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"If liquidity goes down at all in 2025, markets will crash." "There is one of the greatest global refinancing needs we've ever seen (in 2025)."https://t.co/RhEWHGaktg https://t.co/loBTMTxtqp pic.twitter.com/C6vA0uhbMW — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) January 16, 2025 https://twitter.com/leadlagreport/status/1879829865047949643
In a historic economic milestone, China has officially recorded a trade surplus amounting to an unprecedented $1 trillion. This achievement marks a new era in global trade dynamics, showcasing China’s significant influence on the world stage. The record-setting surplus underscores the country’s robust export capabilities, even amidst global economic fluctuations …
The common prediction that the Federal Reserve will cut rates as a response to an economic downturn due to high interest rates misses a significant global economic factor: the widespread collapse of major currencies, driven by governments’ heavy spending to fend off recessions. This scenario complicates the traditional narrative of …
by Mike Maharrey For the first December since 2019, gold-backed ETFs globally reported net inflows of gold. Asian funds drove the global increase in ETF gold holdings to close out 2024. On the year, ETF gold holdings dropped modestly by 6.8 tons, but assets under management (AUM) rose by 26 …
Central banks have just engineered the worst crisis we've ever seen and now it's ready to go. By pulling the liquidity rug away they've set the stage for another crisis, all that's needed is the trigger/narrative. https://t.co/2RhyVZhH5c pic.twitter.com/tas2TgrN22 — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) January 6, 2025 There goes the 10 year yield, …
Pakist*ni M*slim gangs in the UK targeted & r*ped hundreds of thousands of white girls in England for decades & was mostly covered up by the media & the gov. Their narrative of the success of mass migration of fake asylum seekers and multiculturalism could not be challenged.… — Bartemy …
Global liquidity pod just blew up — Texas Oncologist (@TexasOncologist) January 3, 2025
China is a complete sh*t show. Their 2008 moment. https://t.co/z9K9spoqBU — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) December 29, 2024 Bazooka’s and bank recaps. Nothing has worked. Instead, China’s industry is in freefall with deflation threatening to spiral out of control. At the same time, real estate developers are back in the news …
The biggest surprise of 2024 wasn’t any election results nor was it the fact central banks worldwide are more desperately accelerating rate cuts as the year draws to close. Or that other governments and officials are resorting to increasing panicky measures to calm markets in their areas. What caught everyone …
The World Health Organization (WHO) Academy in Lyon, France, officially opened its doors yesterday with a high-profile inauguration ceremony. The event was attended by WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, French President H.E. Emmanuel Macron, alongside dozens of health ministers, international representatives, donors, and local French partners. The WHO Academy …
Global yields to explode in 2025. pic.twitter.com/n1ycL1tXOD — The Great Martis (@great_martis) December 23, 2024 The U.S. federal debt is projected to reach over $50 trillion by the middle of the next decade. This includes the need to roll over existing debt, which means refinancing or issuing new debt to …
In the week ending December 18th, on Wednesday when the Fed cut rates, panic selling returned. Large-cap funds saw $20.9 billion of outflows, ending a 6-week streak of inflows. Outflows in small-cap, multi-cap and mid-cap funds were $5.4 billion, $3.9 billion and $2.9 billion. pic.twitter.com/q0etlJoGlq — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) …
Bitcoin Keeping it simple Below 96700 for more than 72 hours and its lights out. Either way, its lights out in the not to distant future. pic.twitter.com/COraOh44fL — The Great Martis (@great_martis) December 21, 2024 will be zero soon https://t.co/1tVncx2mhD — Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) December 21, 2024 Who farted? Guess …
While everyone is hanging on the Fed and the FOMC’s indecision about how many rate cuts next year, there are currency crises – plural – beginning to break out in key places. One of those is Brazil where it has gotten so dangerous the country’s central bank is now regularly …
‼️SELL SIGNAL FOR STOCKS TRIGGERED‼️ Cash levels* in global investors portfolios fell to 3.9%, triggering a “sell signal”, according to BofA. This is one of the lowest readings in history. It suggests lower returns ahead. *Survey of 171 fund managers with $450 billion assets. pic.twitter.com/4QUA3XbZrG — Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) …
The US Dollar is wiping out currencies worldwide. What a mess. Some type of dislocation is coming. Where and when? Who knows. https://t.co/okZ4Ritxou — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) December 19, 2024 BREAKING 🚨: Brazil Brazilian Real plunges to its weakest level against the U.S. Dollar in history pic.twitter.com/Pcfv1rpdef — Barchart (@Barchart) …
by Michael Are we heading into a year that will be characterized by great turmoil?  Every year, a magazine known as “the Economist” publishes an issue that is dedicated to what is coming in the year ahead.  In the past, many of these issues have turned out to be eerily accurate. …
China has transformed itself from a minor player in the auto industry two decades ago to the world leader in car production and exports, particularly in electric vehicles (EVs), the New York Times reported late last month. But the trend of China’s impact on the global auto market has been …
Good! pic.twitter.com/yFut2gzQyR — White TRASH Gold (@JohnRotte2) December 16, 2024 I’m tired of this fool btw. All he does is beg for money. h/t NextDoorJimmy
Interest rates worldwide are hanging at the edge of a cliff. It may not seem like it from the current focus on the Fed and the possible pause in its rate cutting. This doesn’t mean other central bank rate cuts, either. Instead, two very critical signals have absolutely plunged just …
Most of the US stock market are tech, that has a very high valuation plot from multpl. com pic.twitter.com/YQgSP5LoRy — Data Driven Stocks (@stockdatamarket) December 15, 2024 European Stocks trading at an all-time record discount relative to U.S. Stocks 🚨 https://t.co/MBwckCKVD2 pic.twitter.com/c1nwYFwjLJ — Barchart (@Barchart) December 16, 2024 ZIRP allowed …
The global consumer is in secular decline (with an average 10:1 spending, saving, consuming capability over low-income nation consumers) …and the global low-income nation producers will have fewer and fewer customers of means to purchase their products. Few will acknowledge that a “free-market economy” amid depopulation of consumers is incompatible …
Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation in Diary of CEO podcast Diary of a CEO host Steven Bartlett is amplifying harmful health misinformation on his number-one ranked podcast, a BBC investigation has found. Recent claims from guests – including that cancer can be treated by following a keto diet, rather …
This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group In October of 2024, Russia hosted the annual BRICS Summit in the city of Kazan with the intent to show unity among developing nations and general eastern interests. The Kremlin, a target of severe NATO sanctions since …
by Michael What in the world is going to happen if global food supplies continue to get even tighter?  During the second half of this year global food prices have been surging.  A “perfect storm” of factors is suppressing production all over the planet, and meanwhile worldwide demand for food …
This will be the new internet where all brains are nodes on the network. Coming soon to an atmosphere near you. TLDR: AI-driven 5G, non-terrestrial networks (NTN), and neuromodulation technologies create neural interface grid. AI-RAN systems optimize signal precision with Massive MIMO and beamforming. NTNs expand networks worldwide using satellite …
BRICS nations, led by Russia and China, are determined to insulate their economies from the U.S. dollar. Brandon Smith explores the current geopolitical landscape and concludes, quite simply, that the dollar’s days are numbered… By Brandon Smith In October of 2024, Russia hosted the annual BRICS Summit in the city of Kazan with …
Important updates around the world in terms of global trade, including a sharp drop in American exports and imports. What all of it means for the short run as far as cyclical indications as well as what the long run secular trend indicates. Plus, special guest appearance.
by Michael Are you ready for economic conditions to get even worse in 2025? Â It would be difficult to find any economist that is willing to argue that global economic conditions are better in late 2024 than they were in late 2023. Â The Chinese economy is deeply struggling, Europe is …