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-Conversely, Asian markets were largely in the green all day, save for the Nikkei 225 which ended just barely in the red.

-Current bond yields:
--13-week: 4.2050
--5-year: 4.4280
--10-year: 4.6260
--30-year: 4.8480

-Most currency pairs versus the USD are moving in the thousandths, save for the USDJPY.

-BOJ decided to raise their rates from 0.25 to 0.5; the USDJPY is moving away from the “danger zone,” now at 155.92 (still not safe, but moving lower)

-As of this writing, BTC is at $104,839.47

Business:
-Pfizer will pay $59.7mm to resolve charges that a company it acquired paid “kickbacks” to doctors for them to prescribe the migraine drug Nurtec ODT.
finance.yahoo.com/news/pfizer-pa…

-Blackstone Energy Partners is buying a $1bn Virginia power plant (natural gas) near data centers, as reported by Reuters and shared by @chigrl :
x.com/chigrl/status/…

-Luxury brand Chanel is reportedly laying off 3% of its workforce to better adapt to economic challenges, per @MacroEdgeRes

-Bridgestone Americas will close a plant it has in Tennessee at the end of July, affecting 700 employees, per Macro Edge Research

-Santander (Bank) is considering exiting from Britain.

-Banks in Chicago (Pulaski) and Ohio (Butler Heritage Federal Credit Union) were taken over by regulators last week.

Health:
-I don’t think I mentioned this yesterday, but one of Trump’s Day 1 action items was to withdraw the USA from the WHO.
--Winning!

-Nearly 20 years after a medical study was published in journals (it has been cited 144 times) about phytoestrogens in postmenopausal women, one of the study’s authors has admitted that the study never actually took place:
retractionwatch.com/2025/01/24/pap…

Geopolitics:
-Electricity prices have surged again in Germany, now reaching over €200 per megawatt hour.

-Nigeria - the largest oil producer in Africa - joined BRICs last week.

Societal/legal/culture war
One of the more egregious of the political persecutions that took place under the Biden admin (and that’s a pretty high bar) has been dropped by the Trump admin DOJ.

Dr. Eithan Haim (@EithanHaim ) was a whistleblower at Texas Children’s Hospital, who sounded the alarm that the facility was breaking Texas law by performing gender transition surgeries on minors.
notthebee.com/article/breaki…

x.com/EithanHaim/sta…

Crazy Conspiracy:
People often think that I’m just pulling their leg or being hyperbolic when I tell them that US taxpayers are the ones funding the most radical leftwing groups, both here (domestic) and abroad.

I assure you, this is not the case. If you’ve ever actually looked into where the funding comes from for the many Soros NGOs, you’ll understand why I say this. Things that people claim Soros pays for are largely paid for by the US taxpayer via grants and some pretty complex funding mechanisms.

Don’t take my word for it; here are some examples (but there are many, many more) outlined by @pepesgrandma and @Breeauna9 :

x.com/pepesgrandma/s…

Macro takeaways/lessons from the week:
-Despite everything that we heard out of the media and DC over the past 4 years, it looks like Trump was able to get control over the border extremely quickly. As it turns out, you can just do things when you don’t ask Pat Cippilone for permission.

-Less than a week into the Trump admin and hostages are being returned by the Taliban, Hamas, and the Houthis seem to have dropped off the map. Walk softly and carry a big stick - it’s a thing.

-4 years of unrepentant activism by the Biden DOJ is being unwound across the board. From pro-life protestors to J6ers and whistleblowers, the unjust persecutions are being unwound.
--A reminder from last week’s meditation: “He who spares the wicked injures the good.” Let’s see if those lawfare activists end up facing any legal accountability for what they’ve done.

White pill(s) for the week:
Ladies and gents, the USA has borders again. That’s a pretty good start.

Weekend Meditation:
“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie.”
-Miyamoto Musashi

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-Conversely, Asian markets were largely in the green all day, save for the Nikkei 225 which ended just barely in the red.

-Current bond yields:
--13-week: 4.2050
--5-year: 4.4280
--10-year: 4.6260
--30-year: 4.8480

-Most currency pairs versus the USD are moving in the thousandths, save for the USDJPY.

-BOJ decided to raise their rates from 0.25 to 0.5; the USDJPY is moving away from the “danger zone,” now at 155.92 (still not safe, but moving lower)

-As of this writing, BTC is at $104,839.47

Business:
-Pfizer will pay $59.7mm to resolve charges that a company it acquired paid “kickbacks” to doctors for them to prescribe the migraine drug Nurtec ODT.
finance.yahoo.com/news/pfizer-pa…

-Blackstone Energy Partners is buying a $1bn Virginia power plant (natural gas) near data centers, as reported by Reuters and shared by @chigrl :
x.com/chigrl/status/…

-Luxury brand Chanel is reportedly laying off 3% of its workforce to better adapt to economic challenges, per @MacroEdgeRes

-Bridgestone Americas will close a plant it has in Tennessee at the end of July, affecting 700 employees, per Macro Edge Research

-Santander (Bank) is considering exiting from Britain.

-Banks in Chicago (Pulaski) and Ohio (Butler Heritage Federal Credit Union) were taken over by regulators last week.

Health:
-I don’t think I mentioned this yesterday, but one of Trump’s Day 1 action items was to withdraw the USA from the WHO.
--Winning!

-Nearly 20 years after a medical study was published in journals (it has been cited 144 times) about phytoestrogens in postmenopausal women, one of the study’s authors has admitted that the study never actually took place:
retractionwatch.com/2025/01/24/pap…

Geopolitics:
-Electricity prices have surged again in Germany, now reaching over €200 per megawatt hour.

-Nigeria - the largest oil producer in Africa - joined BRICs last week.

Societal/legal/culture war
One of the more egregious of the political persecutions that took place under the Biden admin (and that’s a pretty high bar) has been dropped by the Trump admin DOJ.

Dr. Eithan Haim (@EithanHaim ) was a whistleblower at Texas Children’s Hospital, who sounded the alarm that the facility was breaking Texas law by performing gender transition surgeries on minors.
notthebee.com/article/breaki…

x.com/EithanHaim/sta…

Crazy Conspiracy:
People often think that I’m just pulling their leg or being hyperbolic when I tell them that US taxpayers are the ones funding the most radical leftwing groups, both here (domestic) and abroad.

I assure you, this is not the case. If you’ve ever actually looked into where the funding comes from for the many Soros NGOs, you’ll understand why I say this. Things that people claim Soros pays for are largely paid for by the US taxpayer via grants and some pretty complex funding mechanisms.

Don’t take my word for it; here are some examples (but there are many, many more) outlined by @pepesgrandma and @Breeauna9 :

x.com/pepesgrandma/s…

Macro takeaways/lessons from the week:
-Despite everything that we heard out of the media and DC over the past 4 years, it looks like Trump was able to get control over the border extremely quickly. As it turns out, you can just do things when you don’t ask Pat Cippilone for permission.

-Less than a week into the Trump admin and hostages are being returned by the Taliban, Hamas, and the Houthis seem to have dropped off the map. Walk softly and carry a big stick - it’s a thing.

-4 years of unrepentant activism by the Biden DOJ is being unwound across the board. From pro-life protestors to J6ers and whistleblowers, the unjust persecutions are being unwound.
--A reminder from last week’s meditation: “He who spares the wicked injures the good.” Let’s see if those lawfare activists end up facing any legal accountability for what they’ve done.

White pill(s) for the week:
Ladies and gents, the USA has borders again. That’s a pretty good start.

Weekend Meditation:
“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie.”
-Miyamoto Musashi

BY 1st Amendment Praetorian