Japan’s dirt cheap money just got expensive as hell. Whole world borrowed from Tokyo, now pays real rates everywhere.

Bull Theory @BullTheoryio 🚨The cheapest money in the world just got more expensive. The entire global financial system borrowed it. Japan’s 10-year bond yield just hit 2.564%, for the first time this century. Japan is one of the largest holders of U.S. Treasury bonds in the world. As Japanese yields rise and a BOJ rate …

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Feels like the whole house of cards is about to eat shit.

Official data now screams the economy is in freefall. Annual jobs numbers this low only happen in full-blown recessions. we are in a consumer recession for the bottom 80%. top 20% are crushing it. — Jon Brooks (@jonbrooks) May 8, 2026 "consumers are literally running out of money" — Heinz CEO You can’t budget your …

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Celebrities are getting dragged online for preaching about inequality while spending huge money at the Met Gala

Celebrities dropped massive cash on outfits and tickets to Jeff Bezos’ event while acting like they care about regular people and inequality. Protests outside chanted tax the rich while inside it was all excess. FUCK THE MET GALA Also, fuck any celebrity that paid 100,000 dollars to attend a Jeff Bezos event and act like …

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Chip stocks turn into money black holes sucking every dollar out of software and the rest of the market. Burry just added to his $SOXX short

Tech concentration turns the stock market into a violent algo casino with sky-high peaks and razor-sharp drops. Ninety percent of trading now runs on machines so fundamentals got tossed out the window. AI supercharges every headline and earnings beat into instant bloodbaths or moonshots. WELCOME TO THE NEW STOCK MARKET As the market continues to …

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Pras Michel reports to federal prison in Arizona to begin a 14-year sentence tied to $100M in foreign money flowing into US politics

Pras Michel reported to federal prison in Safford, Arizona, on April 30 to begin his 14-year sentence. The Fugees rapper was convicted of funnelling roughly $100M in illegal foreign money from Jho Low into the 2012 Obama campaign and later lobbying the Trump administration to drop the investigation. Pras Michel turns himself in to begin …

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Trump signs executive order expanding retirement savings options, more household money gets pulled into markets

Order boosts access to 401k and IRA accounts for more workers.. President called participation numbers “incredible”.. Some wonder whether this quietly channels more household money into markets while easing long term pressure on government programs.. President Trump signed an EO on April 30 to launch TrumpIRA.gov in 2027. It utilizes the Saver’s Match (SECURE 2.0) …

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The Money Printers Have Crossed the Point of No Return

via Phoenix Capital Research The world is entering a new chapter in terms of investment. It is now clear that the pandemic opened the door to an amount of money printing/ stimulus that was previously unthinkable. It is also clear that once policymakers (governments and central banks) crossed that threshold, that they will never return …

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Big tech, big money, big egos… this trial has it all.

Tech titans Elon Musk and Sam Altman head to court in trial over OpenAI: What to know. Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI claims that the company violated its founding mission as a nonprofit to develop AI for the benefit of humanity by creating a for-profit entity in 2019. His suit seeks the removal of OpenAI CEO …

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You have to be a CFO to develop those sorts of insights? If we don’t bring in enough money we won’t be able to afford things.

This proves OpenAI is sprinting straight into a cash crunch and the IPO will be the biggest bag dump of the decade on retail. OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO OpenAI recently missed its own targets for new users and revenue, stumbles that have raised concern among some company leaders …

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$2 trillion talk for a rocket company that still loses money and runs on one guys tweets is straight up crazy town. This smells like 2021 all over again.

Everyone’s gonna chase this IPO like crack and end up as the exit liquidity for the insiders. SpaceX has confidentially filed for its IPO in April 2026 targeting a June listing with a valuation between $1.75 and $2 trillion. SpaceX just took a major step forward: according to Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC and others, the company …

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Destroying 75 fire hydrants in two days for scrap money is exactly what happens when you spend years romanticizing crime and calling it activism.

Quoted cost of $600 in metal parts per hydrant. Which means the thieves might get as much as $60. The cost to repair will be $6,000. Or possibly $60,000 if there’s a lot of water damage as a result. It’s a lot easier to destroy value than to create it. Thieves destroy nearly 75 Detroit …

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‘Israel is now prohibited from bombing Lebanon. We will get all nuclear dust. No money will exchange hands.’

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116420395293904982 BREAKING: Donald Trump has taken to Truth Social after Iran's foreign minister declared the Strait of Hormuz "completely open" for the "remaining period of ceasefire". Oil prices have dropped by 10% following the announcementhttps://t.co/1jZc7AWiag 📺 Sky 501 pic.twitter.com/PMJ7pxEpo2 — Sky News (@SkyNews) April 17, 2026 Donald Trump hailed a major step toward peace with …

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“We are at the end of a credit cycle. We are at the end of a paper money cycle.” <-- This is where things start to cause a breakdown socially and economically.

Interesting clip from a recent conversation featuring Matthew Piepenburg. He argues that rising debt levels are forcing governments into a corner where they prioritize protecting bond markets over preserving currency value… something we may be starting to see play out globally. Curious what people think about this perspective. h/t thetimeisgold

It’s been 43 years since the last time we ‘adjusted’ Social Security — And it’s running out of money, again.

Social Security is the nation’s largest social insurance program, making payments to approximately 75 million Americans every month. Yet the program faces an imminent funding shortfall. Social Security’s trust fund for retirement benefits may run out in 2032, which could prompt an across-the-board benefit cut, according to projections from the Social Security Administration and Congressional …

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Investors are pulling money out of Asia at record speed

Asia runs on imported energy and if that flow even looks shaky, investors do not stick around to debate it, they pull first and ask questions later. This is how pressure shows up before the real economic damage hits. Investors from overseas have sold -$52 billion of Asian emerging-market equities excluding China so far in …

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Companies spent $450 billion on AI last year. So where did the money go? Goldman Sachs says productivity gains remain near zero

Let me tell you why this Goldman Sachs headline is the most dangerous one you’ll read today.. Companies spent $450 billion on AI last year.. fired tens of thousands of people to “restructure around AI”.. replaced entire departments with chatbots.. And Goldman Sachs just said it contributed basically zero to economic growth.. so where did …

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“It’s only during tough economic times that we learn who lent money stupidly!”

BREAKING: MUST WATCH FOR EVERYONE WHO OWNS STOCKS. Legendary Investor Howard Marks appearing yesterday on Bloomberg discussed Retail being pushed to invest in Private Credit, Stock Market Cycles and "Cockroaches in the Coal Mine". "It's only during tough economic times that we… pic.twitter.com/1laL9djaZ0 — Common Sense Investor (CSI) (@commonsenseplay) March 19, 2026 It happens slowly… …

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Everyone Is Oversimplifying Iran — Here’s What the Smart Money Sees

via Phoenix Capital Research Stocks are bouncing this morning because things do not appear to have worsened geopolitically over the weekend. The lack of escalation in the War with Iran combined with the fact that stocks are oversold has induced traders to play for a bounce. However, in the big picture, the situation in Iran will not …

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Canada’s Housing Crisis Shows the Consequences of the Easy Money Era

by Martin Armstrong Canada’s housing market has become one of the most expensive in the developed world, and the affordability crisis continues to worsen despite rising interest rates. Mortgage payments as a share of household income are now near record levels, leaving many first-time buyers completely priced out of the market while existing homeowners face significantly …

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