Alessandro Circati vs AC Milan (Debut UEL)

RT @PeterLBrandt: Does anybody remember when I posted about "Price Walls" (a decades-old TA tool) at the BTC bottom in 2021? Well, we are h…

2024: Key Square Group LP founder Scott Bessent, a prominent Donald Trump fundraiser, sharply criticized Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, accusing her of changing the the cadence of the composition of the Treasury issue to bolster President Joe Biden by juicing the economy ahead of the election. 2026: Bessent announces plan to buy more long bonds in a program that starts early September and ends one day before midterms. Symmetry.

Okay, so you're telling me: 1. Gold has officially surpassed US Treasuries as the world's largest central bank reserve asset. 2. The US is paying 1.4 Trillion a year just in interest on 35T of debt. 3. The 30-year yield is breaking 5.2%, creating catastrophic holes in regional bank balance sheets. 4. The Strait of Hormuz ceasefire failed and commercial ships are actively being struck. 5. The Fed safety net is completely disabled because inflation is too sticky to print money. 6. The equity market is being artificially held up by mechanical 0DTE option algorithms. 7. The US AI intelligence moat is vanishing as Chinese open-source models rapidly catch up for pennies on the dollar. 8. Big Tech AI revenues are artificially inflated by circular financing, funding startups just to buy their own compute back. 9. OUR PENSION systems have Trillions structurally trapped in illiquid private credit, desperately chasing unrealistic 7% yield targets, no longer a market stabilizer. And people are still blindly bullish with zero caution?

Exactly. "Human Capital" is just a polite term for thermodynamic energy. A fiat system carrying $35T in debt requires infinite, compounding energy to survive. Inflation is the transmission mechanism used to quietly siphon your labor while you sleep. You aren't building a career. You are generating yield for the matrix.

Again, China had this surge, they gave up when they saw that it wasn’t sustainable. One major aim of the Saudi project was to create more awareness on their league, and Ronaldo has given them that in 1,000 folds. Another major part of their project according to Steven Gerrard was that, they wanted to build their academies to a world standard level, where young players are exposed to same trainings like those in Europe, because they expect some of these players to represent the country at the World Cup hosted by Saudi in 2034. Investors would have come across Saudi u-20 elite league while they’re investing. They’re promoting that youth league very seriously. However, there are some shortfalls. These monies are not sustainable. Expenses far outweigh any income. It’s a league of 18 teams, over 9 of these teams can’t even average 5,000 fans in attendance for their games. In fact, outside the top 4 (government-sponsored clubs), the rest of the league cannot boast of an average of 10k fans in attendance. Same with jersey sales, commercials, and the other things that could bring money in. Al Nassr, Hilal, and the likes don’t even sell out all their games. Ronaldo is their biggest brand, and despite the money he brings in for Al Nassr, they’re still at a loss. Second shortfall is that, the young players that are projected to represent the country in 8 years time, are not getting playing time. The country reduced the age for going pro to 16 years, yet, no playing time for many. In fact, no playing time for Saudi players that are not even young because foreigners have taken over…how then do they strike a balance? Let me hear/read your thoughts.

Modern football doesn't allow for that kind of artistry anymore.

Eusébio in the 1968 UCL Final

Spain at EURO 2012 🤤

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I published a note today that I've been thinking about for months.. About how the US stock market has arguably become too big and too imp to fail.. It's basically America's retirement fund now and poss even the savior of social security which is expected to run out of money in less than 10yrs -Curr 55% of ppl own stocks, by far most in world. And w/ Trump Accounts bringing in 28 million add'l americans into stock ownership the vast majority of ppl (incl Top 1% (who own HALF of stock mkt), middle class and lower income) will have financial interest in the health of stock mkt and they're all voters = the political pressure to keep stocks out of a prolonged bear market is going to be very powerful. -As such I think there's good chance the Fed will buy equity ETFs in the next major downturn to support market and it will be common practice going fwd. China and Japan already do this. They may even target certain sectors or Capex cos with the purchases. -This is a massive variable that I feel like is a blind spot among the experts out there and why the bears get run over time and time again altho I think investors are onto it as evidenced by the persistent flows into ETFs during pullbacks as well as a survey of 1000 ppl showing 3/4 of them are confident the Fed will bail out markets in next crisis. -This is just one byproduct of the 'Nothing Stops This Train' monetary supply explosion and debt extravaganza sweeping the world but esp in US which at this point feels irreversable.. Thoughts? lol

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Wow. We invaded to support the USD (out loud)

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THE NIGHTMARE SCENARIO NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT AN OIL + DOLLAR SHORTAGE The nightmare scenario nobody is talking about right now is what happens if the Dollar skyrockets at the same time as oil. Since the world's oil supply is purchased in Dollars, they are typically inversely correlated. A lower Dollar = increased international demand for oil. The only time we've seen a brief period of oil 🔼 Dollar 🔼 was in 2022, during the economic slowdown. The nightmare scenario we're facing is a global oil supply shortage at the same time as an economic crisis. Both of these compound the demand for Dollars because not only are nations forced to liquidate greater assets to purchase oil, but servicing sovereign debt becomes much more expensive because it's denominated in Dollars. This energy crisis could very well be the beginning of Brent Johnson's @SantiagoAuFund Dollar Milkshake Theory and the United States' plan to take a large portion of its debt out of circulation.

We analyzed median asking prices on Idealista and found that Portugal's apartment market has changed dramatically over the past three years. 1-bed apartments (2023 to 2026) Lisbon: €380,000 -> €440,000 (+16%) Faro: €235,000 -> €325,000 (+38%) Porto: €235,000 -> €300,000 (+28%) Aveiro: €190,000 -> €245,000 (+29%) Braga: €160,000 -> €220,000 (+38%) 2-bed apartments (2023 to 2026) Lisbon: €420,000 -> €620,000 (+48%) Faro: €335,000 -> €475,000 (+42%) Porto: €325,000 -> €440,000 (+35%) Aveiro: €210,000 -> €280,000 (+33%) Braga: €200,000 -> €275,000 (+38%) The biggest gains are no longer limited to Lisbon. Regional cities such as Faro, Braga, Aveiro and Porto have seen some of the strongest price growth in the country.

The Western colonial empire is dying in the very cities where it was born. London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Sydney. You can see it in rents, in food prices, in the price of a doctor's visit, in the closed factory at the end of every regional town. The headlines call it recession. But its actually the empire eating itself, because the outside has stopped feeding it. For 300 years the deal was to extract from the Global South, subsidize the Global North. Cheap cotton, cheap rubber, cheap oil, cheap tin, cheap cobalt, cheap labor, cheap everything. The Western worker was poor by global standards but rich by global standards at the same time, because the rest of the world was bleeding out so they didn't have to. That deal is over. Because the people doing the bleeding stopped agreeing. The Gulf states have quietly dropped petrodollar exclusivity. China and Russia settle in yuan and ruble. India buys Russian oil in rupees. Brazil and Argentina trade in local currency. The African Sahel kicked French troops out of 4 countries in 24 months. Niger nationalized its uranium. Burkina Faso is mining its own gold. Mali built a refinery for the first time in its national history. None of this was supposed to happen. It is happening anyway. I think most Western analysts cannot see this because they were trained to look upward at presidents and downward at GDP, and the actual movement is sideways across capital flows. Notice how the headline countries, the US, UK, France, keep losing wars they pretended to win. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Syria. Niger. Ukraine. The military is still the loudest instrument in the toolkit. It is also the only one left that still works, not by serving its colonial states, but by fattening private sector profits. When a hegemon's only working tool is the gun, and the gun keeps missing, that is what decline looks like in real time. Now, the toolkit the West built to control the colonies is being repointed at its own population. Debt traps. Criminalization. Prison labor. Surveillance. Mass eviction. Drug-economy management. Engineered scarcity. Permanent renter classes. Two-tier policing. The same playbook that flattened Congo, Indonesia, Honduras and the Philippines is now being applied to Detroit, Marseille, Manchester, Newcastle. The boot is the same boot. This is the part that should make a working-class American or a British retiree or a single mother extremely angry, and unfortunately not at the people they're being told to be angry at. Migrants did not cause this. Welfare recipients did not cause this. China did not cause this. The class that owns the boot caused this, and it owns the boot in every country including yours. Some of you might call this overblown. You might say the West is still rich, still strong, still the world's reserve currency, still where the world's billionaires want to live. All true. For now. Empires take a long time to fall, and the rich exit the building decades before the lights go out. They have already exited. Watch where the wealth is parked. Not in the country it was extracted from. The capital has gone where the growth is, which is not London and not New York. It is Riyadh, Dubai, Mumbai, Jakarta, Shenzhen, Sao Paulo. The owner class moved their money. Then they will move their passports. The flag will be the last thing they put down. For the everyday person in the West, the next 20 years is going to be a managed contraction. Real wages flat or falling. Public services rationed. Pensions clipped. Insurance unaffordable. Housing impossible. They will tell you it is the migrants, then China, then the climate, then a new virus, then the algorithm. It will be none of those. For the everyday person in the Global South, the next 20 years is messier but freer. New patrons, new dependencies, but also new bargaining power. The petrodollar is no longer the only door. BRICS is no longer aspirational. The IMF is no longer the only lender. Africa is no longer waiting for permission. Latin America is choosing its own debtors. I do not think this is a happy story for everyone. Multipolarity is not peace. It is a different kind of pressure, distributed differently, with the violence rotating to new edges. But the colonial age that started in 1492 is closing. Not gracefully. Not neatly. Not with a flag-lowering ceremony. But forcefully. Because capital dictates. And it is dictating that the Western colonial empire is over.

Thank you. I will chew on that, but the reason that I drew the distinction between job displacement and AI as a productivity tool is because I thave seen some argue that you can have your cake and eat it too, with AI. I, for one, am glad you put out your doomsday scenario and the degree of backlash tells me that you hit a nerve. Keep up the good work!