🇺🇸🏦 OUCH! US debt interest bill rockets past a cool $1tn a year. It’s 4% of annual US GDP. It has doubled in 19 months. It is equivalent to 16.3% of the entire Federal budget for fiscal year 2022.

📎 Holger Zschaepitz

🇺🇸🏦 Treasuries head for a third consecutive annual loss, per Bloomberg.

📎 Unusual Whales

🇺🇸🏦 Worse yet, the pace of inflation remains about twice as high as before Jan '21 and there's no signs of slowing w/ Treasury borrowing $500 billion this month alone - you ain't seen nothing yet...

📎 E.J. Antoni

🇺🇸🏦 Since the 2008 financial crisis, rules around the leverage ratio for banks changed, making them a lot less flexible in what they can purchase. Essentially, they have requirements for how much capital they must hold, and this limits their ability to swoop in as market makers in the Treasuries market.

He forecasts that the highs on the 10-year — it topped 5% in October for the first time since 2007 — are in for this year. But over the next five years, yields could easily rise above 6% to a rate that's too high, prompting the Fed to step in and set it at around 6%.

"I think what will happen is one day the market will have some kind of market crash, like the UK Gilt market crashed," Wang said. "The yields are going to spike really high, maybe 200, 300 basis points a day." Bond prices fall when their yields rise.

📎 Business Insider

🇺🇸📝 In 1985, the defecit in the USSR was 2% of GDP. By 1990, it had climbed to 10%, but Soviet bonds were still rated as strongly as Canadian or Italian bonds. In 1991, despite super majorities in nine of the 15 Republics voting to keep the USSR together under the auspices of the New Union Treaty, the defecit increased to 30% of GDP and the Union collapsed under the weight of mass inflation.

For those wondering where the United States currently is, it’s at about 8% of GDP and that’s without the widely expected Recession hitting yet.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️The Israeli army said Hamas had lost control of northern Gaza, and more than 50 thousand residents moved to the south of the enclave on Wednesday

🇮🇱❗️The Israeli Foreign Intelligence Service (Mossad), together with Brazilian intelligence services and international partners, helped prevent an attack on Brazilian territory planned by the Lebanese Hezbollah movement ordered and financed by Iran, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office said.

🇺🇲🇸🇾❗️The United States attacked a weapons depot in eastern Syria in response to shelling of its bases in Syria and Iraq

In response, the Iraqi Islamic Resistance fired rockets at American bases near oil and gas fields. According to Al Mayadeen TV channel, clashes occurred between Syrian and American military personnel. Around the same time, Israel launched airstrikes in southern Syria.

🇾🇪🇺🇲 The Yemeni Ansar Allah movement claims to have destroyed an American MQ-9 Reaper UAV with its air defense systems.

🤡 Journalist: “Biden accused the Russian government of genocide in Ukraine, but Israel, which he supports, killed more civilians in a month than died in Ukraine in two years. How do you explain this contradiction?”

State Department Spokesperson: "It is incredibly inappropriate to make such a comparison."

🇺🇲🇮🇱🇵🇸❗️The heads of the CIA and Mossad are discussing in Qatar the possibility of a 3-day humanitarian pause in Israeli actions to free 10-20 prisoners taken by Hamas - media

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Powerful fighting is taking place at this moment in Jenin on the West Bank.

🇺🇲🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡No chance of ceasefire in Gaza - Biden

🇮🇱🇵🇸❗️Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not agree with the proposal to establish a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip for a period of five days in exchange for the release of some of the hostages held by militants of the Palestinian radical Hamas movement, the British newspaper The Guardian reported, citing sources.

🇺🇲🇮🇱🇺🇦Biden will reject a possible US Congress bill to allocate aid only to Israel without funds for Ukraine - White House

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Hamas drone production discovered during an IDF raid.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡The Israeli Air Force attacked an Indonesian hospital in Bayt Lahiya, Gaza Strip.