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One of the investors who made a fortune betting against subprime mortgages before the 2008 financial crisis believes Wall Street may be overlooking another growing risk. This time, the target is private credit. Investor Lee Robinson reportedly generated gains of roughly 900% during the housing collapse by identifying risks that …
The private credit market just hit the moment everyone knew would eventually come. The exit door is too small. For years, private credit became one of the biggest Wall Street growth stories. Higher yields. Less public market volatility. Money pouring in from investors chasing returns. But there was always a …
Tesla had big problems in 2008 financial crisis. Elon put in his own last money and got private funding round on Christmas Eve 2008 to survive. Tesla got $465 million DOE loan in 2010 under EV program. It was a loan, not free bailout. Tesla paid it back early in …
Something big has changed in the financial system. A market most people barely paid attention to has exploded. Private credit grew from roughly $500 billion in 2020 to around $2 trillion today. Some estimates are even higher depending on what counts. The industry expects it could reach around $4 trillion …
NYT report detail new White House plan to use private bank loans to pay for high medical bills System works by letting insurance companies partner with lenders to offer loans for unpaid claims This move create long term debt cycle for household similar to student loan model Health costs rose …
https://hugh.cdn.rumble.cloud/video/fwe2/36/s8/2/U/f/5/u/Uf5uA.caa.mp4 THIS is the terrifying moment a private jet skids across a runway and explodes into a huge fireball with two people killed in the blast. The aircraft was reportedly attempting an emergency landing after a serious mechanical issue mid-flight but as it touched down at an airport it quickly …
Dave Rubin destroys clueless young communist who admits she wants no private property VigilantFox drops the raw clip where she proudly calls herself one… She demands workers own the means of production then dodges every fact… Rubin hits her with the truth 1 percent pays 47 percent of all taxes… …
Artist loses Gmail Drive and YouTube access with years of work erased instantly… Google relies on automated moderation and rejects any appeal with zero human check… do you understand what Google's AI just did to an artist..His entire Google account got permanently banned. Not just Drive. Gmail.. YouTube.. Every single …
Private equity loads billions in debt onto retail stores then strips assets for fast flips… Senator Elizabeth Warren blasts private equity deals and hides the real hit from online shopping plus regulations… OK, you got something right now what the fuck are you gonna do about it beside virtue signal …
Fitch Ratings reported US private credit default rate climbed to fresh peak for trailing 12 months. Rise driven by high interest rates stressing smaller and mid-market borrowers. Many cases involve payment-in-kind deals and distressed exchanges masking full pain. Sectors like software and auto facing extra heat from AI disruption and …
Private AI giants hit 2.7 trillion dollars in value while Nasdaq sets fresh records… OpenAI and Anthropic burn 400 billion dollars yearly against just 50 billion dollars revenue and claim 7.2 percent of entire Nasdaq… Insiders and big money players fund each other then spin endless hype while hiding the …
She got dragged for $7 million in gravy train perks while attacking others. So…she’s just gonna lie like it’s nothing?😂 pic.twitter.com/18pGRfkpzg — Refugee316 (@Refugee316) May 19, 2026 .@gillibrandny just flat out LIED on camera. "I've never been on a private jet." BULLSHIT!She's been flying private and luxuriously for YEARS with …
Air Force One is back on US soil, but the fallout from the Beijing summit is just beginning… Insiders reveal Xi Jinping explicitly warned Trump that mismanaging Taiwan puts the entire relationship “in great jeopardy”… White House moves forward with a major Taiwan arms package to maintain deterrence… The Boeing …
via notayesmanseconomics Today I thought I would take a look at the world of private credit and see firstly what is going on and secondly what risks it poses. Let us start with what it is via Blackrock. Private credit represents part of the broader alternative’s universe, referring to non-traditional assets that …
Is a Private-Credit Crisis Imminent? The rapid expansion of opaque and minimally regulated lending outside the traditional banking system over the past 15 years largely flew—as intended—under regulators’ radar. Now, however, signs of trouble in shadow banking are multiplying, with rising redemptions and notable fund failures stoking fears of a …
Rainmaker Technology validates 143 million gallons of manmade precipitation… CEO Augustus Doricko: “We have unambiguously measured the results of seeding”… Oregon and Utah operations utilize drone-based radar to “unleash” snowfall… Breakthrough signals the start of “water as infrastructure” for the American West… https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rainmakers-cloud-seeding-breakthrough-first-ever-proof-of-manmade-precipitation-143m-gallons-for-oregon–utah-302753784.html “EL SEGUNDO, Calif., April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ …
Foreign Private Investors now own more U.S. Treasuries than Foreign Central Banks for the first time in history byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts 🇺🇸 Foreigners dumped ANOTHER $200 BILLION into U.S. Treasuries in February, a new ALL-TIME RECORD at $9.49 TRILLION Japan +$14B, UK +$17B, stacking hard. China barely touched theirs. The world’s …
THE FED IS NOW PRIVATELY PREPARING FOR A POSSIBLE $2 TRILLION CREDIT MARKET COLLAPSE. For the first time in over a decade, the Fed has started directly asking U.S. banks to hand over their exposure numbers to the private credit market. This is the exact move regulators make when they …
Cracks in the US private credit market are widening: Investors requested a record -$14.0 billion in redemptions from private credit funds in Q1 2026. This is up +146% from -$5.7 billion in Q4 2025 and +278% higher than the -$3.7 billion in the full year 2024. Meanwhile, just… pic.twitter.com/wBJ3bUSW1X — …
bro was right. Atlassian down 75%. HubSpot down 69%. Figma down 86%. Almost all of them down 30–70% from their 52-week highs. AI is literally eating software alive and repricing every company in real time. SaaS is cooked fr 😭 https://t.co/NsOxRTLLEp pic.twitter.com/Xk8QBCTJD3 — shirish (@shiri_shh) April 10, 2026 Anthropic's valuation …
https://www.wsj.com/finance/wall-street-builds-new-tool-to-bet-against-private-credit-bdf8bafa A report just dropped that should have everyone be more cautious. Major banks (Goldman, BofA, Barclays) are teaming up with S&P Global to launch a Credit-Default Swap (CDS) Index for Private Credit. If you aren’t familiar with 2008 history, this is essentially the “Big Short” alarm bell. Here’s the …
Private credit is in big trouble. Slow motion bank run byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts Carlyle just capped redemptions on its flagship private credit fund after investors slammed in 15.7 percent withdrawal requests, the latest gate in a wave hitting semi-liquid vehicles. That liquidity squeeze rolls straight into bank balance sheets and regional …
First, we have our “subprime is contained” moment from the Fed. Second, the run on Blue Owl is “unprecedented.” Third, and more important than either of those, it’s **who** is doing the running. In its disclosure, the sad owl let slip the truth underneath more ridiculous spin. When investors demand …
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, …
NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE, – India’s Reliance Industries, operator of the world’s biggest refining complex, has purchased 5 million barrels of Iranian crude, days after the U.S. temporarily removed sanctions on the oil, three sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The Indian refiner bought the oil from the National Iranian …
Wall Street crisis spreads as shadow bank blocks withdrawal Apollo and BlackRock Cap Withdrawals — $1.8 Trillion Private Credit Market Under Real Stress Apollo Global Management capped investor redemptions at one of its largest non-traded private credit funds, Apollo Debt Solutions. According to a shareholder letter, it capped redemptions at …
by Martin Armstrong Jerome Powell finally said out loud what the revisions have been quietly showing for months. During his March 18 press conference, Powell said that “effectively there’s zero net job creation in the private sector” over roughly the past six months after adjusting for what Fed staff view …
Job creation in the US has slowed to essentially zero, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday as the Fed released its latest economic projections, which included slightly higher economic growth than previously projected and little change to the unemployment rate. Altogether, Powell said, central bankers see “a degree of …
(Bloomberg) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are among investment banks offering hedge fund clients ways to bet against the $1.8 trillion private credit market, people with knowledge of the matter said. The firms have assembled baskets of listed companies with exposure to the space, the …
