Trump’s Venezuela oil deal is the biggest deal ever made.
Beyond just oil, it marks a break from British imperialism and globalization, and exposes the failures of China’s Belt and Road.
Venezuela may now be the best test case for a revived American System for the entire world.
Mike breaks down the deal, and how this is all much bigger than just oil.
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🚨BOOM BOOM BOOM This morning Treasury created $1.4 trillion in mandatory bond buyers. This afternoon Treasury bought back $12.5 billion in bonds.
The Government Just Played Both Sides of Its Own Market
Let me make this really simple.
The U.S. government owes $35 trillion. That debt exists as bonds IOUs the government sold to people, banks, and countries. The government pays interest on all of it. The more it costs to borrow, the more interest it pays. The more interest it pays, the more debt it takes on to pay the interest. It's a treadmill.
The only way to slow the treadmill down is to make borrowing cheaper. And the only way to make borrowing cheaper is to make more people want to buy the bonds. Basic supply and demand. More buyers means the government can offer lower interest rates because people are competing to lend it money.
Today September 3, 2026 two things happened.
This morning, twenty-one of the world's biggest banks announced they're creating a new digital dollar. Goldman Sachs. Bank of America. Citi. Deutsche Bank. UBS. Wells Fargo. Fidelity. Twenty-one banks. The rules say every digital dollar they issue has to be backed by a real U.S. Treasury bond. One for one. Issue a digital dollar, buy a government bond.
Not because they want to hold bonds. Because the licensing rules require it. Estimates say this could create $1.4 trillion in new bond purchases by 2027.
This afternoon, the Treasury Department bought back $12.5 billion of its own bonds off the open market. Just took them out of circulation.
More buyers in the morning. Fewer bonds in the afternoon. Same Treasury. Same day.
When more people want to buy something and there's less of it available, the price goes up. When the price of a bond goes up, the interest rate goes down. When the interest rate goes down, the government pays less to borrow.
The government just made its own debt cheaper to carry. In one day. Using two moves.
But this isn't happening in isolation. This is one piece of something much bigger that's been building all year.
Treasury published the stablecoin licensing framework the GENIUS Act requiring every issuer to hold Treasury bond reserves and submit to anti-money-laundering and sanctions screening. Treasury's FinCEN and OFAC co-authored the compliance rules. Treasury's OCC is chartering the banks that will operate inside the system. Treasury doubled its bond buyback program to manage the yield curve. Treasury launched the largest sanctions package in history against Iran and declared at the G20 that the financial architecture would end the regime. Treasury is building the quantum-computing shield that protects the financial system from next-generation cyberattacks. Treasury is pulling foreign-produced equipment out of the American electrical grid under a national emergency order.
The Fed Chair stood at Jackson Hole four days ago and said the Fed's job is to set one interest rate. He blamed his own institution for 65 months of elevated inflation. He spoke for three minutes at the G20 while the Treasury Secretary ran the room for five. Jamie Dimon CEO of the largest bank in America was at the G20 for the first time in history and publicly credited Treasury for giving the private sector a seat at the table.
The Federal Reserve used to create demand for Treasury bonds by printing money and buying them. They called it quantitative easing. The Fed's balance sheet went from $900 billion to $9 trillion.
Treasury doesn't need that anymore. Treasury wrote rules that make private banks buy bonds with real money. Treasury manages the existing supply through buybacks. Treasury controls who gets a license, who gets a charter, who gets access to American consumers, and which countries get a reciprocal arrangement that lets their financial institutions participate.
The stablecoin is one piece. The buybacks are one piece. The sanctions are one piece. The bank charters, the compliance rules, the quantum defense, the grid security, the bilateral trade deals, the 65 billion barrel oil deal with Venezuela they're all pieces.
One institution is building all of them. One Secretary is announcing all of them. And one Fed Chair is sitting alongside saying it's a privilege to be there.
$35 trillion doesn't disappear. But when the same institution controls the demand for its debt, the supply of its debt, the licensing of the banks that hold its debt, the compliance rules those banks follow, the sanctions that determine who can access the system, and the physical and digital infrastructure the system runs on that institution controls the cost of carrying that debt.
That institution is the Treasury Department. And today it played both sides of its own market before the sun went down.
Timelines. Patterns. The general's words, not mine. All I did was read the receipts.
I am the guy on the couch, and you have been debriefed.
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Under @POTUS, this Administration is standing up for America’s students by ensuring racial discrimination has no place in American education. Schools rebranding race-based preferences as equitable, inclusive, or diversity-enhancing does not change their discriminatory nature. Today’s @USTreasury and @IRSnews proposed regulations establish a clear standard, and the institutions that continue to use discriminatory practices will no longer receive the benefits of federal tax-exempt status.
This is my grandmother telling you what life was really like under communism in Cuba. No theory, no textbook, the real thing from someone who lived it.
Scott Bessent just named the British Virgin Islands on worldwide TV.
@sjkokinda: the real target isn’t Iran. It’s the offshore money machine — BVI to Hong Kong.
The central bankers are shitting themselves and are in total panic right now. Trump has cut off their financial life support, he’s bankrupting all the central banks and annihilating the off shore accounts belonging to the City of London network, cutting off their fraudulent money flow.
Nothing is going into London, nothing is going out. London is massively bankrupt, and so is the crown corporation. Of course the British Government have to keep the Ukraine/Russia war going, they have nothing left in the money tank. Labour is doing a fine job crashing the UK economy, and will probably blame Russia for it.
Things are rapidly speeding up now in the financial front. The City of London is in CHECKMATE.
The Globalist satanic financial pillar of the world is about to crash and burn.
The Golden Age is coming.
Its time to retire a tired narrative and stop pretending that women are some sort of downtrodden underdogs.
They are not.
Modern institutional, legal, and social realities show that across almost all key areas of society, including education, careers, and the law, the system grants distinct privileges to women.
The academic landscape has drastically shifted. Globally now, women heavily outnumber men in universities. For example, in Australia, women graduate at rates of up to 60% greater than men. Almost 50% of women in their 20s and early 30s hold at least one bachelor's degree, compared to just 37% of men from the same demographic.
The alleged gender pay gap is almost non-existent - at least, the disparity doesn't exist in the way they'd like you to believe it does. Recent data from the e61 Institute reveals that on average young women now out-earn their male colleagues on an hourly basis by 7% to 8%. Similar trends are seen in research trends across most major cities in the US and UK where women frequently not only meet but exceed male pay parity.
Women also benefit from corporate quotas and aggressive diversity hiring initiatives, with dedicated professional development funds in many sectors tailored exclusively to their advancement.
Furthermore, the justice system treats women with far greater leniency than it does men. On average, men are likely to receive criminal sentences which are 60% lengthier than those imposed on women for an identical crime. Female wrongdoing and criminal behaviour is also frequently minimized against the social moral standard, and in instances of proven false allegations proportional legal consequences are rarely faced - even if those allegations permanently destroy lives.
Family courts also heavily favor women, with statistics showing that mothers receive the primary custody in over 80% of single-parent households.
Societal expectations and the courts maintain the view that mothers are the default primary caregivers while fathers are perceived solely as the financial providers. While there is much to be said in favour of traditional gender roles and children most certainly benefit from being with their mother, it cannot be said that women are disadvantaged here.
Modern policy is structured around providing women with a vast array of support, with significant funding directed into childcare and similar services, backed by multi-billion dollar public subsidies, targeted family tax breaks, and mandated workplace flexibility designed to shoulder the burden of childcare and free up their ability to maintain careers.
Women are also offered a variety of mental health services tailored specifically for women. As opposed to men, who receive virtually no targeted institutional support and minimal specialized funding, and are instead conditioned to suffer in silence; a systemic neglect that directly drives the current male suicide crisis.
Social psychologists have also documented the "Women Are Wonderful" effect, a powerful implicit bias where society defaults to associating more positive attributes, warmth, and moral superiority with women. This grants women an immediate social capital, default trust, and a public empathy that men rarely receive.
The systemic push toward "BelieveAllWomen" has fundamentally skewed social perceptions and reactions. Legal systems and public forums now frequently treat female accusations as infallible truth, effectively implementing a presumption of guilt for the accused and removing accountability for harmful and false allegations.
Women are not socially victimised. They are socially privileged.
True equality cannot exist when we shield one gender from accountability at the expense of the other.
And let's be honest: women get away with everything - including literal murder.
@TheFP@IsabellaRedjai Female compassion has 2 outcomes: momma bear tending to her crying child or destroying the "dangerous" snake...
Compassion has potential violent outcomes if you are identified as the snake
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What the hell is going on with women?
We’ve heard plenty about the radicalization of men—but what about women? It seems the radicalization of women has been building for years, with potentially major consequences for America’s future.
@IsabellaRedjai explains how women in America are shaping the country’s political and cultural trajectory.