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The American Dream is cracking under the cost of living, and the people in this video are done pretending everything is fine. You’ll hear from gig workers making $34 in eight hours, renters paying $900 for a studio with no bedroom door, parents spending thousands on childcare, and young people who can’t picture working a …
Single workers in bottom 50% earn gross income between $30,000 and $45,000 yearly Net take home pay after all tax and insurance is only $23,000 to $35,000 annually Monthly net income for these individual worker range from $1,900 to $2,900 Roughly 40% of daily effort go toward paying tax and fee before earning for family …
John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad This is potentially the biggest Iran story nobody is talking about: the global insurance market may be heading toward a systemic crisis. Here’s why… Most people don’t realize London isn’t just a financial center it’s THE center of global insurance. Lloyd’s underwrites ~40% of the world’s marine cargo. Ship sinks, …
via Phoenix Capital Research The situation with silver is becoming even more ludicrous. As I’ve previously noted, according to the CME’s registry there are 440 million ounces of silver located in its depositories. However, the current silver futures contract which settles in late March 2026 has an open interest of 150,200 contracts. At 5,000 ounces …
Nothing says systemic risk like a record bailout before breakfast. Fed lending $420B to banks is a much bigger story but you are correct. I just posted a link to the Fed story. — Dr. Don Woods (@DonaldW60852684) January 15, 2026 VVIX back over 100 always a red flag, especially with VIX lagging https://t.co/CeIl200Fcl pic.twitter.com/YP7GD3hruh …
“This was not a short squeeze rally… This was real, honest-to-goodness, new money buyers coming in,” says veteran trader Bert Dohmen. As silver surges nearly 90% for its best year since 1980, the legendary analyst who called the 1987 crash, the dot-com bust, and the 2008 meltdown is sounding his loudest alarm in 49 years. …
A systemic problem in our cuntry byu/Effective_Reach_9289 intucker_carlson Meet the Chicago DEI judge who let 15 time felon go free — who later set woman on fire. Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez (D) who let Lawrence Reed out before he lit a woman on fire despite prosecutors begging to keep him detained and 72 prior arrests, basically …
The collapsing collateral pyramid: When MBS replaces Treasuries in repo, the system is running out of AAA ammunition. This is exactly how the shadow collateral system breaks: •Treasuries = pristine •MBS = haircut-heavy, riskier •Agencies = dead middle •Everything below = nuclear waste If the Fed is now vacuuming up MBS to keep funding markets …
Week ending September 10 in Vaughan did not just nudge the market downward, it slammed it into a pit nobody wants to admit exists. Detached median sold price fell to $1.36 million, one of the lowest points anyone remembers, down 21 percent year-over-year, and every headline pretends this is just a seasonal wobble, as if …
The plane went blind. Not figuratively. Not a glitch in the narrative. Ursula von der Leyen’s Dassault Falcon 900LX circled over Bulgaria for an hour, stripped of GPS, stripped of certainty. “We can indeed confirm that there was GPS jamming,” said EU spokesperson Arianna Podestà. “We have received information from the Bulgarian authority that they …
No one expecting 3% real growth in the US any time soon. pic.twitter.com/dAc96aKccl — Bob Elliott (@BobEUnlimited) May 24, 2025 The structural problem for the US is simple. Long-term GDP growth rate is falling. US Debt has been ballooning which has caused US Federal Interest Payments to skyrocket. Hence, the conundrum for the US Economy …
The Silent Banking Crisis: Understanding the $482 Billion Time Bomb U.S. banks are currently sitting on $482 billion in unrealized losses on their investment securities primarily long-dated Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities bought during the 0% interest rate era. This figure has jumped 33% in just the last quarter, making it the worst paper loss environment …
via BossBlunts1: WHY THE CFTC NO-ACTION LETTER MATTERS It allows UBS to absorb toxic Credit Suisse swaps quietly — no clearing or margin requirements kick in. It shields these legacy exposures from public scrutiny. It suggests the risk is so large or complex, that the CFTC believes enforcing margin and clearing rules now could cause …
Pakist*ni M*slim gangs in the UK targeted & r*ped hundreds of thousands of white girls in England for decades & was mostly covered up by the media & the gov. Their narrative of the success of mass migration of fake asylum seekers and multiculturalism could not be challenged.… — Bartemy Jones (@BartemyS) January 6, 2025 …
Leaked audio that Fox is referring to 👇. https://t.co/8MYKCKZ7fS — NeuraVox (@NeuraVox0) September 9, 2024
US corporate bankruptcies are the highest in 7 years https://t.co/HjmfYYpxR9 pic.twitter.com/gKJMkltxJQ — zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 30, 2024 Home buying conditions have NEVER been worse: UMich pic.twitter.com/2hnslFk8vS — zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 30, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQjTaJIzhtk
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Mimicry of intelligence isn’t intelligence, and so while AI mimicry is a powerful tool, it isn’t intelligent. The mythology of Technology has a special altar for AI, artificial intelligence, which is reverently worshiped as the source of astonishing cost reductions (as human labor is replaced by AI) and the …
It's always good to eliminate systemic racism. — Al Ruddy 🇺🇲 🏴🇬🇧 (@_AlRuddy) May 13, 2024 CHANGE: Two Virginia universities scrap DEI requirements after Youngkin audit. Related: UNC Diverts DEI Funds Toward Campus Police: Report. DEI Hits the VA: Biden’s Veterans Affairs Department Offers Race-Based Training Programs That Exclude White Vets. “‘Equity’ means realizing ‘treating everybody the …
Today Bank of Canada warned the public of a possible sharp correction in asset prices & systemic risk to the banking system 🤪pic.twitter.com/cKJPDeZ1X0 https://t.co/l7L3hjeD46 — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) May 10, 2024 The Bank of Canada Governor called Trudeau's $61 billion spending "not helpful" for tackling inflation and reducing interest rates. Former Liberal Bank Governor David Dodge …
This trend raises alarm about the broader risks from interlinked dependencies. LONDON, March 14 (Reuters) – Europe’s private credit funds are increasingly borrowing from banks to boost their performance, fuelling concerns about the wider risks posed by this interconnectedness. A record 80% of new European private credit funds borrowed from banks via ‘subscription lines’ in …
via Bloomberg: Fears of a systemic credit event are growing among fund managers as alarms sound in property markets around the world. About one in six of those polled considers such a crunch to be the biggest tail risk facing markets, compared to about one in 11 in December, according to Bank of America Corp.’s …
Daniela Cambone interviews Bert Dohmen, founder and president of Dohmen Capital Research, discussing the banking sector, China, the Fed, and the importance of having a Plan B in their recent conversation. Dohmen warns that the failure with regional banks last year was not a “one-off” situation, and he emphasizes that a “gigantic systemic meltdown” is …
via creditbubblebulletin: As my thoughts turned this week to “Issues 2024,” my mind returned to the great American economist Hyman Minsky (1919-1996). The dynamic evolution of Capitalistic systems, innovation and financial structures, the “Financial Instability Hypothesis,” “Ponzi finance”, “stability is destabilizing”… No economist’s work is more germane to Issues 2024 than the brilliant Minsky. Minsky …
GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson believes the U.S. suffers from systemic racism. ✊ I am glad he will take action to reform this country, after he conducts his first order of business, which is sending 100 billion overseas. pic.twitter.com/7JAo91V6CD — Cernovich (@Cernovich) October 25, 2023
Countdown until next systemic risk has begun pic.twitter.com/rRAIEsSg7C — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) October 3, 2023 China property stocks keep sliding to the lowest since 2008 as housing crisis intesifies pic.twitter.com/RW6XZ0M5kR — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) October 3, 2023 Gm Hong Kong in shambles pic.twitter.com/P0Hwcz7qVN — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) October 3, 2023 Chinese real estate developers, driven by greed and …
Labour run Stoke-On-Trent Council also set to declare BANKRUPTCY as well. Led by Labour Mayor Majid Khan and Council Leader Jane Ashworth they have a budget deficit of around £8.5 MILLION. Systemic collapse now taking place. 🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Labour run Stoke-On-Trent Council also set to declare BANKRUPTCY as well. Led by Labour Mayor Majid Khan …
DEI is systemic racism in its purest form and big companies are finally getting rid of it Netflix, Disney and WB have recently fired DEI execs and headhunters say demand for these senior roles is lowest in 30 years Here’s why – after SCOTUS abolished affirmative action in… pic.twitter.com/07MpaHb2bk — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) July 21, 2023 …
Systemically racist Affirmative Action policies weaken the professions they touch. pic.twitter.com/bmRPukLLsA — The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole) June 25, 2023
