Debit Balances in Customers’ Securities Margin Accounts increased by $37,058 million, or 5.75% from May to June–the biggest jump since December 2022. This implies that customers are borrowing more money from their brokers to buy securities on margin.

by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/key-topics/margin-accounts/margin-statistics Source: https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/margin-statistics.xlsx Wut mean?: According to FINRA Rule 4521(d), FINRA member firms with customer margin accounts must report by the last business day of each month: Total debit balances in securities margin accounts. Total free credit balances …

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RFK Jr: “Looks like Chase shut down long-time accounts of Mercola’s company, employees, and their family members. No reason given. I wonder if it has anything to do with their medical dissent?…”

This kind of thing partly explains the appeal of Bitcoin. Our freedom to transact and save should not be at the mercy of political enforcers. No payment platform should be allowed to discriminate against people for exercising their right to …

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$78 billion withdrawn from commercial banks last week (7/5-7/12). $869 billion in deposits has been pulled since the all time hit 4/13/22. With the FDIC announcement today banks aren’t reporting their uninsured deposits correctly, will this re-accelerate the bank run already picking up pace again?!?

by Dismal-Jellyfish I would like to review a few items this morning: Commercial deposit withdrawals Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) making up for gaps Todays notice from FDIC banks aren’t correctly reporting the amount of deposits they have that aren’t …

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As the EV bubble bursts, idiots who massively overpaid for Teslas are going to end up letting the repo man haul away their cars rather than continue making huge payments on a rapidly depreciating asset. Auto lenders, you are so f*cked.

(7a) Lower Priced Teslas The average price of a used Tesla is over $24k lower than the peak last July. Video: https://t.co/uwLwbR3ssh pic.twitter.com/9qfGaCetiH — Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) July 19, 2023 h/t Simian_Stacker

They want their taxes.

New York Passes New Laws To Criminalize Illicit Marijuana Sales Nearly wo years after New York legalized recreational cannabis for adults, the state has passed new laws to criminalize unlicensed sales of marijuana as part of the state budget passed …

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Viral TikTok Boat Challenge Leads To “Instant Death”… “When they jumped out of the boat, they literally broke their neck … instant death”

Stupid is as stupid does… TIK TOK. KILLING PEOPLE SINCE 2016 https://twitter.com/_/status/1678132176876105735 A dangerous TikTok challenge has gone viral as summer heats up in the Northern Hemisphere. The trend involves people jumping off the rear of a moving boat. Tragically, …

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The faster the globalists’ approved narratives start falling apart, the more onerous their censorship & suppression of truth-tellers will become

The EU's Mass Censorship Regime Is Almost Fully Operational. Will It Go Global? https://t.co/MrD74epkNR — zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 8, 2023 CNN encourages viewers not to see anti-pedophile movie Sound of Freedom. pic.twitter.com/wBTkLhWkbW — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 8, 2023 …

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Canada fixed their affordability problem…

Lenders now seeing 60-, 70-, even 90-year mortgages as Canadians struggle with rocketing interest rates Now, in the face of crippling interest rates, some existing homeowners are seeing their amortization period go as high as 90-years as their ‘fixed-payment’ variable-rate …

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There are 3 nuclear power plants on Ukrainian territory, why would Russia blow up the one on territory they’re holding? Like when they blew up their own pipeline, dam, and bridge too? Make it make sense

by Qplus17 Why would Russia be stupid enough to blow up a nuclear plant near their own border, in territory they annexed? I certainly hope that if #Russia is stupid enough to blow the Nuclear power plant in #Zaporizhzhia, every …

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