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BREAKING: THE WORLD’S LARGEST EXCHANGE NYSE, JUST OFFICIALLY ELIMINATED OPTIONS LIMITS ON ALL BITCOIN AND CRYPTO ETFs WALL STREET IS COMING 🚀

“Claude can now open apps, navigate your browser, fill in spreadsheets - anything you would do sitting at your desk.” That’s literally all of white-collar work. It is over.

JUST IN: Goldman Sachs now expects ECB rate hikes in April and June.

Michael Burry will no longer post on X after leaving an ominous message "Lights Out" 🚨 The last time he did this was right before the massive 2022 stock market dump 👻😱

ICE just fixed Atlanta's airport in a matter of hours.

STOP IT!!!🤣🤣🤣

We've signed a Memorandum of Understanding with @NYSE to support the development of tokenized securities markets. Securitize has been named as the first transfer agent eligible to mint blockchain-native securities on the upcoming NYSE-affiliated tokenized securities platform.

Rama Duwaji: “N*gga, f*ggot, I love suicide bombers and plane hijackers.” CNN: “Art and social media.”

It's all actually going to happen for crypto. Feels like we're in the last window of time where that's not yet obvious to everyone.

BREAKING 🚨: Housing Market 30-Year Mortgage Rate jumps back to 7% for the first time since August 🏡😱😭🫂

🚨 BREAKING: The House of Representatives has just PASSED a bill requiring AUTOMATIC deportation of illegals who commit welfare fraud, 231-186 🔥 This is a NO BRAINER! But of course, 186 Democrats voted AGAINST this. REMINDER: Democrats are NOT ON THE SIDE of Americans. The fraud encompassed in this bill includes: - Social Security fraud, - SNAP (food assistance) fraud, - Mail fraud, - Conspiracy to defraud the U.S., - Theft or bribery involving federal funds, - Identification document fraud, - And other similar crimes involving government funds or public benefits.

"Wait, so you're saying that a $700B investment giant is stopping retail investors from withdrawing their funds?" "That's right." "That's crazy." "It's not, it's awesome."

The system is collapsing

do you see what’s happening yet? blackrock limiting withdrawals. now ares limiting withdrawals. one by one they’re all showing the same signs. they are insolvent and this whole thing is about to come down like a house of cards

Apollo gives investors only 45% of requested withdrawals from $15 billion private credit fund cnbc.com/2026/03/23/apo…

Private credit returns 11.5% on loans that yield 9.5%. Nobody asks how. I'll tell you how: Leverage. They take a portfolio of loans yielding 9.5%, lever it 2x, and the gross return doubles to 19%. Subtract financing costs and fees, hand the client 11.5%, and show them a chart with a line so smooth it would make Madoff jealous. That's the product Wall Street has been selling to pensions, endowments, insurance companies, and now your 401(k). They even gave it a nice name. "Private credit." There's a better name for it: volatility laundering. The returns aren't smooth because the risk is low. They're smooth because nobody is marking anything to market. The same people making the loans are the ones deciding what they're worth. When everything's going up, that's a feature. When it turns? It's a trapdoor. And we're watching the trapdoor open right now. Funds are gating redemptions across the industry. Loans are going from 100 cents on the dollar to zero in a single quarter. The biggest asset managers on earth are telling investors: "Sorry, you can't have your money back." And none of this should surprise anyone who's been paying attention. Every cycle produces the SAME SCHEME wearing a different outfit. Junk bonds in the 80s. Mortgage-backed securities in 2007. Both sold the identical promise - equity-like returns with bond-like stability. Both ended the same way. Private credit is the 2020s version. Bigger numbers. Fancier packaging. Same math. The leverage is the tell. Any time someone shows you returns that look too good for the underlying asset, there's leverage hiding somewhere in the structure. And leverage doesn't create returns... It amplifies outcomes - in both directions. What pisses me off is that the people running this know exactly what they're doing. The risk disclosures are 400 pages long. The gates are buried in footnotes. It's not technically illegal. But doing something because you can get away with it - not because it's right - is a special kind of rotten. After 2008, NOBODY went to jail. Banks paid fines that amounted to rounding errors on their balance sheets. The message was clear: heads you win, tails the taxpayer covers it. So of course they did it again. Why wouldn't they? And here's where the realist in me takes over from the idealist: They're not going to let this blow up cleanly. They NEVER do... The playbook is extend, pretend, and print. Special vehicles. Special accommodations. More liquidity injected into a system that's already drowning in it. Every time they paper over a crisis, they confirm the only trade that matters. Gold pulled back hard this week - from $5,000 to around $4,575. Every shakeout over the past two years has been a buying opportunity. The structural case (debasement, central bank accumulation, collapsing confidence in sovereign debt) hasn't weakened. It's accelerated. The worse private credit gets, the more they'll have to print. And the more they print, the HIGHER gold goes. It's not complicated. It's just math that most people don't want to accept.

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Very expensive capital …screams of desperation. Nothing screams bubble trouble more than this.

Bill Maher: "I mean, this looks like game over [for Democrats]"

Hi Sharks, I’m here today to offer you a guaranteed 17.5% return on 5 billion dollars