Credit Bubble Bulletin – Doug Nolan
McAlvany Intelbrief
The McAlvany Intelbrief is a round-up of the day’s important news from a multitude of sectors that can and do impact the financial markets.
[FYI – Repetition of items is on purpose because the item fits into 2 or more categories, not a mistake by me.]
- Today is the National Day of Prayer!
- May 4th is informally known as “Star Wars Day”, because of a play on words: “May The Fourth Be With You.”
ANTS RISING
- The Boycotts Are Working
- Hollywood Writers Strike To Last Weeks As Writers Plan Star-Studded L.A., New York Rallies
- As Writers Strike, AI Could Covertly Cross Picket Line
- French Police Regularly Abusing Rights of Anti-Macron Protesters, Watchdog Says
- Dems Setting Groundwork for Next Batch of Race Riots
COLLAPSE ITEMS
CYBER
- ChatGPT: You’re Not Ready For The New Wave Of Cyberattacks
- Off the grid: Apple, Google team up to create alerts for cyber spying, location tracking
- Our vulnerability to cyberattacks and personal countermeasures you should take
BANK FAILURES
- First Horizon Shares Crash After TD Bank Deal “Terminated”
- ANOTHER: PACWEST In Talks With Potential Partners Afte Share Plunge
- Regional Bank Stocks Tank, With PacWest Falling 50 Percent
- Here We Go Again: Troubled California Bank PacWest Craters 60% On Report It Is Seeking Buyers Or Capital Raise
- Here’s how much latest bank failure will cost the feds, and how Americans could foot the bill
- Regionals Slump Further
- Credit Suisse: Asia investors sue Switzerland over bank collapse
- Lawmakers Sold Off Their Shares In First Republic Bank Prior to the Company’s Collapse
- Visualizing the assets and liabilities of US banks
- Uh Oh! Three More Banks – Stock Trades Halted – Plunging
ECONOMIC
- Fed raises interest rate to 16-year high!
- Fed Hikes 25bps As Expected, Signals ‘Hawkish Pause’; Warns Of ‘Tighter Credit Standards’
- Is The Federal Reserve Trying To Cause An Economic Depression?
- 48% Of Americans Are Worried About Their Money’s Safety In US Banks, More Than During Peak Of 2008 Crisis
- About Half in U.S. Worry About Their Money’s Safety in Banks
- The Banking Collapse Of 2023 Is Now Officially Bigger Than The Banking Collapse Of 2008 Was
- Follow these steps if you want to survive the 2023 banking system collapse
- Mortgage demand drops as bank failures hit jumbo loan rates
- Visualizing the assets and liabilities of US banks
- Top CEO pay rose 7.7% last year, outpacing inflation
- GOOGLE employees complain about Pichai’s $226 million as cost cuts hit company
- Sports Blowout: Saudis Offer Soccer Player $400 Million A Year!
- A billionaire businessman has bought Jeffrey Epstein’s private islands and wants to turn them into a 5-star luxury resort
- More Than 30 U.S. States Don’t Have Enough Cash To Pay Their Bills
- FedEx Freight to close 29 service centers
- Electric Vehicles Could Become a Blackout Solution in California
- The Next USPS Mail Trucks Are Delayed
- Study: Electric cars losing value twice as fast as gas vehicles – Survey: Growing portion of US shoppers are rejecting EVs
- Top Economist Warns The Next Recession Will Be As If “The Whole Country Takes A Pay Cut”
- The Path To Full Stagflation
- Weak US diesel demand intensifies recession fears
- Which Jobs Will Be Most Impacted By ChatGPT?
- ECB Hikes Rates By 25bps (As Expected), Warns “Inflation Continues To Be Too High For Too Long”
EDUCATION(AL)
- Elon Musk Warns ‘Woke Mind Virus’ Indoctrination in Schools Is ‘Far Beyond What Parents Realize’
- Florida Republicans pass bills on pronoun usage at schools, ban on diversity programs
- Teachers sound alarm on growing problems in schools, say colleagues are ‘leaving in droves’
- 4-day school weeks, gaining in popularity, face pushback from lawmakers
- Eighth Graders Scored Record Lows In U.S. History, Civics in 2022
- Patriotic Restaurant Owner Has a Message for Leftists Who Don’t Like Her National Anthem Tradition
- Portland elementary school to host BIPOC drag show to help students ‘explore gender’
- LGBTQ+ students win Ohio prom king and queen in ‘iconic moment.’ Then came the vitriol
- Families sue school for coaxing daughters into secret sex club
ENVIRONMENT / CLIMATE
- How Will the Grid Cope?’ NY Natural Gas Ban Raises Concerns About Electricity Costs, Power Outages
- Sweden’s First EV-Charging Road Will Power Electric Vehicles as They Drive
- New York Passes Gas Ban in New Buildings; Strain on Electricity Grid
- Green Energy Industry Admits It Needs Cheap Chinese Goods To Survive
FOOD
- Gates-Funded ‘Edible’ Food Coating Gets Green Light From Regulators
- Michelle Obama Starts Kids’ Food Brand to Fight Obesity
GEO-POLITICAL
- Over 130 Arrested In Coordinated International Mafia Raids Involving 10 Countries
- Why Switzerland Has 374,142 Bunkers (and likely more)
- Iran has enough uranium for five nukes?
- Taiwan trade chief warns against ‘unnecessary fear’ of China
- US in talks on establishing military bases in Finland
- U.S. Navy Sails First Drone Boat Through Strait of Hormuz, Angering Iran
- BRICS Is Expanding: Here’s Why That’s Very Concerning for the US
- ECB Hikes Rates By 25bps (As Expected), Warns “Inflation Continues To Be Too High For Too Long”
- IMF: Saudi Arabia Needs Oil Prices At $80.90 To Balance Budget
- Zelesnky Pops in to International Criminal Court Russia’s Medvedev Threatened to Missile Strike
- French Pensioner Sentenced to Reeducation After Insulting President Emmanuel Macron
- Sweden’s First EV-Charging Road Will Power Electric Vehicles as They Drive
- Sports Blowout: Saudis Offer Soccer Player $400 Million A Year!
- Career criminal in France jailed for just four months after 57th theft conviction spanning four decades
- EU Backs Controversial Dutch Plans To Shut Down Farms In Bid To Reduce Nitrogen Emissions
UKRAINE
- Is Someone Trying To Provoke Russia Into Using Tactical Nuclear Weapons Against Ukraine?
- Biden regime continues shipping weapons to Ukraine, draining American stockpiles that can’t be quickly replaced
- Zelesnky Pops in to International Criminal Court Russia’s Medvedev Threatened to Missile Strike
IDENTITY
- LGBTQ+ students win Ohio prom king and queen in ‘iconic moment.’ Then came the vitriol
- The Trans Movement Is Coming for Your Kids
- N.C. Bill to Protect Children From Drag Shows Clears Senate With Unanimous Vote
- Portland elementary school to host BIPOC drag show to help students ‘explore gender’
- Transgender lifeguard candidate rejected by City of Jacksonville after removing top at the pool
IMMIGRATION
- 90,000 migrants cross US border in 10 days as panic over Title 42 end sets in
- Biden’s Border Apocalypse Is Imploding America – Exclusive Report
- Abbott: Migrants Choose to Go to New York and A Sanctuary City Should Want Them
- Dem Rep., Biden 2024 Co-Chair Blunt Rochester on Expanding Asylum for Economics: We Have ‘Serious’ Workforce Needs
LEGAL / CRIMINAL
- Freed After 28 Years of Wrongful Conviction, Man Meets Pen Pal Who Never Stopped Affirming His Innocence
- Over 130 Arrested In Coordinated International Mafia Raids Involving 10 Countries
- Texas State Police Show Us All How to Remove Insurrectionists from a Capitol Protest
- “Trans” Son of Democrat House Minority Whip Gets No Jail Time for Assaulting Boston Cop
- Washington’s Democrat Governor Wants to Decriminalize Fentanyl Possession
- Police Get a Green Light to Use Force Against Unarmed Individuals Who Have Already Surrendered or Complied
- NYC’s Novel Idea To Solve Rampant Car Theft Is Hand Out Free Apple AirTags
- Confirmed: Jeffrey Epstein’s History As An FBI Source
MEDIA
MEDICAL
Coronavirus-19
VACCINE
- Journalist exposes Pfizer’s quiet funding for groups that lobbied for COVID-19 vaccine mandates
- New COVID Vaccinations/Boosters Slow To A Trickle
NATIONAL SECURITY
- Biden regime continues shipping weapons to Ukraine, draining American stockpiles that can’t be quickly replaced
- Senators demand Navy answer questions about ‘drag’ ambassador
- SEAL: ‘I can’t believe I fought for this bullsh*t’
- Navy Used Nonbinary Drag Queen Sailor to Recruit
POLICE STATE
POLITICAL
- Lawmakers Sold Off Their Shares In First Republic Bank Prior to the Company’s Collapse
- Biden administration OKs boost in Chinese airline flights to US
- Washington’s Democrat Governor Wants to Decriminalize Fentanyl Possession
- Latest Developments in Hunter Biden Probe Puts Spotlight on Joe Biden, Informant Claim of Bribery
- New Emails Show Hunter Biden Was Selling Access to His Father
- Maryland Governor Signs Bill Giving Abortion, Child Transgenderism Legal Protection
- There Is a War Coming Shrouded in Propaganda
- More Than 30 U.S. States Don’t Have Enough Cash To Pay Their Bills
- The GOP Has a Gen Z Problem
- There’s Hope: Trans Procedure Bills Signal Growing Consensus around Protecting Children
- 4-day school weeks, gaining in popularity, face pushback from lawmakers
- Biden regime continues shipping weapons to Ukraine, draining American stockpiles that can’t be quickly replaced
- PURE EVIL: Owner of MI Horse Farm, Who Refused to Sell Property to CCP-Tied Battery Plant, is Notified She’s Under Investigation by Gov. Agency Tied to Dirty Dem AG Dana Nessel
- N.C. Bill to Protect Children From Drag Shows Clears Senate With Unanimous Vote
PREPAREDNESS
- Why Switzerland Has 374,142 Bunkers (and likely more)
- Combat Boots 101
- 25 Ancient Remedies Most People Have Forgotten
- Meet Your Emergency Food’s Worst Enemies
- Solar Power System Design 101 (Volts)
- Gifts for Sojourners
- Several Cases Have Already Been Documented of Smart Meter Hacking and Disconnection.
- Our vulnerability to cyberattacks and personal countermeasures you should take
- Preparing for and Avoiding Bee and Wasp Stings
- How are you preparing for disinformation campaigns?
- Surviving an Economic Collapse: A Step-by-Step Plan
- Half the human population will be obsolete in just ten years… Here’s how to survive the global termination agenda
SECOND AMENDMENT
SPACE
- Cremated Remains of NASA Astronaut Recovered After Failed Rocket Launch
- What time is the lunar eclipse on May 5?
- See 40 Shooting Stars Per Hour Under the Aquariid Meteor Shower in May Night Sky
- Mars Rover Discovers Liquid Salt Water on the Red Planet For the First Time
- Gargantuan ‘superflare’ from distant star may have launched one of the strongest solar storms ever seen
TECHNOLOGY
- Sweden’s First EV-Charging Road Will Power Electric Vehicles as They Drive
- GOOGLE shared AI knowledge with world — until ChatGPT caught up
- Several Cases Have Already Been Documented of Smart Meter Hacking and Disconnection.
WEATHER
- Forecasters: Will Be ‘Very Active’ Hurricane Season
- Will the Mass Poisoning of Our Skies Cause a Killing Field Effect?
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