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U.S. Household Debt Reaches $18.59 Trillion; When six figures isn’t enough, the system is broken. Side hustles and selling stuff to survive on a high income? It’s not a personal failure; it’s a designed collapse of the middle class.

via halturnerradioshow America’s household debt hit $18.59 trillion with a $197 billion Q3 spike this year.   Many people are calling this  “the elite’s silent war on the middle class.” That’s $136,000 per household and an increase of $1,500. Mortgages, car loans, and credit cards are chaining families while the politicians in DC print trillions for …

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DB analysts warn OpenAI’s losses are entering unheard-of territory, and HSBC says it could burn nearly half a trillion by 2030. ChatGPT started the AI race. Now its lead is looking shaky

HSBC has said that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030, per FT: pic.twitter.com/KQrsGIqFnK — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) December 4, 2025 “OpenAI may continue to attract significant funding and could ultimately develop products that…revolutionize the world. But at present, no start-up in history has operated with expected losses on …

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Japan’s 10Y Yield Hits 17-Year High as BOJ Faces a No-Win Policy Setup

Japan’s 10-year JGB yield touched 1.917% on Thursday the highest level since 2007. It’s basically the market’s way of signaling that investors aren’t fully convinced about the Bank of Japan’s current policy path. The BOJ is stuck between two bad options: Raise rates further: yields likely push even higher, tightening conditions at a time when …

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25.3% of unemployment is now Americans with college degrees, a record high.

25.3% of unemployment is now Americans with college degrees, a record high. byu/TonyLiberty inFluentInFinance The US labor market is showing unprecedented stress for Americans with four-year college degrees, who now make up a record 25.3% of total unemployed workers, a percentage that has more than doubled since the 2008 Financial Crisis. According to recent government …

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High is in.

High is in. Will delete if wrong$ES $SPY $SPX $NQ $QQQ pic.twitter.com/obMZoyMik3 — Flint (@OrderflowES) December 2, 2025 $USDJPY Yen Carry Trade is about to get out of hand like it did August 2024. Dropped $SPX 400 pts in 2 sessions. Will the same be for $SPX Dec 2025? pic.twitter.com/qJNrM45tsP — THE NVSTR | TRADING …

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Apartment rents drop further, with vacancies at record high

The national median rent for apartments fell 1% in November from October, and now stands at $1,367, according to Apartment List. The national multifamily vacancy rate was 7.2% in November, a record high. The historic surge in multifamily construction over the past few years is now pulling back, but a good supply of new units …

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$VIX looks calm, but the rate of change is not. Higher lows, higher closes, and a seven-month high while the market sits a few percent off all-time highs.

$VIX looks calm, but the rate of change is not. Higher lows, higher closes, and a seven-month high while the market sits a few percent off all-time highs. The tape is tightening, not relaxing. pic.twitter.com/InUuwhFXkH — Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) November 27, 2025 can i have the permission to chart vix future? pic.twitter.com/IRJxCWvuCL — …

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The Real Reason Prices Are Staying High

Washington’s favorite habit is the “temporary” fix – extend a subsidy here, push off a deadline there, and borrow the money to make it work. But those short-term patches carry long-term costs. They raise prices for families and deepen the national debt. Here’s how that affects your purchasing power… By Peter Reagan Washington, D.C. has …

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Thanksgiving Index Near All-Time High as Costs Rise Again

via AIER’s The Daily Economy: The 2025 Thanksgiving season arrives with an unwelcome development: after last year’s brief and much-needed period of easing in several Thanksgiving staples, prices have begun to tick back up. As of September 2025, the AIER Thanksgiving Cost Index stands at 1904.72, less than half of one percent from its all-time high of 1912.30 (2023). …

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The Elite Are Moving Into High Security ‘Fortress Communities’ Guarded By Teams Of Armed Professionals Because They Realize What Is Coming

by Michael The elite aren’t stupid. They can see that our society is coming apart at the seams all around us, and so they want to live some place safe. In fact, for many among the elite security has become the number one priority when choosing a new home. Unfortunately, the vast majority of us …

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No jobs, inflation or GDP reporting. A major recession must be underway. Oracles default risk is now near a 3 year high. Is $SPY forming a head and shoulder pattern?

$SPY is in danger of forming a Head & Shoulders… A 675 rejection would form the right shoulder After that, a 654 break would give us maximum downside to 480s😬😬 pic.twitter.com/mrOgdFMA62 — ThiccTeddy (@ThiccTeddy) November 24, 2025 GROK: Based on current charts (as of Nov 24, 2025), SPY shows elements of a potential head and …

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Treasury flood hits markets with $693.5B in three days, T Bill supply explodes to $6.59T a record high

Nothing is going to stop this. In the case of a deeper slowdown, T-bill issuance will accelerate even further. — Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) November 18, 2025 We are borrowing so much because Social Security and Medicare are driving huge deficits We need to cut back on these programs or the deficits are going to …

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U.S. bankruptcies explode to 15 year high… We are in a recession in 4 charts… The Fed should hike rates 50 basis points in December.

Comparison: 2020 (COVID crash): ~610 large bankruptcies. 2021: ~400. 2022: ~450. 2023: ~500. 2025 YTD: 655 already. (Reuters) -Large U.S. corporate bankruptcies are on pace to hit their highest level in 15 years, S&P Global data showed on Thursday, underscoring mounting stress across corporate America at a sensitive time for public market investors. Total bankruptcy …

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Powell said the Unemployment Rate was now more important than payroll numbers…4.4% is a new cycle high. Highest since 2021. Fed officials voicing concerns about private credit lately.

https://twitter.com/spice1975503/status/1991520334458343476 Noticing a growing number of Fed officials voicing concerns about private credit lately. But this one is esp notable where one of them is openly highlighting risks among life insurers (its largest investor base). If the Fed is concerned about lifers, things are quite serious. pic.twitter.com/sC3uUFrdKq — Mr. VIX (@yieldsearcher) November 20, 2025 Everything’s …

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Global money supply explodes by $10T despite shrinking balance sheets. Global M2 hit an all time high of $95 trillion 10 days ago. Worst macro mix hits as Fed admits double danger

Crazy to think that money supply is expanding this aggressively even as global central bank balance sheets have been contracting. We’ve seen a $10T increase in global money supply in just the past 12 months. Now imagine what happens once central banks inevitably need to expand their balance sheets again — which, in my view, …

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Record high debt = record high gold price

via James Hickman Barrick Mining Corporation—one of the world’s largest and most established gold producers—just reported its third quarter earnings yesterday— and it was an absolute blowout. The company reported third quarter profit of $1.3 billion, nearly triple last year’s Q3 earnings. And for the first nine months of 2025, Earnings per Share is up …

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Stagnation Nation! U.S. Housing Market Hits 30-Year Low in Activity (High Home Prices And High Mortgage Rates*)

by confoundedinterest17 Redfin’s Housing Turnover Report, Q1–Q3 2025 Just 2.8 homes out of every 1,000 changed owners in the first nine months of 2025—the lowest turnover rate in at least three decades. This marks a 38% plunge from the 2021 frenzy, when 44 per 1,000 homes sold, and is 44% below the pre-pandemic 2019 pace of 40 …

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Thousands of high earners are leaving New York every year, draining billions in tax revenue and forcing the city to spend more while collecting less

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009 pic.twitter.com/nuOLxApYGW — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) November 7, 2025 NY State saw peaks of over 3,000 millionaires leaving annually around 2020, with cumulative net outflows shrinking its U.S. millionaire share from 12.7% in 2010 to 8.7% in 2022. High earners contribute about 40% of income …

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Nvidia is down 5% on the day and 16% since Monday’s high. That’s roughly 800 billion erased in four days. The Nasdaq is on track for its worst week since Liberation Day.

Nvidia's losses accelerate to -5% on the day, now down -16% since Monday's high. That marks a drop of -$800 BILLION since Monday byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts U.S. stocks rebounded from session lows on Friday as hope for an end to the monthlong government shutdown offset continued weakness in tech stocks. Still, all three major indexes snapped …

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Meta secretly let “high value” scammers rack up 500 strikes and target vulnerable users while raking in billions for its AI war chest

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI. Documents showed that internally, Meta was hesitant to abruptly remove accounts, even those considered some of the “scammiest scammers,” out of concern that a drop in revenue could diminish resources needed for artificial intelligence growth. Instead of promptly removing bad actors, …

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Mamdani voter says that when the billionaires leave due to high taxes – the middle class should have taxes raised

https://twitter.com/HistoryBuff7986/status/1986262637093789752 You do realize that billionaires and millionaires can move very easily. And you do also realize that the middle class and the poor can't move so easily. If you drive all of the job providers and wealth creators out of your city, then what? — Dostoevsky's Heart aka A Well In Zion (@NotWellInZion) November …

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Warren Buffett sold $6.1 billion worth of stock last quarter. Buffett now holds a record high $382 Billion in CASH. He’s getting ready for a crash

All the signs are point that way. The fed is lowering interest even though we are still sitting at 3% inflation, there’s a massive AI bubble, the auto line bubble, people are financing groceries, job growth isn’t looking exactly great, trade is suffering because of the mind meltingly bad tariff policies, tourism is tanking, should …

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Global debt isn’t just high it’s compounding faster than economies can grow. Jamie Dimon Says Gold Can “Easily Go to $5,000 or $10,000”

Gold has a clear message for global governments: you are spending far too much money that you do not have. — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) October 16, 2025 Piepenburg argues this leads to a liquidity crisis as debt obligations outstrip real productive capacity.   Jamie Dimon Says Gold Can “Easily Go to $5,000 or $10,000” …

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Students and parents staged a walkout at a high school in Oregon last week to protest a state policy that allows boys to be in the girls’ locker and restroom

Students and parents staged a walkout at a high school in Oregon last week to protest a state policy that allows boys to be in the girls’ locker room and restrooms, according to a report. https://t.co/ALsPDAT3f2 — NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) October 14, 2025 Oregon students staged a walk-out protest on Wednesday over a staff member who …

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