Credit risk is skyrocketing in the junk bond market:
The average spread on US high-yield bonds has widened to 294 basis points, its highest level since April, as a surge in corporate bond issuance puts pressure on credit markets.
The deterioration is much more severe at the lowest-quality end, with CCC-rated bond spreads spiking to 968 basis points, their widest level since November 2023 and approaching the March 2023 banking crisis levels.
This comes as September high-yield issuance has already reached $38.51 billion, making it the busiest month of the year, while another $44.4 billion of investment-grade high-yield bonds is expected to be issued by Paramount this week.
Rising Treasury yields are adding further pressure, making investors demand greater compensation for taking corporate credit risk.
Meanwhile, Goldman estimates that nearly $600 billion of AI-linked debt has been issued across credit markets so far in 2026, with ~40% coming from hyperscalers.
The weakest parts of the corporate bond market are coming under severe pressure.
So the logic is…
The ruling class lies to us, loots us, poisons us, surveils us, brutalizes us, extorts us, cages us, and experiments on us, but the only solution is to hand power back to the other wing of the same criminal cartel?
How many times are we going to do this?
America has now been perfectly crafted for Jewish rule.
They have the Mexicans to do manual labor.
They have the Whites as an administrative/ Soldier class to die in wars.
They have the Blacks pacified by wealth transfers, but also get to use their athletic ability to entertain the goyim.
They have the Indians to work as a perfect cheap IT labor class, but also to discriminate against White men in tech fields while “Increasing shareholder value.”
And the Jews get to sit on top. Blackmailing politicians with Epstein. Running the media and Hollywood. Rigging the stock market and giving each other government contracts for AI while everyone else serves them…
You are not a noun that changes.
You are a verb that occasionally feels solid.
Most people picture transformation as an event that happens to a stable self. There is no stable self. There's a river, briefly convinced it's a stone.
What few realize about becoming their new self:
It's subtraction, not addition.
A balloon doesn't climb by adding power — it climbs by cutting ballast. Sandbag after sandbag over the side: old defenses, old stories, identities that stopped fitting. The letting go isn't the price of the climb. The letting go is the climb.
5 is the number of change in numerology. And it's right in the middle between the 1 (beginnings) and the 9 (completion).
The middle feels like failure
Because the old identity is dead, the new one hasn't formed, and for a while you can't answer the question "who am I."
This is where almost everyone quits; mistaking disorientation for damage. Disorientation is the sound of the old structure actually loosening.
Your resistance isn't weakness. It's a bodyguard a younger you hired, still working the original contract: guard the safety, guard the belonging, guard a promise you never said out loud.
Willpower fails because you're not fighting laziness. You're fighting loyalty. Nobody ever told the guard the assignment ended.
Insight alone changes nothing. You can map the maze perfectly and still live in it. The gap between knowing and being is crossed by repetition and relationship, not analysis.
This is the sad shortcoming of most self-help.
And the sequence runs backward from how you'd expect: acceptance comes before change, not after it. A new self built on hatred of the old one keeps collapsing because you're using the old machinery as the construction crew.
You can't even evaluate the decision in advance. The person qualified to judge the outcome doesn't exist yet. Every real transformation is signed on behalf of a stranger you'll meet in the future (your future self).
Meanwhile the progress is invisible. Ice at 31 degrees looks identical to ice at 25. At 32 to 33, everyone calls it sudden.
Even the change you begged for eliminates a version of you, and you'll grieve someone you were desperate to stop being. The grief will have you revisiting old timelines even as the new one awaits. But the grief isn't proof you chose wrong. It's the receipt.
And people may pull you backward. Not from malice, but because they navigate by you. You were a fixed point on their map, and when a landmark moves, everyone who steered by it briefly feels lost. Some will try to put you back.
Expect it. Forgive it. Continue.
The real prize was never the new self.
Every genuine transformation teaches you that something you took as permanent was fluid all along, and that something in you authorized every version, then outlived it.
Not a self. Not a spectator.
You were never the drafts. You were the hand that kept signing.
A river replaces every drop and keeps its course.
The direction was never stored in the water, but rather, it was carved by all the water that came before.
Learn that enough times, and your grip on everything that pretends to be fixed begins to soften.
This is not because you're holding nothing, but because you finally know who's doing the holding.
That was the gift of change the whole time.
ORCL CDS got discombobulated today: 15bps as credit leaving B and entering triple hooks. Downgrade to junk now not if but when, pushing $120BN over the fallen angel cliff. Stock mostly unaware.
Market is saying Project Jupiter won't happen stranding $1TN Openai deliverables
This is ABSOLUTELY wild. The reverse mirror image is so accurate it's almost scary. Very scary.
The inverse of the 10yr yield is.... $MCD.
What a sight.
The current situation in the Economy
is more similar to 1929 - than it is to 2007-08 or 2000-01.
Insane stock market Bubble - much bigger than 2007 - but worse economy (labor market, consumer and housing) than 2000-01.
Best comparison - with current Bubble and state of the Economy - is in fact 1929.
BREAKING: President Trump announces construction of a $15 billion steel mill in eastern Iowa by Mesabi Metallics, part of Indian based Essar Group.
If completed, the plant will be the largest in U.S. history, producing roughly 7.5M tons/year first phase and 1,750 full-time jobs.
The construction is targeted for 2030, after Trump leaves office.
Wheels falling off the bus:
ORCL 2056 bonds dumping almost 2pts
Yield jumps 20bps to record high 8.31%
G-spread back to record high
CDS surging to a new all time wide
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