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03 Apr 2025 14:56

🇺🇸📉 After 3+ years of compounding inflation:

2025 is the year when President Trump, Fed Chair Powell, and Treasury Secretary Bessent all came to the same conclusion.

A recession is the only remaining way for inflation AND rates to fall.

🔗 The Kobeissi Letter

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03 Apr 2025 12:31

📈 Gold prices surge above $3,200/oz for the first time in history as "reciprocal tariffs" are announced.

Gold's market cap is now above $21 TRILLION.

🔗 The Kobeissi Letter

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03 Apr 2025 10:03

🇺🇸⚡️- Trump Administration may have used AI models to calculate its new tariff policy.

LLM's such as Gemini 2.5, Grok, 4o, and o3 high give eerily similar answers to the Trump policies when asked how to easily fix trade deficits with specific countries.

Source: @krishnanrohit on Twitter

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03 Apr 2025 08:03

🇺🇸 Ron Paul on X: With tariffs, we run into the same unsolvable problem that we have with The Federal Reserve. The Fed doesn't know what interest rates should be. It's all arbitrary.

In the same way, the president doesn't know what the price of cars, or lumber, or any other product should be.

As with the Fed, arbitrary decisions become political decisions. If you lobby well and the administration sees a political benefit, the tariffs will more than likely reflect that.

We're further entrenching cronyism into our already corporatist system.

What happens when a Democrat is in office? Will the Democrat arbitrarily pick and choose products and tariff rates too?

None of this is necessary. But the necessary is being avoided -- the overwhelming size of government, spending, debt and empire.

America can never "be great again" with a sprawling military empire, "foreign aid" and constant wars.

But as of today, everyone is still refusing to budge.

🔗 Ron Paul

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02 Apr 2025 22:54

🇺🇸💸 Full tariff breakdown

🔗 zerohedge

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02 Apr 2025 22:10

🇺🇸 US Military Movements to the Middle East

Amid the backdrop of rising tensions between the United States and Iran alongside President Trump's ultimatum, US military activity in the Middle East has dramatically risen. Transporting additional assets and air defense batteries, the surge of Air Mobility Command (RCH) flights to airbases in Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan and Djibouti are displayed below.

🔗 Faytuks Network

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02 Apr 2025 17:28

🇨🇳🇹🇼 PLA Eastern Theater Command Conducts Long-Range Live-Fire Drills in the Waters of the East China Sea

A Possible Live-Fire Drill Zone was announced by the China Maritime Safety Administration.

🔗 K. Tristan Tang

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02 Apr 2025 16:02

🛥🛰❗️ — A Major GPS Blackout is taking place near Port Sudan, UKMTO warns

Ships near Port Sudan are reporting hours-long GPS failures, forcing crews to switch to backup systems to avoid getting lost at sea.

The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), part of the Royal Navy, said the interference is serious enough to impact navigation across the busy Red Sea route.

Officials are urging vessels in the area to stay alert and report any unusual disruptions to their systems.

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02 Apr 2025 13:20

🇺🇸🚛 Rolling Risk: Unvetted Migrants Behind The Wheel Of Big Rigs Threaten US Safety & Security

Leaders of a trucking advocacy group are sounding the alarm, claiming that the American Trucking Association (ATA) advised the federal government during the Biden-Harris administration to issue hundreds of thousands of non-domiciled commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) to non-citizens—many of whom reportedly cannot read or write English. Many of these unvetted migrants were funneled into the long-haul trucking sector, which poses national security and public safety risks.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/rolling-risk-unvetted-migrants-behind-wheel-big-rigs-threaten-us-safety-security

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02 Apr 2025 11:12

🇸🇬 Singapore created the world's most efficient healthcare system from scratch in one generation.

They spend $4,000 per person on healthcare. We spend $15,000.

Their secret?

The exact opposite of what American "experts" recommend:

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/jwmares/status/1907101412649234781

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02 Apr 2025 09:04

🇺🇸🇨🇳 A successful tariff wall is set to slow growth, but the downturn begins with a dollar liquidity crisis in China and ends with a crash in the US as funding pressures ricochet throughout the global banking system. Because they've historically run a large trade surplus with American consumers, Chinese banks have accumulated a large base of Eurodollars, with trade serving as their chief source of dollar funding. The tariff wall appears to target China, which will throttle the flow of Eurodollar deposits to the mainland, worsening offshore dollar funding stresses.

The payment chain is the supply chain in reverse. Since the trade war began just before Covid, China has successfully evaded US duties and kept the dollars flowing through entrepot trade via Mexico, ASEAN, and other countries, continuing to funnel goods to ultimate US consumers. Deploying a tariff fortress across all US imports, however, is an attempt to make that impossible.

Hardly a blind spot, China is of course aware of this vulnerability, having been carefully preparing for it with multiple points of leverage that go far beyond retaliatory tariffs and entrepot trade.

Chinese banks will transfer Eurodollar deposits to their New York branches - keeping them onshore and within the Fed's system - or park them into onshore nostro accounts with big US banks. That appears to have been status quo until sometime in 2023. Since then, Chinese banks have largely made Eurodollar deposits into nostro accounts based in Hong Kong - offshore and outside the Fed's system. Citibank, in particular, reports a uniquely massive and uninsured foreign deposit base, a large portion of which appear to be Chinese claims. An unprecedented 79% of Citi's domestic deposits are uninsured, a lurking solvency issue which would be realized in the event that Chinese banks need to raise dollars.

There are also problems with engineering dollar shortages, namely that if borrowing rates are too punitive, Chinese banks and non-banks would force liquidate dollar-denominated assets - equities, Treasuries and credit - at fire sale prices, an outcome that would not only have adverse consequences for the solvency of Chinese lenders, but for US lenders and the stability of the global financial system.

In any case, the US sees an opportunity for asymmetric pain to develop - hurting China and forcing their banks into a role that is more subservient to the dollar - but likely overestimates its own leverage. This sets the stage for a battle in the ongoing war of Great Powers, and there will be blood.

1. Recession? Crisis? "Detox"?
2. How Foreign Banks Obtain Liquidity
3. 'Chinadollars'
4. Dollar Shortages
5. Shoring Up USD & Hong Kong
6. Gold, Tariffs and the 'Three Strategies'

🔗 Zerohedge

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02 Apr 2025 07:06

🇺🇸 Attorney General Pamela Bondi has ordered federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione.

🔗 AF Post

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02 Apr 2025 05:02

🇻🇳 🤝 🇺🇸 — Vietnam gives US tax breaks ahead of tariff announcement

Vietnam is cutting taxes on US imports and approving Starlink services ahead of US President Donald Trump’s announcement of reciprocal tariffs tomorrow.

The government announced a reduction in its import tax on ethanol from 10% to 5%, on liquified natural gas from 5% to 2%, and on some types of cars from 64% to 32%. Many agricultural products like chicken, nuts, apples, cherries and raisins will also receive tax deductions. The changes went into effect on Monday 31 March.

Vietnam is one of the countries set to suffer the most from the upcoming US reciprocal tariffs because of its considerable reliance on trade. Last year, exports were equivalent to 85% of its gross domestic product, with the US representing its largest market.

🔗 Link

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02 Apr 2025 01:13

🇺🇸 🇬🇧 - Reports suggest Starmer's planned US-UK trade deal may have fallen through.

Follow: @ThermopylaeNews

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01 Apr 2025 21:04

UPDATE:
🇺🇸🤝🇮🇱-KAN: The commander of U.S. Central Command arrived in Israel and held nearly 10 hours of discussions with Israeli leaders on Iran and the Houthis.

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03 Apr 2025 13:27

🇺🇸🇱🇸📝 Arnaud Bertrand gives his take on Trump's tariffs, highlighting the case of Lesotho:

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1907618228614082944

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03 Apr 2025 11:55

🇺🇸📝 Tinkzorg: Going to post this here because I summarized what went down on April 2nd elsewhere and it gets around the character limit.

All in all, I am in awe of Trump. He's doing something that is way, way, way more insane and careless than what Gorby did to crash the Soviet Union.

You can't take an economy like America's and just say "okay from tomorrow you are going to buy nike shoes made in American factories". Especially when you're fucking *lying* about what it is you're doing and what the plan is. It's like trying to make 7G turns in an Boeing 747.

🔗 JucheRespecter

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03 Apr 2025 09:01

🇺🇸 Rand Paul: When McKinley, most famously put tariffs on in 1890, they lost 50% of their seats… In the early 1930s, we lost the house and senate for 60 years. So not only bad economically, they are bad politically.

🔗 Acyn

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03 Apr 2025 07:29

🇨🇦🇺🇸 The Senate Just Passed Rand Paul's Bill To Block Trump's Tariffs on Canada

Just hours after President Donald Trump announced massive new tariffs on nearly all imports to the United States, a bipartisan group of senators made the first push to stop the most nonsensical part of Trump's global trade war.

With a 51-48 vote, the Senate approved a resolution to block Trump's tariffs on imports from Canada, which he imposed by declaring an economic emergency in early February. The measure to cancel that emergency declaration, sponsored by Sens. Tim Kaine (D–Va.) and Rand Paul (R–Ky), faces an uncertain future in the Republican-controlled House and a near-certain veto if it reaches Trump's desk—but it also represents a small glimmer of hope, as it is the the first serious attempt by Congress at limiting the president's ability to smash free trade.

https://reason.com/2025/04/02/the-senate-just-passed-rand-pauls-bill-to-block-trumps-tariffs-on-canada/

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02 Apr 2025 22:47

🇺🇸❌🌍❗️ — The full chart of President Donald Trump's Tariffs

According to the Trump Tariff chart, the US will impose a 17% tariff on Israel, despite Israel canceling Tariffs on the US.

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02 Apr 2025 18:51

🇮🇱🇵🇸 IDF deploys another division in southern Gaza as offensive expands

Defense Minister Israel Katz says the IDF's operation in Gaza is expanding, including a large-scale evacuation of Gazan civilians from combat zones. Katz also says that Israeli forces are set to seize large areas of territory in Gaza that will be added to Israel's buffer zones.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-deploys-another-division-in-southern-gaza-as-offensive-expands/

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02 Apr 2025 16:24

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Crowd of masked men set Duma houses alight, injure several Palestinians

Around 30 masked men, believed to be Jewish residents from the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council area, entered Duma village and set fire to houses and vehicles on Tuesday.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-848459

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02 Apr 2025 14:16

🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 China’s Eastern Theatre Command conducted long-range live-fire drills near Taiwan in the East China Sea today, targeting simulated key ports and energy facilities.

➡️ The drills, which involved precision strikes, have reportedly achieved their desired effects.

@TabZLIVE

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02 Apr 2025 12:28

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The United States has been pulling air defenses such as THAAD and PATRIOT from other theaters, and moving them into CENTCOM via airlift for the last few days. The movements have been tracked, and the news has now been confirmed via NBC.

🔗 Faytuks Network

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02 Apr 2025 10:02

🇺🇸☪️ 402 acres purchased to build an Islamic city that will govern itself in the heart of Texas

🔗 EndWokeness

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02 Apr 2025 08:16

🇹🇷🇸🇾 Western intelligence source to 'Post': Turkey aims to activate the Syrian T4 air base

The Turkish-Syrian connection has been tightening recently, including in the military field. A Western intelligence source told The Jerusalem Post that Turkey wants to become Syria's air defense provider, in part by establishing a presence at the T4 base, which was active during Assad's regime.

The T4 base has been the target of several Israeli airstrikes in Syria in recent weeks. On monday, an Israeli defence official told reporters that the purpose of these strikes was to signal to Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa that Israel will not allow any reduction in its freedom of action in Syrian airspace.

According to the Western intelligence source, Turkey intends to convert the T4 base into a drone facility.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-848349

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02 Apr 2025 05:20

🇺🇸⚡- Carrier Strike Group One (CSG-1) with USS Carl Vinson are heading towards CENTCOM. Their current location is just south of the Philippines, and should arrive in the Middle East by April 10.

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02 Apr 2025 01:39

🇺🇸 🐴 — Democrat Senator Cory Booker breaks all-time filibuster record.

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02 Apr 2025 00:44

🇺🇸 🐴 — Democrat Senator filibustering Senate chamber for 24 hours

Cory Booker, a Democratic Senator from New Jersey, is about to break the all-time record of the longest filibuster in US Senate history.

The current record holder is Strom Thurmond, who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957 for 24 hours and 18 minutes.

If Booker holds out until 7pm EST, he will be the first to break that record in 68 years.

🎥 LIVE

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01 Apr 2025 21:04

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 — A large-scale attack on Iran will begin soon, an unprecedented assault since World War II.

— Israeli Channel 14