This is why I am building PeaceBurgers.
Whopper bun has potassium iodate (banned in Europe for thyroid damage). Chicken sandwich has Silly Putty chemical + seed oils + gut-wrecking emulsifiers.
Big Food is not feeding us. They’re dosing us.
We can do better. Clean burgers. No poison.
Help ever. Hurt never.
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HEALTH ALERT: 🚨 Burger King facing significant backlash following the release of Whopper ingredient list.
The clip highlighted additives like potassium iodate in the Whopper's sesame bun, banned in the EU and other regions over thyroid concerns but FDA-approved in small amounts, plus mono- and diglycerides linked to gut issues in some studies.
The Royal Chicken Spicy Sandwich drew fire for multiple seed oils, silicon dioxide, and dimethylpolysiloxane, an antifoaming agent also in Silly Putty.
While some defended the trace amounts as harmless in processed foods, others shared stories of quitting fast food and called for boycotts amid demands for more transparency.
This is the quiet scandal. Potassium iodate banned almost everywhere for thyroid risk. Silly Putty chemical in the chicken sandwich. Seed oils as the base.
Big Food keeps feeding us industrial chemicals and calls it food.
PeaceBurgers is the opposite. Clean. Real. No toxins. That’s the standard America deserves.
Big Food is poisoning us on purpose.
Burger King just got hit for the Whopper ingredient list.
Potassium iodate in the sesame bun. Banned in the EU and most of the world because it attacks the thyroid. FDA still allows it.
Mono- and diglycerides. Emulsifiers that studies show wreck your gut microbiome.
Then the Royal Chicken Spicy: multiple seed oils. Silicon dioxide. Dimethylpolysiloxane — the same anti-foaming chemical they put in Silly Putty.
Trace amounts they say. Harmless they say.
I say no.
This is exactly why PeaceBurgers exists. Real food. No seed oils. No chemical dough conditioners. No industrial antifoams. No gut-wrecking emulsifiers. No nitrates. No additives that belong in a lab.
Feed America the way BK and McDonald’s do - only without the poison.
Help ever. Hurt never.
@Scaramucci@novogratz Great interview, @novogratz show us the Luna tattoo though 😀 that's your badge of honor ! you've been there done that and survived.
Millions of Americans become SpaceX shareholders tomorrow morning.
Almost none of them chose to.
SPCX joins the Nasdaq-100 at the open. Every index fund tracking it MUST buy. Rules, not opinions.
There are days when the largest buyer in the market has no opinion. It simply has an obligation.
I learned this on the Salomon Brothers derivatives floor. The question was never "what is it worth." It was "who has to trade today."
The setup: billions in forced buying into a public float of only 3-5%.
The catch: lockups expire starting August 6. The buying rule stays the same. The supply doesn't.
Thirty years ago at Salomon, Laszlo Birinyi taught me markets run on two forces. Value and flows. He practically invented the study of money flows.
Value tells you what a business is worth over time.
Flows tell you who has no choice.
The company isn't always the story. Sometimes the plumbing is.
#SpaceX #SPCX #Nasdaq100 #StockFlows #SalomonBrothers #WallStreet #Investing
MSTR just cried uncle.
Filed to sell $1.25 billion Bitcoin after swearing they never would.
This is not a Bitcoin failure. It is a capital structure failure under pressure.
I watched the same movie on the Salomon floor. Street smells leverage on a wounded balance sheet. They press the financing. Asset doesn't matter. Who blinks first does.
Saylor built a $100 peg across five Nasdaq instruments. They trade at $53-$84 today. None fully backed by Bitcoin.
Same as LTCM 1998. Same as Soros vs Bank of England 1992. Asset was fine. Financing was suicide.
My LinkedIn thread on this hit 160K views. X versions got 20-30. Flows beat narratives every time.
The asset is never the story. The plumbing is.
What am I missing?
America turns 250 today. 🇺🇸
Last year I wrote her a love letter. This year she gets the honest one. My father taught me: say what you see plainly, or don't say it at all.
He came here on a boat. Third class ticket. No money but a strong mind and a stronger work ethic. I was born here because he bet his life on that.
What I see at 250:
An activist assassinated. A president shot at more than once. Official explanations that don't fully account for the facts, and questions treated as impolite.
Sealed records that deserve daylight.
Wars where the word genocide gets talking points instead of an honest accounting.
Two parties raising billions to call each other the threat while neither fixes how we vote and count. If the system worked, neither side would fear it.
No theories. No bias against any country or religion. Just an inventory.
And the other side of the ledger: still the only country where a man off a boat can raise a son who trades at Salomon Brothers and builds companies without permission.
The experiment was designed to be questioned. The moment questions become impolite, the design is failing.
I love you, America. Not for what you promise. For what you make possible. 🇺🇸
Friday night I wrote that the market would keep pressing Strategy until the forced sellers were gone.
This morning Strategy filed to sell $1.25 billion in Bitcoin.
The company that built its entire identity on never selling Bitcoin is now a Bitcoin seller.
I have seen this movie before. Not in crypto. On Wall Street.
When the repo desk smells a wounded structure, it does not debate the underlying asset. It presses the financing until someone blinks.
Saylor blinked this morning.
This is not a failure of Bitcoin.
This is a capital structure failing under institutional pressure — exactly the way LTCM failed in 1998, exactly the way the Bank of England failed in 1992 when Soros pressed the pound.
The asset is never the story.
The financing is always the weapon.
I watched Wall Street destroy LTCM in 1998 by denying them financing.
Same story playing out with MicroStrategy.
Not a Bitcoin story. Capital structure story.
They smelled leverage on a wounded balance sheet. Bear Stearns called the margin. The asset was fine. The financing was suicide.
What happens when the street turns on your structure?
The trades were right. The financing killed them
Peter is right about the math. Wrong about the story.
This isn't about Bitcoin's value. It's about what Wall Street does when it smells a leveraged structure with a wounded balance sheet.
I watched it happen to LTCM from the Salomon Brothers trading floor.
The asset is fine. The peg is breaking.
@PeterSchiff@dotkrueger @invest_answers
MSTR has a market cap of $29.54 billion, yet owns just over $50 billion worth of Bitcoin. Not only does MSTR have an unrealized loss of nearly $14 billion on the Bitcoin it bought, but the market value of $MSTR stock is worth less than half of the money @Saylor spent to buy it!
Peter this isn't a Bitcoin story. It's a capital structure story.
I spent years on the Salomon Brothers trading floor. The street did this to LTCM in 1998.
You don't attack the asset. You attack the financing.
Bear Stearns called the margin. LTCM was right about the trades. Didn't matter.
Saylor built a $100 peg across five Nasdaq instruments. They trade at $53 to $84 today. None backed by Bitcoin.
Soros didn't think the pound was worthless. He just knew the Bank of England couldn't defend the peg.
Same movie. Different asset.
100K people read my post Friday night about Strategy and capital structure pressure.
@dotkrueger worked at Salomon Brothers with me. He'll recognize this movie.
Institutional players, Jane Street, vehicles tied to BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF , are running a paired trade. Long spot Bitcoin through IBIT. Short MSTR.
This is not a bet against Bitcoin.
This is a bet against the capital structure sitting on top of it.
George Soros didn't think the British pound was worthless in 1992. He thought the Bank of England couldn't defend the peg.
He pressed it. Made a billion dollars in a day.
Saylor built a $100 par value peg across five Nasdaq instruments.
Here is where they trade today.
STRC: $74
STRF: $84
STRK: $53
STRD: $53
None of them are collateralized by Bitcoin.
The asset is fine.
The peg is breaking.
The clearing desk at Bear Stearns called the margin on LTCM in 1998. Didn't matter that the trades were right.
It cared about who blinks first.
The names change. The behavior never does. @Investanswers
#Bitcoin #MSTR #WallStreet #CapitalMarkets
10,000 people read this on LinkedIn last night.
Posting it here because the Wall Street crowd on X needs to hear it.
Bitcoin just dipped below $60K. This isn't a crypto story.
It's a capital structure story.
I spent years on the Salomon Brothers trading floor. When Wall Street smells leverage on a wounded asset, it doesn't debate the fundamentals.
It attacks the financing.
LTCM had the best quant minds in the world. Didn't matter. The repo desk came for the margin call, not the model.
Strategy is sitting on 845,000 BTC financed with convertible debt and preferred securities paying dividends.
They just sold Bitcoin for the first time in four years to fund those dividends.
The market now knows there is a price at which BTC becomes a source of liquidity.
That's not a Bitcoin problem. That's a capital structure problem.
My bet: it bleeds until the forced sellers are gone. Then the shorts become buyers and it moves faster than anyone expects.
The asset is collateral. The financing is the weapon.
The names change. Wall Street behavior never does.
#Bitcoin #MSTR #WallStreet #CapitalMarkets
1/ To all my Bitcoin and crypto friends — we just dipped below $60K.
I spent years on the Salomon Brothers trading floor. I've seen this movie before. Thread.
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9/ Saylor understands Bitcoin better than almost anyone in this debate. What the market is testing right now is whether his capital structure can outlast the pressure being applied to it. That is a very different question than whether Bitcoin survives.