Step 8: Higher mortgage rates = people CAN'T afford payments. Forced sales FLOOD the market.
Step 9: $4,000,000,000,000 has already been wiped from global markets since the war began. People are LOSING their retirement savings in real time.
Step 10: Markets open MONDAY with "Power Plant Day" 24 hours away. Circuit breakers are not out of the question.
Step 11: When markets crash, layoffs follow. Tech. Finance. Real estate. Construction. ALL of them.
Step 12: Laid off workers with 12% mortgages they can barely afford? They SELL. At ANY price.
A person I know at a major bank told me they've quietly started stress-testing their loan book for $200 oil. That's not routine. That's a panic button.
This is EXACTLY what happened in 2008. Oil spike → inflation → rate hikes → housing crash → mass layoffs → foreclosure wave.
THE SAME SEQUENCE IS PLAYING OUT RIGHT NOW. Step by step. In real time.
If you have cash, SIT ON IT. The biggest buying opportunity of your lifetime may be weeks away.
Dear followers, stop thinking you’ll put money in a coin and it will give 300% in 15–30 days, or that 50x leverage will turn it into 3000% or more. That mindset is exactly how people get wiped.
If you tried this in recent markets, your portfolio would most likely be gone. Most of these coins don’t have the same liquidity anymore, and price moves are unstable, especially in these so-called alpha projects.
Even risking a small amount with high leverage is dangerous. One wrong move and it’s over.
My advice is simple, stay away from this mindset. Focus on controlled trades, manage risk, and protect your capital first. $LUNC $MEGA $JST
Tells him he's been "totally ineffective" on Ukraine Says Germany should fix its own immigration and energy problems first Accuses Merz of "interfering" with efforts to eliminate the Iran nuclear threat Frames the Iran war as making the world, including Germany, a safer place
They are considering freezing their Arab League membership and possibly leaving the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
2 days after leaving OPEC!
What do you expect after a member of these organizations bombed the hell out of them, while neighbors like Saudi showed little solidarity?
This indicates not only a rift in the region, but the UAE positioning itself as a global power, not just a regional one.
The Arab League move would reportedly be a freeze, not a full exit, but the signal is clear, and the region will not look the same following this war $LUNC $MEGA $JST
🇦🇪 The UAE didn't just leave OPEC, it sent a clear message to Saudi, Russia, and Iran, simultaneously.
The UAE had invested billions in spare production capacity it was never allowed to use because Saudi-driven quota cuts kept getting in the way.
After years of frustration, they’d finally had enough.
But the timing reveals the real story, UAE-Saudi relations have been deteriorating for years. And Saudi’s conspicuously muted response to Iranian missiles hitting UAE cities was, apparently, the final straw.
Ditching OPEC+ also just so happens to reduce Russia's influence over global oil markets, at exactly the moment Moscow is backing Tehran.
There is also a compelling theory that the U.S. Treasury's decision to provide the UAE with a dollar swap line days before the announcement was not a coincidence…
The Trump admin desperately wants lower oil prices heading into the midterms, and the UAE being able to pump at full capacity helps achieve that.
For OPEC, the long-term implications are serious:
Cheating on quotas was already rife before, every Gulf country is now desperate to recoup war losses, Russia needs every petrodollar for Ukraine, and smaller members will increasingly ask what the point is of being bossed around by Riyadh.
Qatar left in 2019, Ecuador in 2020, Angola in 2024, and now the UAE in 2026.
The cartel that quadrupled oil prices in 1973 and reshaped the global economy may now be collapsing from within.
NOBODY IS TELLING YOU THE REAL STORY OF THE SCOTUS VOTING RIGHTS RULING
Yes, the Court ruled 6-3.
Yes, race-based districting is now unconstitutional.
Yes, Louisiana's map got thrown out.
But here's the part everyone is missing:
Democrats don't have a House majority without those court-ordered maps.
→ A dozen of their current seats sit in districts that only exist because federal courts FORCED states to draw them → Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina — every one has at least one Democrat seat in a court-created black-majority district → Their House margin is FOUR seats → SCOTUS just made 12 of their 213 seats legally redrawable → Republican-led legislatures don't need new voters — they need a redistricting committee and a Tuesday afternoon
If race-based districts are unconstitutional, then Louisiana redraws.
If Louisiana redraws, then Alabama redraws.
If Alabama redraws, then every Southern state redraws.
If every Southern state redraws, the Democrat House majority was a 60-year courtroom artifact — not an election result.
That's what nobody is saying out loud.
The 2026 midterms were just decided 6-3 — six months before Election Day.
if you're not following me you're finding out about this 48 hours late from someone who read my post.. $AI $JST $C
REPORTER: What role does Putin want to have in the Iran situation?
TRUMP: He told me he would like to be involved with the enrichment, if he can help us get it. I said, 'I'd much rather you be involved with ending the war in Ukraine.' To me that's more important. $BTC $BNB $AI
UAE just dropped the bomb — officially leaving OPEC after 60 years.
No more production limits. No more begging for permission to pump their own oil.
They’ve got the Fujairah pipeline ready, completely bypassing Hormuz. That means they can flood the market with an extra **1 million barrels per day**.
This isn’t just one country leaving… this is the beginning of the end of the oil cartel.
The price war is coming. Trump’s happy. Saudi Arabia is not.
🚨 Let me explain what the UAE is actually doing here..
Everyone sees the headline:
“UAE exits OPEC and OPEC+.”
But the real story is underneath it.
For years, Abu Dhabi has been building more oil capacity.
EIA says ADNOC targeted 5 million barrels per day of crude capacity by 2027.
That is a massive national bet.
But OPEC works by asking producers to not use all their capacity.
That is the deal:
You leave barrels in the ground. Prices stay supported. Everyone pretends this is “market stability.”
That works if every major producer accepts the sacrifice.
The UAE just stopped accepting it.
The official language is polite:
“Long-term strategic and economic vision.” “Gradual and measured production.” “Aligned with demand.”
Translation:
We are done letting a cartel cap the asset we spent years building.
And the timing matters.
Hormuz is disrupted. EIA says about 20 million barrels per day moved through that chokepoint in 2024. That is about one-fifth of global petroleum liquids consumption.
So UAE can say this is about helping supply.
Not rebellion. Not greed. Not a fight with Saudi Arabia.
Just “market needs.”
That is the clever part.
The UAE gets more freedom. Oil buyers get the hope of more supply. OPEC keeps the logo but loses discipline.
The cartel is not dead.
But one of its most important members just proved the rules are optional.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump is becoming the same "Jimmy Carter" he always mocked - Newsweek
Trump is on the verge of becoming the second "Jimmy Carter"; a president helpless against Iran and paralyzed under the burden of the fuel crisis.
Carter lost his second presidential term due to the hostage crisis and his inability to contain Iran.
Now, Trump is caught in the same trap; with the difference that instead of 52 hostages, "the Strait of Hormuz and the global energy flow" are held hostage by Iran, and despite billions of dollars in spending, he is unable to change the situation.
Carter's era was known for the energy crisis and severe inflation. Now, Americans are experiencing the same feeling of "welfare collapse" of the Carter era with $6 gasoline and disruptions in the supply chain.
While Carter was humiliated by the failure of "Operation Eagle Claw," Trump is facing "billions of dollars in damage to military bases." Both presidents faced the reality that "America's war machine" is ineffective against Iran's asymmetric strategies. $BROCCOLI714 $LIT $BULLA