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Tech concentration turns the stock market into a violent algo casino with sky-high peaks and razor-sharp drops. Ninety percent of trading now runs on machines so fundamentals got tossed out the window. AI supercharges every headline and earnings beat into instant bloodbaths or moonshots. WELCOME TO THE NEW STOCK MARKET As the market continues to …
95-year-old Buffett parks $380 billion in cash while flat-out warning the dollar could collapse. Market is now a church with a casino bolted on and the casino has never been more packed. Avis rental car gets GameStop-style meme-squeezed while Buffett calls one-day options pure gambling. Oracle admits he no longer understands most businesses and sees …
The greenback is gaining ground this afternoon, the USD/EUR exchange rate hit its highest level of the month as risk sentiment sours… Japan’s currency intervention last week is already fading, the yen is sliding again as the interest rate gap with the U.S. remains a canyon… Safe-haven demand for the dollar is being fueled by …
Well I didn’t see this coming.. For those who are blind to these ongoing global affairs.. it’s all about the US Dollar vs Chinese Yuan. Who controls the money, controls the world. But USA could have just pulled out a card I did not see coming. A deal with Indonesia. Block the straight of Malacca …
🚨 JUST IN: FBI Director Kash Patel has filed a $250 MILLION defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic after they published a story claiming Patel is regularly too drunk to go to go to work Good. Force that leftist rag into bankruptcy. “We HAVE to fight back against the fake… pic.twitter.com/XyFBNy4OKd — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April …
Government promising fast money on a massive claims process… yeah, expect friction, not speed. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO BEGIN REFUNDING $166B IN TARIFFS The U.S. government will start refunding up to $166 billion in Trump-era tariffs after the Supreme Court ruled the policy unlawful. From April 20, businesses can file claims through a new Customs system …
by Martin Armstrong The Banco Central do Brasil has raised gold’s share of reserves from 3.55% to 7.19% in just one year, effectively doubling its exposure and making gold the second-largest reserve asset after the US dollar, while total reserves stand at approximately $358.23 billion and the dollar’s share has declined to about 72%, marking a …
By weaponizing the USD and SWIFT and terrorizing banks all over the world he is just accelerating the demise of the US dollar as reserve currency. He made his money, with George Soros, destroying the Japanese Yen and then the British Pound. Is the US dollar his next victim? — Ignatius van Zyl (@naasvzyl) April …
MUST-SEE: PM Mark Carney states that "the days of [Canada's] military sending 70 cents of every dollar to the United States are over."pic.twitter.com/8Rq4XIaCQJ — Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) April 11, 2026 “The days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollar to the United States are over.” He received a standing ovation after saying …
By Peter Reagan The U.S. dollar has been the world’s reserve currency (as the petrodollar) for decades now, but the current conflict in the Middle East seems to have accelerated the dedollarization trend. Now, I’m not talking about an immediate radical shift in how the world approaches the dollar. But I am talking about a clear …
The world is moving away from Washington, since the war on Iran has cost America their dollar dominance. At least something good is coming out of this war, with heavy sacrifices from Iran. — Melike (@MelikeEcin) April 10, 2026
Several countries across Asia are confirming they experienced major dollar funding losses last month amidst a cash crunch on surging demand for money to buy oil. Officials in Taiwan, Indonesia, India and in other places have had to scramble to contain the monetary pressure, causing several of them to expend significant reserves just to keep …
This is literally insane So many people showed up to oppose a $6 billion dollar data center in Missouri they had to use bleachers The whole crowd yells and chants they don’t want the data center Festus City Council voted to approve the data center anyway right in their faces pic.twitter.com/I9xOyK9U4p — Wall Street Apes …
This is the end of the petrodollar The deal was that the US would provide the GCC ruling families with military support. In exchange, the ruling families promised to sell their oil in USD and recycle their vast surpluses into US assets. This was crucial for the US, as it had just defaulted on the …
raq. Libya. Syria. Iran. Every single country that tried to abandon the US dollar was sanctioned, destabilized, or destroyed. This is not a coincidence — it’s a pattern that has repeated for over 50 years. In this video, we trace the origins of the petrodollar system back to Henry Kissinger’s secret 1974 deal with Saudi …
Trump’s signature will appear on U.S. dollar bills in a redesign marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, replacing the long-standing signature of the U.S. Treasurer. pic.twitter.com/4uyMrDqcsK — Open Source Intel (@Osint613) March 27, 2026 President Donald Trump will become the first-ever US president to have his signature appear on every US dollar starting this …
President Donald Trump is adding his name to U.S. dollar bills, the first time a sitting president’s signature will go on paper currency, the Treasury Department announced Thursday. Trump’s signature will go on the bills in honor of the country’s 250th anniversary, the Treasury said. Historically, paper currency carries the signatures of the treasury secretary …
$GLD is sitting at oversold levels with RSI under 30 while the dollar trades below 100. That combination doesn’t make fundamental sense. Gold down, dollar down, fear at 14.9. This is the “sell what you can, not what you want” phase. Margin calls don’t care about your thesis. March 2020, gold dropped 12% in a …
Liquidations, not mere selling. There’s more going on behind the scenes than you think. Critical metals being liquidated means a growing worldwide dollar problem. Possibly a big one. While central bankers are running around talking about rate hikes because they wrongly believe oil prices are inflationary, where it actually matters we’re already seeing the total …
TraderHC @traderhc The dollar just broke below 99 during a genuine risk-off episode. Read that situation carefully. $DXY is supposed to rally when $VIX is at 25 and fear gauges are flashing. That’s the Dollar Smile theory. Crisis means dollar strength. Instead, the greenback is making new lows. The 2-year yield at 3.56% tells the …
Mac10 @SuburbanDrone Middle East analysts are saying that Iran regretted having agreed to the ceasefire last June 2025, because they feared that it would embolden Israel and the U.S. to attack again. And they were right. So in the meantime they prepared for a long-term war of attrition. And this time they have no intention …
🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: The US has spent nearly 2 billion dollars on the war in Iran, according to estimates. pic.twitter.com/uKjI7wFMKe — Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) March 3, 2026 🚨BREAKING: JESSE WATTERS TURNS ON TRUMP “Gas prices are gonna jump. Mortgage rates are already ticking up. You're gonna see inflation.” pic.twitter.com/cHygnRCxfm — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) March 2, …
Another day, several more critical development in the credit markets. Loss projections are soaring. A second fund stepped forward acknowledging asset sales (at lower prices). Big (related) shift in rates markets that ties in the Fed, yield curve, and everything else. Here we go over all three; what happened, what it all means.
Gold has overtaken the U.S. Dollar as the largest Global Reserve Asset 🚨🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/IM2ataEtgZ — Barchart (@Barchart) January 24, 2026 Gold is clocking ~200$/o per monthSilver is clocking ~10$/o per monthin the tariff-era capital flows re-direction since last summer. There is healthy episodic push back from pussybanksters but resistance remains futile because the East has …
Something massive is happening in the global financial system right now, and most people aren’t paying attention. The US dollar is quietly losing its strength, gold just surpassed $5,000 an ounce, silver broke through $100, and central banks around the world are making unprecedented moves to distance themselves from fiat currencies. In this video, we …
By Peter Reagan As a general rule, I don’t recommend blindly following institutional investors. After all, their incentives are different from yours. They manage quarterly performance pressure. They answer to boards and beneficiaries. They navigate regulatory frameworks most of us never think about. But I also don’t ignore them. When pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and global asset managers …
Gold is roaring because the US has stopped pretending. The polite version is “strong dollar policy.” The real version is: we will accept and even welcome, a softer dollar to win the trade war and rebuild American industry Gold Made an ATH at $5,500+ and the dollar keeps sliding. Most people think it’s just “safe-haven …
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President Xi of China has announced that he has set China’s yuan on a “strong” course to become a global reserve/trade currency. President Trump has set the US on a course to help him out. by David Haggith Xi’s plan to position China’s currency, the yuan, for “international trade, investment, and foreign exchange” is perfectly …
