A Senate bill marketed as protecting America from Chinese spies could ban Mercedes-Benz from U.S. roads, and the fingerprints of General Motors are all over the fine print. This is what corporate protectionism looks like when it puts on a uniform and waves a flag.
The TV pundits will keep smiling through whatever comes next. I’ve been watching this industry for thirty years, and I’m telling you right now the terrain is rough and most people are completely unprepared.
I got deplatformed, thrown in social media jail, and flagged on government lists for asking whether COVID came from a lab. Rand Paul just dropped the documents that prove the cover-up was real, coordinated, and funded by your tax dollars.
The Wall Street Journal just ran a front-page hit piece on Americans who used retirement accounts to build real wealth. They didn’t break any laws. They didn’t cheat anyone. They just made smart bets, and the media can’t stand it.
Private equity’s zombie fund catastrophe just hit a record $348.5 billion in trapped assets, and I’ve been screaming about this for years. The managers are still getting paid. The investors are not getting out. Shocked? You shouldn’t be.
A 28-item Target grocery order that cost $64.50 in 2020 now costs $158.30. It has been viewed millions of times online because it confirms what every American already knows but Washington refuses to admit.
Your portfolio goes up 10%, inflation quietly eats 8% of it, and then the government taxes you on the full 10%. This is not a glitch in the system. This is the system.
A Republican operative tied to Trump’s political machine just said the quiet part out loud: ‘Voters have to hate the Dems more than they hate us.’ I read that Sunday morning, put it down, and went for a walk. Not because I was surprised. Because I knew exactly what it meant for every American trying to protect their financial life.
Every time Wall Street posts record trading revenue, someone is on the losing side of those bets. Spoiler: it’s not the guys in the corner offices. It’s you.
UBS is bundling private credit into investment-grade bonds backed by insurance wrappers, and the rating agencies are playing along. Sound familiar? It should, because this is exactly what blew up the financial system in 2008.
