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Saylor sold Bitcoin for the first time, Stretch hit $90, and the self-perpetuating death spiral I’ve been warning about just started. Blackstone just issued one of the biggest warnings yet on the U.S. economy. The world’s largest alternative asset manager is now restricting withdrawals from a flagship private credit fund after investor redemption requests surged …
Europe already canceling flights and gutting schedules as jet fuel turns very very tight. US next in line because record American exports leave domestic refiners fighting the same barrels. The CEO of Chevron just said it out loud. "We're starting to see risks of supply outages in some of these economies." Europe is already there. …
Cracks in the US private credit market are widening: Investors requested a record -$14.0 billion in redemptions from private credit funds in Q1 2026. This is up +146% from -$5.7 billion in Q4 2025 and +278% higher than the -$3.7 billion in the full year 2024. Meanwhile, just… pic.twitter.com/wBJ3bUSW1X — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) April …
🚨🌍 THE WORLD HAS 2–3 WEEKS BEFORE COLLAPSE Luke Gromen says supply chains are already cracking under pressure. He says if nothing changes, the global economy won’t hold much longer.@LukeGromen https://t.co/QYajJHCA85 pic.twitter.com/T4PyWG3vRl — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 26, 2026 Per Grok: If the US-Israel-Iran war extends another 2-3 weeks (now ~4 weeks in): – **Energy**: …
Something strange is happening across the American economy right now. Not one single dramatic collapse. Not one headline catastrophe. Instead, pressure is building in several completely different corners of the system at the exact same time. Transportation. Consumer debt. Labor shortages. Monetary policy. Individually these developments might look manageable. But when you line them up …
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump has Marco Rubio CRACKING UP after joking about firing him because his speech in Munich was so good 🤣 "Marco, don't do any better than you did, please! If you do, YOU'RE OUT OF HERE!" "Marco does it with a velvet glove, but it's a kill!" 😂 "You… pic.twitter.com/zTrqKh6iCi — Eric …
Florida, Texas and California are now firmly at the center of America’s housing crash – accounting for 12 of the 14 major metro areas where home prices are falling. The sharpest drop was recorded in Dallas, TX, where median sale prices slid 7.6 percent from a year earlier. Florida’s once-red-hot housing market is also cracking, …
They keep telling people everything is fine while quietly shoving emergency cash into the system like it is a house fire at 3 a.m. When banks start dumping mortgage paper just to get overnight money, that is not confidence, that is panic dressed up as plumbing. The scary part is not the headlines you see, …
THE SNEAKER MARKET JUST COLLAPSED – AND NOBODY KNOWS WHY A sneaker shop owner says the entire market “died overnight.” And the numbers are insane: • Shoes that were $500–$600 now won’t move at $300 • Jordan 1s sitting for $90 • Dunks and GRs gathering dust • Even HEAT priced under retail isn’t selling …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Borrowing more to maintain spending is hanging on by one’s fingernails, not middle-class security. The middle class is cracking, but if you want a statistic that “proves” this, there isn’t one. The cracking isn’t a statistic,it’s the culmination of observations logged over the past 15 years about these critical measures …
BREAKING: U.S. foreclosure rates surge 32% YoY. — Polymarket (@Polymarket) November 23, 2025 2025 is hitting Americans hard: – 2.2 million+ cars repo’d, heading toward a 3M record year. – 326,000 homes in foreclosure filings. – Commercial real estate drowning: delinquencies at 7.46%, office over 11%. This is what real financial stress looks like across …
Trying to figure this out… everyone already knows you should NOT be buying right now, but someone got sold on this property and for them to put up $300k would still leave them with a $1M mortgage so I’m even confused how the $6k is clearing, let alone producing? 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/RlKvWWTtgz — Jordan Lamonte III …
💥BREAKING: 🇯🇵 JAPAN’S 10-YEAR YIELD JUMPS TO HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS. pic.twitter.com/YDicvBvKV3 — Crypto Rover (@cryptorover) November 17, 2025 JAPAN JUST KILLED THE GLOBAL MONEY PRINTER AND NOBODY NOTICED The most dangerous number in finance right now is 1.71%. That’s Japan’s 10-year bond yield. Highest since 2008. Here’s why your retirement just …
And now they want a bailout already… pic.twitter.com/tB6DtpKj74 — Curtis Lemay (@CurtisLemay) November 5, 2025 Securing government backed bailout before they actually need them, you can't make this up. — blake (@blakestonks) November 6, 2025 A top market analyst’s warning in late October about a looming “prisoner’s dilemma” and an “AI wobble” in the stock …
They finally figured out that they both have so much trouble at home, that neither can afford a trade/cold/hot war…. Why the sudden reversal on the trade war? Something doesn’t smell right. Weekend futures keep dropping. Tonight’s open will be interesting https://t.co/Ml9p0K76r1 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) November 2, 2025 Q: Do you agree that the …
So jobs at Wendy’s is off the table now I guess. WARNING 🚨 BANKS BORROW $50 BILLION IN EMERGENCY LIQUIDITY FROM FED REPO WINDOW TODAY ‼️ 🚩 $20 BILLION THIS MORNING AND $30 BILLION MORE IN THE AFTERNOON ⚠️ CRISIS INCOMING 🚩 https://t.co/lLWvoC191y pic.twitter.com/ekoTvK6ewz — The Butcher of Wall Street Marcel Kalinovic (@BossBlunts1) October 31, …
The labor market is going from frozen to cracking. Look at how many industries have LOST jobs in the past 3 months. Mining -13,000Construction -10,000Manufacturing -31,000Information -15,000Business/Professional -51,000Federal gov't -34,000Finance 0 job gains The US job… pic.twitter.com/BsUYoCTMX3 — Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) September 5, 2025 Fox Business announcing today’s horrendous job numbers live: pic.twitter.com/tOfItA9s9f — Spencer …
Nearly 1 in 10 Americans can’t afford minimum credit card payments. With household debt surging past $18 trillion, the foundation of our economy – consumer spending – looks increasingly shaky. Here’s what happens when borrowing breaks down… By Peter Reagan In our modern day and age of economics, the health of the economy is usually …
President Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday that would seek to criminalize certain actions related to burning the American flag, NewsNation has learned. The order would direct Attorney General Pam Bondi to review cases where someone burned an American flag and determine whether charges can be brought under existing laws such as public …
Unemployment claims are climbing fastest for higher-income households. If white-collar stress builds, markets should brace for slower discretionary spending, a key driver for growth stocks tied to consumer demand. pic.twitter.com/uKpZZ4sNzN — Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) August 16, 2025 A Bank of America Institute report shows higher-income households claiming unemployment benefits spiked between February and …
The final week of July 2025 is not a policy moment. It’s a collision of pressure points. The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates at 4.25% to 4.5% for the fifth straight meeting. The decision lands Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET. Trump’s push for cuts has intensified, with direct pressure on Powell and …
ChatGPT passed a CAPTCHA test today. Not by accident, not through a browser quirk, but by clicking straight through the “I’m not a robot” checkbox. It fooled a system designed to block bots, and it did it cleanly. This is not just a party trick. If bots can pass human tests, the web’s default defenses …
For the first time in U.S. history, a human heart was transplanted without opening the chest. No rib spreaders. No saw. No cracked sternum. The team at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center used a robotic system to remove and replace a failing heart through small incisions below the diaphragm. The patient walked out a month …
America’s most expensive housing market is right here in the bay area in Santa Clara county as far as large areas where people actually live. But even here the housing market is showing signs of cracking with inventory. Starting to pile up price is getting stale and more homes with the price cut than we …
"We are going to discover just like we did from the 2005-2008 time period, that this perception that there is an incredible shortage of housing is simply wrong." pic.twitter.com/BGlNAraweK — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) June 19, 2025 we know what's going on pic.twitter.com/3qd615gfqm — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) June 20, 2025 There are roughly 14.9 million vacant …
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 headlines still dance around the truth, but anyone watching closely knows something is seriously wrong with real estate in 2025. Home prices are starting to slip. Inventory is rising. Buyers are backing away. And this time, consumers are more financially broken than ever before. In November 2007, home prices began to decline. One month …
Feds: pic.twitter.com/WPERDG22oi — bossbabymom1 (@bossbabymom1) February 21, 2025
Shipping rates have plunged in January. The sinking demand for raw materials is another warning about the state of the economy in 2025. It was one echoed yet again by American consumers who, after a short reprieve on rate cuts and election, are right back to worrying about jobs and incomes all over again.