Strip out the headlines. Ignore the stock market charts. Forget the talking points. The American economy is flashing stress signals everywhere you look.

The U.S. economy is showing signs of strain that official headlines aren’t capturing. Despite stock market gains, underlying indicators suggest a slowdown. Labor market indicators are weakening. Initial jobless claims for the week ending June 28, 2025, were 227,980, a slight decrease from the previous week. However, continuing claims increased to 1,974,000, up from 1,937,000 …

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240 Km/h Wind SLAMS China! Trees Down, Cars Flipped, Chaos Everywhere

240 Km/h Wind SLAMS China! Trees Down, Cars Flipped, Chaos Everywhere Unbelievable scenes from Zhejiang, China, as devastating 230km/h winds wreak havoc across cities and rural communities. This extreme weather event has caused massive destruction, tearing off roofs, toppling trees, and flipping cars. Watch shocking real footage of the storm’s raw power as emergency crews …

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Crisis In Japan: Massive Debt Is Collapsing Japan’s Entire Economy, Protests Everywhere

Right now, Japan is facing what might be its most severe economic crisis since World War II. Angry protesters are gathering outside government buildings in Tokyo, shouting “We are not your ATM!” Rice – the cornerstone of Japanese culture – has disappeared from supermarket shelves. Families are surviving on rice seasoning because they can’t afford …

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All-time high calls drown out collapsing economic data, yields rising everywhere while debt bomb ticks louder, global central banks trapped

Bank of America calling for ATH pic.twitter.com/02CKeH2VjO — TT3 (@TradingThomas3) May 20, 2025 Perhaps the real reason the Fed has been reluctant to cut interest rates is that FOMC members realize that doing so will result in long-term rates rising. Since higher long-term rates will amount to an unwarranted tightening, the best way the Fed …

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Recession is in the Air Everywhere!

by David Haggith When money is a global weapon Today brought a storm of news strongly confirming all the points I laid out in my weekend Deeper Dive as to why we are certainly heading deep into a recession and into rising inflation at the same time, which would be “stagflation.” All contary to the one stock analyst I …

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Rising yields threaten Japan’s financial system. If Japan loses control, the ripple effects will be felt everywhere.

The 10-year Japanese Government Bond (JGB) yield has hit a 16-year high, creeping toward 1.75%. That may not sound extreme by global standards, but in Japan’s fragile system, even small increases in borrowing costs send shockwaves through the economy. The Bank of Japan has spent years suppressing rates with aggressive bond-buying. Now, markets are testing …

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It’s pretty wild to say, but Intel now has the single greatest bang for your buck GPU on the market. Sold out everywhere. A total triumph.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/intel-arc-b580-review The $400 price range is the most competitive GPU market. Most users are stuck using xx50-60series cards(steam GPU survey). If intel can break into this market at a lower price point, they could eat up a good size chunk of the market. Most kids buy prebuilt, and Prebuilt pcs will rush to get these …

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Black woman is seeing a “dangerous increase in black Trump supporters… “THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!”

“I’m starting to see a dangerous increase in black Trump supporters. I thought these were outliers [but] every time I turn around, there’s another black person who is in support of Donald Trump… IT’S LIKE I’M SURROUNDED!” Some black men leave the Democratic Plantation this year, black women follow in 2028. This is an existential …

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‘Looters everywhere’ in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene

https://twitter.com/GreenbackNote/status/1840598774277706107 NEW: 8 alleged migrants have been arrested in Eastern, Tennessee for robbing flood victims as local communities try to recover from apocalyptic flooding. Local Americans are helping their neighbors in need however some migrants are capitalizing on the tragedy. Albin Nahun… pic.twitter.com/aJTaugYJ6G — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 30, 2024

“Everywhere Is Garbage”: Chinese Making Documentaries About America’s Collapse

The Chinese are now producing documentaries on the collapse of American cities. What this showcases is the grim aftermath of decades of deindustrialization, disastrous progressive policies, and an opioid crisis—ironically fueled by China. “Chinese are making documentaries about ultra-extreme poverty and decaying cities since they don’t exist in China anymore,” X user S.L. Kanthan wrote …

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Nate Silver — Trump is winning everywhere.

.@FiveThirtyEight Polling Average National🟥 Trump: 41.0% (+0.9)🟦 Biden: 40.1%🟨 RFK Jr: 9.2% • June 13, 2020: Biden +8.1• 2020 final average: Biden +8.4—June 13, 2024 vs [June 13, 2020] • Arizona: Trump +4.3 [Biden +4.0] • Pennsylvania: Trump +1.4 [Biden +4.2]… https://t.co/7soOpA26IL pic.twitter.com/5dXZTbu1Qg — InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) June 13, 2024

Elections in all 27 EU countries to be held this weekend. Right wing populism is leading everywhere.

PARIS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen isn’t on the ballot at the weekend’s European Parliament election, but she’s likely to emerge as one of its biggest winners. Polls expect her National Rally party to be the top vote-getter in France, trouncing President Emmanuel Macron’s moderate pro-business party. And across Europe, the anti-immigration, nationalist ideas Le Pen has long championed …

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Child care costs more than a mortgage payment or rent almost everywhere in the U.S.: ‘There is no escaping it’

Housing costs may have gotten out of control, but there’s another expense that now poses an even greater burden to many American families: child care. Jessica Norwood, a working mother of two in North Carolina and host of the financial-literacy show “The Sugar Daddy Podcast,” said daycare costs when her two children were ages 3 …

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Why are Measles cases popping up everywhere. Hmm CNN, what could it possibly be.

Nearly a dozen cases of measles have been reported in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Georgia in recent weeks, according to local health departments. International travel, coupled with declining global vaccination rates, is probably behind this spate of cases, experts say. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health has confirmed at least nine cases of measles over the …

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The chaos in Ecuador continues. Shootings and murders everywhere in the cities.

BREAKING: ⚡ 🇪🇨 The chaos in Ecuador continues. Shootings and murders everywhere in the cities.https://t.co/BDF18qvsMS pic.twitter.com/VGusHZOVwB — Megatron (@Megatron_ron) January 10, 2024 The government has declared a shutdown of the electricity grid and the Internet in certain areas of Ecuador. The situation in Ecuador is escalating👌 pic.twitter.com/IHAkEplaly — nikola 3 (@ronin19217435) January 10, 2024 https://twitter.com/_/status/1745041251303301167 …

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Markets tanked in 1Q18, 1Q20, 1Q22. And there are signs everywhere that the pattern is going to hold into 1Q24.

https://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/2023/12/weekly-commentary-2023-year-in-review.html Amazingly, the MMF complex has become the predominant financier to one of history’s greatest leveraged speculations – a speculative Bubble now at the heart of ongoing government finance Bubble “terminal phase” excess. Even more stunning is the lax regulatory environment for such a critical – with well-recognized vulnerability – financial system focal point. And …

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Regime Media is freaking over these two Trump clips. Second clip. ‘I will be a dictator on day one.’… The ‘dictator angle’ is everywhere in media.

Hannity asks Trump if he has plans to become a dictator. Notably, Trump immediately changes the topic and doesn't answer the question. pic.twitter.com/47dDLSw69X — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 6, 2023 Hannity asks Trump for a second time if he has plans to abuse power. Trump admits he plans to do some dictatorial things on "day …

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Rickards: Bad Omens Are Everywhere

via JAMES RICKARDS: Analysts note that U.S. inflation is coming down and that interest rates are coming down at the same time. Many assume this is good news for the economy and especially good news for stocks. But that superficial analysis does not hold up to scrutiny. With regard to interest rates, it is true …

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CPI: An Outright Lie! But everyone believed it so much they raised a toast to dying inflation and threw celebrations everywhere.

by DAVID HAGGITH Photo by Quan Nguyen on Unsplash While I’m going to wait until the weekend in my “Deeper Dive” to lay out what really happened in beneath the surface of CPI and what an outright lie that report is so that I can let my head cool before writing, I’ll note that one normally soft-spoken economist …

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The Big Picture right now is a world on the verge of a massive global financial system crisis, economic depression and wars everywhere.

by mark000 In August 2008 what was about to happen? A GFC and the plunge stage of the Great Recession. And 99% of people were blissfully unaware even as the other 1% could see it inevitable arrival, just waiting for when. It is the same situation right now, October 2023. 🔴 IMF'S MANAGING DIRECTOR GEORGIEVA: …

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“Cars Spinning Everywhere”: Train Carrying Military Vehicles Derails In Colorado Springs

A freight train operated by Union Pacific Railway, hauling heavy military vehicles, derailed near downtown Colorado Springs Monday night. Local news KKTV 11 reported eight train cars hauling heavy military equipment derailed along Las Vegas Street, just south of Circle Drive, around 1830 local time. Happening Now At approximately 6:30 PM on Monday, October 9, …

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Respect for the elderly has been lost everywhere

Barcelona/Spain: Moroccan robs an elderly woman and assaults her with a strong punch to the face. The woman is in critical condition and is fighting for her life. https://twitter.com/_/status/1703648019583832253 Wilmington, Del.: A 68-year old Korean-American jewelry shop owner was pistol-whipped & assaulted with a hammer on Sept. 15 by a black male suspect during a …

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