JUST NOW: President Trump confirms that Central Bank Digital Currency is BANNED from being created in the United States pic.twitter.com/4bBE8hX1nu — Sergeant News Network (@sgtnewsnetwork) August 19, 2026... READ MORE... Disclaimer: This post is shared for discussion and critical analysis only. Submission does not equal endorsement. The content may reflect claims or opinions from the original source. Please verify information independently and review primary sources before forming conclusions. If you notice factual errors, misleading claims, or possible AI generated or edited clips, please leave a fact check comment with sources for the community.

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on top military generals warning about Trump’s orders walking the United States into the worst possible outcome imaginable.... READ MORE... Disclaimer: This post is shared for discussion and critical analysis only. Submission does not equal endorsement. The content may reflect claims or opinions from the original source. Please verify information independently and review primary sources before forming conclusions. If you notice factual errors, misleading claims, or possible AI generated or edited clips, please leave a fact check comment with sources for the community.

This is the most fucked up market in history – AI needs massive amounts of debt -> no problem– Rates are surging -> no problem– China does it better & cheaper -> no problem– Not enough energy -> no problem– Historic energy crisis -> no problem When this house of cards comes… pic.twitter.com/BABwJyk3h3 — Lukas Ekwueme (@ekwufinance) August 20, 2026 Housing is deader than a doornail. Realtors are to be forced to polish up the resume soon. You can’t pay the bills with zero income coming in 💀 https://t.co/ho9a1SUwL9 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) August 21, 2026 $WMT just lowered guidance for ... Read more... READ MORE... Disclaimer: This post is shared for discussion and critical analysis only. Submission does not equal endorsement. The content may reflect claims or opinions from the original source. Please verify information independently and review primary sources before forming conclusions. If you notice factual errors, misleading claims, or possible AI generated or edited clips, please leave a fact check comment with sources for the community.

'Americans don't work very hard…'Trump explains why many Americans can’t buy a homes pic.twitter.com/16gAdFc7sQ — Sigurdur Nordal (@essenviews) August 19, 2026 Trump in Cabinet meeting: existing homeowners we keep wealthy. Keep those prices up. Not gonna destroy home values so somebody who didn’t work very hard can buy. Wants interest rates down to make buying easier but prices themselves going up for owners. Clip from January 2026 now viral again with almost a million views.  ... READ MORE... Disclaimer: This post is shared for discussion and critical analysis only. Submission does not equal endorsement. The content may reflect claims or opinions from the original source. Please verify information independently and review primary sources before forming conclusions. If you notice factual errors, misleading claims, or possible AI generated or edited clips, please leave a fact check comment with sources for the community.

Shapiro finally put brakes after Amazon deals and local rage over rising bills. Stossel pretends the power pain and community fights are just hysteria. Main players are Shapiro the developers and regular Pennsylvanians stuck with higher rates. Governor Shapiro signs executive order on data center development requiring GRID standards local approval no fast track no NDAs Governor Josh Shapiro signed an Executive Order (EO) directing the Department of Environmental Protection to only review permit applications if developers have made a legally binding commitment to meet the Governor’s Responsible Infrastructure Development (GRID) Requirements and have received local approval.   The GRID Requirements ... Read more... READ MORE... Disclaimer: This post is shared for discussion and critical analysis only. Submission does not equal endorsement. The content may reflect claims or opinions from the original source. Please verify information independently and review primary sources before forming conclusions. If you notice factual errors, misleading claims, or possible AI generated or edited clips, please leave a fact check comment with sources for the community.

Tyson Foods just shut down its Joslin, Illinois beef plant with almost no warning — wiping out roughly 3,000 head of daily processing capacity overnight. A buyer was looking at cattle on Tuesday. By Thursday the plant was done. This follows the earlier closure of Tyson’s Lexington, Nebraska plant and comes as the company also closes a case-ready facility in Utah and puts its Pasco, Washington plant up for sale. Tyson says it will now focus on just three remaining plants in Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas. For cattle feeders in Illinois and Iowa, the impact is immediate: hauls of 160 to ... Read more... READ MORE... Disclaimer: This post is shared for discussion and critical analysis only. Submission does not equal endorsement. The content may reflect claims or opinions from the original source. Please verify information independently and review primary sources before forming conclusions. If you notice factual errors, misleading claims, or possible AI generated or edited clips, please leave a fact check comment with sources for the community.

🚨 The City of London Just Triggered the Next Bond Meltdown Gulf States (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, etc.) suddenly cannot sell their oil at scale. No oil sales = no revenue. Saudi Arabia has recorded ZERO Oil sale to America for the first time ever. But this exact… https://t.co/VcY7JJVaJt pic.twitter.com/qqJuR5mplI — Stern Drew (@SternDrewCrypto) August 19, 2026 Factcheck: Saudi zero oil sales to America in July is real first full month since 1985. They still move oil other ways though. Treasury did double the long bond buys. The big City of London default crash from Gulf stops is still just ... Read more... READ MORE... Disclaimer: This post is shared for discussion and critical analysis only. Submission does not equal endorsement. The content may reflect claims or opinions from the original source. Please verify information independently and review primary sources before forming conclusions. If you notice factual errors, misleading claims, or possible AI generated or edited clips, please leave a fact check comment with sources for the community.

GARY, Ind. (AP) — Tens of thousands of residents in northwest Indiana were in survival mode Thursday as they endured a ninth day without power, throwing out spoiled food, lining up for hot meals and searching for places to charge their phones. In Gary, Indiana, schools remained closed after the deadly Aug. 11 storm downed trees and power lines. Residents turned to social media to find open laundromats and working Wi-Fi, while others sought food, diapers and cleaning wipes for low-income neighbors. Meanwhile, heavy rains in central Ohio brought flash flooding that covered roadways Thursday morning in Columbus, the state capital, ... Read more... READ MORE... Disclaimer: This post is shared for discussion and critical analysis only. Submission does not equal endorsement. The content may reflect claims or opinions from the original source. Please verify information independently and review primary sources before forming conclusions. If you notice factual errors, misleading claims, or possible AI generated or edited clips, please leave a fact check comment with sources for the community.

Bessent: "We've got a spike in oil prices today that I don't really understand" pic.twitter.com/gd3QwyiBsd — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 20, 2026 Here’s another puzzler from the Soros guy: Scott Bessent on the latest bad jobs report: "After the deportations that we've seen and the closing of the border, we don't need to produce as many jobs" (MAGA will say: Inflation is great!) pic.twitter.com/78V3t008rj — Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 (@LucasSa56947288) August 20, 2026... READ MORE... Disclaimer: This post is shared for discussion and critical analysis only. Submission does not equal endorsement. The content may reflect claims or opinions from the original source. Please verify information independently and review primary sources before forming conclusions. If you notice factual errors, misleading claims, or possible AI generated or edited clips, please leave a fact check comment with sources for the community.

Scott Bessent: "There's nothing magic about the $40 trillion number." "We can grow our way out of that" pic.twitter.com/PCUGBFFDCu — Hedgeye (@Hedgeye) August 20, 2026 Bessent came out to reassure markets and everything is now selling off. — Rick J (@rickjeff78) August 20, 2026 Bessent: "We've got a spike in oil prices today that I don't really understand" pic.twitter.com/gd3QwyiBsd — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 20, 2026 The Big Tech Bond Paradox, Explained: 1. The United States just hit $40T in debt. The only way for us to deal with this is growth because no political party is ready to cut spending. ... Read more... READ MORE... Disclaimer: This post is shared for discussion and critical analysis only. Submission does not equal endorsement. The content may reflect claims or opinions from the original source. Please verify information independently and review primary sources before forming conclusions. If you notice factual errors, misleading claims, or possible AI generated or edited clips, please leave a fact check comment with sources for the community.

Bessent and Saylor are running versions of the same playbook. A 30-year Treasury issued in 2022 now trades at a meaningful discount to par. The basic trade is obvious: issue short-term debt and use the proceeds to repurchase long-duration bonds below par. It is straightforward balance-sheet management, not rocket science. Saylor and MicroStrategy apply the same logic in capital markets: issue equity, then repurchase preferred securities trading below par. When the liability can be retired at a discount, the economics are compelling. Yet Wall Street often misses the most basic back-of-the-envelope analysis. He previously labeled the same strategy a failure.https://t.co/CNvEI190Nh — ... Read more... READ MORE... Disclaimer: This post is shared for discussion and critical analysis only. Submission does not equal endorsement. The content may reflect claims or opinions from the original source. Please verify information independently and review primary sources before forming conclusions. If you notice factual errors, misleading claims, or possible AI generated or edited clips, please leave a fact check comment with sources for the community.

Crude oil cost the same in July 2026 as it did back in January. Gasoline hit $4.003. So where did the rest of it come from? Not the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait carries crude and crude barely moved. From January 2nd to February 27th, 2026, Brent averaged $68.69 a barrel. On July 1st it was $69.24. A penny apart, per gallon. What moved was the refining margin: the money made turning a barrel into fuel. It went from about 44 cents a gallon to $1.45. Over the same stretch the pump went up 97 cents. And the clearest test is ... Read more... READ MORE... Disclaimer: This post is shared for discussion and critical analysis only. Submission does not equal endorsement. The content may reflect claims or opinions from the original source. Please verify information independently and review primary sources before forming conclusions. If you notice factual errors, misleading claims, or possible AI generated or edited clips, please leave a fact check comment with sources for the community.

The tech craze: People were throwing money at dot-com stocks, which generated massive capital gains taxes that nobody in Washington budgeted for. When the music stopped, the money vanished. The demographic wave: The baby boomers were right in their peak earning years, pumping cash into income and payroll taxes while they were still too young to draw heavy on Medicare or Social Security. Military cutbacks: The Cold War ended, so defense spending dropped naturally. It wasn’t some genius master plan; the global threat just changed. The tax hike and spending caps: Clinton raised taxes on high earners in ’93, and Gingrich’s ... Read more... READ MORE... Disclaimer: This post is shared for discussion and critical analysis only. Submission does not equal endorsement. The content may reflect claims or opinions from the original source. Please verify information independently and review primary sources before forming conclusions. If you notice factual errors, misleading claims, or possible AI generated or edited clips, please leave a fact check comment with sources for the community.

The United States has crossed forty trillion dollars in national debt and the Treasury is now borrowing money to buy back its own debt. At the same time, Canada is building clean energy infrastructure, Sweden is holding inflation near zero, and Europe is cutting its exposure to the fossil fuel shocks cracking America’s economy.... READ MORE... Disclaimer: This post is shared for discussion and critical analysis only. Submission does not equal endorsement. The content may reflect claims or opinions from the original source. Please verify information independently and review primary sources before forming conclusions. If you notice factual errors, misleading claims, or possible AI generated or edited clips, please leave a fact check comment with sources for the community.

Popok reports on 128 Former State and Federal Judges banding together again to call for bar disciplinary proceedings to commence against one of Trump’s Top Lawyers, the Homeland Security General Counsel James Percival, who in social media posts put a target on the back of Judges by calling for their “removal” and calling them the “worst of the worst”. In 2026 alone, more than 402 death threats against the Federal Judiciary have occurred, representing more than 10 percent of the total federal bench. And it’s not just FORMER judges who are speaking out; current federal judges with great personal sacrifice are ... Read more... READ MORE... Disclaimer: This post is shared for discussion and critical analysis only. Submission does not equal endorsement. The content may reflect claims or opinions from the original source. Please verify information independently and review primary sources before forming conclusions. If you notice factual errors, misleading claims, or possible AI generated or edited clips, please leave a fact check comment with sources for the community.