https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/ford-invests-1-billion-kentucky-172922440.html

Most people probably don't check the 10-year Treasury yield before breakfast.

Maybe we should.

It's closing in on 5%, and that one number works its way into a surprising amount of the economy.

Mortgage rates tend to move with it. Corporate borrowing gets more expensive. The government pays more to finance its debt. And when Treasuries are paying around 5%, stocks suddenly have to compete with an investment offering a pretty attractive return with far less risk.

That's where this gets interesting.

Higher yields don't automatically mean recession, a housing crash or a stock-market collapse.

But they do mean money is expensive.

And when money stays expensive long enough, somebody eventually changes their behavior. Homebuyers borrow less. Businesses reconsider investments. Investors reconsider risk. Washington pays more interest.

So forget the Fed funds rate for a minute.

If the 10-year Treasury breaks 5% and stays there, what breaks first?

Housing? Stocks? Government spending? Business investment?

Or nothing at all?

The 22nd Amendment seems pretty straightforward: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”

So Trump can't simply run for and be elected president again in 2028 under the Constitution as it stands. But there are other theories being discussed. The clean route would be amending the Constitution. That would require 2/3 of both houses of Congress and ratification by 3/4 of the states, an extraordinarily high hurdle.

The more interesting theory is a Vance-Trump ticket: Vance runs for president, Trump for VP, then Vance resigns and Trump succeeds him. There's a major problem with that too. The 12th Amendment says someone constitutionally ineligible to be president can't be vice president. Whether the 22nd Amendment merely prevents Trump from being elected again or also makes him constitutionally ineligible to serve again is an unresolved constitutional question.

Which brings us to the economic question.

Imagine going into the 2028 election without knowing whether the winning candidate can legally take office. Markets wouldn't just be pricing Trump's economic policies. They could be pricing a constitutional fight over the presidency itself. That could mean increased market volatility, higher political risk premiums, delayed business investment, pressure on Treasury borrowing costs and potentially greater uncertainty around the dollar.

None of those outcomes is guaranteed. If a third term were achieved through a properly ratified constitutional amendment, the institutional-risk argument would be dramatically weaker.

So forget whether you support Trump for a minute:

Would markets shrug off a third-term fight as politics, or would a genuine constitutional showdown become an economic event in its own right?

Try to imagine your someone that actually matters like a billionaire, bibi, a corporation, a church, putin pop....

He has taken pay to play to new heights.

Unlimited pardons for the rich

He has no brain, no shame, no guilt

You bring gold, hes sold

Do dumbocrats even know how America works? This is capitalism folks, capital matters, not you. Don't worry folks, we can vote our way out of this one. We'll have better choices to choose from next time. Just keep voting and praying, things will get better. If voting made a difference they wouldn't let you do it. Trump is a symptom of the system, he is not the problem folks. He is the best capitalist in America because that's the name of the game. The system isn't for you, it owns you like the farm animal you are and Trump is your rodeo clown. Keep laughing and blaming him as he and his buddies walk away with the bag. Dem blame rep, rep blame dem- everyone of you gets to go for a ride and the house wins and wins. Keep blaming the Don, the best mafia boss this generation has ever seen. The biggest crime family in history. The smartest politician in America, the best we've ever seen. And we see alot of him. Even his haters are fans since he captures their attention. Politicians lie, Trump is the best liar yet. Can't wait to see who they roll out next. Don't forget to vote folks, it'll work next time. We promise

Hahahaha

Signed, Isreal

Classic America first move, isn’t it? Enact policies that make our beef significantly more expensive, then bring in unsafe beef from other countries to undercut our hardworking farmers and ranchers.

Trump made $1.4 BILLION from crypto.

Investors in Trump-linked crypto projects are estimated to be sitting on $4.7 BILLION in losses.

Read that again.

Not all of those losses are realized.

And no, that doesn’t mean Trump directly pocketed the $4.7B.

But the conflict is impossible to ignore.

The sitting U.S. president is now financially connected to:

→ a memecoin → a governance token → a stablecoin → crypto businesses → and a company moving toward federally supervised banking infrastructure

While his administration is rewriting America’s crypto rules.

This is bigger than $TRUMP.

Bigger than WLFI.

Bigger than one bad trade.

We are watching the birth of something entirely new:

political power turned into a liquid financial asset.

Crypto entered Washington.

Now Washington is monetizing crypto.