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This comes as ~33% of globally traded fertilizers pass through the Strait of Hormuz, which remains effectively closed.

This includes 23% of global ammonia, 34% of urea, the world's most widely used nitrogen fertilizer, and nearly 20% of global phosphate supply.

Furthermore, the Bloomberg Agriculture Subindex has increased ~9% since the Iran war.

The index tracks the futures prices of key agricultural commodities, including wheat, corn, soybeans, sugar, coffee, and cotton.

In the past, world fertilizer prices have acted as a leading indicator for agricultural output prices, as rising production costs eventually force farmers to reduce supply, pushing crop prices higher.

A new wave of global food inflation is imminent.

B...b...but muh realtor said that once inventory appeared, all that pent-up demand rushing in from the sidelines would cause a Spring Miracle Revival! She lied, it seems, and now the FOMO lemmings are about to become cautionary tales.

NBC reports Annie Benjamin’s insurer, PHL, owned by private equity, collapsed in 2024 after risky investments and shady reinsurance deals.

Her account is now frozen, and 100,000 policyholders may only get back 34-57% of what they’re owed

State regulators missed, or approved,the red flags.

“The failure of PHL is the perfect example of what happens when an insurance company hides a black hole on its balance sheet,” said Thomas Gober, a former examiner for the Mississippi Insurance Department….

“Once you can finally see it, the hole has gotten so big that it’s too late.”…

“The regulators are not just a little bit wrong,” said Larry Rybka, founder of registered investment adviser Valmark Financial Group in Ohio. “They are so far off that it’s catastrophic.”….”

Converting our increasingly debauched FedBux into REAL money - physical precious metals - are literally the 99 percents’ only defense against the Fed’s fiat currency fraud.

The real cratering hasn’t even started yet, but it’s coming.

This chart is basically a loaded gun that just went off. Every hedge fund, pension, and bank that borrowed in yen for 30 years is now sitting at their desk praying this line stops moving. The “Yen carry trade” was a surefire way to game the markets, until it wasn’t.

Heckova job, “Zimbabwe Ben” Bernanke, Yellen the Felon, & BlackRock Jay!

This was originally posted to r/economy, another sub I grace with my presence. Homeowners are going to be low-hanging fruit for the tax man as the takers overwhelm the makers & vote themselves benefits that someone else, i.e. the productive will be coercively forced to fund.

The math ain’t mathing, greedhead sellers, as the “cost of living crisis” due to the Fed’s debasement of the currency compounded by the staggering costs of Trump’s military misadventure in Iran are crushing would-be homebuyers.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, greedhead sellers, but your delusional wish price on your shack is going to be a casualty of the massive economic consequences of endless neocon wars.

If tapped-out Murican debt donkeys can’t afford their car payments, how will they keep up with their mortgages & rents?

Most gold miners have costs around $1,500 to $2,000 per oz ... and they are selling gold at $4,500 per oz. The silver miners have costs between $15 to $25 per oz and they are selling silver at $75 to $80 per oz. 

As America’s largest foreign creditor for years, China’s pullback removes a major buyer of U.S. debt. That can push Treasury yields higher, raising borrowing costs for the U.S. government, mortgages, and businesses.

The Fed can’t print hamburger.