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13 local governments have been audited in Florida and $1.97 billion in wasteful spending and fraud has been identified:

City of Jacksonville: $199M
Hillsborough Co: $278M
Broward Co: $189M
Manatee Co: $112M
City of St. Pete: $49M
Palm Beach Co: $344M
Miami-Dade Co: $302M
Alachua Co: $84M
City of Miami: $94M
Orange Co: $190M
Seminole Co: $48M
City of Orlando: $22M
Nassau Co: $53M

Just imagine the amount of money being stolen from taxpayers nationwide!

- Illuminatibot

https://x.com/i/status/2043463952244584863

☝️@MarioNawfal
🚨🇺🇸 Remember credit default swaps? The thing that blew up the world in 2008?

They were so dangerous regulators spent years trying to rein them in.
Wall Street just brought them back for a new sector.
S&P Dow Jones is launching a credit default swap index tied to 25 North American financial firms, including giants like Blackstone, Ares Capital and Apollo.
Major banks start selling it next week.
Here's why it matters: private credit has been on shaky ground.
Investors are pulling money out at an accelerating pace over fears that AI is going to gut the software companies these funds have been lending to.
A CDS index means hedge funds can now short the entire sector in one trade.
This should sound familiar. Credit default swaps were at the center of the 2008 financial crisis.
Banks used them to hedge risk on mortgage debt that was already rotting from the inside.
The instruments didn't contain the damage. They amplified it.
Private credit is a different sector and the scale is smaller.
But the pattern is the same: rapid expansion, first real stress test, and Wall Street's answer is to build new derivatives around it.

kristen shaughnessy
@kshaughnessy2
After Hyping Private Credit, Big Banks Are Now Exposing The Risks

“..The launch of CDX Financials is not just a market event—it is a transparency event…

The market is finally putting a price on the risk that participants were forced to bear in the dark.

And once risk is priced… liability is not far behind….”

“…Critically, the index includes names central to the retirement system:
•Apollo Global Management (via Athene / Apollo Debt Solutions)
•Lincoln National Corporation
•Prudential Financial
•American International Group
•MetLife…”
https://commonsense401kproject.com/2026/04/12/cdx-financials-launch-the-daily-pricing-revolution-that-exposes-annuity-risk
Apr 10
After the Private Credit Hype, Banks Start Handing Out the Bullets

“…The banks are working with S&P Global to launch an index of credit-default swaps that would protect buyers against defaults by companies included in the index, called CDX Financials.

Private-credit funds x.com/kshaughnessy2/…
Apr 12, 2026

🌐 THE $9.6 TRILLION TREASURY MATURITY WALL: How the 2026 Debt Cliff, the $39T U.S. Debt Crisis, & the $1.2T Interest Expense Guarantees a Massive Repricing of Hard Assets!

The U.S. is approaching a major “Treasury maturity wall” in 2026, where roughly $8–$9.6 trillion in government debt will need to be rolled over or refinanced, much of it issued during the 2020–2021 period at near-zero interest rates. Now, with rates significantly higher, refinancing that debt will dramatically increase borrowing costs and accelerate fiscal pressure on the federal budget.

At the same time, annual interest payments on U.S. debt have already surged past $1.2 trillion, consuming about 23% of total tax revenue and on track to become the largest government expense. This creates a compounding problem, as old debt is refinanced at higher rates, interest costs rise further, forcing even more borrowing and expanding deficits.

The article’s core argument is that this situation leaves policymakers with limited options. Without significantly lower interest rates, the debt burden becomes increasingly unsustainable, leading to growing pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut rates or indirectly monetize the debt. The author suggests this dynamic will likely result in currency debasement and increased money creation as a way to manage the debt load.

From an investment perspective, the article frames this as highly bullish for hard assets like gold and silver, arguing that large-scale debt monetization and declining real interest rates historically drive capital into tangible stores of value.

➡️ Debt monetization refers to situations where government borrowing is effectively funded or supported by central bank-created money rather than purely by private investors. In practice, this most commonly happens when the Federal Reserve buys U.S. Treasury bonds in the open market through quantitative easing, the government issues debt, investors initially purchase it, and then the Fed later buys those bonds using newly created bank reserves, which increases liquidity and expands the money supply. It can also occur more indirectly when the Fed keeps interest rates artificially low or acts as a backstop during periods of stress, encouraging continued Treasury issuance and reducing market pressure on government borrowing costs. In more extreme cases, known as fiscal dominance, monetary policy becomes subordinated to government financing needs because markets cannot absorb all debt issuance without higher yields, effectively forcing the central bank to prioritize funding stability over inflation control. Additional indirect channels include the banking system, where banks purchase Treasuries while relying on Fed-provided reserves or liquidity support, and yield curve control, where the central bank explicitly caps bond yields and creates money as needed to maintain those limits.

https://metalsandminers.substack.com/p/the-96-trillion-treasury-maturityhttps://metalsandminers.substack.com/p/the-96-trillion-treasury-maturity

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