Private credit is starting to look like the next liquidity break, defaults just hit the highest level since 2008.

UBS freezing withdrawals for up to three years and firms like Apollo and BlackRock putting limits in place is not normal market behavior, that is liquidity stress showing itself in real time. People keep comparing this to 2008 like it is a straight repeat, it is not the same structure, but the core problem feels …

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Gulf energy strikes ripple through Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE. The Pentagon is considering roughly $200 billion for the Iran war. No matter what Trump does next, the Middle East will never look the same

"To date, we've struck over 7,000 targets across Iran and its military infrastructure… Today will be the largest strike package yet," says @SecWar. "Our capabilities continue to build; Iran's continue to degrade. We're hunting and striking death and destruction from above." pic.twitter.com/veaFnlQBEZ — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 19, 2026 No matter what Trump does …

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Fertilizer shock ripples into food prices, strait crisis starts hitting grocery bills. Your eggs look simple, but the costs behind them just jumped everywhere. Hormuz disruption threatens the income lifeline of over 100 million people.

The egg on your plate this morning was made from corn. Not literally. But the hen that laid it ate roughly two pounds of feed for every dozen eggs she produced. That feed was primarily corn and soybean meal. The corn was grown with nitrogen fertiliser at $610 per ton on the CBOT March settlement. …

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If you need any more proof that these motherf**kers are working together, look back to 2016. This shit is all going according to plan for them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1rsixt1/if_you_need_any_more_proof_that_these/ Yet when you bring up how the nomination was stolen from Sanders twice, all the bootlicking sellout dems will wail and cry and go on and on how we nee to just keep voting for the lessor of two evils. Is Trump the worst most corrupt president in my lifetime? Of course because I …

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Pete Hegseth: “Our job is to provide options, and we will have options for the president should Iran decide not to take a deal”… Chuck Schumer: “Look, this is serious. The administration has to make its case to the American people.”

❝Our job is to provide options, and we will have options for the president should Iran decide not to take a deal❞ The US is keeping all options open in its approach to Iran while urging the country to negotiate a deal, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said… pic.twitter.com/HgcKyHnFfy — Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) February 24, …

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Someone has an advanced look at Wednesday’s NFP print

Regardless of the numbers, what a terrible quotation to give, in his position — parreeeto (@Jake__Turnbull) February 9, 2026 Friend got laid off last month. $180K salary. 8 years experience. Great reviews. 'Nobody's hiring at my level. All the jobs are junior roles at half the pay.' That's the AI squeeze. Senior roles shrink. Junior …

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This does not look good for CBS News.

🚨BREAKING: In a bombshell revelation, CBS investigative journalist Catherine Herridge has gone public with explosive allegations: "CBS executives deliberately buried the 'Hunter Biden laptop story' and ordered her to wait until AFTER the 2022 midterms to help the Democratic… pic.twitter.com/zzYcx2B2IZ — Stand Up For Trump (@StandUpForTrmp) February 8, 2026

A look at Trump’s Board of Peace and who has been invited

The Trump administration now seems to envision the Board of Peace with a far broader scope beyond Gaza. When asked by a reporter Tuesday if the board should replace the U.N., Trump said, “It might.” He asserted that the world body “hasn’t been very helpful” and “has never lived up to its potential” but also …

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Anti-protesters are acting like Jan. 6 rioters; the difference is the media is now on their side, making them look good.

Same lawless behavior, different permission slip. The media decided it’s good this time, so everyone pretends it isn’t ugly. “THIS WAS AN ATTEMPTED MURDER After being beaten unconscious by a Democrat-aligned mob, Jake Lang was dragged back into the crowd — and STABBED. Read that again. They didn’t stop when he was down. They didn’t …

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Isnt DOGE supposed to look into this?

Federal contracts reveal Customs and Border Protection is spending $75,000 to house their dogs at the Four Seasons Pet Resort. The pet resort advertises "luxury suites," "daily doggy ice cream," and spa services such as an "oatmeal coconut oil skin finish." pic.twitter.com/XQQBvR7BTF — FactPost (@factpostnews) January 14, 2026

Beef prices look like a memecoin chart lately

Beef prices look like a memecoin chart lately byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts All current beef pricing trends are based on USDA data as of December 3, 2025. Last week’s trends refer to the USDA market for the week ending November 28, 2025. Live cattle sold mostly around $2.14/lb. last week, which is down compared to the previous …

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Regional banks control nearly 1/3 of US commercial mortgages, but hidden risks in CRE are 4X higher than reported. 08 is going to look bullish in comparison.

Regional banks now hold almost one-third of all U.S. commercial mortgages and a majority of non-owner-occupied CRE, and “latent distress” is about 4X larger than what current delinquency rates imply.🧵 CRE: ~ $4.8 T Consumer debt: $5.58T (auto: $1.66T, Student loan: $1.65 T) 1. Chief Risk Officer of a regional bank admitted on the call …

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Tesla prepares to launch full self-driving nationwide, Elon says driving your own car will soon look strange

ELON: DRIVING YOUR OWN CAR WILL SOON LOOK STRANGE The same cars people already own will soon navigate streets without a human inside, starting in Austin and spreading across the country. Once it works everywhere, seeing someone manually drive will feel ancient. Elon compared it to riding a horse to work, possible, but odd. The …

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The age of pretending to use AI is over and the reckoning is already here. Burry is spot on. How can anyone look at these numbers and believe OpenAI has any hope to meet $1.4 trillion in spending commitments?

How can anyone look at these numbers and believe OpenAI has any hope to meet $1.4 trillion in spending commitments? https://t.co/gUcRNs11BI — Ross Hendricks (@Ross__Hendricks) November 10, 2025 Big Tech needs a staggering $1.5 trillion to fund the AI boom. This is the complex playbook it’s using to get it. Inside the financial engineering of …

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Economy is slowing! Big Tech is priced like the party never ends, just look at these P/Es

And no magic liquidity indicator or fancy theory will change that. Major layoffs announced in 2025: • UPS: 48,000 employees • Amazon: up to 30,000 employees • Intel: 24,000 employees • Nestlé: 16,000 employees • Accenture: 11,000 employees • Ford: 11,000 employees • Novo Nordisk: 9,000 employees • Microsoft: 9,000 employees • Chevron: 8,000 employees …

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Regional banks are drawing billions from the Fed, and contagion is beginning to look like a reality; You won’t believe how bad the cash shortage just got

The regional banking crisis is much worse than they make it out to be. Since Aug, banks have tapped the Fed for $863 million, and from May to June, $555 million. As shown by the facility, it is progressively getting worse. Contagion is beginning to look like a reality. The regional banking crisis is much …

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Well, this quote will look great on his tombstone.

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With You know it’s going to be good when an AI executive goes off on a tangent about “hey, what’s a job anyway!” while addressing — or failing to address — the topic of how their tech just might …

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Look up what Moody said in 2007 about the housing market. This is what ALWAYS happens before a crash

Remember the very subtle scene in The Big Short where the Moody's rating chick was wearing blinders. pic.twitter.com/Fu7qhSk1xv — Orlando (@Orlando74180344) October 18, 2025 Moody’s says the private credit & banking systems are perfectly “sound.” In 2007, right before the Great Recession, they also rated nearly 45,000 mortgage-related securities as triple-A. By 2010, 73% had …

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