Private equity has a death grip on over 3,600 American companies right now, and the exit ramp is getting very crowded. This is not capitalism. This is financial strip-mining dressed up in a nice suit.
A 16 billion dollar settlement sounds like accountability until you realize it’s just Meta buying a permission slip to keep the addiction machine running. I called this in 2006, and the playbook hasn’t changed.
Renamed lakes. Cartoon geese. Viral memes. Meanwhile, your government just proved again that it has zero actual intention of fixing a $40 trillion debt crisis. I am calling it out because nobody else will.
They are going to sell you a VAT tax as a fix for the national debt, and most people will not even realize what hit them until the price of everything they buy goes up. I have been watching this play develop for years, and here is exactly how the political class is going to pick your pocket while calling it fiscal responsibility.
A few million dollars becomes $3 billion in 18 months, and the financial press can’t figure out why. I can. And so can you, if you’re paying attention.
A few million dollars becomes $3 billion in 18 months, and the financial press can’t figure out why. I can. And so can you, if you’re paying attention.
Before you share another excited post about Venezuela’s massive oil reserves saving America, let me walk you through what this deal actually looks like up close. Because I have been to Venezuela. I have stepped in their oil on the beach. And I can tell you it is not what you are being sold.
Predatory behavior gets dressed up as capitalism all the time, but it is not the same thing. I learned this lesson firsthand when a BMW dealership tried to blame me for their own engineering failure and stick me with a $12,000 repair bill.
Wall Street handed you the 60-40 portfolio like it was gospel, and millions of Americans swallowed it whole. Here’s the truth: that “safe” strategy is quietly making you poor.
The Treasury Secretary just quietly announced he could unleash nearly $1 trillion to manipulate the bond market, and the financial media is treating it like a footnote. I’m not letting this one slide.
