Donald Trump publicly attacked Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime performance, calling it:
“Absolutely terrible… one of the worst EVER… a slap in the face to America.”
He criticized:
The Spanish-only performance
The dance routines, calling them “disgusting”
Said the show “doesn’t represent American values”
📺 Trump Skipped the Super Bowl — But Spoke on TV
Trump did not attend the game in California, saying:
“It’s just too far away.”
Instead, he gave a televised interview during the Super Bowl pre-game show on NBC, meaning millions still saw him during the event.
🧨 Political & Cultural Clash
His comments triggered huge backlash online, while supporters praised him for “defending American culture.” The halftime show became one of the most politically charged Super Bowl moments in years.
Wake up. The shift already happened — and most people are still asleep.
If the Fed hands control to Christopher Waller, this isn’t a policy change. It’s a system stress test. The kind that doesn’t explode overnight… it cracks slowly, then all at once.
The roadmap sounds perfect: AI boosts productivity → productivity kills inflation → inflation gives cover to drain trillions from the balance sheet → rate cuts ride in as the “soft landing.”
Clean. Elegant. Dangerous.
Because pulling trillions in liquidity doesn’t happen quietly. It tightens financial conditions whether markets agree or not. Real rates rise. Treasuries buckle. Yields spike. Risk spreads blow out. Confidence starts to fracture.
Then comes the trap.
Rate cuts weaken the dollar — not slowly, but structurally. So now bonds are selling off and the dollar is falling. That’s downward resonance: stocks, bonds, and the dollar collapsing together. The nightmare scenario. The one portfolios are not designed to survive.
This is why Powell moved slowly. Not because he lacked courage — but because he understood how fragile the system already is. One wrong push and feedback loops take over. Liquidity disappears. Volatility feeds on itself. Markets stop believing the plan.
Waller’s strategy bets everything on one assumption: That AI productivity arrives fast, smooth, and perfectly timed.
If that slips — even slightly — the entire roadmap collapses.
And when policymakers are forced to panic, pivot, and reverse…
The real damage won’t be the crash.
It will be the loss of credibility.
And once that’s gone — markets don’t forgive. $BTC $ETH $BNB
Precious metals are experiencing high volatility as global markets react to a mix of economic uncertainty, geopolitical tensions, and central bank policy expectations.
Key Drivers:
Strong USD & bond yields → putting pressure on gold & silver.
The expectations for $BTC are sky-high right now. But the real facts are known only to big investors and long-term holders.
Did you ever imagine Bitcoin dropping from $128K to $70K? It sounds unbelievable… yet it feels perfect for those who missed the last run and are waiting for early entries.
Life gives chances to everyone. But the real question is — Do you take the chance… or watch it pass by?
I am taking my early position from here, targeting $148K+. This move will happen — and when it does, you’ll remember this post.
Smart money buys when fear is high. Retail buys when hype is loud. $BTC
This has triggered heavy selling and panic-driven exits.
When could BTC rebound? Short-term rebound (Days – 2 weeks)
Technical indicators show BTC is near oversold levels
Strong support zone: $76K – $80K
Relief bounce toward $83K – $88K is possible if selling pressure eases
Medium-term rebound (1 – 3 months)
Depends heavily on:
Federal Reserve policy direction
Liquidity conditions
ETF inflows
Global risk sentiment
Some major analysts (including JPMorgan) expect BTC to recover strongly within 6–12 months, potentially targeting $130K – $170K, once macro uncertainty fades.
Market Outlook Summary Timeframe Expectation Next few days High volatility, possible dead-cat bounce 1–2 weeks Relief rally possible if $76K holds 1–3 months Real rebound likely if Fed tone softens 6–12 months Strong bull recovery possible
Ripple’s Former CTO David Schwartz on XRP $100 Claims
David Schwartz says most XRP investors don’t truly believe XRP will hit $100. He argues that if people genuinely expected that level, they would buy aggressively at current prices and refuse to sell below $10. Since XRP continues to be sold well under $10, he believes most investors doubt the $100 scenario.
Schwartz avoided outright dismissing a $50–$100 XRP price, citing how crypto markets often surprise. He admitted he once sold XRP at $0.10, thinking higher prices were unrealistic, and recalled when $100 Bitcoin seemed impossible.
However, he emphasized that if rational investors saw even a 10% chance of XRP hitting $100, cheap supply would quickly disappear — which hasn’t happened. This suggests very few truly believe in a $100 XRP target. $XRP
PEPE has a circulating supply of ~420 trillion tokens, which makes large price jumps mathematically unrealistic. At $1 per token, PEPE’s market cap would exceed $420 trillion, far larger than Bitcoin, gold, Apple, and the entire crypto market combined
2️⃣ Expert price forecasts for 2026
Most analyst predictions place PEPE’s 2026 price between $0.000006 and $0.000054, even under bullish conditions — millions of times below $1
3️⃣ Market consensus
Crypto analysts widely agree that PEPE reaching $1 is virtually impossible without extreme token burns, which currently do not exist at the scale required
📊 Reality Check (Simple Math)
Current supply: ~420 trillion tokens
Price at $1 → Market cap ≈ $420 trillion
Bitcoin’s ATH market cap ≈ $1.4 trillion
➡️ PEPE would need to become 300x bigger than Bitcoin at its peak, which is not realistic.
🎯 More realistic price targets for 2026
$0.00001 – $0.00005 in strong bull conditions
That still represents large percentage gains, just not $1
Bottom Line 💡
PEPE reaching $1 in 2026 is essentially impossible under current tokenomics. However, short-term speculative gains are possible during meme-coin rallies.
Gold is seeing exceptionally high trading volumes and volatility as prices hit fresh record levels. Global gold demand surged to an all-time high of 5,002 metric tons in 2025, driven mainly by strong investor buying, ETF inflows, and safe-haven demand amid geopolitical and economic uncertainty. Investment demand alone jumped 84% year-on-year, showing aggressive market participation.
At the same time, gold prices have surged past $5,500/oz, triggering heavy futures and ETF trading, with investors positioning for continued volatility and upside momentum in 2026. This intense participation reflects heightened risk sentiment, geopolitical tensions, and expectations of future rate cuts.
Key Drivers of High Activity:
📈 Record prices → increased speculative & hedging trades
“Fed watch” typically refers to tracking expectations around decisions by the U.S. Federal Reserve (the central bank of the United States) — especially changes (or not) to interest rates. One widely followed way to do this is the CME FedWatch Tool, which shows the market-implied probability of rate hikes, cuts, or the Fed keeping rates unchanged based on futures prices.
Markets and traders use FedWatch to gauge what investors think the Fed will do at upcoming Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings.
It translates futures market pricing into a percentage chance of various rate outcomes (e.g., a hold vs. a cut).
“Fed watch” can also broadly mean economists, analysts, and media watching the Fed’s statements, data releases, and speeches to anticipate policy moves.
The Fed’s decisions on interest rates influence key financial indicators and the broader economy:
Borrowing costs for consumers and businesses (loans, mortgages, credit cards).
Inflation and prices — controlling inflation is one of the Fed’s main goals.
Financial markets — stocks, bonds, and crypto markets react strongly to rate expectations. Currency valuations and capital flows across global markets.
Markets often move before an actual Fed decision based on shifting expectations. That’s the essence of “watching” the Fed.
📍 What’s Happening Now (January 2026)
Here’s the recent context from news coverage:
The Fed held interest rates steady at 3.50%–3.75% on Jan 28, 2026, marking a pause after several cuts.
Traders saw a high probability (around ~97–99%) that rates would stay unchanged at that meeting before it happened. Recent market focus isn’t just on the rate decision itself — it’s also on Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s comments about inflation, employment, and future moves, because that often shapes expectations for coming months. In other words, “Fed watch” right now means markets and investors are closely tracking not just what the Fed did, but what it signals for the next steps in monetary policy. #FedWatch