Belarus Approves the Country's First Crypto Banks: Report
• Activist PostWhile not yet named, the crypto banks will start operations after obtaining accreditation from the National Bank of Belarus, Russian news agency Interfax reported Monday.
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BlackRock's Record Asset Holdings Are Half The Size Of US Economy
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenBlackRock ended the third quarter with $15.49 trillion in assets under management, a record, after $205 billion of net client inflows, according to its earnings release filed with the SEC on Oct. 14.
Wall Street Is Quietly Selling AI (And Nobody's Told You)
• Felix Nikolas Prehn - YouTubeGoldman Sachs And JPMorgan Arrange Five Billion AI Chip Loan Without Retaining Risk; Deconstructing Investment Banking Business Models: Upfront Fees vs Long-Term Risk; Offloading Balance Sheet Risk: How AI Chip Loans Are Transferred To Pension Funds
THE BOND MARKET IS BREAKING - Here's What Happens Next
• Felix Nikolas Prehn - YouTube
Bank Of America Fined $1.2 Billion For Failing To Report $5 Billion In Suspicious Transactions,...
• Zero Hedge...Including Chinese Money-Laundering Networks
Trump Just Started The Debt Spiral
• Andre Jikh - YouTube.com
GLOBAL BANK STOCKS ARE SELLING OFF. AND RISING BOND YIELDS ARE ADDING TO THE PRESSURE.
• LinkedinBanks hold government bonds. When yields rise, existing bond prices fall, putting pressure on the value of those holdings.
The Cayman Islands may be the unofficial largest holder of US Treasuries...
• Linkedin...and its exposure is growing at a record pace.
Rapid bond yield moves have preceded nearly every major financial blowup: Chart of the Day
• Yahoo FinanceThe risk around rising bond yields isn't just higher borrowing costs. It's what happens when yields move too far too fast.
THE LARGEST U.S. BANKS HAVE ENTERED CORRECTION TERRITORY.
• LinkedinIf banks continue falling while the S&P 500 reaches new highs, it could be an important warning sign for the broader market.
How to protect your 401(k) from an AI stock market crash...
• Daily Mail...as Wall Street analyst brands Anthropic's $2 trillion debut 'the most ridiculous IPO of 2026'
China's Central Bank Adds 23 Tonnes of Gold in September
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by GoldFixThe People's Bank of China added roughly 23 tonnes of gold to its official reserves in September, extending its buying streak to 23 consecutive months as the pace of reported purchases continued to accelerate.
France's Fiscal Wake-Up Call
• https://fee.org, Jake ScottParis cannot outsource fiscal discipline to Frankfurt.
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Program Date:Patrick Wood (Editor-In-Chief of Technocracy.News; Author of Technocracy Rising; Trilaterals over Washington) on his new book, Crucible of Tokens: Tokenization, Stablecoins, and the New Architecture of Global Banking. 'They take the deed and leave yo
China Shuts Record 670 Banks As Beijing Moves To Shore Up Financial System
• https://www.linkedin.com, Vincentius Liong/LeongChina is rapidly consolidating its banking industry as Beijing tries to strengthen the financial system amid mounting pressure on the world's second-largest economy.
Why banks and offshore hubs like Dubai are winners of the Senate killing the Clarity Act
• https://activistpost.com, Olivier AcunaOne expert believes that the failure to pass the bill is a win for the banks that staunchly oppose stablecoin yields, while a global crypto lawyer believes overseas jurisdictions benefit.
How an asset falls when everyone wants to own it
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Monetary MetalsIf an asset remains desirable, its long-term fundamentals remain intact, and investors still want to own it, shouldn't those qualities support its price?
Private Credit Investors Want Their Money Back… And It's Getting Worse
• Eurodollar University - YouTube.comBlue Owl is still getting hit with enormous redemption requests - even as the private-credit giant continues to insist that the underlying loans remain resilient. When investors repeatedly ask for their money back denials just doesn't work. Just lo
Japan Just Broke The French Bond Market
• LinkedinOne Tokyo fund (Sumitomo Mitsui DS) didn't trim exposure. It dumped every French government bond it held and rotated into German Bunds and short-term Japanese paper.
Shades of 1975
• LinkedinRising Treasury yields are putting the cost of long-term borrowing back in focus.
The Last Asset--You Will Own Nothing
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Wendy Williamson"Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning's light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, th
European Central Bank calls for merchants to participate in digital euro pilot
• https://activistpost.com, Olivier AcunaThe 12-month test will put a beta version of the central bank currency through online, mobile, in-store and peer-to-peer payments.
Goldman Sachs drops doomsday statement
• LinkedinU.S. bonds have no buyers
Behind the bond sell-off: 10 drivers of higher yields
• LinkedinDevelopments in the bond market deserve our full attention. Rising government bond yields affect far more than bond portfolios: they influence mortgages, business financing, equity valuations and the cost of servicing public debt.
Jobs Missed. Wages Stalled. Tariffs Failed. Bonds Fell Anyway.
• Peter Schiff - YouTube.comPeter Schiff on a 29,000 jobs miss, weak wage growth, a $132.6B trade deficit, Trump's inflation remark, and why bonds sold off anyway.
Mortgage Rates Have Largest Weekly Gain in Four Years
• https://mishtalk.com, By MishSince February, mortgage rates have surged from 6.00 percent to 7.54 percent.
The Bank That Runs the World - And Why You've Never Heard of It
• Redacted - YouTube.comThe Bank for International Settlements (BIS), a sovereign financial institution in Basel, Switzerland, was created after WWI to manage German war reparations. Founded by central bankers like Montagu Norman of the Bank of England and Hjalmar Schacht o
Coinbase and Better Mortgage Announce General Availability of Bitcoin-Backed Mortgages
• https://activistpost.com, Mathew Di SalvoThe announcement comes after Better and Coinbase debuted the first Bitcoin-backed loan in June.
Elon Musk Makes A Move On The Banks
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Jeffrey A. TuckerWhen Elon Musk took over Twitter, fired four out of five employees, and rebranded it X (just because he thought it sounded cool), the talking heads predicted doom for the company.
"De-Globalization Endgame": Deutsche Bank Warns Historic Copper Squeeze Could Ignite 50% R
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenLondon copper prices are near record highs at the start of the week, reinforcing the supercycle commodity bull-cycle thesis former Goldman Sachs commodities chief Jeff Currie outlined in August: "get long and buckle up."
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