🚨 SOMETHING MUCH BIGGER MAY BE BUILDING BEHIND THE SCENES. Warnings about food, energy, debt, AI, and financial instability are suddenly coming from some of the most powerful people in global finance. JPMorgan research has warned that the next major global food crisis may not be short-lived and could emerge as soon as next year. Bill Gates has also been warning about hunger, malnutrition, and child mortality moving in the wrong direction after decades of progress. At the same time, Jamie Dimon says the risks are "bigger than other people think" and continues warning about serious stress building in bond markets. Ray Dalio, central bankers, and energy executives keep circling around the same risks: Food. Energy. War. Debt. AI disruption. WHEN THIS MANY PEOPLE ARE WARNING ABOUT THE SAME THINGS AT THE SAME TIME, IT'S WORTH PAYING ATTENTION. Now comments attributed to Bank of Japan voice #yutokanzakireal are adding another layer to the story: the idea that policymakers could eventually point to an outside crisis as the explanation for economic pain already building underneath the system. We've seen a version of this sequence before. In 2019, the repo market suddenly seized up. Liquidity disappeared, overnight funding rates exploded into double digits, and the Fed was forced to inject cash into the system. Then COVID arrived. What followed was one of the largest monetary responses in modern history, with trillions of dollars created to keep the financial system functioning. THE FINANCIAL STRESS STARTED BEFORE THE CRISIS DID. And today, the underlying problems are arguably even larger. Global debt keeps climbing. Government deficits have become structural. Bond yields remain difficult to contain. Foreign demand for Treasuries is under pressure in key markets. Meanwhile, central banks have been accumulating gold at an extraordinary pace. THE WORLD'S MONETARY AUTHORITIES ARE CLEARLY PREPARING FOR A DIFFERENT KIND OF SYSTEM. That doesn't prove anyone is engineering the next crisis. But if another major shock hits food, energy, AI, or global trade while the financial system is already under pressure, governments and central banks could once again have the justification for extraordinary monetary intervention. THE REAL QUESTION ISN'T WHETHER THE NEXT SHOCK COMES? IT'S WHAT THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM WILL LOOK LIKE AFTER IT DOES!👀

🚨 WARNING: THE U.S. OPEN COULD SHOCK EVERYONE Something shifted this week, and almost nobody connected the dots. Two of the largest holders of U.S. debt started walking toward the exit at the same time. Japan sold $71 billion in Treasuries, its biggest offload in decades. China is doing the same, just quieter. But the selling isn't the real story. It's what they're buying with the proceeds. Both are dumping dollars and stacking gold to record highs. That's the signal that matters. When the world's biggest economies trade U.S. paper for hard metal, they're placing a bet on where this all ends. And Japan doesn't even have a choice. Buried under ¥15.3 trillion in bond losses, it has to keep selling Treasuries just to prop up a collapsing yen. That pressure only builds from here. Here's why it spirals: More selling → Higher yields → More strain → More intervention → More gold buying → Less dollar dependence. Round and round, feeding itself. Now the timing. When U.S. markets reopen from the long weekend on September 8, they have to price all of it at once, record foreign selling, rising yields, a softer dollar, and they'll do it on thin, post-holiday liquidity. That's the trap. Rising yields quietly rot the foundation under stretched valuations. And a market propped up by five names has nothing underneath if bonds start cracking. This is how a financial order changes. Not in one crash. Slowly, then suddenly.

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Iran said a new restricted zone will be declared outside of the Strait of Hormuz in the coming days after the US attacked Iranian tankers

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The year is 1986. At #Wembley Arena, Eric #Clapton, Phil #Collins, #McCartney, and #Elton John come together to deliver a masterclass in real #Rock. While today they try to sell you cardboard digital "superbands," here there was blood and talent. A #AllStar that won't come back again. 👑🔥

#Mother #Teresa used her 1979 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech to speak out against legalised abortion. “To me the nations who have legalized abortion, they are the poorest nations. They are afraid of the little one, they are afraid of the unborn child”

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The #Big #Short. You have seen the movie. Did you know the book was, in fact, a sequel? #Wall #Street ran the exact same #con twice, and you paid for it both times. #Michael #Lewis documented the first run in #Liar's #Poker (1989). Salomon Brothers traders discovered they could package mortgage debt into bonds, sell the risk to pension funds and savings institutions, and collect fees on every layer of the transaction. The Federal Reserve held rates artificially low throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, flooding banks with cheap credit that had to go somewhere. It went into mortgage paper. When the savings and loan sector collapsed between 1986 and 1995, the Resolution Trust Corporation liquidated roughly $400 billion in bad assets. Taxpayers absorbed the loss. The architects of the trade kept their bonuses. Then the Fed did it again. Greenspan cut the federal funds rate to 1% by June 2003 and held it there for a full year, manufacturing a credit surplus that banks needed to deploy. Lewis documented the second iteration in The Big Short (2010): CDOs stuffed with subprime mortgages, rating agencies stamping AAA on instruments that deserved junk status, and traders at Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs selling the bonds to clients while quietly shorting the same positions. The underlying mechanics were identical to the 1980s playbook. Only the acronyms changed. When it fell apart in 2008, the Fed and Treasury socialized $700 billion through TARP, the Federal Reserve expanded its balance sheet from roughly $900 billion to $2.2 trillion inside twelve months, and not a single senior banker at Countrywide, Lehman, or Washington Mutual served meaningful prison time. Credit expansion manufactured by central banks produces booms that cannot clear without a crash. Ludwig von Mises formalized this in 1912: artificially low interest rates send false signals to entrepreneurs, malinvestment accumulates across the economy, and central bank distortion precedes market correction. The boom is the disease. The bust is the cure the political class refuses to swallow. Commercial real estate carries roughly $1.5 trillion in loans scheduled for refinancing through 2026, many originated when office occupancy assumptions were pre-pandemic and rates were near zero. Regional banks hold the majority of that exposure. The Fed ran its balance sheet to $8.9 trillion and kept rates at zero through March 2022. The same distortion is in place. The same institutions are exposed. Lewis hasn't written the book yet, but the material is already there.

Everything #government touches turns to #shit 💩 In South Africa, that statement is literal.