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[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: America’s $1.7 trillion auto loan market is headed for a crash, per Reuters.

Auto loans are now one of the biggest sources of household debt, bigger than credit cards.

And the strain is showing: 1 in 5 Americans is behind on at least one loan, the highest since 2010, and the average car on the road is now nearly 13 years old, a record.

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

The U.S government now owns a piece of 35 companies

They paid cash, swapped grants, or took warrants

Here's the full list:

Chips & quantum
• Intel $INTC: $8.9B for a 9.9% stake
• GlobalFoundries $GFS: ~7% stake, worth over $2B
• Wolfspeed $WOLF: $1.5B loan, warrants for 7.5%
• IBM $IBM: $1B for minority stake in quantum foundry
• D-Wave $QBTS: $100M in stock at a 15% discount
• Rigetti $RGTI: $100M in stock at a 15% discount
• Quantinuum $QNT: $100M in stock
• Infleqtion $INFQ: $100M in stock at a 15% discount
• Aeluma $ALMU: up to $30M in stock
• PsiQuantum: $100M for a minority stake
• Atom Computing: $100M for a minority stake
• SandboxAQ: $500M for a non-voting stake
• I-Pulse: $250M for a minority stake
• Kepler Computing: $245M for a minority stake
• Multibeam: $140M for a minority stake
• xLight: $150M for a stake
• Extropic: up to $75M for a minority stake
• Thintronics: up to $50M for a minority stake
• Diraq: up to $38M for a minority stake
• OBSIDIA: $34M for a minority stake

Mining & metals
• MP Materials $MP: $400M for ~15% of the company
• Trilogy Metals $TMQ: 10% stake + warrants for 7.5%
• Lithium Americas $LAC: warrants 5% + 5% of its mine
• USA Rare Earth $USAR: $277M in stock and warrants
• Korea Zinc: $1.4B for 40% of a Tennessee smelter
• Elmet Group: $450M, warrants for up to 19.9%
• Vulcan Elements: $50M in equity plus a $620M loan
• ReElement: $80M loan plus warrants
• Atlantic Alumina: $400M in preferred stock
• Strategic Bauxite: $85.5M in equity
• Hertha Metals: $65M stake in a steel startup

Defense, energy, oil
• L3Harris $LHX: $1B for preferred stock
• Westinghouse: 20% of profits if it IPOs above $30B
• US Steel: one golden share with veto power
• North American Blue Energy: 35% of Venezuelan oil company

[Wu Blockchain @WuBlockchain]

Solana event in Shanghai abruptly cancelled on the morning of October 16

The "Solana Accelerate China 2026" event, hosted by the Solana Foundation in Shanghai on the morning of October 16, was abruptly cancelled; the reason remains unknown. Some registered attendees reported that they were still unable to gain entry after waiting for an hour and a half. At 12:00 PM, the organizers sent out an email offering an apology.

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Police: Pull over.

Me:

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Remember when they said to “Trust the science?”

Artificial intelligence finds that a quarter million cancer research papers have been faked

A 2026 study trained an AI on 2,202 cancer papers that had been identified as fake. It then applied this model to look into 2.65 million original cancer research papers published between 1999 and 2024. It flagged 261,245 papers as fake

- Over 178,000 flagged papers had Chinese institutional affiliations
- Roughly 36% of Chinese cancer research output in the dataset
- Iran was next at around 20%

This is a major problem because this can mean the medical community amplifies completely fake research and findings

“Every fabricated study sitting in a real journal is competing for attention with studies actually pointing towards a legit cure, which means the more fake noise there is, the longer it takes for the real breakthroughs to surface. And somewhere in that pile, maybe a real cure is buried under a fake AI-generated one.”

No doctors have gone to jail for this (I checked)

[BetterSpectator @BetterSpectator]

@Squid_Chops

[BetterSpectator @BetterSpectator]

wasnt near just a rando shit chain 😄 the fuck is going on

[mert @mert]

for crypto to win, we need the best ecosystems working together

NEAR is how

trillions

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

Keep an eye on Intel here 👀

It's below Nancy Pelosi's original buy of up to $5M back on May 29th, 2026

• Price when Pelosi bought: $115
• Price of $INTC today: $94

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Funny

[Canton Network @CantonNetwork]

Canton has no max supply, like Ethereum and Solana. That doesn't mean it has an unlimited supply.

On Canton, burn-mint equilibrium runs on a permanent emission schedule, minting and burning roughly 2.5B canton-network:native a year in steady state.

@ShaulKfir discusses with @LongViewCrypto.

[Uncommon Sense @Uncommonsince76]

Not many people remember or know this, but actually George Bush senior was the president when the Soviet Union truly collapsed.

When that happened there was rampant antisemitism rising in Russia as people noticed that most of their “oligarchs” were Jews exploiting them.

Thus the Jews looted as much of the old Soviet Union as they could, and then claimed to be “refugees” and came to the United States.

George Bush senior let in over 30k of these scoundrels.

The same thing is happening to the United States right now. Jews know it will collapse and are doing the thieving out in the open now (insider crypto deals, Kalshi, Polymarket..) etc.

Then once they are forced to leave, they will take their wealth and pretend to be poor old refugees…

Then the process will repeat again in the next country..

[Wei Wu 吴伟 @WuWei113]

I feel most terrible for America white man. Life so full with tragedy.

- be child, mother a hoe, do not even know who real father be
- be teenager, try find love. But all girl around you possess std. Give you HIV
- be college student. But every girl possess muscle like Arnold Shewasnigger. All try rape your buthole.
- be adult. Get marry with wife. But later find out wife cannot give birth. Why? She a transformer gender with cut off penis. No uterus.
- try focus on make money. But AI so good make you be unemploy. Now you must spread your buthole on only fan. But still cannot make money because buthole look so ugly because girl with muscle like Arnold Shewasnigger rape your buthole too aggressive in university

Every one life be very short life. But the white man life so much tragedy. I’m cry one tear for the white man.

[𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚗𝚎𝚢-𝚂𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛 @Doctor_Degen]

The real reason $ADA never fully recovered? Charles Hoskinson’s biggest strategic blunder. 📉

The day he mocked BitBoy and drove his finest General into the arms of the $XRP Army, it was over. 👇

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Now this is unusual.

Bending Spoons is up huge today after it announced that Berkshire Hathaway is investing another $330 million in the company.

Did someone know? Seems like it.

Before the news, traders bought:

- Oct. 13: 1,465 December $55 calls, 49% out of the money, for $314,000, with 86% bought at the ask. Open interest was zero.
- Oct. 7: 1,000 Oct. 16 $40 calls, expiring in nine days, for $231,000, with 90% bought at the ask.

These traders are up millions.

[𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚗𝚎𝚢-𝚂𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛 @Doctor_Degen]

BLACKROCK CONFIRMS I'M HIM! DO U TAKE PROFITS SELL EVERYTHING IN Q4!? https://t.co/dLy4Rjgd8J

[Uncommon Sense @Uncommonsince76]

Libertarianism is a Jewish audiology designed a trick white guys into thinking that the system is the problem rather than the fact that Jews running the system is the problem.

It unfortunately works really well

[𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚗𝚎𝚢-𝚂𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛 @Doctor_Degen]

Name ONE modern TV show made in the last 5 years where the husband isn't written as an emotional wreck or a complete idiot... I’ll wait. 👇

[𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚗𝚎𝚢-𝚂𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛 @Doctor_Degen]

Trump just called for Congress to abolish the income tax.

Told y’all this was coming!?

[𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚗𝚎𝚢-𝚂𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛 @Doctor_Degen]

Part 1: The Q4 2026 "Liquidity Mirage" (The TGA Drain):

The Treasury spends its $887B TGA. This moves cash from the Fed's liability side (TGA) into commercial bank reserves (Reserve Balances).

Effect: It acts like stealth QE. Bank reserves go up, easing short-term funding pressure. It creates a temporary "risk-on" environment.

What assets gain?

•High-Beta Equities (The Distraction): Tech stocks (Nasdaq), AI narratives, anything that thrives on loose liquidity. This is the "blow-off top" to convince the masses the soft landing is real.

•Crypto (The Highly Correlated Risk Asset): Bitcoin and altcoins will likely catch a strong bid. The market will misinterpret this as a new bull run, not realizing it's the final pump before the drain.

•Gold/Silver: Will continue a steady grind upward, driven by institutional (central bank) accumulation, even if retail gets distracted by stocks.

The "Alpha" Warning: This is a trap. Do not get greedy. This is the exit liquidity window for the smart money.

[𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚗𝚎𝚢-𝚂𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛 @Doctor_Degen]

“30%. That is massive.”

DTCC’s CEO on what atomic settlement does to capital stuck in intraday repo.

The firm that processes $4.7 quadrillion a year takes its Tokenization Service commercial this month — on @CantonNetwork, with BlackRock, JPMorgan and Goldman in the working group. canton-network:native

US Treasuries first.

stellar:native @StellarOrg "Stellar is expected to follow in early 2027"