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THE WAR JUST MOVED INTO THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM: Iran just told everyone in the region to stay 1 kilometer away from US and Israeli banks and financial centers. This came after the US and Israel struck Iranian banks overnight. Iran’s …
by confoundedinterest17 Global uncertainty hits an ALL-TIME HIGH. Higher than Covid, the 2008 financial crisis, and the dot-com crash COMBINED. You know what that means!
Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK 🚨 BREAKING: CRACKS APPEARING IN THE FINANCIAL GIANTS For the first time in its history, BlackRock’s $26 billion HPS Corporate Lending Fund is facing major withdrawal pressure. Investors requested $1.2 billion in redemptions in a single quarter …
RECORD 401(k) WITHDRAWALS SIGNAL FINANCIAL STRAIN A record share of Americans are tapping retirement savings as financial pressure rises. In 2025, 6% of workers with plans run by Vanguard Group made hardship withdrawals—up from 4.8% in 2024 and about 2% …
Federal Reserve Financial Services (FedACH) is currently experiencing a partial outage, with confirmed issues affecting the FedACH service. StatusGator reports that other components of the Federal Reserve Financial Services are operational, but users relying on FedACH for electronic payments may …
Nearly half of Americans in a new WalletHub survey said their household can’t manage more debt, while more than one-third said they expect to have higher balances by the end of 2026. Fifty-three percent of households said the struggle the …
Macro vulnerability increasing ahead of automation wave. The consumer most exposed to AI displacement already has no financial runway. Before a single layoff announcement, 401k hardship withdrawals are 365% above baseline. Emergency savings at a 15-year low. Credit card delinquency …
via Nick Giambruno Warren Buffett once referred to derivatives as “financial weapons of mass destruction.” He wasn’t being dramatic—he was warning that if things went wrong, these complex financial instruments could cause massive, far-reaching damage to the global economy. What …
This is insane The US economy is now reliant on older Americans more than ever before pic.twitter.com/PE0U2wf7sI — Cheddar Flow (@CheddarFlow) February 20, 2026 US Consumer Sentiment collapses to levels not seen since the Great Financial Crisis pic.twitter.com/kMt4jDRY50 — Darth …
JUST IN: Donald Trump's 'World Liberty Financial' sells $5M worth of Bitcoin — Kalshi Traders (@KalshiTrade) February 5, 2026 ‘Never sell your Bitcoin,” says Trump during White House crypto summit h/t dr0id
Lawsuits do not mean guilt, but they do mean someone thinks the books were dressed up while risk was buried. If AI demand slows or financing tightens, this kind of leverage does not unwind politely. They will tell you, "We …
UBS worst-case AI disruption scenarios: – Private credit: 13% defaults – Leveraged loans: 8% – High-yield bonds: 4% PC most exposed because that’s where 2021-2022 vintage software deals got funded when banks couldn’t syndicate. The concentration is now becoming the …
The UN is on the brink of “imminent financial collapse” due to US funding being slashed, according to Secretary-General Guterres. Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/12AhLKICzh — AF Post (@AFpost) January 30, 2026 United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Friday warned that the …
by Michael When the economy and the financial system are both greatly shaken at the same time, the consequences can be extremely painful. Most of you still clearly remember what life was like in 2008 and 2009. It was such …
Congress just made them a $6 billion giveaway for issuers. US Congress just legalized the largest wealth transfer in financial history. Nobody noticed. Section 11 of the GENIUS Act prohibits stablecoins from paying yield to holders. Tether holds $135 billion …
via Phoenix Capital Research Silver is becoming a systemic risk. For years, rumors have swirled that the CME and other futures exchanges were permitting too many silver contracts. Remember, a silver futures contract is supposed to be backed up by actual physical …
2026 just started and China already dropped a financial bomb 💣 Beijing quietly EXTENDED a policy letting banks roll over 3.8 TRILLION yuan of bad personal loans. Translation: the debts are so bad they can’t be cleaned up. Banks are …
It's plausible deniability through pretend stupidity. There's no way someone that smart about money didn't know that the covid bank bailout was going to cause rampant inflation. pic.twitter.com/ObOqknbTns — Ilgephelfis 🐸🤡👽🎻🎶 (@ilgephelfis) January 12, 2026 That Powell is forced to …
BANK of America has confirmed that it will close all of its branches for a 24-hour period, forcing customers to change their plans as the the day quickly approaches. Customers looking to make changes or seek assistance with their bank …
🚨 BREAKING. Scott Bessent just announced the Internal Revenue Service is launching MASSIVE AUDITS of financial institutions that facilitated the laundering of Minnesota funds. Read that again. Banks. MSBs. Financial middlemen.Anyone who helped move dirty money is about to get… …
Federal prosecutors have launched a new criminal investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James, after a grand jury previously declined to indict her twice on unrelated criminal charges, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. The new …
How long before $250 trillion of hidden risk explodes in the financial system? World ‘blind’ to risks in booming $250tn shadow bank market The world’s top financial regulators have admitted they are blind to dangers lurking in the shadow banking …
Everything is breaking records at the same time and that’s not strength, that’s stress. When stocks, gold, debt, and delinquencies all hit highs together, it means the system is being force fed cheap money. Cutting rates now doesn’t fix the …
The wannabe real estate moguls going bust Mom-and-pop landlords built real estate empires using under-the-radar DSCR loans. Now it’s coming back to bite them. Applying for a home loan is a pain. You have to produce a heap of documents …
Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM, has argued that the recent surge in spending by Big Tech on AI-data centers is economically unrealistic. On the “Decoder” podcast he estimated that building and fully outfitting a one-gigawatt AI data center costs about …
‼️Global central bank rate cuts are running ABOVE the Great Financial Crisis pace: World central banks have cut rates 316 times over the last 2 years, the most THIS CENTURY. Following the Financial Crisis response, they cut 313 times in …
Reuters – BOJ nearing decision to raise rates TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan is “nearing” a decision to raise interest rates and will not wait until after next year’s spring wage negotiations end, its board member Kazuyuki Masu was …
The explosion of the “greatest carry trade in financial history,” explaining how for 30 years, Japan’s zero-interest policy artificially suppressed borrowing costs worldwide, fueling everything from cheap mortgages to sky-high stock multiples. For risk assets, the sudden reversal of the …
