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.]
ANTS RISING
BANK FAILURES
- SVB Lessons: If You Can’t Hold It, It’s Not Really Yours
- The Cover-up Begins
- The Banking Collapse Has Begun
- Glenn explains: THIS is how Silicon Valley Bank COLLAPSED
- Washington’s bank rescue fails to erase doubts
- Total system collapse temporarily averted with emergency liquidity flood
- Moody’s puts six US banks on watch for potential downgrade
- Silicon Valley Bank collapse biggest since Great Recession as FDIC promises to cover ALL deposits, not just first 250K
- Question: Who Is Paying To Bail Out The Failed Banks? – Answer: You Are
- It’s Not Working! The Fed’s Emergency Rescue Plan Has Not Ended The Banking Panic!
- Barney Frank at Center of Collapse
- CREDIT SUISSE next to fold?
- Credit Suisse Hits New Low As “Material Weaknesses” Found In Financial Reporting, Outflows Continue
- ‘Death of a Climate Bank’: Silicon Valley Bank involved in more than ‘60% of community solar financing nationwide’ – ‘Issuing billions of dollars in loans’
- FDIC Plans Another Auction for Silicon Valley Bank
- Biden Administration Won’t Commit to Not Bailing Out Chinese SVB Investors
- Former FDIC Chairman Says More Banks WILL FAIL
- Silicon Valley Bank has now collapsed, and 95% of deposits were uninsured
- Treasury Sec Yellen Says Officials Working to Ensure “Contagion Can’t Occur” After SVB Crisis
- Regional banks seeing run on deposits; Megabanks too-big-to-fail?
- SVB’s ESG: Hiring and Supplier Quotas Based on Ethnicity, Race, Sex
- SVB Bank Collapses, Journalists Warn of ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
- Silicon Valley Bank Scrubs Website, Deletes Twitter and YouTube Videos
- America’s $620B ticking time bomb: FDIC reveals ‘unrealized losses’
- First republic gets additional funding from Fed, JPMorgan
- Why The Banking System Is Breaking Up
- Fed Announces Probe Into Its Own Regulatory Failure At SVB
- Terrorist Fed Wipes out Banks as Cryptocollapse Flushes Through the System
ECONOMIC
- META to lay off 10,000 more workers
- If SVB is insolvent, so is everyone else
- 2-Year Treasury Yields Post Biggest 3-Day Decline Since 1987 Crash
- Mortgage Rates Fall Following Bank Failures
- Bitcoin Surges Above 26k, a New High for 2023
- Consumer Prices Rise Solidly; Inflation Now 6 Percent
- Consumer Price Index Increased 0.4% in February, 6% Year-Over-Year
- Shelter Inflation Hits Record High As Americans’ Real Wages Drop For 32nd Straight Month
- The Big List of U.S. companies going crazy woke for LGBT
- “WOKE” MARGIN CALL: The risk of MORE bank collapses after “WOKE” SVB bites the dust, prioritizing TRANS awareness over RISK awareness
- Biden’s destructive Russia sanctions are destroying decades-long dominance of dollar as world’s reserve currency; collapse will follow
- Big Trouble In Little Banks – Bailout Sparks Buying Panic In Bonds, Bitcoin, & Bullion
- Silver price jumps as SVB collapse spurs flight to safety
- Illinois enacts mandatory paid leave ‘for any reason’
- San Francisco to Air Black Reparations Plan, $5M per Person
- Big credit card companies halt work on tracking firearms purchases with a code
EDUCATION(AL)
- 103-Year-Old California Woman Still Works Out at Gym: ‘It Gives Me Energy’
- 800-Year-Old Gold Hoard with Stunning Earrings Unearthed in Germany
- Pronoun Police Lose: Student Wins Legal Battle with Montana State U. over Free Speech
- High schools get pushed to drop calculus in the name of equity!
- Defense Department Will Spend $750,000 Inducing ‘Havana Syndrome’ In Animals
- Study finds IQ scores in the US have dropped for first time in nearly a century
- College Student “Deprogrammed” in Real Time on White Privilege Nonsense
- ‘Those at war against biological sex are losing’
- How ‘Critical Race Theory’ still causing conflicts in state’s schools
- Arizona Launches Hotline to Report CRT, Gender Ideology Lessons in Schools
- Biden Calls It ‘Sinful’ To NOT Mutilate Trans Kids
- Toxic textiles: Beware of the deadly chemicals found in nearly all new clothing, towels, sheets and pillow cases
- University of Indiana Medical Students Get ‘Sex and Gender Primer’ for Basic Human Structure Class
- Republicans Sue Vermont Town to Prevent Foreign Nationals from Voting in School Board Elections
- Chuck Todd Complains About Florida Schools Teaching Dangers of Communism
- Half of Minnesota Students Can’t Read at Grade Level
- Survey: Gen Z, Millennials Say Women’s Rights ‘Have Gone Far Enough’
- Straight White Women Leaving Everyone Behind
- Vermont Christian School that Refused to Play Trans Player Banned from Future Tournaments
ENVIRONMENT / CLIMATE
- PREPARE FOR PAIN: Scotland bans anesthesia due to its “impact on the climate”
- Mom Recycles a Ton of Trash With Backyard Public Recycling Center That Collects Things the City Doesn’t
GEO-POLITICAL
- Saudi Arabia Joins New Axis of Evil
- Russia, China, Iran… and Saudi Arabia?
- China reopening borders to foreign tourists for first time since Covid erupted
- US-Trained Afghans Fight Taliban, Seek Support
- Chinese Lasers in Hawaii Could Signal Attack
- Australia Hails Nuclear Submarine Deal With U.S. and UK as Counter to Military Buildup in Pacific
- Indian Government Against Supporting Same-sex Marriage
- Mexican president says his nation safer than USA
- Mayor Of Seoul Calls For South Korea To Develop Nuclear Weapons
- PREPARE FOR PAIN: Scotland bans anesthesia due to its “impact on the climate”
- Welsh Govt Says Statues Of “Old White Men” Should Be Removed, May Cause “Offense” To Britain’s Diverse Population
UKRAINE
- Many Don’t Want to Hear These Lessons from the Ukraine
- Is the US Funding an Experiment in Digital Control in Ukraine? – Within a year of its launch, millions of Ukrainians found that their personal data, such as driver’s licenses, social media information, and banking information, were being traded online. There’s always been the risk of losing your wallet and your driver’s license, but with everything online, the risks of fraud and identity theft increase astronomically.
- Russia ‘sends women prisoners to war zone for first time’
- Latvia Is Shipping Cars Seized From Drunk Drivers To Ukraine
IMMIGRATION
LEGAL / CRIMINAL
- Nazi salutes, pepper spray, pistols: Drag event devolves into extremist melee
- Victims’ Families Outraged After Connecticut Commutes 44 Murder Sentences
- Two Men Think Electric Vehicle Will Make Great Getaway Car… Then the Battery Starts Running Out
- BLM Activists In Boston Facing Even More Federal Fraud Charges
- Ex-Homicide Detective Blows Whistle on Soros-Backed LA DA’s Effort to Break the System
- NYPD Sees 117% Increase in Retirements Since 2021
MEDIA
MEDICAL
- PREPARE FOR PAIN: Scotland bans anesthesia due to its “impact on the climate”
- Medical Technocracy: The Forced Medication Of All Citizens
- Bill Gates Announces $4.7 Million Grant For Company That Sells Face Masks For Cows
Coronavirus-19
- FBI, State Department Miss Deadline To Produce COVID Origin Information To House Panel
- Watch as former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield gives testimony damning Fauci for covid crimes against humanity
- Michigan Governor Admits Some COVID-19 Restrictions Didn’t “Make a Lot of Sense”
VACCINE
NATIONAL SECURITY
- TOTAL WIPEOUT: How China would hit US bases from California to Japan with ‘invincible’ hypersonic missiles in Pearl Harbor-style strike
- White House Requests $11B More for Navy and Marine Corp
POLITICAL
- U.S. Treasury to Release Biden Family’s Suspicious Bank Reports to House Oversight Committee
- Ron DeSantis to Revoke Hyatt Regency Miami License After ‘Sexually Explicit’ Show With Children
- Anti-Trump congressman suggests banning U.S. troops from watching Fox News
- Rep. Comer: Hunter Biden Probe Takes ‘Good Direction’
- Gun control: Biden to sign executive order on background checks
- California, Which Entered Union as a Free State, Pushes for $360k Per Person in Reparations
- San Francisco to Air Black Reparations Plan, $5M per Person
- There were white slaves in America, too, buried history shows
- Biden Floats Possibility Of Nation-Wide Transgender Law
- Wiener Vows to Stop California Bill Requiring Schools to Inform Parents About Gender Transition
- Montana Dem Sen. Jon Tester Suddenly Supports Fentanyl Crackdown… After Blocking $300 Million for Border Screening
- Lindsey Graham says he is introducing legislation to authorize use of U.S. military in Mexico against cartels
- Illinois enacts mandatory paid leave ‘for any reason’
- Texas Right to Life: Mainstream Media’s Pro-Abortion Bias Is ‘Deadly’
- Government Is as Government Does
- What kind of political beliefs are newcomers bringing to Idaho? Survey says
PREPAREDNESS
- 10 Easy Steps for Getting Out of Your Prepping Comfort Zone
- 10 Week (If You’re Lucky) Plan to Prepare for the Worst-Case Scenario
- 7 Stores Where You Can Buy Cheap Survival Food
- SHTF Survival: 10 Disturbing Threats That You’re Probably Not Ready For
- Debt Free Retirement – Start Early
- Interesting Facts About The Sun
- Home defense tips: 7 Ways to protect your garden from looters and intruders
- Evacuate with a customized bug-out boat
- Vid: How To Improve Your Lock Picking Skills (For Beginners)
PRIVACY
- Government officials used cell phone data and geofence surveillance to track the number of congregants on church grounds during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
- FBI admits to buying geolocation data
SECOND AMENDMENT
- Big credit card companies halt work on tracking firearms purchases with a code
- Gun control: Biden to sign executive order on background checks
- 1.3 Million Guns Sold Last Month: Firearms Sales Still Near Record Levels
SOCIAL / CULTURE
TECHNOLOGY
- Microsoft Spent Hundreds of Millions on OpenAI Supercomputer
- Singularity 2045? Futurists Predict When Humans, Machines Become One
- At San Francisco expo, AI ‘sorry’ for destroying humanity
- Man Is Able to Unlock Tesla Model 3, Drive Away and Pick Up Kids – But It Wasn’t His Tesla
- Car Journalists Drive Cross-Country in EV – Spend More Than an Entire Work Day Charging
