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.]
September is National Preparedness Month
AI
ANTS RISING
- Hollywood Writers Strike Could Be Over As Soon As Today
- Reuters/Ipsos Poll: 59 Percent Support Auto, Hollywood Strikes
- Leave Our Kids Alone: Canadians Stage ‘1 Million March 4 Children’ Protests Across Canada
- LGBTQ Blues: When the Slaves Revolt on the Democratic Plantation
- Thousands Join Anti-globalism Protests in Prague
- DEALING: Hollywood CEOs Take Over Union Talks… Developing
CENSORSHIP
CYBER
ECONOMIC
- FOMC Leaves Rates Unchanged, Signals Much More Hawkish 2024
- US Weekly Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Fall
- Fed’s Dots Imply Highest Treasury Yields Since 2000
- An Offshore Bank Account Can Make All the Difference in the World
- De-dollarization drive is spreading wider – Indonesia is the latest nation to buck the USD
- Mexico overtakes China as leading exporter to USA
- Banks Borrowed Another $2.2 Billion from Bank Bailout Program in August
- FedNow Goes Live, Paving The Way To A Central Bank Digital Currency
- First Bob Ross TV painting, completed in a half an hour, goes on sale for nearly $10 million
- Target’s Lobbyists Don’t Want You to Know About This Bill – This proposed legislation would dismantle the current payments system by implementing new credit card routing regulations. The bill gives the government broad power to control how your credit card payments are processed, replacing the current, free-market system. Big-box stores like Walmart and Target are in favor of it because it forces financial institutions to hand over technology for free, upending the current system using the power of government.
- Some Countries Are Already Talking About Walking Back Fossil Fuel Car Bans
EDUCATION(AL)
- Law School Accreditor Considers New Academic Freedom Standard
- America in the Age of ‘Retcon’
- Girl Celebrating 7th Birthday Finds 2.95-Carat Diamond in State Park
- Guinean cycles across six countries for spot at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University
- British Medical Council Erases the Word ‘Mother’.
- Schools Purging All Books from Before 2008 to Guarantee Inclusivity
ELECTION
- Kari Lake to Launch AZ Senate Bid.
- Pennsylvania Just Made Voter Registration Automatic. What Could Go Wrong?
- Poll: America Agrees – A Vote for President Biden Is a Vote for President Harris
ELECTRIC VEHICLES (EV)
- ‘Union Joe’ Biden Teamed Up With GM Chief To Push a Transition to Electric Vehicles. It Could Come Back to Haunt Them.
- Ford Has Lost an Astonishing Amount of Money on Electric Vehicles
- Burning issue: Toronto landlord prohibits “potential fire hazard” personal EVs on property; tenants’ rights advocates outraged
- How France aims to discourage buying of Chinese EVs
- China’s Nio launches smartphone developed to use with its electric cars
- Some Countries Are Already Talking About Walking Back Fossil Fuel Car Bans
ENVIRONMENT / CLIMATE
- Biden: U.S. must ‘accelerate climate crisis,’ announces new climate army
- California is engaged in the world’s largest dam removal project in hopes of letting nature rebound
- World’s largest companies stall climate action despite promises
- The waning Sun instantly flushes climate alarmists’ claims of never-ending rising temperatures down the pan
- Things Are Heating Up: CBS, OKCupid Agree ‘Climate Change’ Is Make or Break for Dating
FOOD
GEO-POLITICAL
- China’s Fighter Jets Aren’t Just Flying Around Taiwan. They’re Practicing
- USA Sends Drone Ships to Western Pacific
- Syria On The Verge Of Collapse?
- Bigger, heavier, faster: China rolls out military upgrades
- War with Russia to massacre 50,000 Americans every two weeks, with forced conscription of young Americans now inevitable, warns US Army War College
- De-dollarization drive is spreading wider – Indonesia is the latest nation to buck the USD
- G20 endorses “digital public infrastructure” that pushes digital currencies – something most Americans oppose
- Saudi To Go Nuclear If Iran Does
- Mexico on track to have its first Jewish, female president
- Israelis should carry guns on Yom Kippur, police say
- Canada reduces diplomatic staff in India, citing threats as rift deepens
- Some Countries Are Already Talking About Walking Back Fossil Fuel Car Bans
- British Medical Council Erases the Word ‘Mother’
- Majority of Canadians believe there are only two genders, poll finds
UKRAINE
- McCarthy Blocks Zelensky From Delivering Joint Address to Congress
- Video Leak: Arrested child trafficker admits to boarding school used as front for organ harvesting network in Ukraine
- Ukraine plans to ban select Polish vegetables and fruits
- Poland Stops Giving Ukraine Weapons Amid Dispute
- Thousands Of Armenians Rush To Airport, Fearing Genocide, As Ceasefire Announced In Nagorno-Karabakh
- Kyiv warns of ‘difficult’ winter as Russia hits Ukraine cities
GLOBALIZATION
- FedNow Goes Live, Paving The Way To A Central Bank Digital Currency
- This Is The Worst Global Food Crisis In Modern History, And It Is About To Go To An Entirely New Level
IDENTITY
IMMIGRATION
- Biden Grants Quasi-Amnesty to 470,000 More Venezuelan Migrants
- Migrants Rush Asylum Office in Southern Mexico as Thousands Wait in Line
- Replacements: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul plans to issue work permits for illegal immigrants
- Lawmakers aim to put price tag on ‘financial costs of Mayorkas’ open border’
- ‘The fix is in’: U.S. city plans to grant illegals the right to vote
- Staten Island Residents Are Fed Up With Immigration Chaos, Block Buses Full of Illegal Aliens
- Here We Go Again: Thousands of Illegals Gather Under Texas Bridge as Eagle Pass “Under Siege”
- 7K Migrants Cross into One Texas Border Town in 72 Hours
- 25 governors demand transparency from Biden on border crisis
- Denver Has Spent Nearly $25 Million Housing Migrants Amid Biden’s Border Crisis
- Frontex: Only 8% of EU’s illegal migrants were women last year
- Hotels for UK Boat Migrants Now Cost $10 Million a Day.
LEGAL / CRIMINAL
- First Day of Illinois Cashless Bail System Delivers ‘Absurd,’ ‘Incoherent’ Results
- Who Could Have Seen This Coming? All Over America, Blue Cities Are Facing A Severe Shortage Of Police Officers
- Flash Mob Robberies Are Changing the Way America Does Business
- Shock Video: Man Carjacked at Gunpoint on Busy Chicago Street
- Sacramento’s Democrat District Attorney Sues Democrat-Controlled City Over Failure to Deal with Homeless Crisis
- Israelis should carry guns on Yom Kippur, police say
- 96-year-old federal judge barred from hearing cases…Bitter fight over mental fitness
MEDIA
MEDICAL
- Third of Children Put on Puberty Blockers Saw Mental Health ‘Reliably Deteriorate’, UK Researchers Find
- Erasing women: British General Medical Council (GMC) scrubs “mother” from all internal policies – only gender-neutral “parent” references allowed
Coronavirus-19
- COVID Cases Keep Going Up As Variants Appear To Be “Very Transmissible”
- Biden Restarts Website to Order Free COVID Tests
VACCINE
NATIONAL SECURITY
- Meet the Gerald R. Ford-class Aircraft Carrier: The Biggest and Most Expensive Warship Ever
- America’s “Woke” Military on Track to Lose Another Major War
- War with Russia to massacre 50,000 Americans every two weeks, with forced conscription of young Americans now inevitable, warns US Army War College
- ‘Possible’ for F-35 Jets to Be Vulnerable to Cyberthreat
- Lasers that shoot down drones from armored trucks to be used by Army for first time
POLICE STATE
POLITICAL
- McCarthy Blocks Zelensky From Delivering Joint Address to Congress
- Fetterman Presides Over Senate Wearing Short-Sleeve Shirt And Shorts
- Nearly 3/4 of Americans Believe The Country is Becoming a Police State
- Almost as Soon as It Began, Seattle Pulls Plug on Initiative to End Homelessness
- Biden: U.S. must ‘accelerate climate crisis,’ announces new climate army
- House Committee Reveals 22 Examples of Biden’s Corruption after Media Cries there’s ‘No Evidence’
- Who Could Have Seen This Coming? All Over America, Blue Cities Are Facing A Severe Shortage Of Police Officers
- With half of Miami’s elected officials under investigation, the city’s history is repeating
- 96-year-old federal judge barred from hearing cases…Bitter fight over mental fitness
- Target’s Lobbyists Don’t Want You to Know About This Bill – This proposed legislation would dismantle the current payments system by implementing new credit card routing regulations. The bill gives the government broad power to control how your credit card payments are processed, replacing the current, free-market system. Big-box stores like Walmart and Target are in favor of it because it forces financial institutions to hand over technology for free, upending the current system using the power of government.
- Biden Issues Executive Order to Hold Norfolk Southern Accountable 7 Months After East Palestine Disaster
- Leading Abortion Group Drops ‘Pro-Choice’ from Official Name
POWER GRID
PREPAREDNESS
- How to Become Invisible to FEMA in a Crisis
- 20 Long-Lasting Foods That Can Make Hundreds of Meals
- 6 Budget-Friendly Prepper Items You Need To Buy in September
- Best Keychain Flashlight Ever!
- Could A HEMP Attack Bring The End For The United States?
- Raising Prepared Kids: Homeschooling with a Focus on Survival Skills
- 39 Apple Cider Vinegar Uses
- The Value Of Visibility: Considering The Color Of Critical Kit
SOCIAL / CULTURE
- Only 1 in 4 Say Parenthood, Marriage Are Crucial for Fulfilling Life
- Things Are Heating Up: CBS, OKCupid Agree ‘Climate Change’ Is Make or Break for Dating
SPACE
- He should’ve returned to Earth months ago. Instead, he broke NASA record
- NASA’s New ShadowCam Reveals Mysteries of Moon’s Darkest Corners in Stunning Glimpses
- The waning Sun instantly flushes climate alarmists’ claims of never-ending rising temperatures down the pan
WOKE
