📢 We declare the birth of
BROKE PEOPLE UNITED.
From broke people, for broke people, by broke people.
Our mission: track inflation, expose shrinkflation, and cry together over $7 eggs.
Real Prices. Real Pain.
🧵 The broke manifesto:
🚨 BROKE ALERT — DEBT NEVER SLEEPS
Global debt just hit record highs.
Governments keep borrowing while rates stay high.
Interest costs rising.
Future budgets shrinking.
🚨 BROKE ALERT — YEN GOES WILD 🇯🇵
The yen is swinging hard after the Bank of Japan pushed rates to a 30-year high.
Traders are scrambling to unwind carry trades.
FX markets feeling the shockwaves.
🚨 BROKE ALERT — JAPAN JUST DID THE UNTHINKABLE 🇯🇵
The Bank of Japan raised interest rates to a 30-year high, officially stepping away from ultra-cheap money.
Yen moving.
Carry trades sweating.
Global markets paying attention.
🚨 BROKE ALERT — JAPAN ABOUT TO MOVE 🇯🇵
Japan’s business confidence just hit a 4-year high, keeping expectations alive that the Bank of Japan could hike rates at its Dec 18–19 meeting — a rare tightening moment in a world addicted to cheap money.
🚨 BROKE ALERT — FED JUST CUT RATES AGAIN 🚨
The Fed just dropped another rate cut, the third in a row, but now says it might pause soon because inflation is still misbehaving.
BROKE ALERT 🚨
Global stocks falling again.
U.S. jobs data came out confusing → nobody knows what the Fed will do → markets panicking. 📉
Tech getting hit the hardest.