Here's the thing: Bessent could "buyback" all $40 trillion in US debt with cash from the TGA... he just would need to re-mark gold to $155,000 an ounce
Chevron CEO Wirth warned in May that oil inventories were nearly gone. A few SPR barrels remained. China stayed on the sidelines.
Today he says the end is reached: commercial stocks drained for 6+ months, strategic reserves largely tapped. Global fuel crisis is here.
Oman Crude pushes further above $150!
$155.14
This is the only Middle Eastern crude that does not have to pass through either the Strait of Hormuz or Bab el-Mandeb.
That means oil prices in the rest of the world will eventually have to catch up with Oman.
Hospitals are the biggest scam
In any other service the customer can walk out any time
However once admitted in a hospital you are trapped
The most Non Transparent sector in services is the Private Hospital Sector.
Regulation is necessary
Left: 1q16 TBAC showing the plan to term out US Federal debt - WAM (Wtd Avg Maturity) was supposed to be 85 months by 2025.
Right: 3q26 TBAC showing US didn’t increase WAM.
So has every Treasury Sec. since 2016 been stupid… or could they not raise WAM w/o triggering a crisis?
The whole "Oh we made AI so powerful, somebody gotta slow us down" is bullishit cover for "We overbought infrastructure, running out of cash and need an excuse to slow down without crashing our inflated valuations"
How to kill open source models in 3 simple steps:
- Create panic about frontier models.
- Have the biggest AI companies help write the “safety” rules. ← WE’RE HERE
- Make those rules so burdensome that open source can’t compete.
Art of the deal.