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10.02.26 - 23:31
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US Consumer Debt Delinquencies Soar To Highest Since 2017 While Office Delinquencies Hit Record High (ZeroHedge)
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US Consumer Debt Delinquencies Soar To Highest Since 2017 While Office Delinquencies Hit Record High
It will come as a surprise to exactly nobody that the Fed's latest quarterly Household Debt and Credit report (for Q4 2025) reported total household debt balances increased by $191 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025, a 1% rise from 2025 Q3, to a new all-time high. Balances now stand at $18.8 trillion and have increased by $4.6 trillion since the end of 2019, just before the pandemic recession.
This is how various debt balances changed through the quarter:
Mortgage balances shown on consumer credit reports grew by $98 billion during the fourth quarter of 2025 and totaled $13.17 trillion at the end of December.
Balances on home equity lines of credit (HELOC) rose by $12 billion, the 15th consecutive quarterly increase.There is now $433 billion in outstanding HELOC balances, $116 billion above the low reached in 2022Q1. In total, non-housing balances increased by $81 billion, a 1.6% incr...
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10.02.26 - 23:31
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Trump Threatens To Send Second Carrier Near Iran (ZeroHedge)
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Trump Threatens To Send Second Carrier Near Iran
For the past week, the Pentagon's ongoing military build-up in the Middle East has grabbed world headlines amid fears President Trump is ready to do another Venezuela - but this time targeting a much bigger and more formidable country and its army - the Islamic Republic of Iran.
US officials have lately made clear that Trump favors a negotiated solution where the Iranians would give up their nuclear program, dilute enrichment, as well as significantly curb their long and medium-range ballistic missile arsenal.
But already by Tuesday, Trump himself is waving the big stick again, threatening to deploy a second aircraft carrier near Iran if Oman talks don't bear fruit.
The president told Axios in a newly published interview:
"We have an armada that is heading there and another one might be going," Trump said, adding that he's "thinking" about sending another aircraft carrier strike group.
Two carriers would definitely signa...
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10.02.26 - 23:31
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"Largest Act Of Deregulation In US History": Trump Admin To Repeal Obama-Era Greenhouse Gas Finding (ZeroHedge)
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"Largest Act Of Deregulation In US History": Trump Admin To Repeal Obama-Era Greenhouse Gas Finding
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is about to pull the rug from underneath climate regulation...
The EPA, under Lee Zeldin, plans to revoke the 2009 "endangerment finding", an Obama-era determination that six greenhouse gases “threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations” and that has anchored federal climate regulation under the Clean Air Act, according to a new Wall Street Journal report.
Bloomberg reported that the repeal could be announced as soon as Wednesday, citing an unnamed source.
Repealing the Obama-era climate finding would strip away the legal foundation for federal greenhouse gas regulation, which has been nothing more than toxic and degrowth for the economy, while China and India expanded coal-fired generation to power manufacturing hubs.
"This amounts to the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United S...
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10.02.26 - 23:15
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Trump erwägt weitere Flotte Richtung Iran zu senden (DPA-AFX)
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WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - US-Präsident Donald Trump erwägt im Konflikt mit dem Iran einem Medienbericht zufolge einen weiteren Flugzeugträger in die Region zu senden. "Wir haben eine Flotte, die unterwegs ist, und eine weitere könnte folgen", zitierte das ......
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10.02.26 - 22:54
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The $10 Trillion Fight: Modeling a US-China War Over Taiwan (Bloomberg)
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The island at the center of the artificial intelligence boom—and increasingly the global economy—lies on geological and geopolitical fault lines. Taiwan, the producer of most of the world's advanced semiconductors, faces intensifying pressure from mainland China and growing uncertainty about US support. War doesn't appear imminent. If it were to erupt, though, the shock to the global economy would be seismic....
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10.02.26 - 22:30
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United States Antimony Corporation Announces New Joint Venture With Americas Gold and Silver (Bloomberg)
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Gary Evans, Chairman and CEO of United States Antimony, and Paul Andre Huet, Chairman & CEO of America's Gold & Silver Corporation, join Bloomberg Businessweek to discuss the companies' plans to work jointly on a state-of-the-art Hydromet processing facility to produce high-grade critical minerals at an increased rate. As well as how US startups and venture investors are eager to reap the benefits of the Trump administration's planned $12 billion initiative to stockpile critical minerals, which provides another national security-driven lifeline to green tech. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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