military, who never experienced physical combat, is on disability?! They can't all be thieves can they? They can't all just take money from working Americans and think that is OK right? https://t.co/DPEohYOOeh pic.twitter.com/LCZ5hdZUuM — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) April 5, 2026
By Peter Reagan Your News to Know rounds up the week’s most important stories about precious metals and the overall economy. This week, I want to look past the surface-level headlines and focus on what the recent pullback in gold may actually mean. Gold’s recent selling looks more technical than fundamental France’s gold reserve upgrade shows how …
🚨 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 …
Something unusual is happening in the oil market. Crude prices do not normally move this aggressively unless investors believe a major global disruption is coming. Look at the historical pattern. During the Global Financial Crisis, oil surged from roughly $57 to $140 before the economy collapsed. During the COVID-19 pandemic, crude rebounded from about $1 …
JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 IRGC responds to US President Trump, says "we are the ones who will determine the end of the war." — BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) March 10, 2026 Factcheck: Yes, it’s real. Iran’s IRGC (via Brig. Gen. Kioumars Heidary, Deputy Commander of War Operations) stated to state media: “We are the ones who will …
They’re just going to destroy every Western fiat ledger. Anything stored on any fiat ledger, from currencies to stocks to bonds, will be first exorbitantly taxed and eventually simply seized. Or simply inflated to zero. That is the logic of the sovereign debt crisis. — Balaji (@balajis) January 11, 2026 I love the smell of …
Everything’s lining up for a Q1 shock. THE YEN PARADOX 82,640 contracts betting against the yen. Second highest since July 2024. The Bank of Japan just confessed this morning they have barely begun. After hiking to a 30 YEAR HIGH at 0.75 percent, the yen did not strengthen. It collapsed to 157.77. Finance Minister Katayama …
$14 TRILLION NGO EMPIRE: TAX EXEMPT, VOTER PROOF An essay citing Federal Reserve Financial Accounts says U.S. NGOs held $14.12 trillion in assets as of Q2 2025, which is bigger than the combined 2025 GDP of Japan, Germany, and India by roughly 5%. If your brain just tried to file “NGO” under soup kitchens and …
“This is 2007, 2008 magnified multiple times over,” warns Mitch Vexler, a commercial real estate developer who has gone forensic on America’s crumbling financial foundations. In today’s interview, Vexler dismantles the narrative of stability. He details a $23 trillion property overvaluation scheme, a $2 trillion commercial real estate cliff, and trillions in impaired bank loans—all …
The collapse and bankruptcy of another private credit supported firm has generated significant losses this week. But as I pointed out last week with the shuttered UBS sponsored hedge funds, it isn’t necessarily the amount of money being burned. It’s what each of these cockroaches reveals, and how they add to the growing mistrust about …
JUST IN: Peter Schiff says Bitcoin is a "bubble" that is "about to pop." pic.twitter.com/CmMTESG8pG — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) October 28, 2025 Nvidia is now 16% of U.S. GDP. pic.twitter.com/FjwEkcbWa6 — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) October 29, 2025 BREAKING 🚨: Short Sellers Short Sellers are on track for their worst year since 2020 and they're blaming retail …
Can’t even look at the news anymore without the blood boiling. All this talk of the economy teetering like it’s ’07 all over again, big bank bosses like Dimon muttering about crashes coming any day now, and there folks sit, staring at paychecks that barely cover rent and groceries. Gas is dirt cheap for once, …
There is a strong basis for saying the U.S. banking sector is facing serious challenges. Some analysts are already talking about a potential $100 billion market shock, and what we are seeing might just be the tip of the iceberg for deeper credit threats. On October 16, 2025, U.S. regional bank stocks plunged after disclosures …
TIMECODES 00:00 Introduction: The Next Economic Crisis 00:37 Understanding Past Crises and Patterns 01:11 The Hedge Fund Collapse of 1998 02:26 How Long-Term Capital Management Failed 04:13 The Birth of Future Bailouts 05:08 From Hedge Funds to Banks: 2008 Crisis 06:07 How the Repo Market Fueled the Meltdown 07:17 Taxpayers Absorb the Cost 08:16 2020 …
Shutdowns make for political theater, but the true risk isn’t missed paychecks – it’s the mounting debt, weakened confidence and rising mistrust they reveal. Here’s why the Congressional “budget drama” points to a deeper crisis… By Peter Reagan Well, it’s time for another government shutdown. While the news media wants you to focus on the political conflicts that led …
I lived 2000 bubble, 2008 bubble but this is by FAR the biggest of them all… this is the end of USA as u know it… they know whats coming thats why they are pumping with 0 fear of consequences of fraud being discover or corruption… they know why… take care https://t.co/ZfRgdJs2H5 — Templar (@GingkoPT) …
China’s CCP needs a huge international fire sale.
The dotcom crash was a tremor. Bitcoin is the earthquake. The bubble of 2000 swallowed fortunes, but what’s happening now will devour whole economies. The old collapse wiped out portfolios. This collapse threatens to hollow out belief itself. Every signal points to a reckoning bigger, darker, and more permanent. The numbers on the chart are …
“The Fed can’t rescue this in its entirety. You’ve got 4M homes in Texas and 42M across the U.S. at risk of bankruptcy or losing the roof over their heads. That’s nearly 38% of households. The money to pay these bonds doesn’t exist. You can’t get blood out of a stone.” When… pic.twitter.com/dSuXD5SIPf — ITM …
⚡️Trump: Russia is a powerful military nation, whether people like it or not. It is the much bigger nation. You don't take on a nation that is 10 times your size. https://t.co/4CBlUDsa5p pic.twitter.com/oXqE8KNPno — War Intel (@warintel4u) August 19, 2025
If 2008 was a house fire, crypto derivatives are a fireworks factory next to a gas station. “Derivatives are driving the growth and sophistication of investment in cryptocurrency markets… now account for the majority of daily volume, outpacing spot trading in size and impact… In 2025 alone, global annual derivative volumes are approaching an estimated …
Which has seen the bigger Debasement the YUAN or Dollar, I think is fairly obviously. pic.twitter.com/JviFUGIm23 — Michael J. Kramer (@MichaelMOTTCM) July 13, 2025
Peter Schiff delves into the Middle East conflict’s impact on markets, the Fed’s shortcomings, and the implications of a declining dollar on the economy. 00:00 Introduction 03:09 Recent Global Events: Middle East Conflict 07:10 Financial Market Movements and Analysis 13:08 Precious Metals and Currency Trends 20:11 Federal Reserve and Economic Policies 25:13 Powell’s Testimony and …
Treasury Secretary Bessent is celebrating higher tax revenue – even as government spending explodes. Here’s how government revenue and spending affect the purchasing power of your savings… By Peter Reagan One of the worst feelings in the world is when you’re in one of those darned if you do, darned if you don’t situations, where …
by Michael Have we ever seen more than 1,500 simultaneous political protests all over the nation on the same day? The rioting and looting in Los Angeles has been going on for several days, but the left was never going to be satisfied with causing chaos in just one city. They want this to spread to other cities and …
The Chinese news release on the Trump-Xi phone call, which is the only confirmation of the call we’ve gotten so far, is 14 characters. As a Chinese proverb goes: 字越少，事越大。“The fewer the words, the bigger the issue.” Or if you don’t have anything nice to say, say nothing. pic.twitter.com/jOIHLK6t0B — Steve Hou (@stevehou) June 5, …
Wait…..do some people not know this is a bigger worse bubble than 2008? Really? https://t.co/n0BoMr4VK8 — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) June 2, 2025 BREAKING 🚨: U.S. Housing Market Home Sellers are now sitting on $700 Billion worth of inventory, the largest amount ever recorded 👀 pic.twitter.com/CSW9jrLjK0 — Barchart (@Barchart) June 2, 2025 We need a nice …
🇺🇸 Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index 6-month outlook for new orders -26. An all-time record low! Chart: @zerohedge pic.twitter.com/wmKOQNUzGZ — Alex Joosten (@joosteninvestor) April 23, 2025 Goldman Sachs, $GS, says to brace for a bigger stock drawdown, wider credit spreads and recession — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 23, 2025 JPMORGAN: MIGRATION CONCERNS HURTING U.S. TOURISM This is …
Home prices are set to drop in these 10 cities in 2025. Homebuyers and real estate investors will find more deals on the market in these cities, and lower prices throughout the year, if the current trends hold. Access our home price forecast for your area at www.reventure.app. The biggest area where home prices are …