Money & Markets Report: May 22, 2025
Money & Markets
The Big Downgrade
In this episode, John and Catherine dive into the significant long-term shifts in the financial markets, with a particular focus on Moody’s downgrade of the US’s AAA rating, marking the last of the major rating agencies to do so. They explore how this downgrade impacts the US economy, including its effects on household budgets and the shift towards a multipolar world in fixed income and equity markets.
They also delve into Donald Trump’s recent trip to the Middle East, highlighting the controversial multi-billion dollar tech deals made with Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar. They go into the implications of these deals on the merger of corporate and state powers and how they contribute to building a global control grid.
Additionally, they discuss various global political and economic issues, including the US’s involvement in the Yemen conflict and the rising cost of living for the average American. We also explore the developments in the bond market, credit card ownership, and the growing influence of stablecoins in the global financial system. Join us for an in-depth analysis of these crucial topics and more.
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The universe is most friendly when the world is incurious. We all have to make a living to survive.
Moreover, I’ve been interested in what it means to be an ‘unincorporated’ city/municipality/etc. Do public services in these jurisdictions have more sovereignty than the others?
Also, Ive learned Texas can seemingly enforce independent authority by splitting into 5 states with 2 senators each. Given the sociopolitical distress of modern day America (free speech is ‘triggering’) why doesn’t Texas act like the maverick administrative entity we all imagine it to be?
I launched a website two years ago approximately.
I’m ashamed of it, and presume I must be such a good doctor they don’t even want me to have a website.
Worst case I’ll hand out contracts in the street.
Del Bigtree has been talking about the digital control grid lately. Are we slowly making progress?
As a Canadian, I’ve lost my state of amusement. PM Carnage is refusing to table a budget, is wanting to tax your property on its future worth, and is otherwise speeding up the 2030 agenda. The talk of Alberta separatism is heating up.
I watched “All Quiet on the Western Front” a few days ago. I don’t know if it’s a Movie of the Week pick, but it should be. Watching that movie really drove home how PM Carnage is continuing the legacy of the financing of WWI, WWII etc….
Something is up in the “Peoples'” “Republic” of China, news & views J.P. Farrell.
https://gizadeathstar.com/2025/05/news-and-views-from-the-nefarium-may-22-2025/
Not sure how new this news is. I heard the story of the rocket force command being deposed a year or so ago.
Of the more recent purges – the Hu Jintao was maybe the most significant. (https://youtu.be/QtpGkgabpcU) A year later, there was the death of the head of the Shanghai syndicate.
Anytime you hear of “anti-corruption” in China, it is a purge.
They had a similar purge of top military brass 6 or so years ago as well. This almost always due to so lack of readiness to attack Taiwan.
When I was in Beijing in 2019, I was at a briefing by a top lawyer who lived and worked there who basically stated that Xi’s deal with other top party leaders to make him the long term head was that he promised everyone that he would retake Taiwan. So anytime there is delay or lack of readiness in this regard heads roll.
Interesting, I did not know. Still, a country to watch closely.
This is so frustrating. We are losing. We’ve been losing for over 40 years. No one is talking about how Corporate bought out the majority of their US labor and installed foreign workers – and not even for less expense, mind you – which destroyed the US tax base contributing to the deficit and destroying any growth, or cannibalizing it. Then, there was the role of corporations limiting job tenure to ~5 years with new grad (the new generation ruse), while increasing the education requirements to obtain, or maintain, employment, while at the same time, increasing the cost of tuition. And the universities, government, and corporations KNEW they wouldn’t be hiring US citizens!!!
Yet the US Government was lending them money knowing they’d never be employed. It’s financial terrorism and financial rape of the citizens by their own Government. Isn’t that a form of collusion on the part of the US Government and the Universities?
I get inundated by foreigners who have job requirements in the US with our own Federal, State, and Municipal governments. Should those companies be considered foreign agents? This was ALL planned for decades. Yet, people are shocked.
Of course if you are filling your corporate offices with foreign labor and paying a foreign company, the money is leaving your country and you are not adding to the local tax base! I mean, they’re shifting labor costs from the Income Statement to the Balance Sheet by outsourcing their labor to foreign entities.
And these private equity firms buy all of these privately owned schools to get Federal funding. Ugh! There’s no incentive to educate the students. No incentive to have them finish. The incentive is to keep them in school and create new degrees and new requirement, like a Bachelor of Science in Business Analysis. Or needing a PNP when someone has a 4-year or 6-year degree in Business!
We are losing. We’ve already lost. This was, and is, a planned destruction. The wheels fell off the bus decades ago. It’s been a slow, long, methodical kill.
Now I’m fuming. :/
In the 1960’s we went to JFK to pick up my father who was arriving from Europe. I remember him being really upset saying JFK was like ‘the 3rd world.’ I had no idea what he meant as I was probably only 8 years old. Now so know. That was in the 1960’s!! It tells me how unaware we are about our destruction. Another controlled demolition.
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I am touched and inspired by your dedication to the path of service to others and I feel your exhaustion and discouragement at the enormity of what we face, individually and collectively.
Prayers for us to stand in our NO to this insanity….every step/breath we take is a point of choice.
excellent point! Thanks.