For decades, European politicians said that high taxes, big government, and immigration were essential to preserve the welfare state and the pension system.
Now, all they delivered was stagnation, more debt, social discontent, inflationism, and an unsustainable pension system.
🌴 Bali has suddenly run out of gasoline
The island has turned into one massive traffic jam. Many gas stations have closed, while drivers are forced to wait for hours to get into those that remain open.
Denpasar, Kuta, Badung and Jembrana have been particularly hard hit. In Jembrana alone, fuel shortages have affected 14 gas stations.
The widespread disruption was caused by delays in the arrival of fuel tankers, Indonesian media report.
🚨: Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize for discovering the mechanism by which the body cleanses itself by "eating" its damaged cells when starved.
BREAKING: The UK’s 30Y Government Bond yield rises to 6.02%, its highest level since January 1997.
That’s a total of +564 basis points since the low seen in 2020.
🚨 ₺1.6 TRILLION wiped out from Turkey's stock market in last 12 days, as authorities start arrests and fund freezes to control the market crisis.
25 people now face prosecution, 15 are already in custody, and 10 suspects are still on the run.
The frozen assets belong to executives at four investment firms. It started when several fund managers couldn't pay investors back last week, and the failed redemptions turned into a broader sell off.
Turkey's stock market fell 10% in a single week alone, the worst weekly crash since March 2025.
To contain the damage, regulators have now ordered 131 funds to be liquidated, and extended the process from 3 months to 6.
🚨 S&P 500 Update
Keeping it simple.
We have a critical breach of the floor of the rising wedge.
If this price isn't recaptured ASAP, the 10 plagues of Egypt shall descend upon the markets.
Godspeed and good luck.
382 percent inflation in low-inflation Germany in the past 28 years.
The problem is even bigger in other countries.
Good thing the statisticians know how to hide this inflation.
Native American chief says "we didn't have words like UFOs and Aliens", they were Star people and have been here A long time.
Many Native American traditions describe celestial visitors and ancestors known as "Star People" or "Sky People" rather than modern technological terms like UFOs.
Numerous Native Nations, including the Lakota, Hopi, and Zuni, pass down oral histories that view beings from the stars as relatives, teachers, or ancient ancestors.
Rather than physical spacecraft or alien entities in a modern sci-fi sense, these encounters are deeply integrated into traditional worldviews, ceremonies, and origin stories.
Traditional communities lived with clear, dark night skies and an intimate relationship with the natural world, leading to detailed tracking and storytelling regarding constellations and celestial events.
“If you want to know the future, look at the past.”
- Albert Einstein
Those devoted to reading the great ones’ market and technical updates will understand that my thesis favours comparing today’s environment to that of the 1970s, albeit with far more debt being carried and far more reckless intervention today than in that historical stagflationary period.
While I wondered and pondered this thesis, I stumbled across the technicals below. The comparison is not only the environment, but the rising wedge that preceded a significant drawdown back then. We are now awaiting resolution of the current, extremely similar setup.
Yours truly
the great martis. ✨
She's beautiful.