Just so everyone is clear, the gripe here is that China is destroying the profits of the western bourgeoisie, because they are forced to make their products cheaper to compete with Chinese competitors.
This is the central argument of 100% of all western economic analysis of China. The more affordable China's products, the more it destroys their monopolies and their profit margins.
As always, the purpose of such propagandists, as well as their "elected" governments, is to make the interests of the bourgeoisie appear like the national interests of their respective countries. It's the first rule of bourgeois economics: What's good for the bourgeoisie is good for the proletariat.
FULL INTERVIEW: @ryancohen explains his plan to acquire eBay.
He unpacks his pitch to institutional investors, why eBay is so horribly run, and how Ryan plans to create billion in shareholder value.
$GME $EBAY
The Hollow Men
American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.
By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.
These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.
In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.
Today, we have severed that link.
We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.
If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.
This looting starts in the boardroom.
We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.
Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.
And for what?
Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.
They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.
And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?
We get the Delegation Economy.
When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.
This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.
They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.
While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.
If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.
The time for polite governance is over.
If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.
🚨 FINRA IS NOT JUST A REGULATOR — IT IS RUNNING AN INTERNATIONAL BANKING OPERATION 🚨
I filed a federal whistleblower report in June 2025 after confirming that FINRA has a registered SWIFT/BIC BANK CODE:
XOTCUS31XXX — assigned to the “OTC Bulletin Board.”
FINRA claims OTCBB was shut down in 2021.
Yet multiple global banking registries still show this code as ACTIVE. Only ONE site — suddenly — flipped it to “inactive” after I reported it to DOJ, FBI, IRS. Did FINRA get tipped off?
I also included the following in my whistleblower report — and this is only a fraction of what’s coming next:
🔹 FINRA holds global Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) — used only by international financial institutions
🔹 FINRA operates for-profit corporations, including one in South Carolina — where Congressman Ralph Norman is
🔹 FINRA has formal MOUs with over a dozen foreign governments — including CHINA
🔹 FINRA secretly partnered with HighVista hedge funds in the Cayman Islands — enabling it to short U.S. companies while acting as their regulator
🔹 Evidence also included showing Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FMCC) being routed through FINRA’s hidden dark pool rails — specifically OTCBB and OOTC. More on that next.
This is not “self-regulation.”
This is a covert international banking and securities operation — never disclosed to Congress or the American people.
More truth bombs to follow. I am just getting started
More truth bombs to follow. I am just getting started. #MMAT #MMTLP $FMCC $FNMA $DJT $TELSA @kshaughnessy2@zsaeed@FlyEaglesFly529@TheRobbCarter@BAMinvestor@pulte@PatrickByrne@JamesOKeefeIII
ZERO of my [broker provided] GME warrants (GMEWS) were delivered as whole warrants.
EVERY SINGLE ONE is a fractional.
Why?
Because this allows banks and brokers to exploit a reporting loophole (17 CFR § 230.152a)🐍
Nothing says family fun like watching a scalper walk out with a cart full of booster packs while kids stare at bare shelves.
This is why we have purchase limits. Walmart should do the same.
GameStop Announces Dividend of Warrants to Shareholders:
- 1 warrant for every 10 shares of $GME common stock held
- exercise price of $32.00
- expiration date 10/30/26
- warrants are freely tradable on NYSE: GME WS
Full details below:
https://t.co/4A4eHJ75jo
⚡️🇪🇸🇮🇱BREAKING:
Spain Imposes Comprehensive Sanctions on Israel: Arms and Settlement Bans, Travel Restrictions, and Expanded Support for Palestine and Gaza
PM Pedro Sanchez:
“One thing is to protect your country and another very different thing is to bomb hospitals and starve innocent children to death.
What Israel is doing is exterminating a defenseless people. It is breaking all the laws of humanitarian law.
We cannot sit idly by.”
Spain announced nine measures against Israel:
➤ Arms Embargo
Ban on the sale of all types of weapons to Israel.
➤ Maritime Restrictions
Prohibition on ships carrying fuel destined for the Israeli army from passing through Spanish ports.
➤ Airspace Restrictions
Ban on the entry of aircraft transporting defensive materials to Israel through Spanish airspace.
➤ Entry Bans
Denial of entry into Spanish territory for individuals directly involved in genocide and war crimes.
➤ Settlement Products Ban
Prohibition on importing goods produced in Israeli settlements in Gaza and the West Bank.
➤ Consular Limitations
Restriction of Spanish consular services for citizens residing in illegal Israeli settlements.
➤ Support for the Palestinian Authority
Strengthening Spain’s diplomatic and financial support to the PA.
➤ Increased Contribution to UNRWA
Expanding Spain’s financial and logistical support for UNRWA’s operations.
➤ Enhanced Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
Boosting humanitarian assistance and cooperation programs directed at Gaza.