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🚨NEWS: The Fed has quietly delivered nearly HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS of no-strings-attached bank bailouts in the last few months, according to documents & data reviewed by @LeverNews. In all, the new bailouts are already 60% of the amount of the financial crisis TARP bailout. pic.twitter.com/gHbVWY3eSm — David Sirota (@davidsirota) January 14, 2026 Massive, unprecedented …
They are dumping to every country. Retaliation will occur. — duane2020 (@duane2020a) January 14, 2026
by Martin Armstrong The proposed billionaire tax has caussed $1 trillion in potential tax revenue to flee California. The billionaire tax would require California residents worth over $1 billion to pay a one-time 5% fee on all assets, including unrealized gains. Google co-founder Larry Page fled the state and took his $276 billion net worth with him. …
2026 just started and China already dropped a financial bomb 💣 Beijing quietly EXTENDED a policy letting banks roll over 3.8 TRILLION yuan of bad personal loans. Translation: the debts are so bad they can’t be cleaned up. Banks are dumping credit-card defaults at 10–20¢ on the dollar, hiding losses, and repackaging the trash into …
Tariffs can’t pay for a $1.5 trillion military, farm bailouts, rebate checks, and the debt at the same time. That math only works if the real plan is borrowing first and explaining later. The bill always shows up after the applause. President Donald Trump proposed giving the Pentagon a 50% raise on its nearly $1 …
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115855894695940909 U.S. National Debt is growing by $1 million every 15 seconds — $6 billion increase every day. https://www.usdebtclock.org/
Japan just flipped the switch after decades of easy money and the markets are starting to feel it. The Yen is about to dance, rates are climbing, and every risk asset is waking up to the new reality. 🚨 BOJ GOES FULL HAWKISH MODE 🇯🇵 Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda says rate hikes will …
Did China just find a way to stop regime change without firing a shot? China just declared war. Not with missiles. With lawyers. “Chinese interest in Venezuela will be protected by law.” Read that again. Beijing didn’t threaten military action. They announced something far more dangerous to American power: They’re going to make regime change …
So while most people are juggling bills, rent, and rising prices, the richest 500 just stacked another $2.2 trillion like it was Monopoly money. Big Tech is printing fortunes off AI hype, markets bouncing, and a Trump win just supercharged the ride. Tariffs are creating GREAT WEALTH, and unprecedented National Security for the USA! 🇺🇸🇺🇸 …
People keep calling bonds “safe,” but that’s a straight-up lie. Long bonds in 2021 looked boring and secure, but inflation turned them into a nightmare. “Bonds are a safe-haven asset” is one of the biggest lies in financial markets. Bond performance is heavily dependent on the inflationary environment. – Disinflation -> bonds up– Inflation -> …
How long before $250 trillion of hidden risk explodes in the financial system? World ‘blind’ to risks in booming $250tn shadow bank market The world’s top financial regulators have admitted they are blind to dangers lurking in the shadow banking sector. On Tuesday, the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a network of global watchdogs, said “severe …
You can print debt forever, but you cannot print silver $318 Trillion in Debt Could Break the Silver Market There’s one number Wall Street doesn’t want you thinking about: $318 trillion. That’s how much global debt exists right now, and my cousin Asian Guy breaks down why this debt spiral could collide with a silver …
This is what collapse looks like in spreadsheets. Not mistakes, not edge cases, just a machine vacuuming taxpayer money into pet projects, activists, consultants, and friends of the system while interest alone eats the country alive. There is fraud everywhere and nobody ever pays for it because the people writing the checks are never the …
A trillion dollars in defense spending… during peace time… while running multi-trillion dollar deficits. 😭… is it any wonder by the bond market is rejecting the lower inflationary print and dovish fed speak… while equity’s are at crazy high valuations… pic.twitter.com/xORS6QSEH2 — Kris Patel 🇺🇸 (@KrisPatel99) December 22, 2025 When you have almost 38T in …
$14 TRILLION NGO EMPIRE: TAX EXEMPT, VOTER PROOF An essay citing Federal Reserve Financial Accounts says U.S. NGOs held $14.12 trillion in assets as of Q2 2025, which is bigger than the combined 2025 GDP of Japan, Germany, and India by roughly 5%. If your brain just tried to file “NGO” under soup kitchens and …
The numbers finally crossed a line that people in Washington used to swear we would never cross, and now that we are here the reaction feels almost casual. The $38 trillion national debt to blame for over $1 trillion in annual interest payments America’s fiscal outlook continues to enter uncharted territory, with the Committee for …
The Fed just admitted markets won’t buy $9 trillion of federal debt coming due. So the Fed will. Last time the Fed did this in the 1940’s it led to 20% inflation. When Germany did it in the 1930’s it led to hyperinflation. pic.twitter.com/psiog1hcLo — Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) December 15, 2025 Before and …
IBM’s CEO said there is “no way” that the massive spending on AI and data centers will ever pay off. For the first time in this bubble cycle people are finally wondering if maybe he is right. It couldn’t have come at a more critical time in light of Oracle’s shocking results. And then Broadcom …
Tom McClellan @McClellanOsc I wish to politely disagree with this assertion. Yes, QT was happening, shrinking the Fed’s balance sheet, and yes, the stock market advanced. But the Fed was engaged in QE all the while, just under a different format. While QE4 was still underway, the Fed began compiling over $1.5 trillion of Reverse …
NY Fed: The share of households who think their financial situation will be better in a year matched a new 2-year low in Nov. Fewer than 26.5% of households expect their situation to improve. We were at this level in May 2025 after 'Liberation Day.'https://t.co/TKTzxEEcRK pic.twitter.com/UahZNaUPJL — Nick Timiraos (@NickTimiraos) December 8, 2025 Mortgage delinquency …
via halturnerradioshow America’s household debt hit $18.59 trillion with a $197 billion Q3 spike this year. Many people are calling this “the elite’s silent war on the middle class.” That’s $136,000 per household and an increase of $1,500. Mortgages, car loans, and credit cards are chaining families while the politicians in DC print trillions for …
🔴HOLY COW: Japan’s regional banks’ unrealized losses on their domestic bond holdings hit a RECORD -¥3.3 trillion in Fiscal Q2 2025, ending September 30. This marks a ¥500 billion surge over Q1. As Japan’s government bond yields rise their value drops, and as a result, paper… pic.twitter.com/aJWWRcUCOo — Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) December 5, 2025 …
HSBC has said that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030, per FT: pic.twitter.com/KQrsGIqFnK — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) December 4, 2025 “OpenAI may continue to attract significant funding and could ultimately develop products that…revolutionize the world. But at present, no start-up in history has operated with expected losses on …
China's Real Estate Collapse Sends Local Debt To Record $18.9 Trillion https://t.co/htlQos8qIF — zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 4, 2025 Almost 20 years ago, when the Lehman/AIG collapse and the ensuing global financial crisis sent the world into a brief but acute depression, it was China’s massive debt-fueled growth dynamo that kick started the world economy and …
SOFR Volume is shockingly at $3.41 trillion! The recent spike is reminiscent of past crises where there was a sudden surge in demand for overnight REPO liquidity in the banking system right before something blew up. We can see the smoke but where is the fire? https://t.co/OKlDZBhgFb pic.twitter.com/3v5On9odWt — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) December 3, 2025 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SOFRVOL …
still running on Biden,Pelosi, Schumer,McCarthy, McConell budget. So thanks for pointing out the status quo of spending by the uniparty leadership of last 40 years is a failure. — donksuem (@donksuem) December 3, 2025 I’m just going to leave this here. Trump’s first budget began on October 1st. The receipts are in: * October ’25 …
BREAKING 🚨 US OFFICE OF FINANCIAL RESEARCH SHOCKED TO LEARN OFF-EXCHANGE REPO MARKETS (DARKPOOL REPO LOANS) EXCEEDS $5 TRILLION 😱 That’s over 100% MORE than expected… The report states this could cascade into domino bankruptcies and systemic crisis. Lehman Bros on mega steroids💥 Repo = basically short-term loans backed by bonds that can amplify systemic …
“THE YEN CARRY SINGULARITY Japan’s 40-year bond just hit 3.69%. The highest since 2007. This is not a number. This is a detonator. Behind that yield sits $20 trillion in carry trade exposure. Borrowed yen funding everything from Treasuries to tech stocks to Bitcoin. For decades, this trade printed money. Now Japan’s bond market is …
Eli Lilly reached a $1 trillion market capitalization on Friday, the first health-care company in the world to join the exclusive club dominated by tech firms. The Indianapolis-based company’s stock has been riding the skyrocketing popularity of its weight loss injection Zepbound and diabetes treatment Mounjaro. The two drugs have driven eye-popping sales growth for …
