🇺🇸 Pentagon Spent $93B in End-of-Year Budget Rush

In September 2025 the Pentagon spent a record $93.4B trying to use up its budget before the fiscal year ended.

US agencies often follow a “use it or lose it” rule. If allocated funds are not spent by year end, next year’s budget may be reduced.

Some notable purchases during the spending surge:

➡️ ~$15.1M on ribeye steaks
➡️ ~$6.9M on lobster tails
➡️ ~$2M on Alaskan king crab
➡️ ~$1M on salmon
➡️ $139K for ~272K donut orders
➡️ $124K on refrigerators
➡️ $225.6M on furniture
➡️ $5.3M on Apple devices
➡️ $4M on Samsung equipment
➡️ $98K for a Steinway grand piano
➡️ $26K for a violin

September is often the biggest spending month for US government agencies as departments rush to exhaust remaining budgets.

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📉 Volkswagen to Cut 50,000 Jobs

Volkswagen plans to eliminate around 50,000 jobs, about 17% of its German workforce, as profits fall to their lowest level in a decade.

The company’s profit dropped 44% last year and pressure is coming from several directions.

📊 Chinese EV makers like BYD are taking market share in China

📊 U.S. tariffs on imported cars are costing VW nearly €3B per year

📊 Rising energy and labor costs in Germany are forcing factory shutdowns

Europe’s largest automaker is now restructuring to stabilize its finances.

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⚡BREAKING: Iran announces that facilities associated with major US technology companies could become targets next.

They specifically note that Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Oracle, and Palantir are all potential targets across Israel, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi.

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🚨 US CPI inflation data drops in 20 minutes.

Buckle up.

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🇺🇸 US CPI data came in at 2.4%

Expectations: 2.4%

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⚡️ JUST IN: IEA agrees to release 400 million barrels of oil to counter Iran war supply disruption

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⚡️ JUST IN: Trump says the war with Iran will end soon because there is "practically nothing left to target."

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This is now the largest oil supply shock in history

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⚡️ JUST IN: FBI has warned police departments in California that Iran wants to retaliate for American attacks by launching offensive drones against the West Coast

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A profitable strategy is useless if your nervous system can't tolerate the uncertainty required to execute it.

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📉 Stocks May Have Topped for the 4-Year Cycle

There are signs the stock market could be approaching the top of its current 4-year cycle.

Early breakdown signals are appearing on the daily timeframe, though the weekly cycle has not confirmed a top yet, so it may still be early.

If a top forms here, the next cyclical bottom could come around October, likely resulting in a relatively mild cyclical bear phase.

Given strong AI investment and ongoing fiscal stimulus, such a pullback could simply act as a shakeout before a larger rally into 2027–2029.

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👾 Retired US General Linked to UFO Base Reported Missing

Days after Donald Trump ordered the release of classified UFO documents, a retired US Air Force general connected to long-standing UFO rumors has gone missing, according to CNN.

68-year-old Major General William Neil McCasland left his home on February 27 and has not been heard from since. Hundreds of volunteers joined search efforts but no trace has been found.

During his career he commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson base, a location often linked to claims that debris from the Roswell UFO incident was stored there. The Pentagon has always denied those claims.

After retiring, McCasland worked with To The Stars Inc., a company co-founded by Blink-182 musician Tom DeLonge that researches unidentified aerial phenomena.

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⚡️ JUST IN: Trump says “When oil prices rise, we make a lot of money.”

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Trump just signed a Cyber Strategy for America backed by a $15 billion Pentagon cyber budget

📊 Cloudflare: +25%
📊 CrowdStrike: +20%
📊 Palo Alto Networks: +12%
📊 SentinelOne: +9%
📊 Fortinet: +6%

🛍S&P 500: -2%
🛍Dow: -4%

Every major cybersecurity stock is green since the Iran war started

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⚡️ JUST IN: The Trump administration plans to suspend the Jones Act to help ease oil price pressures.

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🧠 Confidence in Trading Comes After the Work

Confidence follows action, not emotion. It comes from disciplined execution.

🕯 Outcome vs Behavior
New traders link confidence to wins or losses—but results are random. You control your behavior. True consistency means taking every valid setup, regardless of past trades. No reaction—just execution.

❓ Why Most Fail
They quit too soon. After losses, they alter rules, reduce size, or skip trades. This stops them from gathering enough data to trust their edge. Without repetition, confidence fades.

⭕️ The Confidence Loop
✅ Define a clear setup
✅ Risk a small, fixed amount
✅ Execute consistently
✅ Review execution—ignore P&L

Over time, the focus shifts from “Will this win?” to “Did I execute well?” That shift *is* confidence. It’s not about being right—it’s about consistency. Build it with repetition. Stay the course.

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The market pays you for patience.

Not for screen time.

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⚡️ JUST IN: Trump on regime of Iran: "Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today"

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⚠️ Robert Kiyosaki Warns of a Major Market Crash

“Rich Dad Poor Dad” author Robert Kiyosaki says the largest stock market crash in history may be approaching.

He believes the world will start feeling the unresolved consequences of the 2008 financial crisis in 2026.

To protect savings, he again recommends exposure to gold, silver, bitcoin and ethereum, as well as energy assets.

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⚡️ JUST IN: Jim Cramer believes we are in a 2007 market and is hinting at a 2008 Financial Crisis

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When you're an unemployed trader and someone asks where you get money from

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