Wall Street’s AI darlings hit funding wall after lenders tighten and long term yields surge. Eerie repeat of 2000 and 2007 as consumer discretionary stocks sink for months while S&P hits new highs classic pre crash setup returns

Mag 7 cutting buybacks and borrowing while private credit guys talk about heavy drawdowns and yields keep grinding higher is not “AI strength,” it’s stress showing through the paint. Money isn’t cheap anymore, lenders are pulling back, and somehow people still act like companies can burn billions a quarter forever. Then you look at the …

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Eerie Parallels Between AI Mania and Dot-Com Bubble… S.E.C. Was Tough on Crypto. Pulled Back After Trump Returned to Office…

Bulls deny that there’s a 1990s-style bubble in AI. There are a few striking similarities, and some notable differences. Is it karma? Coincidence? Either way, the ghost of the dot-com bubble is back 25 years later. Shares in Cisco Systems CSCO -1.85%decrease; red down pointing triangle, the dot-com-era champion that became the world’s most valuable …

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Job market stalls in eerie replay of pre-crisis calm

Job openings are falling. Unemployment is flat.We’ve seen this movie before. The 2020–2025 labor market setup is starting to rhyme with 2007, when JOLTS rolled over quietly, and the unemployment rate held steady… until it didn’t. Not a perfect correlation yet, but one H2… pic.twitter.com/lCiYvZUDqL — Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) July 8, 2025

Hurricane Milton locks down Florida cities, 13-foot surge in Tampa threatens 500,000 homes, eerie footage emerges.

Several Florida cities and counties are preparing to lockdown or establish curfews amid predictions Hurricane Milton’s impact could be worse than the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, with Milton hurtling through the Gulf of Mexico towards Florida’s west coast. Many appear to have already gotten out of town or holed up indoors, with video showing …

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Déjà vu: 2008’s eerie replay in 2024 – manipulated rates, speculative frenzy, collapsing home sales, and economic uncertainties. But this time, missing global saviors.

The specter of the 2008 housing crisis is haunting 2024, echoing familiar themes of manipulated interest rates and speculative asset mania. The belief that “prices only go up” has fueled a dangerous déjà vu, reminiscent of the days preceding the previous crash. As rates rise, home sales volumes collapse, and builders resort to offering incentives …

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