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George Noble @gnoble79 The market is afraid of all the wrong things. Everyone’s locked onto the AI bubble, the Middle East, or private credit cracking. But the MAIN event is liquidity, and it’s draining out of the system as you read this. Gold is down nearly 30% from its high while silver’s been cut by …
A major liquidity indicator just turned negative for the first time since 2021. That matters because this indicator is designed to track whether liquidity conditions are helping or hurting markets. And right now, it is flashing a warning. Then you look at the rest of the picture. JPMorgan is warning about a possible $165 billion …
Institutional hedging is surging as open interest on puts outweighs calls by over 3 to 1 Hyperscalers are dumping 650 billion into AI infrastructure but AI chip guidance is stalling Broadcom hit revenue targets but failed to raise full year AI guidance causing sector jitters Global smartphone semiconductor revenues are set to collapse 13 percent …
Bitcoin just looks broken at this point 💀 Even Saylor is selling now. https://t.co/EVwypoj3Yi — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) June 2, 2026 Bitcoin was 69k in 2021 before Saylor and ETF’s bought $160 billion can someone explain? — Crypto Tea (@Cryptotea) June 2, 2026 A Reddit poster highlights Bitcoin falling sharply after Michael Saylor related selling …
Don’t short semis …on leverage …during historical blowoff top… byu/Lwl0905 inwallstreetbets Shorted before intel earnings rip h/t Lwl0905
Housing markets don't all of a sudden crash. First they freeze. No one buying, more and more sellers slowly piling up. Why does this take place? Because home owners are broke morons with 90% of their net worth in something they didn't earn, didn't "invest" in….. They… pic.twitter.com/7lLefputWI — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) April 24, 2026 …
I think Iran knows they can win the war just by surviving long enough for Trump to surrender by claiming the biggest victory in the history of war. They know Trump will ultimately be guided by poll numbers, oil prices, the stock market, and the U.S. economy, not Iran's position. — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) March …
Iran now knows how big of a leverage the Hormuz is. It had never tested it before, now they know. This leaves Trump between a rock and a hard place. If he demands the peace now, it won’t be on the terms he wants. The other way is that he keeps escalating which erodes his …
Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/doj-probes-netflix-power-over-233132671.html The Justice Department’s investigation of Netflix Inc.’s (NFLX) proposed $72 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. (WBD) includes scrutiny of the streaming giant’s behavior and whether it wields anticompetitive leverage over creators in negotiations for acquiring programming. The department is seeking to determine whether the deal “may substantially lessen competition or tend to …
He's not wrong. Europe spent decades making themselves dependent on Russian gas, then acted shocked when that became leverage. Buying Russian energy while sending Ukraine weapons is literally funding both sides of the conflict. The strategic incoherence is staggering. — Adams Azeez | Creative Strategist (@Leader_zeez) February 7, 2026 Ave electricity rates are 3x to …
Crypto led higher last April & no one wants to talk about how it may be leading lower this time..? — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) February 6, 2026 30% less volume today than the down days. Wyckoff distribution pattern still in play on $SPY until proved otherwise. pic.twitter.com/3Et0i4HUyB — John (@market_sleuth) February 6, 2026 Bear porn …
Canada’s leverage just evaporated the moment U.S. refiners got another source of heavy crude they can bully. CANADA JUST LOST ITS BIGGEST TRADE LEVERAGE For years, the USA needed Canadian oil ..especially heavy crude from Alberta. That was Canada’s edge. Now? 🇻🇪 Venezuelan heavy oil is back. • ~1M bpd flowing to the U.S. • …
You are allowed to leverage 20 to 1 on your house. That's why. — Fibonacci Investing⚡️ (@FibonacciInves1) December 31, 2025
This is the part where bubbles always start lying to people. JPMorgan is literally listing the same warning signs we heard before 2000 and 2008, but everyone shrugs because the word AI sounds magical. When companies are burning insane amounts of cash and promising the future will fix it later, that is not innovation, that …
“THE YEN CARRY SINGULARITY Japan’s 40-year bond just hit 3.69%. The highest since 2007. This is not a number. This is a detonator. Behind that yield sits $20 trillion in carry trade exposure. Borrowed yen funding everything from Treasuries to tech stocks to Bitcoin. For decades, this trade printed money. Now Japan’s bond market is …
Something about this feels familiar. Not in the details, but in the tone. The warnings are starting to sound like they did before 2008. Quiet. Technical. Polite. But the words are the same. “Insurers shopping for better ratings on their private credit assets are creating a “looming systemic risk” to global finance, the chair of …
Most corrupt Presidency in history. pic.twitter.com/hMyWdGksTT — Maine (@TheMaineWonk) November 4, 2025 It feels wrong the moment you hear it. They’re calling it a “White House renovation,” but it’s something else entirely. They’re turning the East Wing into a $300 million ballroom, paid for by corporations that have billions on the line with the same …
Margin debt is rising at a rate last seen before major bear markets and market CRASHES: Margin debt jumped 6.3%, or $67 billion, in September to a record $1.13 TRILLION. Investor leverage has surged 39% since April, marking the biggest 5-month spike since the late-2021 market frenzy. In the past, similar margin debt spikes have …
Since this graphic was created, $ORCL is looking to raise another $18 billion in debt. $CRWV has a D/E ratio of 381% and unlike mature tech companies, it is on a doom loop of raising debt in order to cover operating losses. $NVDA has a ton of debt, but they have hidden $45.8 billion off-balance …
The housing market has been the ONLY market that has remained oddly unphased out all the markets that have taken hits recently…and that fucker is GROSSLY OVER VALUED! — Blackpilled Millennial (@tronics_sniffer) October 12, 2025 I don't think you understand how truly fucked we are… Imagine 2008 but 10x the leverage, + a housing bubble, …
Everyone’s chasing the next Nvidia but Buffett’s old playbook might win again. Goldman: “Not a bubble, just a very expensive balloon tied to 5 companies and a prayer.”Translation—diversify before the pin shows up wearing a recession. — TradingPulse X (@TradingPulseX) October 8, 2025 Here is an interesting fact about the DotCom bubble collapse from 2000 …
Basically saying that perp traders can now play Russian Roulette with two bullets in the revolver instead of just one. — Studious Stoic (@StudiousStoic) September 4, 2025
The economy is breaking. And no one’s ready. 806,000+ layoffs in 2025 so far. 48% of consumer credit applications denied over the past year. Refinance rejection rate: 41.8%… the highest in 12+ years. U3 Unemployment forecast: 4.5–5.0% by year-end, according to Apollo, Peterson. (If the BLS is left the same- but who knows at this …
Germany’s Bundesbank is eyeing a shortcut for small and medium-sized banks. Basel capital rules could be scrapped in favor of a single leverage ratio. No risk-weighting. No buffers. Just raw exposure. https://finanz-szene.de/banking/bundesbank-erwaegt-verzicht-auf-basel-anforderungen-fuer-kleinbanken/ The leverage ratio was never meant to stand alone. It’s a backstop, not a blueprint. “Before a small commercial bank would breach a …
Businesses are eating 64% of tariffs right now. We know that. But according to Goldman, by October this will drop to only 8%, with consumers eating 67%. Nice one in @SamRo's note this morning. pic.twitter.com/vvWgG39mwS — Ryan Detrick, CMT (@RyanDetrick) August 17, 2025 Even the goat is bearish 🐐 pic.twitter.com/lIqSb7eHwv — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) August …
Something doesn’t ring true about the tariff ultimatum. Trump announced a 25 % tariff on India plus an added “penalty” for purchasing Russian energy and military goods starting August 1, framing it as both punitive and principled. He claimed India has “tariffs among the highest in the world” and uses “obnoxious non‑monetary trade barriers,” before declaring India …
I think most Americans are under the impression the US accounts for the majority of Chinas exports Giving the US negotiating leverage The actual number is 14% It should be no surprise Xi is “very tough and hard to make a deal with” https://t.co/ThuwzXWoAq pic.twitter.com/ERt9EEF6d4 — George Gammon (@GeorgeGammon) June 4, 2025
Hedge Funds just increased their net leverage over the last month by the largest amount in history 🚨🚨 They're getting desperate 👀 pic.twitter.com/roBh1STX7P — Barchart (@Barchart) June 4, 2025 Exactly… there are no recessions when M2 is going up /s Except for all recessions. https://t.co/C1u5yV5QI4 pic.twitter.com/His8efSCT8 — Michael Green (@profplum99) June 3, 2025
The Chicago Purchasing Managers’ Index fell for a second straight month to its lowest level in four months. The index sank to 40.5 this month from 44.6 in April, falling short of the 45.1 forecast. The latest reading marks the 18th consecutive month the index has contracted. — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) May 30, 2025 Hedge …
China's leverage was "empty shelves", EU's leverage is "services and mag7"https://t.co/axYc5BpIBm https://t.co/aa38r5kL07 — Marko Kolanovic (@markoinny) May 26, 2025 Clearly someone notified Trump that 90 days is July 8th, not June 1st, because how else would he know? Hence disaster was averted for now. Regardless, investors were just warned that trade war 2.0 is back …