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
- 3 Ways AI Is About Change the World (SPOILER: It’s NOT Good)
- NASA’s New AI System Gives 30-Minute Warning Before CMEs Strike Earth
- Traffic Cameras Use AI To Spy On Drivers Inside Their Cars
- Break The Rules? AI Will Show You No Mercy
- ChatGPT Is The Most Tried AI Tool And Users Stick To It
- This AI Chatbot Has Learned the Difference Between Good and Evil
- OpenAI Competitor Says Its Chatbot Has a Rudimentary Conscience
- Anthropic says its Claude AI can now read a whole book in under a minute
- MICROSOFT Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning
- Tom Hanks: I Will Star In Ai Movies After Death
- Google’s New AI Plan To Demolish Journalism Industry
- The AI Revolution – A Repeat Of History?
- AI-powered bots ‘taking over Internet’ and mimicking human behavior
BANK FAILURES
ECONOMIC
- Treasury Secretary Yellen Warns Global Financial Markets Will “Break” If U.S. Defaults on Debt
- The Devastating Treasury Basis Trade Is Back And Hitting Record Levels… Just As Liquidity Collapses To All Time Low
- McCarthy: Too Far Apart for Debt Ceiling Deal by Weekend
- Fed Report Shows Record-High Annual Increase in Credit-Card Balances
- The Restaurant Service Charge Isn’t Going Anywhere
- WATCH: Miller Lite’s own woke ad goes viral amid Bud Light backlash
- Highway to Hell: Why America Cannot Survive without Trucks
- US Now Spends More Servicing Its Debt Than On National Defense
- Von Greyerz: A Disorderly Reset With Gold Revalued By Multiples
- Consumer Debt Passes $17 Trillion for the First Time
- Consumer debt hits record
- HOME DEPOT Projects First Annual Sales Decline Since ’09
- Let’s Check In And See How The Largest Metropolitan Areas In The United States Are Doing
- The Probability Of A Recession Happening In The Next 12 Months Is The Highest In More Than 40 Years!
EDUCATION(AL)
- Dirty-bomb antidote: Drug trial begins in US
- Lawsuit Exposes How CCP Actively Uses TikTok To Target Americans
- Six more NYC school gyms will house migrants, parents furious
- Can Parents Trust Their Kids to Leftist Teachers Union?
- Osceola County Schools Deem Books Inappropriate for Children, Decides to Leave Them in Schools Anyway
- New York Times: American College Grads Are Being Pushed out of Coastal Cities
- The Speed Project: The secret ‘Fight Club’-style race between Los Angeles and Las Vegas – The Speed Project (TSP), an unsanctioned, unsupported 350-mile race from Los Angeles to Las Vegas via Death Valley.
- DeSantis Signs Legislation Elimination DEI in Higher Ed
- Florida’s controversial plan to pave roads with a radioactive material
- Major school district caves to demand for ‘reparations’ for blacks
- Catholic university allows ‘transgender’ males to live in women’s residence halls
- Teacher suspended after allowing student to dress as KKK Grand Wizard
ELECTION
ENVIRONMENT / CLIMATE
- Newly-Launched Finnish Nuclear Plant Sees Electricity Prices Plunge By 75%
- John Kerry would love for farmers to stop farming
- Biden wants to kill electric power from natural gas
- Biden rule tells power plants to cut climate pollution by 90 percent — or shut down
- CBS News Promotes Bill Gates-Backed Scheme Spraying Aerosols In Earth’s Atmosphere To Block Sun
- Watch: Lake trout nearly 4 feet long, 73 pounds likely broke records
FOOD
- John Kerry would love for farmers to stop farming
- More Pesticides on Kids’ Food? EPA Wants to Greenlight Chemical Linked to Reproduction, Developmental Issues
- 10 Myths About Storing Food In 5-Gallon Buckets
- The Restaurant Service Charge Isn’t Going Anywhere
GEO-POLITICAL
- Newly-Launched Finnish Nuclear Plant Sees Electricity Prices Plunge By 75%
- Hundreds Of Fighting Age Chinese Males Are Entering The Country Each Week – We Have No Idea Why
- Ex-Obama, Biden Migration Adviser Amy Pope to Run U.N. Agency
- German Navy Continues to Boost Indo-Pacific Deployments
- Two Charged After Passengers Heard Hitler Speeches Instead of Train Announcements in Austria
- Lawsuit Exposes How CCP Actively Uses TikTok To Target Americans
- Move over, dollar: China wants to make yuan global currency
- Common Currency on Agenda for South African BRICS Summit
- Ireland’s radical hate speech law: You are presumed guilty until you can prove yourself innocent
- Excess Death Continues Around The World and The World Invades America
- Post-9/11 wars have contributed to 4.5 million deaths, report suggests
UKRAINE
- Ukraine Claims to Have Shot Down a Wave of Russia’s ‘Unstoppable Hypersonic’ Missiles For First Time
- Hungary Outraged By Leaked Ukrainian Plans To Blow Up Vital Oil Pipeline
- Russia Claims Its Armored Trains are Succeeding in Preventing Ukrainian Saboteurs Blowing up Railways
- Russia launches ‘exceptional’ air attack on Kyiv… Ukraine Thwart.
- Breaking! Russian Strike On Ukrainian Ammo Depot Destroys Depleted Uranium Tank Shells
- Putting the Left in Checkmate: The Left’s Support for the Ukraine War Forces Them to Embrace Gun Rights
- Humiliation for Putin’s ‘Unstoppable’ Superweapons Blasted Out of Sky
GLOBALIZATION
IDENTITY
- Catholic university allows ‘transgender’ males to live in women’s residence halls
- 7 Brands Promoting Men in Dresses for Mother’s Day.
- WATCH: Miller Lite’s own woke ad goes viral amid Bud Light backlash
IMMIGRATION
- Ex-Obama, Biden Migration Adviser Amy Pope to Run U.N. Agency
- Rep. Tenney: Booting Homeless Vets to Accommodate Undocumented Migrants a ‘New, Shameful Low for Our Nation’
- Laredo Mayor: Abbott Busing Migrants to Dem Cities ‘Helps’ — Biden Should Have Made Policy Changes ‘a Long Time Ago’
- Six more NYC school gyms will house migrants, parents furious
- NYC Temporarily Halts Plan to House Illegals in Elementary School Gym
- NY Gov. Hochul announces EMERGENCY ORDER to deal with surge of illegals
- The Worldwide Great Replacement: UK Could See Over One Million Migrants This Year, Report Claims
- Smuggled Chinese Migrants Apprehended After Boat Landing on Florida Beach
- Judge: Biden Officials May Have Violated Order by Releasing 2,500 Illegals
LEGAL / CRIMINAL
- N.M. Gunman Who Killed 3 Fired at Random: Police
- Legal Experts: Emails Show Hunter Biden Broke the Law Peddling Influence While Joe Biden Was VP
- DNA Can Now Be Pulled From Thin Air – Privacy Fears
MEDIA
- According To MSM 90% Of Couples Are Mixed Race Or Gay
- Lawsuit Exposes How CCP Actively Uses TikTok To Target Americans
- American reporting on Biden scandals ‘has all the markings of a state media’
- How PR companies conspire with the mainstream media to push leftist propaganda
- Tom Hanks: I Will Star In Ai Movies After Death
MEDICAL
- Child denied transplant over vaccination status
- Texas Children’s Hospital Fires Physicians In Aftermath Of Project Veritas Exposé On Trans Care For Minors
- Dirty-bomb antidote: Drug trial begins in US
- OBGYN chief compared to ‘flat-earthers’ for saying abortion is ‘settled science’
VACCINE
- Media Mashup | The Unvaccinated will never forgive or forget
- WSJ now reporting on vaccine neurological side effects: Officials Neglect Covid Vaccines’ Side Effects
- Post-mortem on the C19 pandemic – 6 million avoidable C19 deaths plus 36 million vaxx deaths
- Child denied transplant over vaccination status
NATIONAL SECURITY
- Another Senior Officer Fired at One of the Army’s Most Troubled Bases
- Hundreds Of Fighting Age Chinese Males Are Entering The Country Each Week – We Have No Idea Why
POLITICAL
- Biden Nominates Fauci’s Replacement
- New DHS Training Videos Reveal How Far The Biden Administration Will Go To Eliminate Opposition
- Biden rule tells power plants to cut climate pollution by 90 percent — or shut down
- Whistleblower: IRS Removed ‘Entire Investigative Team’ from Hunter Biden Probe, per DOJ Request
- Secret Service totally changes its story on Biden’s visitors
- American reporting on Biden scandals ‘has all the markings of a state media’
- Matt Gaetz Calls For Defunding After NPR Affiliate Airs Louis Farrakhan Speeches
- By the Dems’ Own Standards, Biden Is a Traitor
- REPORT: Top German Newspaper Killed Major Corruption Story to Please Joe Biden
- Everything Democrats Do Blows Up In Their Own Faces
- Rural America dreams of secession in eastern Oregon
- Medicaid Expansion: Mississippi Hospital Association Donation to Democrat Gubernatorial Candidate Ruptures Group
- Lauren Boebert Pushes Repeal of Gun Controls Signed by Biden in 2022
- Legal Experts: Emails Show Hunter Biden Broke the Law Peddling Influence While Joe Biden Was VP
- The Gun Control Debate Ignores the Real Problems
PREPAREDNESS
- 3 Ways AI Is About Change the World (SPOILER: It’s NOT Good)
- 10 Myths About Storing Food In 5-Gallon Buckets
- Best Manual Hand Grain Mill Choices For Milling Wheat Into Flour
- Medical preparedness: Supplies to stock up on when preparing for nuclear war
- How to make homemade pepper spray for self-protection
- Maintenance Logs For Preppers
PRIVACY
- TSA Rolls Out Facial Recognition Technology Test at Major Airports
- DNA Can Now Be Pulled From Thin Air – Privacy Fears
SECOND AMENDMENT
- The Gun Control Debate Ignores the Real Problems
- Activists Cite ‘Homicide Rates’ to Avoid Gun Control Failures
- Lauren Boebert Pushes Repeal of Gun Controls Signed by Biden in 2022
- Putting the Left in Checkmate: The Left’s Support for the Ukraine War Forces Them to Embrace Gun Rights
- Stray bullet hits bass player in head as he performs on stage, Louisiana cops say
SOCIAL / CULTURE
SPACE
TECHNOLOGY
- TSA Rolls Out Facial Recognition Technology Test at Major Airports
- 3 Ways AI Is About Change the World (SPOILER: It’s NOT Good)
- MICROSOFT Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning
- Microbes that Digest Plastic at Low Temps Are Discovered in the Alps and the Arctic
- Tom Hanks: I Will Star In Ai Movies After Death
TERRORISM
WATER