BREAKING: The Bank of Japan raises interest rates by 25 basis points to the highest level since 1995 due to elevated inflation.
After the rate hike in June, this marked the shortest interval between rate increases in Japan since 1990.
The global rate hike cycle has arrived.
@KimmyPatrol Am dude? maybe you are just unware that the old man left the office with an 81% net satisfaction rating? baka fraction of the population lang talaga sentiment niyo.
BREAKING: The Federal Reserve officially hikes interest rates by 25 basis points, marking its first rate hike since July 2023.
This ends the longest Fed interest rate pause since 2008.
SUMMARY OF FED DECISION (9/16/2026):
1. Fed hikes interest rates by 25 bps for first time since July 2023
2. The decision was made in a 12-0 unanimous vote
3. Fed says the decision will support a "timelier" return to 2% inflation
4. Median Fed forecast shows one more 25 basis point rate hike in 2026
5. Fed says job gains are strong and the unemployment rate has "changed little"
6. "The Committee will deliver price stability," the Fed's statement says
Higher for longer is back.
The yield crisis has gone global. Except for China.
Yields are now up to 2007 levels in the US, 1998 levels in the UK, 2008 levels in Germany and France, and 1996 levels in Japan.
In China? Government borrowing costs are near their lowest on record.
This stark contrast is one of the most underlooked trends in the market.
China's economy is in its own world.
Never forget that
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The UK's bond market is collapsing.
Today, the yield on a 30Y Bond in the UK hit 5.95%, its highest level since March 1998.
Yields in the UK are now 15 TIMES above 2020 levels, with the highest borrowing costs among G7 countries.
What is happening? Let us explain.
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BREAKING: Saudi Arabia has told European customers that some late-September crude oil cargoes will be cancelled after its East-West pipeline was shut following an attack last week, reports Reuters.
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It seems most people don't understand how severe the energy situation is right now in the Middle East.
As of Friday, Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline has officially been shut down after recent attacks, putting -4 million barrels of daily oil exports at risk.
Meanwhile, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait is now at risk of being shut down, threatening up to -9 million barrels of daily oil supply.
All while the Strait of Hormuz is operating at ~20% of its pre-Iran War capacity, removing -15 million barrels of daily oil flows.
Combined, this represents nearly ~30 MILLION barrels per day of oil flows that are either offline or at risk.
Even after accounting for some overlap between these routes, the scale of the potential disruption is enormous relative to the ~100 million barrel per day global oil market.
This is one of the most severe energy supply situations in modern history.
The Yale professor who accurately predicted the entire Iran war just said World War III is about to start with 90% certainty.
He explained exactly how it starts, who triggers it, and why NOBODY can stop it.
Professor Jiang made 3 predictions in 2024 that all came true:
1. Trump would win the election
2. He would start a war with Iran
3. The US would lose that war
Now he has made 8 NEW predictions and every single one is terrifying...
The war in Iran was never about Iran.
It was about saving the US dollar.
America's empire runs on the petrodollar where every country must use dollars to buy oil. But when America froze $200 billion in Russian assets after Ukraine, it told the world the dollar is a political weapon. So Russia, China, and Iran started building a trade bloc to ditch the dollar entirely.
These 3 countries cover the entire Asian continent and can build railways connecting their economies while cutting America out.
Trump's plan was to bomb Iran's leadership and watch them surrender like Venezuela did in January. But Iran is a mountain fortress with 92 million people and 31 independent armies across 31 provinces each designed so no single strike can wipe them out.
6 weeks in, decapitation failed.
Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, attacked US bases across the Gulf, and started charging ships $2 million per crossing to fund their war.
And here's where it becomes a world war...
Russia's grand strategy is the Third Rome doctrine.
If Iran falls, Russia's southern border is exposed and both Russia's trade corridor and China's Belt and Road run directly through Iranian territory. Losing Iran means permanently losing access to the Middle East and Africa.
So Russia enters the war.
When Russia enters, China follows. They reinforce Tehran from east and north, provide financing, and Russia puts Iran under its nuclear umbrella taking tactical nukes completely off the table.
Professor Jiang put the probability at 80 to 90%.
And while the world watches the Middle East, North Korea is making its move:
The US pulled THAAD missile defense out of South Korea for Iran operations. Seoul sits 20 minutes of artillery from the North Korean border with 25 million people exposed.
North Korea doesn't even NEED to attack. They just threaten.
South Koreans are rich with everything to lose. North Koreans have nothing to lose.
Simple extortion.
Nobody is coming to help because America is stuck in the Middle East.
But the prediction that will BREAK the internet is this one:
Trump gets a THIRD term.
Professor Jiang laid out two constitutional loopholes.
First is Trump runs as VP under Don Jr. or Vance, they win, the president steps down, Trump takes over through succession.
The 22nd Amendment bans being elected president more than twice but says nothing about becoming president through succession.
The second option is even simpler:
By 2028 America is at war on multiple fronts with a draft in effect so Trump invokes emergency war powers and delays the election just like Zelensky did in Ukraine.
And the draft is already real.
Automatic registration starts in December. Males 18 to 24 are entered into the system automatically.
The Department of War literally PUBLISHED the playbook online:
- Secure the Western Hemisphere as US territory which explains Greenland, Canada, Venezuela, Cuba, Panama
- Force NATO to fight Russia
- Strangle China through maritime choke points
- Convert civilian factories into weapons production (the Pentagon already told Ford and GM to prepare to STOP making cars and start making munitions)
His final advice was genuinely one of the realest things I've heard all year:
We will need leaders. Not politicians or billionaires. Average people who knock on their neighbor's door during a blackout and say let us figure this out together.
Because when empires collapse, and he believes America's collapses within 10 years, the people who survive built community before they needed it.