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2008 warning signs flashing again across markets: credit squeeze, shadow banks, oil shock, rising unemployment. The smell is back. Private equity is already in trouble. The crisis is coming in April.

The 2008 parallels aren’t subtle anymore. Let me lay them out: ✓ Credit bubble reversing ✓ Shadow banks gating investor redemptions ✓ Forced asset sales to raise cash ✓ Collateral getting marked down (JP Morgan just did this) ✓ Oil shock driving prices toward $100 ✓ Central bankers focused on inflation, the wrong risk ✓ …

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Financial system fraud is rampant, with the system rigged much like 2008. Gold is skyrocketing. What does it smell?

Economy is in LATE CYCLE. Recession is building, and the market is about to confront the limits of manipulation and policy. The fraud in the financial system is even more rampant today 😡 The whole thing is RIGGED much like 2008 in some ways. pic.twitter.com/xB1exGyhWa — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) September 9, 2025 https://x.com/INArteCarloDoss/status/1965416983782195242 When gold …

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Buying a home right now at these elevated prices makes absolutely zero sense with rates this high. You can smell the desperation of the agents any house you walk into.

Yeah, I go to open houses every weekend, because I would like to buy a house but by the end of the day I’m just depressed. Rates double from a few years ago, sky high prices, and most houses need some work. People are pricing their houses higher than what they paid in 2022. 🙄 …

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Does Anyone Else Smell a Market Crash in the Air?

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Markets are manipulated, yes, but they’re still structures of tightly bound, self-organizing complexity which lend themselves to sudden non-linear collapses. Just as thunderstorms scent the air before their arrival, market crashes often announce themselves in the autumn zephyrs. Markets don’t crash when everyone’s in full-blown panic; they crash when the …

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Smell of Simple Fragrance While Sleeping Produces Major Memory Boost in Older Adults

When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. Participants in the study by neuroscientists reaped a 226% increase in cognitive capacity compared to the control group. The University of California researchers in Irvine said the finding transforms the long-known tie between smell and …

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The smell of burning housing speculators…

Let’s see how the levered up AirBNB gamblers are doing pic.twitter.com/DagjVLjfGv — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) July 29, 2023 Housing Bros: Real Estate prices will stay elevated even with rates at 7% Housing Reality: We just slashed our listing price by -50% after listing it for 1 month. God Speed 🫡 pic.twitter.com/dgeDrS0VL6 — The Punisher (of …

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