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Two weeks to film. $3mil budget. The greatest financial movie of all time. pic.twitter.com/zK1u4B3jHq — Tyler (@TylerDurden) July 11, 2026 Sorry to ruin your day with facts. 3.38mil final cost. https://t.co/zXcDwBXffh — Tyler (@TylerDurden) July 11, 2026
Capex booms like this rarely pay back for the buyers, history shows telecoms and shale. Extreme concentration in one or two stocks makes markets fragile and volatile. The largest misallocation of capital in financial history. We are watching some of the greatest companies in the world (Hyperscalers) commit suicide… https://t.co/O2qAZmsz0B — The Maverick of Wall …
via gainspainscapital The U.S. is looking poorly on the global stage. For one thing, the debacle in Iran is dragging on far too long. Iran’s military capabilities are nowhere near the level of the U.S. And while the U.S. has crippled Iran’s navy, air force, and most of its missile defense systems, the latter nation …
The middle class is definitely gone. You’re either wealthy or a $1,000 repair from financial stress. But most Americans put themselves in this position by living above their means. I know that will ruffle some feathers but it’s 100% true. https://t.co/zoU58S14oE pic.twitter.com/x0E4SYHSbb — Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) June 23, 2026 The don’t care part is what …
This is one of the most reliable sell signals in history. Just look at TIME’s latest issue. I’ve been doing this since 1981, and when I see a cover like that, I don’t get excited. Because history has a brutal sense of humor about moments exactly like this one: In 1979, BusinessWeek ran the most …
Trump family’s crypto firm World Liberty Financial to receive approval for a national trust bank license from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The OCC expects to advance the banking charter for USD1 on and off-ramps despite ethics concerns and political scrutiny. Trump Family’s World Liberty Financial Nears Securing Bank License from …
Is this a warning before the next crash? The bond market is flashing a major warning sign — and most Americans have no idea how serious this could get. Rising bond yields, collapsing consumer strength, record household exposure to stocks and real estate, and growing stress in the global financial system are all pointing toward …
WE HAVE NEVER BEEN THIS BROKE… Searches for ‘can’t pay credit card’ smash records… 11% of accounts now seriously delinquent… Savings rate vanishes… 🚨 Americans have never been this broke before. Google searches for “can’t pay credit card” just hit an all time high. At the same time, US consumer confidence has collapsed to one …
By telling struggling voters that he doesn’t even think about their financial stress while he pursues a regime change in Tehran Donald Trump is effectively burying his own base alive. For years he promised that the forgotten man and woman would never be forgotten again but today he made it clear that their ability to …
The IMF is openly warning that frontier AI models like Claude Mythos may have shattered the traditional cybersecurity timeline entirely. In a new blog post published today, IMF researchers warned that AI is driving the cost and time needed to discover zero day vulnerabilities toward “near zero,” creating what they describe as a growing threat …
Budget carriers pin their collapse on skyrocketing fuel tied straight to Middle East conflict. JetBlue is now formally warning us of a potential bankruptcy as fuel costs continue to skyrocket due to the Trump war. One analysis put their odds of filing for bankruptcy at 75%. Frontier is also on Bankruptcy watch with the same …
via Exact-Paramedic-3357 Someone asked me this in another post and honestly it’s the kind of question that if you haven’t asked yourself yet you probably haven’t thought about this deeply enough. Everyone’s too busy debating which coin is going to moon or whether crypto is a scam. Meanwhile the actual architecture of what comes next …
30-year yield at 5% is not the real shock on its own The persistence above 4.5% is the part markets keep underestimating In 2000 the 30-year sat around 6.5% at peaks But US debt levels were nowhere near today’s ~$1.9T deficit scale Now the rate is lower, but the debt base is vastly larger That …
by Michael Americans were not even this stressed about their financial situations during the Great Recession. As you will see below, a brand new Gallup survey has discovered that 55 percent of Americans believe that their finances are getting worse. That is higher than any reading that Gallup recorded during the recession of 2008 and …
#URGENT THIS IS A FULL-BLOWN OIL SHOCK 14.5 MILLION BARRELS PER DAY — WIPED OUT. GONE. The Gulf isn’t just disrupted… it’s crippled. Crude production has COLLAPSED by a staggering 57% in April, and even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens, recovery won’t be quick. 💣 Goldman Sachs warns: “FULL RESTORATION COULD TAKE MONTHS.” Here’s …
Whitney Webb just broke down exactly how the globalists are rolling out digital IDs as the backbone of Agenda 2030, and it’s straight-up dystopian control. She explained: “CBDCs and digital IDs are meant to go together… Without digital IDs, the CBDC digital finance system cannot exist.” “They have to know who you are. And so …
Shadow banking is basically the 2008 subprime sequel but with different branding. the sec poking around now means the smoke is finally getting too thick to ignore. Private credit firms have been marking their own homework for years with these valuations, and we all know how that ends. U.S. Officials Try to Get a Grip …
Saudi Fund to Back Away From LIV Golf Under Mounting Financial Pressures The Saudi league, established in 2022, attracted some of the sport’s biggest stars with huge contracts. Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is on the verge of announcing it will withdraw financial support from LIV Golf, the upstart golf circuit it launched four years …
🚨BREAKING: Great news ,the BBC has been forced to let go of more than 2,000 employees (10% of total workforce) as they face SIGNIFICANT financial constraints This comes after millions of Brits boycotted the far-left propaganda machine. The collapse of the BBC is imminent!… pic.twitter.com/tEJ5L3WscH — Knights Templar International (@KnightsTempOrg) April 15, 2026 BREAKING: The …
Shiller P/E is over 40, which is higher than any time in the last 150 years except a few months before the dotcom bubble top. 🚨ONE OF THE SCARIEST CHARTS IN MARKETS RIGHT NOW US households have 52% of their financial assets in equities. The highest level ever recorded.Higher than the Dotcom peak.Higher than 2007.Higher …
THE FED IS NOW PRIVATELY PREPARING FOR A POSSIBLE $2 TRILLION CREDIT MARKET COLLAPSE. For the first time in over a decade, the Fed has started directly asking U.S. banks to hand over their exposure numbers to the private credit market. This is the exact move regulators make when they stop trusting public numbers and …
Programs like this don’t just appear out of nowhere, they get built quietly over time. If it’s being talked about now, it’s probably been running longer than anyone thinks. Your entire browsing history, private messages and financial details could be released for ANYONE to read: TOM LEONARD reveals crisis talks over Armageddon new program – …
Fed Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with the heads of major U.S. banks to discuss the cyber threat of Anthropic’s new Mythos model. Anthropic rolled out Mythos this week in a limited capacity over concerns that hackers could exploit its capabilities. JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon was the only major banking CEO who …
President Donald Trump said ‘Tuesday will be power plant day’ and added that the US plans to start bombing electricity infrastructure unless Iran opens the Strait of Hormuz. Al Jazeera’s Hala Al Shami looks at the dangers of potential attacks. pic.twitter.com/iHUSM0Haye — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) April 7, 2026 If Donald Trump follows through on …
NEW WOLRD ORDER 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 While no one was looking China has DUMPED U.S. treasuries to levels not seen since the 2008 financial crisis. They’ve HALVED their holdings from $1.3T to $650B. At the same time they have been super-accumulating the lifeblood of the NEW system… Gold. pic.twitter.com/kT3jjQdYOt — ADAM (@AdameMedia) April 6, 2026 💥💥💥 …
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 …
by Martin Armstrong California lawmakers are now advancing a measure that would allow race-based preferences in financial aid, which is remarkable when you consider that the state constitution has explicitly prohibited such practices since 1996. Proposition 209 banned the state from granting “preferential treatment” based on race in public education, employment, and contracting, yet once again, we …
China’s financial sector is entering another phase of pay compression, with senior bankers at state-backed institutions bracing for bonus cuts of at least 30% as regulators push forward with compensation reforms. Department heads at two major state-owned banks saw their 2025 bonuses reduced by 30% to 50%, while division chiefs at a mid-sized national lender …
