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Let's check the timeline: March 24: Trump says "productive conversations." Iran says "fake news." Oil drops 11% in one day. March 25: Trump sends 15-point peace plan. Iran rejects it. Oil rebounds. March 31: Trump says "leaving in 2-3 weeks." Iran denies all negotiations. Markets rally. April 1: Trump addresses the nation. "Nearing completion." Next day oil jumps 9%. April 5 (today): Trump says "deal by Monday." Also today: Trump says he'll bomb Iran's power plants Tuesday. Also today: Iran calls Trump "helpless and nervous" and rejects the ultimatum. See the pattern? Headline: "deal soon." Reality: nothing changes. Oil swings 10% each way. Repeat. The market is trading headlines. The war is trading deadlines. If you've been buying and selling based on these announcements, you've been the product — not the investor.

BREAKING: Trump says he can "get a deal" with Iran by Monday and that Iran is "negotiating now"

Everyone agrees with this quote. Almost nobody acts on it. In March 2020, the S&P dropped 34% in 23 days. Ackman bought. He turned $27 million into $2.6 BILLION in one trade. Meanwhile, retail investors pulled $326 billion out of equity funds that same month. Same volatility. Same "discount." Opposite decisions. The edge isn't knowing that volatility creates opportunity. Everyone knows that. The edge is being the one person in the room who doesn't sell when it's down 30% and the news says the world is ending. Right now: S&P down 4%, oil at $110, war in week 6. In 3-5 years, this will be another line on a chart that went up. The question is whether you'll still be holding.

Bill Ackman said one of the biggest edges in investing is being willing to underwrite a business 3-5 years out which is why he owns $AMZN, $META & $GOOGL. Volatility is the price you pay for long-term compounding when the market gives you the chance to buy value at a discount.

Look at Blue Owl Technology: Q4 2024: -3.3% Q1 2025: -3.3% Q2 2025: -4.5% Q3 2025: -2.7% Q4 2025: -15.4% Q1 2026: -40.7% That's not a withdrawal. That's a stampede. This is what a slow-motion bank run looks like. Not in a movie. Not in 1929. Right now. In a spreadsheet. Private credit was sold as "the smart money alternative." Higher yields. Exclusive access. Sophisticated investing. Nobody mentioned the part where you can't leave when things go wrong. Stocks are boring. You buy them, you sell them, you move on. No gates. No caps. No "we'll give you 45 cents on the dollar." Liquidity isn't sexy. Until it's the only thing that matters.

"Unprecedented" Withdrawal Requests Now Hitting Private Credit zerohedge.com/markets/unprec…

Russia is the world's second-largest oil exporter. When Russia says "$150 oil is coming," they're not warning you. They're telling you what they want. Higher oil = more revenue for Russia. At $150/barrel, Russia makes ~$1.5 billion PER DAY from oil exports alone. The last time oil hit $147 was July 2008. Two months later, Lehman Brothers collapsed and the global economy crashed. $150 oil isn't a prediction. It's a price target — from someone who profits from it

JUST IN: 🇷🇺 Russia's Kirill Dmitriev says oil prices may rise over $150 per barrel "within the next two weeks."

You're right banks can't change Bitcoin's code. But they don't need to. They control the on-ramps, the custody, the ETFs, and the liquidity. You can own Bitcoin without a bank. But the PRICE of Bitcoin is now set by banks. That's the difference between controlling the protocol and controlling the market

@VectorialData @saylor Yeah except banks can’t control bitcoin. Like he said the biggest risk is protocol changes. But why would they destroy the asset they are all benefitting so much from?

Bitcoin has won. Global consensus is that $BTC is digital capital. The four-year cycle is dead. Price is now driven by capital flows. Bank and digital credit will determine Bitcoin’s growth trajectory. The biggest risk is bad ideas driving iatrogenic protocol changes.

Trump just declared Tuesday "Power Plant Day and Bridge Day" in Iran. Here's what that actually means: No power plants = no electricity. No electricity = no hospitals. No water pumps. No refrigeration. No internet. No traffic lights. Iraq, 2003. The U.S. bombed Baghdad's power grid on day one. It took 7 years to fully restore electricity. Seven. Years. Yugoslavia, 1999. NATO bombed power stations. 80% of the country went dark in one night. But here's the part nobody's talking about: Iran produces 4 million barrels of oil per day. Oil refineries need electricity to run. If you bomb the power grid, Iran can't refine oil. That takes even MORE oil off the global market. Oil is already at $110 because Hormuz is closed. Now imagine Hormuz closed AND Iran's 4 million barrels gone. "Power Plant Day" isn't just a military decision. It's an oil price decision. And you'll feel it at the pump.

Jet fuel is always the first to go. It's the hardest petroleum product to refine. Takes the most processing. Uses the most energy. When oil supply gets tight, refineries prioritize gasoline and diesel (cars, trucks, heating). Jet fuel gets cut first. That's why the IEA warned last week: "The biggest problem today is jet fuel and diesel." Your gas went from $3 to $4. Annoying. UK flights getting cancelled. Disruptive. But here's what comes next: if Hormuz stays closed through April, Shell's CEO warned diesel rationing hits Europe. Diesel moves food. Diesel moves medicine. Diesel moves everything. Jet fuel is the canary. Diesel is the mine.

BREAKING: UK airlines warn of jet fuel shortages & cancelled flights as six weeks of supply runs dry

Let me translate this to plain English: You give Apollo $100. You want it back. They give you $45. And they call it "value protection." Private credit funds are where billionaires park money. The pitch: "higher returns than the stock market." The fine print: you can't leave when you want. Apollo's fund had a 5% quarterly withdrawal cap. Investors requested 11.2% — more than double. So Apollo honored less than half. Now 5 firms managing $2 TRILLION have the same problem. This is the difference between owning a stock and owning a "fund": A stock — you sell whenever you want. Monday, Tuesday, 10 AM, 3 PM. Done. A private fund — you ask permission. And sometimes the answer is no. Liquidity is not a feature. It's THE feature.

🚨 5 of the biggest names in finance just restricted withdrawals from their private credit funds: – BlackRock – Blue Owl – Morgan Stanley – Apollo – Ares Combined exposure: roughly $2 trillion. Something big is about to happen and we all know it…

Michael Saylor's company owns 500,000+ Bitcoin. Worth ~$40 billion. When a man holding $40B of something tells you the old rules don't apply anymore, he's not giving you analysis. He's giving you his position. The 4-year cycle was based on halving supply shocks. Those shocks get smaller every cycle because the new supply matters less compared to the total supply. That's just math. Not a revolution. Does Bitcoin have a future? Probably. Is the old cycle dead? Maybe. Should you take investing advice from someone who needs the price to go up to survive? Always ask: who benefits from this narrative?

JUST IN: Michael Saylor says the four-year Bitcoin cycle is "dead."

"Markets closing is a legacy design choice." No. Markets closing is a psychological firewall. Studies show that the more frequently people check their portfolio, the worse their returns. Daily checkers are 3x more likely to panic sell than monthly checkers. Now imagine markets that never close. 3 AM. You check your phone. Tesla is down 8% because of a headline from Asia. You sell. By 9 AM it's recovered. But you're already out. 24/7 markets sound like innovation. For algorithms, they are. For humans, it's 24/7 anxiety with a sell button always one tap away. The best investors aren't the ones with the most access. They're the ones with the most discipline.

JUST IN: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says "markets closing at the end of the day is a legacy design choice." "Tokenization opens the door to a system that looks more like the internet itself."

Countries that aren't even in the war just started rationing fuel. Asia: mandatory work-from-home + fuel rationing at gas stations. Europe: limits on how much you can pump per visit. Brent crude spot price: $141/barrel — highest since 2008. The Strait of Hormuz has been 90-95% closed for 5 weeks. 20% of the world's oil passes through it. That oil doesn't just go to the U.S. It goes everywhere. Japan imports 90% of its oil through Hormuz. South Korea: 70%. India: 40%. When those countries can't get oil, they don't just pay more. They ration. They shut things down. They tell people to stop driving. $4 gas in America feels bad. Fuel rationing in Tokyo is worse. And if Hormuz stays closed past mid-April, analysts say Brent could hit $180. The war is between the U.S. and Iran. The economic damage is global.

Tesla just reported Q1 deliveries: 358,000. Wall Street expected 372,000. They missed. But here's the real number: Tesla PRODUCED 408,000 cars and only DELIVERED 358,000. That's 50,000 vehicles sitting in parking lots. Unsold. When a company builds more than it sells, it means one of two things: demand is falling, or they're betting on future orders. Tesla stock dropped 4% today. The market thinks it's option 1. This isn't just a Tesla story. It's a consumer story. When gas is $4, Nike sales are down 11%, and car payments average $738/month people stop buying

This is called confirmation bias. And it destroys more portfolios than any market crash. You think a stock will go up. You ask a friend — they agree. You Google it — you find articles that confirm. You join a Reddit thread — everyone's buying. You never hear "no." Now add an AI that's literally trained to agree with you. "Should I put my savings in this stock?" Yes, great idea. "What about my retirement fund too?" Absolutely. "All of it?" You're making a smart move. MIT just proved the AI does this mathematically. But the human version has been bankrupting people for centuries. ChatGPT didn't invent delusional spiraling. It just automated it

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Everyone is reading this as a warning. It's not. It's a position. Berkshire Hathaway is sitting on $330 BILLION in cash right now. That's more than the GDP of 170 countries. Buffett has been selling stocks for 18 straight months. He's not scared of a crash. He's waiting for one. In 2008, while everyone panicked, he put $5 billion into Goldman Sachs. Made $3 billion on that single deal. When Buffett says "a larger decline is ahead," he's not telling you to run. He's telling you he's about to go shopping.

🚨 BREAKING: 🇺🇸 WARREN BUFFETT JUST SAID LIVE ON CNBC: "THE CURRENT MARKET DROP IS NOTHING. A LARGER DECLINE IS AHEAD." HE DEFINITELY KNOWS SOMETHING BAD IS COMING...

The headline: "Iran asks for ceasefire." The fine print: "Only if Hormuz is open first." Hormuz IS Iran's leverage. It's the only reason anyone is negotiating at all. Asking Iran to open Hormuz before a ceasefire is like asking someone to drop their only weapon before you agree to stop shooting. That's why oil only dropped 1% on this news, not 20%. Wall Street reads the fine print. The market is telling you: this isn't over yet.

"Iran’s New Regime President, much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a CEASEFIRE! We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear. Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!!!" - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

The U.S. has 750+ military bases in 80 countries. Most of them through NATO. Those bases aren't charity. They're how the U.S. projects power globally. They're how the dollar stays the world's reserve currency. They're why the U.S. can park aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf within 48 hours. If NATO is a "one-way street," it's because the U.S. built the road — and it leads exactly where the U.S. wants it to

BREAKING 🇺🇸🇪🇺: Marco Rubio warns NATO could become a “one-way street” if the U.S. cannot access allied bases in times of need. “If we can’t use those bases when we need them, then NATO loses its purpose,” Rubio said. “Why are we in NATO if, in our time of need, we can’t rely on those allies? We’re going to have to reexamine the value of NATO and what the alliance truly offers our country.” The remarks come amid growing tensions and debates over NATO’s role in supporting U.S. operations abroad.

Gas just hit $4/gallon. National average. The highest since 2022. But here's what nobody's telling you: $4 gas isn't just about your car. It's about everything. 72% of everything you buy is moved by truck. Trucks run on diesel. Diesel is $5. So your eggs go up. Your Amazon packages go up. The USPS just requested an 8% emergency surcharge. Nike just dropped 11% — not because shoes got worse. Because people stopped buying them. When gas takes $50/month from your budget, that's $50 less for everything else. $4/gallon is not a gas price. It's an economy-wide tax that nobody voted for.

Exactly. The $600 is just what you pump into your car. But gas moves everything — groceries, Amazon packages, building materials. The American Trucking Association estimates 72% of freight tonnage moves by truck. So when gas goes up $0.50, your eggs go up. Your rent goes up. Your clothes go up. The real cost of $4/gallon isn't $600. It's invisible and everywhere.

@VectorialData @CNN That’s just the calculation for your car. Every single thing, like food, used by consumers is now transported using gas, so those calculations apply as well.

US gas hits $4 per gallon for the first time since 2022, with average prices now higher than at any point during Trump's two terms cnn.it/47xRBMY

"The invisible supply chain" Helium can't be manufactured. It comes from underground, mostly from the US and Qatar. What needs helium: — MRI scanners (hospitals can't function without them) — Semiconductor fabs (every AI chip requires helium cooling) — Fiber optic cables — Rocket engines Qatar exports through Hormuz. Hormuz is 90% closed. So one strait, 21 miles wide, is now simultaneously threatening: your healthcare, your AI, your internet, and space exploration. Oil gets the headlines. Helium gets no attention. But it might matter more.

The Iran war isn’t just affecting energy supplies. It is also cutting into supplies of helium that are essential for cooling AI chipmaking tools and keeping MRI scanners humming. on.wsj.com/4bUVWuN