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.]
AI
ANTS RISING
- Thousands Gather for Prayer and Protest at ‘Take Our Border Back’ Rallies, Convoys
 - Polish Farmers Set To Join European Revolt With Mass Blockade
 
ECONOMIC
- 3 Shocking Truths Most People Don’t Know About Money in Bank Accounts
 - 5 Ways City Living Can SAVE You Money
 - All Eyes On China, Where The Plunge Protection Team Bought $10 Billion In The Past Month
 - They Want To Implement A Global System Of Digital Identification “For All” That Would Be Connected To Our Bank Accounts
 - Prisoners In The US Are Part Of A Hidden Workforce Linked To Hundreds Of Popular Food Brands
 - Lawmakers Might Bail Out Those Who Can’t Afford Rent
 - Biden Makes Claims About Wages and Snickers Bars That Are Raising Eyebrows
 - Snap Announces 10 Percent Job Cuts as Tech Layoffs Continue in 2024
 - California’s $20 Minimum Wage Will Gut Jobs AND Make Fast Food Unaffordable.
 - Credit Card and Auto Loan Delinquencies Surge
 - Record-High Credit Card Debt Brutalizes Middle Class in Biden’s America
 - Millennials Own Less Than Half The Real Estate Wealth Of Boomers… Can They Catch Up?
 - For First Time in Two Decades, USA Buys More From Mexico Than China
 - Trade Deficit Narrows by Most Since ’09
 - The Real Estate Crisis Looming Over Banks
 - Credit card debt record high
 - FORD Could Get 50% More Profit WITHOUT EVs
 - US seeks to crack down on real estate money laundering in planned rule
 - ‘Not normal’: Over one million jobs reported in 2023 didn’t actually exist
 - Delinquency Rates Are Spiking! Has The Final Meltdown Of The U.S. Consumer Now Begun?
 - “Whatever It Takes” – NYCB Shares Crash Despite Reassurances “Virtually” No Deposit Outflow From Branches
 
EDUCATION(AL)
- Some Public Schools Holding BLM “Week of Action”
 - Biden Brags About Defying Supreme Court On Student Debt Cancellation, Claims No Cost To Taxpayers
 - Critical Bolts Missing From Door Plug In Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 Incident, NTSB Report Finds
 - Iowa Bill Would Protect Teachers Who Don’t Use “Preferred Pronouns”
 - Biometric Scanning Is Increasing Making Its Way Into American Schools
 - New Polish Minister for Equality officially sponsors national ranking of schools by LGBTQ acceptance
 - Outrage as 5 trans players dominate volleyball at women’s college varsity game
 - 2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex
 - Archaeologists Discover a ‘Master Blacksmith’s’ Workshop Dating to the Very Dawn of the Iron Age in Britain
 - Bill to Allow Armed Teachers for Classroom Defense on Move in Nebraska
 - 1,000-pound bomb uncovered at Florida airport prompts half-mile evacuation, cops say
 - State launches portal for parents to monitor schools
 
ELECTION
- Haley trounced by ‘none of these candidates’ in Nevada primary
 - Results
 - What You Need to Know About Super Tuesday
 
ELECTRIC VEHICLES (EV)
- Heavier EV’s tearing up the California roadways but paying nothing for road maintenance
 - FORD Could Get 50% More Profit WITHOUT EVs
 
ENVIRONMENT / CLIMATE
- Has The Stage Been Set For “The Big One” To Hit California?
 - Trapped orcas escape from drift ice near Japan
 - Dinosaur Evergreens Thought Extinct for 2Mil Years Discovered by Park Ranger, 90-Tree Grove is ‘Find of the Century’
 
FOOD
- Prisoners In The US Are Part Of A Hidden Workforce Linked To Hundreds Of Popular Food Brands
 - How Much Food Should You Have in Your Long Term Food Cache?
 
GEO-POLITICAL
- Russia Says Tucker Carlson Interview of Vladimir Putin Has Taken Place
 - Medvedev Warns Russia Has ‘No Choice’ But To Unleash Nuclear ‘Apocalypse’ If Attacked By NATO
 - Japanese Shipping Giant Warns “Historic” Red Sea Crisis Could Last “Six Months Or One Year”
 - Turkey Earthquake One Year On: Survivors Still Living In Tent & Container Cities Amid Gov’t Infighting
 - Depop op: Bill Gates once again pushing deadly malaria vaccines on world’s poorest countries
 - Saudi Arabia: no Israel ties without recognition of Palestinian state
 - U.S. to run out of armaments in two weeks if it embarks on a multi-faceted war with Iran, Russia, Yemen and possibly the “Republic of Texas,” former Navy SEAL warns
 - New Polish Minister for Equality officially sponsors national ranking of schools by LGBTQ acceptance
 - Britain Can’t Protect Own Govt Ministers from Islamists… Gay, conservative leaving Parliament because of threats to life
 - Terrorist Bombing Campaign Kills 28 in Pakistan on Day Before Heated Election
 - Biden Admin’s Secret Border Deal with Mexico Delays Onslaught of Migrant Crossings — 50 Percent Drop in Jan.
 - Germany to Reduce Prison Sentences for Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Images
 - South Korea, Saudi Arabia Ink Agreement to Jointly Develop Military Technology
 
ISRAEL
- War on Gaza: Palestinian women forced to shave their heads due to water shortage
 - Hamas Wants Thousands of Palestinians Freed in Hostage Deal…
 - 31 of 136 Remaining Hostages Dead: Israel Military
 - Israeli Lawmakers Move to Punish ‘Denying’ or ‘Downplaying’ October 7th With 5 Years in Prison
 
UKRAINE
IMMIGRATION
- Biden Admin’s Secret Border Deal with Mexico Delays Onslaught of Migrant Crossings — 50 Percent Drop in Jan.
 - The new ‘border security’ bill is about legalizing illegals
 - Al Sharpton: We’re Looking Every Day at the Invasion of Migrants
 - The TSA Gestapo Gives Immigrant-invaders Rights Denied to US Citizens
 - Jewish nonprofit HIAS accused of using $105 million in taxpayer money to import huge numbers of non-White immigrants to America
 - California plans to give unemployment benefits to ILLEGALS, while their own citizens foot the bill
 - American Red Cross providing migrants with maps, making it easier for illegals to violate the border and flood into the USA
 
LEGAL / CRIMINAL
- NYPD Chief Decries ‘Total Breakdown’ of Justice After Illegal Immigrants Suspected in Police Assault Released Without Bail
 - Prisoners In The US Are Part Of A Hidden Workforce Linked To Hundreds Of Popular Food Brands
 - Former drug smugglers and undercover cops share how drug trafficking actually works
 - ‘Mass chaos’: 2 shot, including teen, after suspect opens fire inside Indiana gym
 
MEDIA
- Russia Says Tucker Carlson Interview of Vladimir Putin Has Taken Place
 - ‘Major Differences From Trump Case’: WaPo Front-Runs DoJ Decision Not To Charge Biden Over Mishandled Classified Docs
 - Could Change Tv Forever
 
MEDICAL
- Major health insurance companies alter policies to exclude coverage for injuries or sickness during WAR, riot or insurrection
 - Newsom signs bill making HIV prevention meds available WITHOUT prescription
 - U.S. publisher retracts studies cited by Texas judge in suspending abortion pill’s approval
 - As syphilis cases surge in the US, here’s what infectious disease experts want you to know
 - While thousands of U.S. veterans suffer homelessness, a VA hospital in Seattle is demanding more money to perform genital mutilation surgeries on transgender vets
 
VACCINE
NATIONAL SECURITY
- The United States Has Zero National Security
 - Four Russian Military Aircraft Detected in Alaskan Airspace
 - 2 Russian Tu-95MC Strategic Bombers Fly Near Alaska
 - U.S. to run out of armaments in two weeks if it embarks on a multi-faceted war with Iran, Russia, Yemen and possibly the “Republic of Texas,” former Navy SEAL warns
 - Air Force Implements Full-Day Workshop on ‘Allyship’ to Enhance Diversity and Inclusion
 
POLITICAL
- House Fails to Impeach Mayorkas
 - Biden Names Director of New AI Safety Institute
 - Biden Campaigns on More Migration and Amnesty
 - Biden Brags About Defying Supreme Court On Student Debt Cancellation, Claims No Cost To Taxpayers
 - Who is Michael Whatley, the potential frontrunner to replace Ronna McDaniel at RNC?
 - What You Need to Know About Super Tuesday
 - SpaceX probed by California over sex bias, retaliation claims
 - Major health insurance companies alter policies to exclude coverage for injuries or sickness during WAR, riot or insurrection
 - Colorado decriminalizes 5 psychedelics
 - Biden Admin’s Secret Border Deal with Mexico Delays Onslaught of Migrant Crossings — 50 Percent Drop in Jan.
 - Russia Says Tucker Carlson Interview of Vladimir Putin Has Taken Place
 - Meet the Uniform Law Commission, the “Nonpartisan” Group of Lawyers Pushing a Far-Left Agenda
 - The TSA Gestapo Gives Immigrant-invaders Rights Denied to US Citizens
 - The new ‘border security’ bill is about legalizing illegals
 
PREPAREDNESS
- How Much Food Should You Have in Your Long Term Food Cache?
 - 5 Ways City Living Can SAVE You Money
 - 10 Things Burglars Don’t Want You To Know
 - They Want To Implement A Global System Of Digital Identification “For All” That Would Be Connected To Our Bank Accounts
 - Unconventional Everyday Tools That Can Be Lifesavers in Survival Situations
 - Dog Food As Survival Food?
 - Using Sleeping Bags for Prepping
 - The Importance of Sugar in Food Preservation (and Nausea Treatment!)
 
SECOND AMENDMENT
- Former NBA Star John Salley Says He ‘Always’ Carried a Gun When He Played for Detroit Pistons
 - Bill to Allow Armed Teachers for Classroom Defense on Move in Nebraska
 - Virginia Democrats’ ‘Assault Firearm’ Ban Targets 9mm Pistols with Threaded Barrels
 
SOCIAL / CULTURE
- Euthanasia is becoming disturbingly ‘normal’ in Western culture
 - REDFIN: Gun, abortion, LGBTQ laws affecting where home buyers move
 - Half of trans have considered moving out of state
 
SPACE
TERRORISM
WEATHER