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🚨 China's Real Estate Market has erased all gains from the last 20 years pic.twitter.com/ZIGemn0dPs — Hedgeye (@Hedgeye) April 28, 2026 🇨🇳 Housing prices in China are FALLING! “Houses are for living in, not for speculation.” – Xi Jinping pic.twitter.com/U176Wi1pFt — Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) April 28, 2026
OFFICE TOWERS PLUNGE UP TO WHOPPING 95% OFF AS A FIRE SALE SWEEPS THE US MARKET The US office market is in freefall. Aging towers are trading at fractions of their former worth as owners finally admit that the post-pandemic workplace is not coming back. From… pic.twitter.com/tzgdyX36Xs — FXHedge (@Fxhedgers) April 7, 2026 Rumors are …
'The ultra-rich are worried. The more money they have, the more they fear losing it': Expats fleeing Dubai are heading to Switzerland to continue dodging tax bills https://t.co/Y7iqCXejPX — Daily Mail (@DailyMail) March 17, 2026 The ultra-rich are growing increasingly anxious about protecting their fortunes as war in the Middle East fuels fears of wider …
So many jobs will be gone by fall. 🚨 Do you understand what just happened? A guy in Florida asked ChatGPT to sell his house. Not help him sell it. SELL IT. Pricing, Marketing, Showings, Contract.. Everything. Sold in 5 days. The average real estate agent takes 6% commission. On a $400K house that's $24,000.… …
🚨NYC Mayor socialist Zohran Mamdani has proposed lowering the exemption on the death tax (estate tax) from $7.1 million down to only $750,000. He would also increase the death tax from 16% to 50%. No other jurisdiction in the USA confiscates wealth at death from people with… pic.twitter.com/FMEXCxFyVG — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) March 13, …
by Martin Armstrong Everyone keeps asking if mortgage rates will collapse in 2026 as if the entire real estate market revolves around the Federal Reserve pulling a lever. That is simply not how the system actually functions. Mortgage rates are tied to long-term capital flows and the 10-year yield, not just whatever the Fed does …
Texas real estate agent testifies there is a massive scam going on where foreigners from India are being imported and they don’t have to qualify to be given apartments She says more Indian scammers come here and are buying homes She says fake companies are paying for apartments… pic.twitter.com/Zj5i5iqgqd — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February …
Jeffrey Epstein's estate agrees to $35M settlement in victim class action https://t.co/CBkI42b5De pic.twitter.com/IrNROlAaGo — New York Post (@nypost) February 20, 2026 Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has agreed to pay as much as $35 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that accused two of the disgraced financier’s advisers of aiding and abetting his sex trafficking of …
The Texas & Florida housing markets are on the cusp of massive financial crisis that last time saw home prices crash by 40% and flipped a booming economy right into a recession!
“The Fed published a research note in March 2025 that almost nobody read. It found that life insurers’ exposure to below-investment-grade debt now exceeds the industry’s exposure to subprime mortgage-backed securities in late 2007. Let that land. The same financial system that nearly collapsed from subprime has quietly built a larger position in an asset …
Stocks dropped on Thursday as investors began to worry about the negative side of the artificial intelligence buildout, which threatens to disrupt the business models of whole industries and raise unemployment. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 669.42 points, or 1.34%, to end at 49,451.98. The index was led lower by Cisco Systems , which …
by Martin Armstrong Redfin estimates there were 37.2% more home sellers than buyers in November, which is the largest gap since 2013 outside of last summer. The computer warned that the US would experience a buyer’s market until 2028. The imbalance does not translate into some 2008 era real estate crisis, but it highlights the confidence …
“December alone accounted for nearly 20% of the entire annual decline. At the same time, sales remain below 2019 levels despite population growth, while new listings are near multi-year highs even in December. That combination usually means prices haven’t finished adjusting yet.” h/t Key_Brief_8138
When most real estate agents sold nothing and layoffs are popping everywhere, anyone saying the economy is fine is either lying or too dumb to notice what’s right in front of them. 🚨US layoffs have surged to recessionary levels: US employers announced 1,206,374 job cuts in 2025, up +58% YoY, the highest since the 2020 …
The latest report from Rentals.ca and Urbanation said December 2025 was the 15th consecutive month that average asking rents across the former’s listings network moved lower. When measured across the full year, average asking rents in Canada declined 3.1% in 2025, which was a larger annual drop than during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, while rents …
"I believe real estate is going to have a very big correction." pic.twitter.com/ZuTW6X5RXj — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) January 2, 2026 What happens to the market when all of these retirees start selling their stocks to fund their retirements? https://t.co/LN6Ct08yeF — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) January 2, 2026 36.8% more buyers than sellers…. What happens next? pic.twitter.com/7Cy4mcgVSR …
via Macro_Untold Everyone talks about the “coming” crash, but if you look at the actual transaction logs from the last 6 months, the crash isn’t coming—it’s already here, and it’s being hidden by “Extend and Pretend” accounting. I’ve been digging into the specific numbers on the Blackstone 1740 Broadway default in NYC, and the math …
It's clear 99% of the public has no idea what's really going on here. Entire "donation" + more is written off to avoid taxes Bradley Gerstner setup the investment, pumping it back into the S&P $DELL & encouraging parents to invest more at the top of the largest bubble we've seen pic.twitter.com/7gHUkgxYJU — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) …
by confoundedinterest17 The US economy is goin’ home! The hysteria about tariffs is nonexistant. Latest estimate: 3.5 percent — December 05, 2025 The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the third quarter of 2025 is 3.5 percent on December 5, down from 3.8 percent on December 4. After this morning’s personal income …
$208 million wiped out: Yieldstreet investors rack up more losses as firm rebrands to Willow Wealth As Yieldstreet tries to distance itself from a rocky past with a new name and ad campaign, its customers are dealing with a present reality that is increasingly dire. The private markets investing startup, freshly rebranded as Willow Wealth, …
China's Real Estate Collapse Sends Local Debt To Record $18.9 Trillion https://t.co/htlQos8qIF — zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 4, 2025 Almost 20 years ago, when the Lehman/AIG collapse and the ensuing global financial crisis sent the world into a brief but acute depression, it was China’s massive debt-fueled growth dynamo that kick started the world economy and …
Wow, real estate brokers told the NYPost that the market is active? — allyourbase (@reverendshamil) November 9, 2025 “Every lot is desirable in Greenwich now,” said Mary Ann Heaven, a broker for Berkshire Hathaway in Greenwich — noting that she expects “50 or 60 parties” at an open house for a colonial home over the …
The real estate market is already starting to feel the impact of the massive layoffs at Amazon as some homeowners and buyers begin scrambling to deal with the fallout. KIRO 7 spoke with a pair of real estate brokers whose clients were among those laid off. They are already getting calls about selling their homes …
by confoundedinterest17 September US home sales printed at 4.06 million units. The US still hasn’t recovered from the Covid 19 outbreak of 2020 and the Fed’s response to Covid. On the commercial real estate side, CRE prices remain below Covid 19 outbreak levels.
The housing market has been the ONLY market that has remained oddly unphased out all the markets that have taken hits recently…and that fucker is GROSSLY OVER VALUED! — Blackpilled Millennial (@tronics_sniffer) October 12, 2025 I don't think you understand how truly fucked we are… Imagine 2008 but 10x the leverage, + a housing bubble, …
In 2021, someone dropped $5.6M ($100k over asking) on an Oakville (Canada) home the day it went on the market. Today after 4 months on the market they sold for a $1M loss. byu/Boo_Randy_II inHouseBuyers “Homeowners in Florida pay the highest average annual premium of all the states ($2,437), and Texas is not far behind …
Fun fact. In order to revive the stalling real estate market, Chinese government halted projects under construction and demolished buildings which could accommodate over 75 million people (more than the entire population of the United Kingdom).pic.twitter.com/YbnCScKi1V — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 16, 2025 Japan’s Kajima Cut and Take Down method demolishes buildings from the bottom up …
A glut of housing supply is building in the Southern U.S. Home builders now have 9.6 months of supply on their lots — the 2nd-highest in 40 years. The long-term average is just 5.7 months, meaning the South is 68% oversupplied today. That’s good news for buyers. All this… pic.twitter.com/E3mHdk1D8A — Nick Gerli (@nickgerli1) September …
The Trumps’ New Crypto Money Maker: Deals With Themselves The $750 million circular transaction—with the same party as buyer and seller—is more common in the crypto world than in traditional finance The Trump family engineered a new deal for its flagship crypto venture that stands to earn over half a billion dollars. One unusual element: …