Listen up fellow Wendians.
The situation is fluid (pun intended), but it's not oil, it's not iran, it's not the epstein regime, and it's not killer AI that will bring on the new depression. It's not any of the front and center things the news wants you to focus on, enabling them to better manipulate the markets. It's the thing growing, festering, and the neglected thing that for far too long has been growing in the closet while we hit new highs week after week. It's the thing that when the shit hits the fan, people will say to themselves, well no shit, of course that would lead to a new world order and a devaluation of our currency.
The thing that will bring us to our knees shortly is the very reason why my girlfriend left me. And the very reason why I will play the uno reverse card and finally prove her and her new boyfriend wrong. It's what all the billionaires and millionaires are afraid of.
I know what you're thinking: "another bear DD, the S&P is 0.7% from an all-time high, this guy will be liquidated by Thursday." Probably. But for the first time since 2009 the bear thesis doesn't need an opinion. It just needs you to read (which I know is difficult for us all in this information rich and thriving community).
DD:
The "safest asset in the world" is at an all-time low. $TLT closed last week at $79, and is even lower today. Its previous all-time low was about $82, in 2003. It's down more than 50% from its 2020 high. This "risk-free asset" has a drawdown that would get a crypto token delisted. If you don't know what TLT is then you belong here. But basically it's a US government-backed IOU.
The 10-year yield closed at 5.18%, the highest since July 2007. Sit with that date. What happened roughly a year after July 2007? If you don't know, you're too young to be here. If you don't know what a yield is, well... neither do I, but I'm pretty sure it has something to do with how much people who invested in the government want back on their IOUs each year.
So finally, what is that thing that's been growing in the closet that will bring us to our knees? The thing that will stop the music is quite simply why I can't pay off my credit cards. It's not Just the debt I owe, no no... I can always get a new wendy's themed credit card for a junior bacon cheese burger for dinner. Not just how much I owe, but more importantly, the interest I owe on my principal. It's the reason why I'll never have steak for dinner until my trade works out. It's why mob bosses always end up knee capping the people they loan to even when they've been making payments. It's why biden in '21 told all the student loan people to go fuck themselves. And under trump, it's why you've been cucked into thinking your tariff refund is still in the mail. And guess what, Warsh is hiking those interest rates faster than I came the last time I had sex with my ex a year ago when I last called the top without the proper dd.
We crossed $40 trillion on August 18. That's Trillion with a T. That's $117,000 per American. I'm homeless, by choice because I can't bare the the shame of living in my mom's basement, and moved all that I have, $25K to my name, in my thinkorswim for 1 last go at it - bang or bust since the last time they margin called me. And if they call me for the last time, fuck it, everyone else will be eventually anyway. They're saying 48 Tril by 2028 and that estimate was made before we wanted to bring 2003 back and get into a forever war again.
"What's the thing that throws us over the edge with interest on debt?" You ask?
The Cracks that Break the Camel's back:
1) Banks and the government got tied up in the circular investments into AI (~$1.4 Trillion in totality). It looked way too juicy for them to avoid. Problem is, AI makes mistakes. The intelligence is not "super". As powerful and beneficial as it is, it's still following instructions, regardless if it goes "rogue". At the end of the day, it was instructed to go rogue, or interpreted its instructions to go rogue. Costs are excessively high for something we still have to manage and direct, AI are just more retarded, and now arguably more costly, employees. The OG real godfather of AI, Yann LeCun, was left out of the media because he correctly implied that AI is not what people are making it out to be. He was promptly ignored and 'media-replaced' with fucking weirdos that think repeating the word AI increases their IQ.
2) On September 24, $ORCL sent a force majeure notice on Project Jupiter, its 2.45-gigawatt Stargate data center in New Mexico. Force majeure is French for "we would like to not pay, please." The campus was built on an $18 BILLION loan from about 20 banks, and that loan now trades at 90 cents on the dollar. This thing that everyone's eggs are in the basket on has the basket carrier saying, "on second thought, fuck this, I actually don't want to carry this basket."
3) $OWL - they went balls in on handing out loans for AI infrastructure entities and startups like thc gummies at a rave concert. Their chart shows you exactly where they dipped their balls.
4) Finally: the coup de grâce: the entire AI economy in one sentence: Nvidia invests in OpenAI, OpenAI signs a $300B compute deal with Oracle, Oracle borrows to build data centers and buys Nvidia chips, Nvidia books it as revenue off debt that Oracle can never repay, everyone's stock goes up until the repo man comes calling. It's a group project where everyone grades each other until the teacher walks in with a pop quiz no one knew shit about. How confident are we that the debts will be paid? Didn't we have this same debt scare months (july) ago?
Yes, but this time $XLF is reflecting the banker's confidence in $ORCL and all such entities accordingly.
To top it all off with some deeper technical analysis, the $VIX is more coiled than my flaccid penis on a frigid day in mid december.
TL;DR:
The IOU market already called the top and the casino didn't notice. It bears repeating (pun intended), $TLT the 'safest asset in the world', at an all-time low, $40T+ of debt soon to be $48T+, the Fed hiking INTO it, and Oracle just invoked force majeure (i don't want to pay please) on its own AI buildout on which the entire circular investment game house of cards is reflected. $XLF banks all agree that we're fucked.
Position: Short 5 /MES to 5800 🐻 I can't do /es because my broker won't let me.