Fed-linked research and common sense point to the same conclusion: open-border policy created an artificial housing-demand shock. Plus PJM grid stress, RBA wage revolt, Capital Wars, and bitcoin price action.
A New York dormant-wallet lawsuit, Euroclear’s frozen Russian asset fight, OFAC stablecoin freezes, and the right to run local AI all point to the same lesson: control the ledger, control the asset.
Japan burned a record ¥11.73 trillion on FX intervention, fully retraced the gains, and now sits at a 40-year yen low. The MOF has pivoted to ambush tactics because the structural driver of yen weakness, a yield differential the BOJ cannot close without detonating its JGB book, is not fixable by FX
The BLS reported 57,000 jobs added in June 2026, roughly half the 113K consensus. The household survey shows employed persons falling 507K. April and May were revised down 74K combined. The resilient labor market narrative is under serious pressure.
Peter St. Onge on why the AI bubble still has a year or more to run, why blue-collar workers are the surprise winners of the AI era, and why Kevin Warsh's let-companies-fail Fed stance is exactly what the economy needs.
Nick Nemeth returns to break down private credit defaults already running at 2008 levels, the Apollo/Athene insurance structure, the Saudi-Norway debt chain, and why Bitcoin is the only monetary system that actually prices failure.