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# ![@kshaughnessy2 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::22259843.png) @kshaughnessy2 kristen shaughnessy

FINRA, a financial regulator, has been accused of secretly operating an offshore fund in the Cayman Islands for senior executives, raising concerns about its neutrality and accountability. This has sparked outrage, with many questioning why FINRA hasn't addressed the issue and why politicians haven't demanded answers. The revelation has significant implications for the financial industry, particularly regarding regulatory oversight and potential conflicts of interest.

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### Social Influence

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[finance](/list/finance)  #3065 [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  #1883 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [exchanges](/list/exchanges)  XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  XXXX% [vc firms](/list/vc-firms)  XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[bank](/topic/bank) 7.82%, [debt](/topic/debt) #1275, [money](/topic/money) #2807, [commercial real estate](/topic/commercial-real-estate) #7, [stocks](/topic/stocks) #684, [at least](/topic/at-least) #214, [silver](/topic/silver) #1947, [wall street](/topic/wall-street) #476, [private equity](/topic/private-equity) #141, [investment](/topic/investment) #1026

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**Top assets mentioned**
[JPMorgan Chase (JPM)](/topic/jpmorgan-chase) [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Credit Suisse Group (CS)](/topic/credit-suisse) [Strategy (MSTR)](/topic/$mstr) [GameStop, Corp. (GME)](/topic/$gme) [Carvana Co. (CVNA)](/topic/$cvna) [Apollo Global Management, Inc. (APO)](/topic/$apo) [HSBC Holdings PLC (HSBC)](/topic/$hsbc) [BlackRock Inc (BLK)](/topic/blackrock) [NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA)](/topic/$nvda) [Blackstone, Inc. (BX)](/topic/blackstone-inc) [501 (32)](/topic/$32) [IBM (IBM)](/topic/ibm) [UBS Group AG (UBS)](/topic/$ubs) [Monsta Infinite (MONI)](/topic/$moni) [Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB)](/topic/fifth-third-bancorp) [Banc of California, Inc. (BANC)](/topic/$banc)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Three Big Wall Street Players Reportedly Get Wiped Out in Private Equity Toilet Deal Bloomberg reports Platinum Equity bought United Site Services in a leveraged buyout loaded it with debt stripped hundreds of millions in dividends then handed the keys to lenders when rates spiked and construction slowed. .Fortress Investment Group Ares Management Corp. and Blackstone Inc. are among the money managers set to lose a combined $XXX billion on United Site Services Inc. as Platinum prepares to hand control of the company to lenders according to people with knowledge of the matter who asked not to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1993937896462524790)  2025-11-27T07:00Z 30.5K followers, 49.7K engagements


"Michael Burry on why he stopped managing his hedge fund: 'I think the stock market could be in for a number of bad years.' " I think that we're in a bad situation in the stock market. I think the stock market could be in for a number of bad years" he said. Burry noted that much money is now passively invested. "In the United States I think when the market goes down it's not like in 2000 where there was a bunch of stocks that were being ignored and they'll come up even if the Nasdaq crashes. Now I think the whole thing's just going to come down. And it would be very hard to be in a long stocks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996277400754368574)  2025-12-03T17:56Z 30.5K followers, 58.3K engagements


"Are Regulators Encouraging Banks to Give Riskier Loans Even the analysts are saying what are regulators doing here The @FT reports that US regulators just killed a rule that stopped big banks from making super-risky loans to private equity firms. Now banks can go head-to-head with private equity again The Financial Times reports US Regulators removed the main speed bump the X leverage guideline that kept big banks from flooding private equity with cheap risky debt. . Analysts say the regulatory change will prompt banks to do more leveraged lending and could lead to higher defaults in the next"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1997203684602593631)  2025-12-06T07:17Z 30.5K followers, 2768 engagements


"SEC Harms Investors And Undermines Rule Of Law In De Facto Killing Short Selling Disclosure Rule Investors markets and policy makers suffer from having far too little information about the short selling activities of financial firms like hedge funds and securities lenders. Thats why the SEC adopted important rules to require the disclosure of such information which would greatly benefit all investors .this is nothing more than a thinly disguised attempt by the SEC to kill these rules. Thats likely because this is the second time the SEC has extended the compliance dates for these rules"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1997391877931212971)  2025-12-06T19:45Z 30.5K followers, 17K engagements


"Data Center Glitch & Technical Issues Otherwise known as we cant deliver the physical silver because we sold silver we dont have Live trading of commodities futures and options on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was halted due to technical issues"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1994295875846218224)  2025-11-28T06:42Z 30.5K followers, 119.3K engagements


"Wow- the @SECGov kicks the can for short reporting to 2028 Regulators are so afraid to hold financial firms accountable that they wont even require them to report their short positions @rrr1sr @FlyEaglesFly529 @Hamnakedshorts @potus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996385738011938839)  2025-12-04T01:07Z 30.5K followers, 55.5K engagements


"Tricolor Creditors Allege JPMorgan and Fifth Third Knew About the Loan Fraud and Saved Themselves First Investors owed $XXX million accuse JPMorgan Chase and Fifth Third of learning about Tricolors loan fraud early shielding themselves and screwing over everyone else . They want a judge to investigate exactly what the banks knew and when. The group of noteholders asking for the probe called a Rule 2004 investigation includes Ellington Management Group and XXX Capital Management. The company provided auto financing for risky customers who lacked credit history or Social Security numbers. It"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1997255449171673466)  2025-12-06T10:43Z 30.5K followers, 23.9K engagements


"Willow Wealth Investors Lose $XXX Million in Deals Gone Bad CNBC reports Willow Wealth which used to be called Yieldstreet lost at least $XXX million on bad real estate and boat loans. CNBC says the company lost another $XX million last week on failed apartment projects in Houston and Nashville some tied to ex-WeWork boss Adam Neumann. The company changed its name as the losses piled up and took down its old performance numbers. Are they hoping no one would notice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1997597505886834866)  2025-12-07T09:22Z 30.5K followers, 12.1K engagements


"There are many more loans coming due over next two years. Sales of distressed commercial real estate in the United States reached $XXXXX billion in the first three quarters of 2025 marking a X% increase from the same time last year according to CoStar data. The latest numbers still dont come close to the peak of $XX billion in the first three quarters of 2011 in the wake of the Great Recession. And investors are anticipating that the worst of the current situation from a fundamentals and pricing standpoint is likely in the rearview mirror said Chad Littell national director of U.S. capital"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998167709196890441)  2025-12-08T23:08Z 30.5K followers, 2671 engagements


"$CVNA Which financial institutions are at risk At this point it is fair to ask ourselves which financial institution is on the hook in case of a Carvana sudden collapse. From Carvanas disclosures we know for sure that Ally Financial is on the hook for $XXX billion. However considering the total volume of finance receivables sold is over $X billion it is fair to assume that more financial institutions are exposed to Carvana and we know that frequent partners of its securitization business are the likes of Wells Fargo Bank of America Citigroup and Jefferies. I believe there is no more doubt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1984025026719342630)  2025-10-30T22:30Z 30.5K followers, 19.6K engagements


"Private Credits Push Into Japan private credit assets under management in Japan will likely grow by about XX% over the next three years hitting $XXXX billion according to fintech firm Broadridge Financial Solutions. That figure refers to direct lending but excludes real estate and infrastructure. Top Nonbanks Leading Japans Private Credit Push Apollo Global Management KKR & Co. Ares Management Goldman Sachs Asset Management Blue Owl Capital Oaktree Capital Management But Japan sees the risky loans in the U.S. and is moving cautiously. (Japan has enough issues with some of its larger banks) US"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1986366493869634002)  2025-11-06T09:34Z 30.5K followers, 2868 engagements


"Tyson Foods the largest meat supplier in the United States is shutting down a Nebraska beef-processing plant that employs more than 3000 people just months after the company rewarded shareholders by boosting its dividend and ramping up stock buybacks. The company said late last week that its decision to shutter the Lexington Nebraska plant and scale back shifts at its Amarillo Texas facility is designed to right size its beef business and position it for long-term success even as beef prices are close to record highs. The Wall Street Journal reported that Tyson and other meatpackers which are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1993048448380043524)  2025-11-24T20:05Z 30.5K followers, 5506 engagements


"@FlyEaglesFly529 @business"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1993323946788225153)  2025-11-25T14:20Z 30.5K followers, XXX engagements


"It's not just Evergrande and Country Garden - Vanke is also struggling with big debt ( the long term impact is why I have posted for years about the U.S. Commercial Real Estate Crisis) China Vankes $1.66B Loss in the First Half Signals Deepening Real Estate Crisis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1959964514427818466)  2025-08-25T13:02Z 30.5K followers, 13K engagements


"China's Commercial Real Estate Crisis Worsens Developer Country Garden Reports a $XXX Billion Loss for first half of the year ".The Foshan-based developer reported a loss of XXXXX billion yuan ($2.7 billion) for the six months ended June XX according to an exchange filing on Friday. While the loss is within the range it flagged last week its XX% more than a year earlier. .With a housing slump deepening in July Chinas more-than four-year-old property crisis has hit debt-laden builders like Country Garden particularly hard. The dismal financial results also come as the defaulter is seeking to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1961569849395781696)  2025-08-29T23:21Z 30.5K followers, 8714 engagements


"A Very Expensive Financial Reset for Developer Country Garden as Chinas Commercial Real Estate Crisis Continues A debt restructuring plan is expected to be voted on today. Bloomberg reports creditors will get back 10-22% back which is painful but better than XX% in a liquidation. Country Garden would cuts $XX billion in debt. Creditors can pick cash (10% back) shares or long-term loans and get 1022% recovery. The plan keeps the company alive for a 2026 rebound. Country Garden defaulted in 2023 and worked with creditors for the last two years. Another big developer Evergrande was ordered to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1986017573524152459)  2025-11-05T10:27Z 30.5K followers, 11.3K engagements


"Liquidators of China Evergrande Group are asking a Hong Kong court to freeze all assets of the former chief executive officers ex-wife He Kun as part of their efforts to recover $X billion in funds for creditors. Theres already an injunction on some of He Kuns assets including property and motor vehicles valued at an estimated $XX million but liquidators are looking to extend that to cover her liquid assets as well. Nearly two years after Evergrande was liquidated in one of the worlds biggest corporate implosions the quest to recoup assets to repay creditors is still dragging on. Liquidators"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1992646722854568048)  2025-11-23T17:29Z 30.5K followers, 21.4K engagements


"Finally more people are doing the math IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs IBM's CEO walked through some napkin math on data centersand said that there's "no way" to turn a profit at current costs. $X trillion of CapEx means you need roughly $XXX billion of profit just to pay for the interest" Arvind Krishna told "Decoder.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1995917747549610273)  2025-12-02T18:07Z 30.5K followers, 151.1K engagements


"WARNING: #JPM bought time $JPM kicked the SILVER can to March 2026 Courtesy - @BullionaireBob"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996538346081079751)  2025-12-04T11:13Z 30.5K followers, 123.8K engagements


"Remember when Citadel argued against that Payment for Order Flow (pioneered by Bernie Madoff) should be banned Citadel said PFOF creates serious conflicts of interest and should be banned. Citadel also said internalization without meaningful price improvement reduces competition limits price discovery leads to market fragmentation and should be banned Even Citadel knows PFOF gives market makers a ridiculously unfair advantage. Thats why when they didnt have access to it they wanted PFOF banned. Ban PFOF @POTUS @FlyEaglesFly529 @Hamnakedshorts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996683037535621359)  2025-12-04T20:48Z 30.5K followers, 12.8K engagements


"Billionaires running for the exits of private equity. And when private equity catches a cold Main Street could be hit with a bad case of the flu. UBS Group AGs billionaire clients are planning to curb allocations to private equity funds amid a global slowdown in the market thats left many buyout firms struggling to raise new cash. Almost a third of XX individuals commanding 10-figure fortunes surveyed by UBS are looking to cut contributions to private equity vehicles over the next XX months the highest decrease of more than a dozen investment topics cited in the lenders Billionaire Ambitions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996771515711307810)  2025-12-05T02:40Z 30.5K followers, 16.6K engagements


"Chinese Builder Country Garden Gets Approval for Domestic Offshore Debt Restructuring Amid Big Management Shakeup US firms reportedly had significant exposure to Country Gardens $XX Billion in offshore debt. So this deal is a painful haircut but better than nothing. Yicai reports Chinese creditors agreed to rework about $X billion of local loans and a Hong Kong court approved a $XXXX billion overseas debt plan. These deals should help restore homebuyers and suppliers confidence by wiping out more than $XXXX billion in debt over the next few years @yicaiglobalCN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996900084382912922)  2025-12-05T11:10Z 30.5K followers, 3719 engagements


"And the SEC just gave naked shorts (counterfeit shares) cover for two more years. (See @Hamnakedshorts post below) The SEC pushed short reporting until at least 2028. CEO's of a publicly traded co's need to reach out to @SECPaulSAtkins directly to voice their concern over the SEC continuing to protect the identities of short sellers over X% Here's a template of a letter. Takes 5mins @FlyEaglesFly529 @SECGov @POTUS @timburchett @realannapaulina @anna_trades @kimkep4796"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996939348898369607)  2025-12-05T13:46Z 30.5K followers, 24.4K engagements


"JPMorgans Jamie Dimon Fires Back at Devin Nunes The CEO of JPMorgan Chase has taken the head of Donald Trumps media company to task for claiming the lender debanked the firm under political pressure from the Joe Biden administration. People have to grow up here okay and stop making up things Jamie Dimon told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News Sunday Morning Futures. We just became a public company in 2024 and we were nowhere around in 2021 on January 6th Nunes told Fox. So why would Trump Media be subpoenaed at that time during this investigation It doesnt make any sense. We need to know why that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1997810387840802994)  2025-12-07T23:28Z 30.5K followers, 10.5K engagements


"Why would any small company go public after seeing how the stock of other small public companies is blatantly manipulated. Todays examples: $CETX traded its float 183X Monday XXX Times -Float is 740000 Share -136000000 Shares Traded Monday 12/8/25 $CETX absolutely getting wash traded @SECEnfDirector. _____________ $JFBR traded its float 24X Monday. -Float is 665000 Shares -More than 16000000 Shares traded Monday 12/8/25 ________ And then there is $SMX below which we have pointed out several times this year to the @SECGov @SECEnfDirector (See @FlyEaglesFly529 post below)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998221380731466182)  2025-12-09T02:41Z 30.5K followers, 10.3K engagements


"3 years ago @FINRA unexpectedly halted trading in $MMTLP It remains a crime scene frozen in time. The shareholders and executives who still arent allowed access to their investment have turned into a relentless group of citizen journalists demanding answers. Politicians and regulators turn and run the other way when confronted. Now thanks to FOIA releases and some extraordinarily persistent shareholders the real story is emerging and the official version is about to look very stupid very fast. What comes next will make a lot of very comfortable people very uncomfortable. Some very polished"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998328412474146905)  2025-12-09T09:46Z 30.5K followers, 22.5K engagements


"The Dark Money Podcast "Event Horizon" S2E10 Video #1 The Dark Money podcast had a forensic analysis done of former SEC Chairman Gary Genslers body language when he was asked directly about $MMTLP and acted like he was vaguely aware (emails and FOIAs reveal he was very aware) Video#2 The forensic analysis says Gensler was using high level evasion and calculated deflection to stay inside a neither confirm nor denyposture on $MMTLP and the blue sheet data (3 years later regulators still have investors money locked up) Courtesy: @f1finra @Stef_carpedm @Caveatlector12 @XsyLocke"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998358594081726493)  2025-12-09T11:46Z 30.5K followers, 9696 engagements


"No kidding. Weve been reporting this for how long Hedge funds and the media encouraged heavy bets on the same handful of winners. Its all good until the music stops. Hedge funds are swimming in the deep end of the pool this year according to J.P. Morgan Asset Managements Michael Cembalest who pointed out several warning signs to consider when looking at the sector. In a recent review of alternative investments he said these funds are showing record levels of crowding concentration and high beta exposure. Leverage by some estimates has also skyrocketed.. Cembalest noted that the average hedge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998376813295284671)  2025-12-09T12:58Z 30.5K followers, 5098 engagements


"What could possibly go wrong Banks just got the green light to play crypto matchmaker. They can charge a fee for instantly matching a $BTC buyer and seller - without ever actually touching or owning the Bitcoin. And they dont lose money if the price tanks. Its worked so well in stocks Courtesy @McSqueezyTheCow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998442272292057187)  2025-12-09T17:19Z 30.5K followers, 6276 engagements


"From F- Face to $12M Payday: Trader Wins Monster Bonus Battle It's not polite or right to disparage people for their irregular thought processes but in closed emails some have been known to refer to portfolio managersin hedge funds as "talented weirdos." They are not always easy to deal with. Robert "Gags" Gagliardi a block trading specialist may not be weird but he seems to have the potential to be both very annoying and very capable. Gagliardi annoyed his previous boss so much that the Financial Times reports that this boss suggested assigning him the title of "Fuck face." During a court"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998479287125471403)  2025-12-09T19:46Z 30.5K followers, 1822 engagements


"The banks' fight against lighter capital reserve requirements is working. Expected to be pushed off until after the election if it happens at all Is anyone wondering how this will work out for taxpayers "A commitment by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to revise capital requirements for the U.S.'s largest banks will likely delay any changes until after the fall election season analysts at TD Cowen said. Meanwhile bank stocks gained Monday after Bloomberg News reported that the U.S. Federal Reserve is circulating a lighter version of its proposed capital requirements that have drawn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1805708376090800214)  2024-06-25T21:03Z 30.5K followers, 15K engagements


"Misreported up to XX Billion Short Sales "Misreported" is not the word I would use. Also - How many shares where in each of those trades Which stocks were impacted "Australia's corporate regulator sued top investment bank Macquarie Group alleging it misreported up to XXX billion short sales over a decade and a half misleading the market and violating rules in place since the financial crisis. .After the financial crisis Australia made it compulsory for fund managers to report short-selling trades - where an investor makes a profit when a stock price falls - to improve transparency and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1922597747691057474)  2025-05-14T10:19Z 30.5K followers, 42.3K engagements


""HSBC Holdings Plcs Swiss private bank is being investigated by local and French law enforcement agencies over its involvement in alleged money laundering the bank said in a statement. Switzerlands financial regulator last year announced that it had found that HSBCs private bank had failed to carry out adequate checks on high-risk accounts owned by politically-exposed persons designed to prevent money laundering. At the time Finma said it had found serious violations of the law related to a total of more than $XXX million of transactions carried out between 2002 and 2015.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1950441914265710683)  2025-07-30T06:22Z 30.5K followers, 7571 engagements


"Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky Must Report To Prison by Friday Afternoon "Alex Mashinsky co-founder and former chief executive of collapsed crypto lender Celsius Network is due to surrender to federal authorities on Friday to begin serving a 15-year prison sentence for fraud. Court documents from the Southern District of New York require Mashinsky to report to the Federal Prison Camp in Otisville by X p.m. ET. The minimum-security facility XX miles north of New York City is known for housing white-collar offenders including former New York Senate leader Dean Skelos and Donald Trumps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1965293067386159273)  2025-09-09T05:55Z 30.5K followers, 5956 engagements


"$MONI this is interesting "Moon Equity Holdings' Subsidiary IndeXr Launches 5X Energy-Efficient AI-as-a-Service Private Cloud" ".the new service combines rapid deployment with exceptional energy efficiency to help organizations run modern AI workloads while cutting power cooling and space requirements. IndeXr holds a Master Reseller partnership with SoftIron and can white-label the solution for enterprises government service providers and public-sector customers." @FlyEaglesFly529 @BAMinvestor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1975940044394295354)  2025-10-08T15:03Z 30.5K followers, 2097 engagements


"Julius Baer Group Takes Another Big Financial Hit "Julius Baer Group Ltd. was a key lender to German real estate group Degag Kapital GmbH which collapsed last year owing almost XX million ($58 million) to the Swiss firm Handelsblatt reported. .The amount exceeds the record profit Julius Baer attained from its German business in 2023 Handelsblatt said. .The collapse of Rene Benkos Signa Holding GmbH in late 2023 forced Julius Baer to write off $XXX million in loans the following year.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1977751904923824416)  2025-10-13T15:02Z 30.5K followers, 9775 engagements


"$800 Million Loan Default Expected NYC's Commercial Real Estate Crisis ".A 27-story tower just steps from Central Park is headed to special servicing after losing hundreds of millions of dollars in value in a recent appraisal. Vornado Realty Trust andOxford Properties the real estate arm ofthe Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System own the 595K SF office and retail building at XXX Madison Ave. The joint venture requested thatthe $800MCMBSloan tied to the building be transferred to a special servicer citing imminent monetary default as the cause according to a Morningstar Credit alert.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1978642071406751872)  2025-10-16T02:00Z 30.5K followers, 26.7K engagements


""Fifth Third could face $200M in Tricolor losses" "Tricolor Holdings chaotic collapse and potential double-pledging of autos to creditors sent Fifth Third Bancorp executives on a house-to-house search through its loan collateral for other discrepancies. They did find more two to be exact out of 120000 vehicles. Were tracking those two exceptions down Greg Schroeck the banks chief credit officer." @AutoFinanceNews"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1979263433024340402)  2025-10-17T19:09Z 30.5K followers, 25.6K engagements


"A look under the hood of risky loans . "- A little-known California real estate investor behind bad loans disclosed by Zions Bancorp and Western Alliance also faces lawsuits by Banc of California and two other lenders with his involvement in troubled debt totaling around $XXX million court filings show. In separate actions between April and August Banc of California Enterprise Bank & Trust and Nano Banc sued the investor Andrew Stupin seeking to collect on loans worth a combined $XXX million.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1980454274380509582)  2025-10-21T02:01Z 30.5K followers, 18.3K engagements


"Banks fight subpoena for extensive records An attorney representing American Express Capital One Citizens Bank Citibank M&T Bank Webster Bank KeyBank and Santander Bank filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in Hartford earlier this month lookingto block subpoenas issued bythe Office of the Attorney General. On Oct. X the AG's office issued a series of subpoenas seeking "extensive banking records and financial data" from Jan. X 2018 to the present according to the lawsuit. The subpoenas requested financial records bank statements cancelled checks signature cards evidence of transfers loan and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1981680104326459807)  2025-10-24T11:12Z 30.5K followers, 61.9K engagements


"HSBCs Commercial Real Estate Pressure HSBC Holdings Plc the largest bank in Hong Kong warned that the citys commercial property sector continues to face downward pressure after bad loan provisions jumped this year. The bank posted about $XXX million of charges related to the commercial real estate sector during the first nine months up from just $XXX million in the year-earlier period"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1983246947935793422)  2025-10-28T18:58Z 30.5K followers, 13K engagements


"Santander Bank UK Delays Q3 Results Because of Car Loan Scandal Santander UK wont share Q3 numbers because it is waiting for rules on paying back car loan customers. UK banks (including Santander) sold millions of car loans with hidden high commissions. Customers unknowingly paid way too much interest and the FCA may force banks to refund the extra interest + X% compensation on every bad loan since 2007. Thats why results are on hold until Q4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1983478508983632085)  2025-10-29T10:18Z 30.5K followers, 53.6K engagements


"Another isolated credit event. Good find by @UnicusResearch Thanks @BayMitford for the heads up Irvine Calif.-based auto finance company Bayside Credit is no longer originating auto loans representatives for the company confirmed to Auto Finance News today. The company which largely targets subprime consumers stopped originating auto loans in July due to economic conditions company employees confirmed to AFN. @AutoFinanceNews"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1985078257717289107)  2025-11-02T20:15Z 30.5K followers, 36.8K engagements


"$ORCL Oracle is rattling credit markets. The companys default risk has surged as its credit-default swaps (CDS) the cost of insuring its debt spiked to their highest level in two years. Traders say the signal is clear: investors are growing uneasy about Oracles massive AI-driven borrowing spree. .Analysts project Oracles net adjusted debt could soar to about $XXX billion by 2028 up from roughly $XXX billion today. Thats a near tripling of debt in just a few years. Oracle default fears surge as credit swaps spike to 2-year high - is AI taking its toll @EconomicTimes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1985500632456053182)  2025-11-04T00:13Z 30.5K followers, 20.3K engagements


"let me translate that. Theyre doing the same bs they did in 2007. These small rating agency firms in order to be more competitive theyre just giving out good ratings without really looking. Rubber stamping this sh-t Triple A selling it to your retirement portfolio because if they dont someone else is going to do it. Its exactly that scene with the lady in the obnoxious glasses from The Big Short . @JG_Nuke Always appreciated his posts - and now realize I was late to the NobodySpecialFinance podcast party but if you are late as well check it out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1985833087201169549)  2025-11-04T22:14Z 30.5K followers, 53.3K engagements


"One valuation metric popularized by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller the cyclically adjusted price/earnings ratio has surged to levels seen only once before during the dot-com boom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1987507515542663388)  2025-11-09T13:08Z 30.5K followers, 6679 engagements


"Tricolor's Frantic End Was Sparked by a Phone Call From JPMorgan . the hole in Tricolors finances was far too large to patch up. No one on Wall Street certainly not Dimon was interested in dangling Chu a rescue line. The remains of his empire an array of dealerships and warehouses some 70000 auto loans and a fleet of old often repossessed and dilapidated Chevy Malibus Ford Escapes and Nissan Altimas would be sold off to pay creditors back at least a fraction of the more than $X billion theyre owed. Markets shudder when entities start to fail said Kathleen Engel a law professor at Suffolk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1987874208278348009)  2025-11-10T13:25Z 30.5K followers, 26.5K engagements


"Another isolated event About a month ago BlackRock Inc. deemed the private debt it had extended to Renovo Home Partners a struggling home improvement company to be worth XXX cents on the dollar. As of last week the firm had a new assessment: zero. The drastic revision comes as Dallas-based Renovo a roll-up of regional kitchen and bathroom remodeling businesses created by private equity firm Audax Group in 2022 abruptly filed for bankruptcy last week indicating it plans to shut down. BlackRock held the majority of Renovos roughly $XXX million of private debt while Apollo Global Management"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1987904047605494084)  2025-11-10T15:23Z 30.5K followers, 326.4K engagements


"Another Citadel Executive Is Out Laura Sterner resigned as Citadel's head of BD for Global Equities after two months on the job. Her exit follows recent departures and ongoing turnover in Citadel's BD team"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1988015385078362435)  2025-11-10T22:46Z 30.5K followers, 100.7K engagements


"$FRMI the company's latest headache appears to be with bringing potential tenants to the table for signing formal lease agreements. While Fermi did not name the prospective tenant it described it as an investment grade-rated corporation with power needs and which has signed a letter of intent for a 20-year term plus four additional five year blocks in addition to advancing $XXX million for the purpose of beginning some construction. Investors are concerned with the 21-day delay in signing on the tenant but management argues that the delay is not a sign of cold feet and instead point to the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1988510477991694753)  2025-11-12T07:33Z 30.5K followers, 5952 engagements


"UBS better reveal all those Credit Suisse secrets locked up for XX years. what are the true liabilities _________ October 2023 Credit Suisse sign has been taken down. But many of us will be dead before we know what the investigation revealed. Results have been sealed for XX years - they must have found some real shady stuff. _________ May 2024 When regulators start saying the quiet part out loud. They seem very worried about a UBS collapse What kind of Credit Suisse secrets. that are being kept from the public for XX years. did UBS acquire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1990414233243197681)  2025-11-17T13:38Z 30.5K followers, 26.2K engagements


"How Private Equity Got Its Hands on Billions in Americans Retirement Money Apollo Global Management reinvented how pensions could be managed and paid out by taking them over and moving the risks offshore. Other firms have followed suit and ushered hundreds of billions of dollars in American retirement savings into accounts that retirees and economists say are exposed to higher risk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1990877224073896241)  2025-11-18T20:18Z 30.5K followers, 20.5K engagements


"American Signature files Chapter XX bankruptcy In its Nov. XX filing made in United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware the company listed liabilities ranging from more than $XXX million to $X billion and assets of just over $XXX million to $XXX million. The filing lists $80250676 in claims from the top XX unsecured creditors in the bankruptcy. The filing also listed between 1000 and 5000 creditors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1992712325237809217)  2025-11-23T21:50Z 30.5K followers, 89.4K engagements


"$JPM When you start looking back ________ February 2025 However the FT said JPMorgan Chase the largest lender in the country listed all of the $XXX billion it had lent to non-banks as other in a report filed with the FDIC rather than breaking these loans down by types of borrowers. The $XXX billion figure the report noted is greater than the total loans of all but a handful of the countrys biggest banks _____ February 2025 ".JP Morgan Securities inaccurately reported approximately 820000 short interest positions involving approximately XX BILLION shares." and it took FINRA XX years to hand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1992785390965604555)  2025-11-24T02:40Z 30.5K followers, 13.4K engagements


"Julius Baer Slumps After Profit Warning $XXX Million Provision Julius Baer Group Ltd. shares fell almost X% after the Zurich bank said full-year profit for 2025 will be lower than last year and booked a XXX million Swiss franc ($186 million) loss provision on real estate lending. After writing off $XXX million in loans when Benkos conglomerate unraveled in late 2023 Baer shut down its private-debt business and has been winding down its private-debt loan book. Mondays release signaled that the bank is making progress on controlling costs with the adjusted cost-income ratio at XX% down from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1992917936789434433)  2025-11-24T11:27Z 30.5K followers, 5053 engagements


"China Property Crisis Thrust Back Into Spotlight by Vanke Plunge Chinas property market is bracing for a worsening crisis at state-backed China Vanke Co. as the builder struggles to convince investors it can avoid default in the months ahead without clearer signs of government support. Vankes woes spotlight the broader challenges facing Chinese policymakers as they balance efforts to revive a housing market stung by record builder defaults while trying to avoid getting mired in rescuing individual firms. If Vankes bonds default at this time it would undermine the effectiveness of government"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1993669816331149473)  2025-11-26T13:14Z 30.5K followers, 10K engagements


"UBS credit funds could face XX% write-down due to First Brands Handelsblatt reports Which means investors in these funds could lose at least XX% of their money. UBS could mark down credit funds managed by its O'Connor hedge fund unit by over XX% following the bankruptcy of U.S. auto parts supplier First Brands German business paper Handelsblatt reported on Wednesday citing sources. UBS said earlier this month it was winding down investment funds run by its hedge fund unit O'Connor with the majority of assets expected to be monetised by year-end"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1993941276639527336)  2025-11-27T07:13Z 30.5K followers, 27.3K engagements


"@DarioCpx About those Credit Suisse secrets locked up for XX years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1994297341717737651)  2025-11-28T06:48Z 30.5K followers, 1530 engagements


"This article by @Nasdaq about the alleged market manipulation in $QNTM is so disingenuous It completely ignores the part of the @CTV and @BNNBloomberg reports about how difficult @Nasdaq and other U.S. exchanges make it very difficult for companies to get trading information. This is from the Nasdaq article: According to CTV News investors like Atul Dhadwal who committed $300000 to the company saw their holdings lose XX% of their value. Quantum alleged this collapse was not due to science but to "spoofing" tactics on Canadian exchanges a form of market manipulation where traders place and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1994378503777595689)  2025-11-28T12:11Z 30.5K followers, 13.7K engagements


"Ken Griffin Dumps Chicago Penthouses at XX% Loss But instead we get the headline below as the media tries to put a positive spin on Griffins $XX Million loss Its not until the fourth paragraph this article dares mentions Griffins loss Interestingly he sold two of these units for a total of $XX million recently. Cook County records indicate he acquired these two units in 2017 for approximately $XX million meaning the sale represented about a XX percent loss on that specific transaction. A Citadel spokesperson Zia Ahmed put this loss into perspective back in October noting that While the value"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1994456868404568430)  2025-11-28T17:22Z 30.5K followers, 129.3K engagements


"This @WSJ article doesnt question whether CME servers were shut down for hours to buy time and ease the pressure on financial institutions as silver prices spiked The article doesnt question whether brokers have sold a lot more silver than they can deliver Instead it quotes Georgetown Professor James J. Angel who works closely with regulators and co-holds patents on dark pools and order-routing systems used by market makers like Citadel and Virtu for off-exchange execution and payment for order flow. The Journal also doesnt point out similar accusations were made when Robinhood pulled the buy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1994732114428797404)  2025-11-29T11:36Z 30.5K followers, 68.8K engagements


"The new head of the Bank for International Settlements urges regulators to put limits on hedge fund borrowing. Pablo Hernndez de Cos points to the skyrocketing government debt which he says could reach XXX% of GDP in advanced economies by 2050. He cautions allowing hedge funds to borrow unlimited amounts is like handing out free gasoline at a bonfire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1994843050892296548)  2025-11-29T18:57Z 30.5K followers, 11.1K engagements


"Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $XXX billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims. David Gentile XX a onetime resident of Nassau County N.Y. had reported to prison on Nov. XX and was released on Wednesday according to Bureau of Prisons records and a White House official who was not authorized to discuss the matter. Mr. Gentile and a co-defendant Jeffry Schneider were convicted in August 2024 of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1995100424559292642)  2025-11-30T11:59Z 30.5K followers, 19.9K engagements


"Worth the listen if youve been following the CME data center cooling issue excuse bs Youre normally cool calm and collected what it comes to these big moves in the marketIm getting a very different sense from you today What is it that you saw that has you so spooked about the metals market today "  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1995202087374746030)  2025-11-30T18:43Z 30.5K followers, 15.2K engagements


"SoftBank Founder says People who talk about a bubble around AI investment are not smart enough SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son said he wouldnt have sold off Nvidia Corp. shares if his company had unlimited money to bankroll its next investments in artificial intelligence which include a big bet on OpenAI. Son addressing for the first time the surprise November disclosure that SoftBank had unloaded its entire stake in the worlds most valuable company also slammed talk of an AI investment bubble. The Japanese company simply needed to raise capital to fund projects including data"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1995464425931780553)  2025-12-01T12:06Z 30.5K followers, 11.7K engagements


"Pray and Delay Happens in China Too. China Vanke Asks for XX Months to Pay Bond Under Extension Plan China Vanke Co. the distressed builder that surprised markets last week when it proposed an unspecified delay in paying a local bond has now asked holders to wait a year to be made whole as it faces mounting liquidity pressure amid waning state support"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1995467006154359209)  2025-12-01T12:16Z 30.5K followers, 4052 engagements


"More than XXX Yankee Candle employees will lose their jobs and approximately XX stores will close. - @CBSNews"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1995659307711692817)  2025-12-02T01:00Z 30.5K followers, 2868 engagements


"Swiss authorities have charged both Credit Suisse (now part of UBS) and UBS for failing to stop money laundering in the tuna bonds scandal. The Guardian says the 20132016 loans to Mozambique were riddled with $137M in bribes and kickbacks ruined the countrys economy and went undetected for years. The guardian says Credit Suisse bankers got $XX million. Prosecutors say the banks had weak controls and didnt report the suspicious deals for years. UBS denies the charges and vows to fight this mess from its 2023 emergency takeover of Credit Suisse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1995689228718801067)  2025-12-02T02:59Z 30.5K followers, 13.1K engagements


"The Bank of England Warns of Growing Risks From Hedge Fund Basis Trades Hedge funds are borrowing a record 100bn from banks and using UK gilts (government bonds) as collateral. Its the biggest amount ever. Theyre taking huge bets with borrowed money on the UK bond market. Guess what happens if there is a sudden unwind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1995909067013857758)  2025-12-02T17:32Z 30.5K followers, 20.2K engagements


"China property crisis: UBS predicts XXX million foreclosures by 2027 as loan defaults rise The number of apartments seized by banks from small businesses could reach more than XXX million by 2027 said John Lam head of China property research at the Swiss bank on Tuesday. Most small businesses on the mainland pledge property as collateral for loans. The sale of these foreclosed properties could impact about a fourth of Chinas new home sales annually and further drive down the prices of second-hand homes Lam said. It was a key risk we are concerned about he added -@SCMPNews"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996044156674695637)  2025-12-03T02:29Z 30.5K followers, 12.3K engagements


"Silver Thursday XXX in 2025 Big banks sold silver they dont own. And they sold that same silver bar over and over and over again. Now investors want their physical silver but the shorts cant deliver. The problem is so big theyre writing long articles about it. - @DiscoveryAlert"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996052381281259648)  2025-12-03T03:02Z 30.5K followers, 72.3K engagements


"$MRVL AI Stocks Are Pulling Enron-Style Accounting Tricks Heres the Latest Example This is the 2000 accounting play of hypothetical future value (aka HFV) the exact mechanism that helped inflate Enrons valuation two decades ago. Enron made the fatal mistake of actually booking future expected profits as current income (shown in the video below). That was fraud. .If Enron had realized it didnt need to book imaginary revenue that all it had to do was talk about it it wouldnt just have survived; it wouldve been a superstar in todays AI bubble where storytelling alone can send a stock soaring. -"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996058020132934072)  2025-12-03T03:24Z 30.5K followers, 5488 engagements


"$HPNN this is why fewer companies are going public Hop-on isnt a typical OTC shell. We build real tech real patents real products. In my opinion based on these patterns covering will not be easy. Over and over these guys have screwed with issuers for years. This time they picked the wrong company. - @HPNN @stephmase22 @FlyEaglesFly529 @Hamnakedshorts @BAMinvestor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996209549204660733)  2025-12-03T13:26Z 30.5K followers, 2591 engagements


"What could possibly go wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996279277361475950)  2025-12-03T18:04Z 30.5K followers, 9752 engagements


"Tampas Commercial Real Estate Crisis Asking price was $XX Million less. No word on what it sold for. . The buyer is Atlanta-based Enverra Real Estate Partners which announced the deal Wednesday but did not disclose the sale price for the 260000-square-foot building. County property records however show the sale price was $XXXX million far short of the $XXXX million the previous owner Bridge Investment paid in 2020"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996351597660795361)  2025-12-03T22:51Z 30.5K followers, 2460 engagements


"Is this why the @SECGov pushed short reporting requirements to 2028 XX% of ALL equity trades are executed by X firms Citadel XX% Virtu XX% Hudson River Trading XX% Jane Street XX% SIG 5%. @FlyEaglesFly529 Ban Payment for Order Flow @Hamnakedshorts @POTUS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996540242942407034)  2025-12-04T11:21Z 30.5K followers, 25.2K engagements


"Taxpayers Foot The Bill For Bostons Commercial Real Estate Crisis It's the second year in a row that Bostonians face a double-digit residential tax increase as commercial property values dropped X% and residential values rose 2%. That means the tax burden shifts from businesses to homeowners. By the numbers: Average single-family homes will see a $XXX annual increase according to Wu - @axios"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996544190591742302)  2025-12-04T11:36Z 30.5K followers, 3300 engagements


"This is interesting. Did the @SECGov recently put a rule in place that lets regulators track which shorts are legit and which are not using the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) It requires brokers on IEX to flag in CAT data when a short sale is done by a market maker using the bona fide market making exception under Reg SHO Rule 203B - @iexexchange The new rule took effect on November 24th @ReesePolitics @FlyEaglesFly529 @Hamnakedshorts @anna_trades @kimkep4796 @BAMinvestor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996553011162673163)  2025-12-04T12:11Z 30.5K followers, 17.4K engagements


"Uniswap Founder Blasts Citadel for Urging SEC to Treat DeFi Like Wall Street Bet Citadel has been lobbying behind closed doors on this for years Okay thats all pretty bad but the actual nerve for one of their arguments to be that there is no way for DeFi protocols to provide "fair access" of all things lmao Makes sense the king of shady tradfi market makers doesn't like open source peer-to-peer tech that can lower the barrier to liquidity creation - @haydenzadams - @cryptonews"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996565022017777743)  2025-12-04T12:59Z 30.5K followers, 6186 engagements


"Read the comments to @SECPaulSAtkins post. Main Street and small public companies have had enough. Why would any company go public when -regulators pushed short reporting off until at least 2028 -PFOF gives market makers a huge unfair advantage -there is no uptick rule -small public companies are getting destroyed by market manipulation -small public companies are trading their float many many times over as crooks wash trades to buy settlement time -regulators continue to ignore $MMTLP -American Innovation is being destroyed by market manipulation @FlyEaglesFly529 @Hamnakedshorts @BAMinvestor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996616030542872816)  2025-12-04T16:22Z 30.5K followers, 16.9K engagements


"Why would any small company go public with all the unchecked market manipulation Perhaps start with unwinding and revamping the Madoff Exemption aka The Market Maker Exemption Why on earth hasnt the SEC unwound EVERYTHING Madoff advocated for. - @FlyEaglesFly529 @Hamnakedshorts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1997045725801181216)  2025-12-05T20:49Z 30.5K followers, 10.4K engagements


"$SMX was $XXXX on November 17th. It hit $XXX today. We warned the @SEC multiple times $SMX was under attack. It is one of the first heavily wash traded stocks @FlyEaglesFly529 flagged for the @SECGov in December 2024 Since then weve pointed out the manipulation in $SMX at least six times (And its curious that some of our earliest 2025/late 2024 $SMX posts no longer come up in a search @Support) __________ November 2025 $SMX 619K float XX MILLION in volume by 7:30 ____________ August 2025 $SMX float has already traded more than 110X today _____________ July 2025 XX Million Shares traded"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1997050176851398775)  2025-12-05T21:07Z 30.5K followers, 5743 engagements


"Because kicking the can only makes things worse "Imworried about a handfulof themSheila Bair who headed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. during the financial crisis of 2008 said in an interview with CNBC Tuesday (April 16). I think some of them are still overly reliant on industry deposits have a lot of concentrated commercial real estate exposure and then I think the larger picture really is the potential instability of their uninsured deposits even for the healthy ones if we have another bank failure. These mid-sized banks will begin reporting their earnings this week and Bair says she"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1918051953872900224)  2025-05-01T21:16Z 30.5K followers, 5556 engagements


"Former Wall Street Trader Among XX People Detained In Alleged Market Manipulation Investigation in Turkey ".Prosecutors allege the suspects many of whom Anadolu Agency said were executives of listed Investco Holding sought to launder illicit gains through market activity. The inquiry began after regulators flagged artificial price increases that may have caused losses for retail investors Anadolu reported. .(Isik) Okte who started his career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in the 1990s is a frequent contributor to popular YouTube channels about the Turkish markets where his commentary attracts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1967905361865629945)  2025-09-16T10:56Z 30.5K followers, 7030 engagements


""Switzerlands Most Shorted Stock Plans Billion-Dollar Comeback" ".From its discreet headquarters in Zurich Barry Callebaut AG has grown into the worlds largest bulk chocolate maker processing at least XX% of global cocoa. Multinationals and boutique dessert makers alike rely on its cocoa butter powders and ganache. The Swiss company is the industrys quiet power: one of Europes most dependable consumer suppliers and an indispensable middleman shaping what ends up on grocery store shelves from Pennsylvania to Paris. Today Barry Callebaut is Switzerlands most heavily shorted stock with about a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1974172839826673677)  2025-10-03T18:00Z 30.5K followers, 7512 engagements


"More banks trying to become too big to fail "The U.S. banking system is increasingly characterized by having fewer and bigger lenders. In 2005 there were nearly 9000 banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Now there are fewer than 5000. And just three banks represented about XX% of all U.S. domestic deposits at midyear according to FDIC data: JPMorgan Chase Bank of America and Wells Fargo Yet a recent string of deals among regional and midsize banks reveal a drive not just for greater scale but also the ability to build strongholds in specific local markets. This will prove key"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1976111728053076225)  2025-10-09T02:25Z 30.5K followers, 6126 engagements


""Billions of Dollars Vanished: Low-Profile Bankruptcy Rings Alarms on Wall Street" First Brands Fallout ". one hint in its bankruptcy filing is that the credit arms of Ford Motor and General Motors are among the companies it owes money. Dozens of private credit lenders and hedge funds say they are out money. Private funds run by UBS say they are owed more than $XXX million. BlackRock is also owed a sum that it hasnt yet specified. Other lesser-known investors in private credit such as CarVal and Ellington Management Group are also in the queue. Hardest hit for now is Jefferies. One of its"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1978611142218953033)  2025-10-15T23:57Z 30.5K followers, 72.3K engagements


"Hundreds of lawyers rush in after First Brands files for bankruptcy The bankruptcy filing discloses that First Brands carried some $XXX billion of debt on its balance sheet against annual operating earnings of only about $XXXX billion. Thats not counting another $XXX billion in off-balance-sheet financings and $XXX million of unsecured other debt. Because First Brands is privately owned its financial disclosures were scanty leaving its lenders largely in the dark. How complicated is this case going to be Consider this: When bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez of Houston convened an initial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1981405704909914393)  2025-10-23T17:01Z 30.5K followers, 51.5K engagements


"$NVDA says its not Enron And sent a memo stating that to more than XX analysts And then The Tech Buzz writes an article about it and dismisses the fraud allegations as what analysts describe as "not good behavior and not healthy behavior" but crucially "it's legal. But then warns - While the fraud allegations are unfounded they've highlighted a perfectly legal but potentially problematic web of investments that could amplify losses when the AI bubble inevitably corrects. The company's executives cashing out billions while propping up customers with debt-fueled expansion plans creates a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1993140998243815480)  2025-11-25T02:13Z 30.5K followers, 307.5K engagements


"Minnesotas Real Estate Crisis XX% Price Cut 960000 sq ft Ameriprise Financial Center 2016 Sold for $XXX Million 2025 Sold for $XXXX Million Courtesy @FCNightingale"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1995473938378326082)  2025-12-01T12:43Z 30.5K followers, 5324 engagements


"SEC Punts Controversial Short-Sale Disclosure Deadline Again The SEC gives naked shorts a two year hall pass and then claims: The Commission finds these temporary exemptions to be necessary in the public interest and consistent with the protection of investors Please. @FlyEaglesFly529 @Hamnakedshorts @rrr1sr"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996410550041870531)  2025-12-04T02:45Z 30.5K followers, 138.8K engagements


"You cant make it up Private credit defaults are coming and thats ok He said he expects private credit companies whose borrowers do default to recover XX XX cents on average on the dollar adding that by the way ours are a lot higher than that. In comparison banks generally recover between XX and XX% of their money. Patterson isnt a neutral observer; BlackRock paid a huge price for HPS and now manages more than $XXX billion of private credit. But he got some backup from Jay Clayton a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman who is now the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan. All of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996416523401908489)  2025-12-04T03:09Z 30.5K followers, 42.2K engagements


"The media props up the AI narrative as best it can - so its a big deal that mainstream reporters have started asking the questions they should have asked two years ago. Slowly the whole structure of lies deceptions and accounting fraud is starting to fall apart. Something that was already there since the very beginning but MSM preferred to ignore it not wanting to spook their prized advertising customers: I personally find it ridiculous that it took so long for the likes of the WSJ or the FT to start questioning the basis of the whole narrative they contributed to spreading for years with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996696793485099257)  2025-12-04T21:43Z 30.5K followers, 46.5K engagements


"$MSTR Game on Michael Saylor owns the bitcoin. Wall Street holds the IOUs that only have value if @saylors company collapses and dumps the Bitcoin. Who will win Who gets wiped out The possibility of selling Bitcoin changes the psychology of the stock. Shorts now face two risks: if Saylor sells panic could push $BTC and MSTR sharply lower but if he doesn't and instead buys or simply delays the NAV gap itself becomes the squeeze fuel. Either scenario is combustible when nearly a quarter of the float is sold short. Is Saylor bluffing Is he buying time Or is he daring traders to bet against him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1996767004624077268)  2025-12-05T02:22Z 30.5K followers, 17K engagements


"$QNTM As Quantum BioPharma works on a promising treatment for MS its stock is getting pummeled by naked shorts. Small public companies dont sign up for this fight when they go public. CEO @zsaeed says the manipulation is so bad the company had to file a $XXX Million Market Manipulation Lawsuit Video X :22 stock just went down no matter what we did. __________ Video X :12 We started suspecting something was wrong when we had good news coming out and the price of the stock would still go down _________ Video X :34 (Dennis)how preoccupying does that battle become and how much does it divert you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1997507582064316592)  2025-12-07T03:24Z 30.5K followers, 10.2K engagements


"Worth the read and watch if youre following Silver -Gold - Rare Earth Materials (and you should be) A deeper dive into why $JPM quickly moved much of its trading desk to Singapore @billstill points to Jamie Dimons statement in October Im not a gold buyer. It costs X% to own but it could hit $5000 or $10000 dollars in this mess. Semi rational to hold some Thats code for demand is exploding and were planting flags where the whales are swimming. Then there is the U.S. heat. JPMorgans metals team is a CFTC piata. There was a $XXX million SEC probe in October 2025 over unfair practices plus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1997670215551701320)  2025-12-07T14:11Z 30.5K followers, 29.7K engagements


"$MSTR gets some help. Strive Warns MSCI to Keep Hands Off Bitcoin Treasuries Strive a firm co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy that owns $XXX million in bitcoin is fighting a plan by index giant MSCI. MSCI wants to kick companies out of major stock indexes if more than half their assets are bitcoin or other crypto. That could force billions in sales and hurt firms like MicroStrategy that hold billions in bitcoin as treasury. Strive says indexes should stay neutral and not judge business choices. MSCIs decision is expected January XX. Bitcoin structured finance is as real a business for us as it is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1997744062917493153)  2025-12-07T19:04Z 30.5K followers, 9158 engagements


"Interesting departure from @SECGov Im told Lori Schock worked closely with former Chairman Gary Gensler and was in meetings regarding $MMTLP What does she know about the trading halt three years ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998065612887626098)  2025-12-08T16:22Z 30.5K followers, 17.4K engagements


"@zsaeed @anna_trades 👏👏👏👏. Accountability shouldnt be this difficult but glad you are fighting for the transparency every public company deserves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998396831638696371)  2025-12-09T14:18Z 30.5K followers, XXX engagements


"Banks Just Found a New Way to Insure Trillions And Could Blow Up the System Again the banks availed themselves of a new financial instrument ( synthetic risk transfers) which allowed them to buy insurance against the credit risk of the loan. This allowed them to pile into the loans while satisfying their regulatory capital requirements. At least technically. Of course if the insurer didnt pay out the whole financial system could blow up. And maybe they wouldnt pay out because they insured most of these loans if the loans went bad most of them would go bad at the same time and the insurer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998483447149400517)  2025-12-09T20:02Z 30.5K followers, 18.4K engagements


"@DarioCpx The media always claims its retail when things start going against their buddies. Retail doesnt move markets and they know that. They claimed that with $GME too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998491753935155650)  2025-12-09T20:35Z 30.5K followers, XXX engagements


"The @SECGov just loosened the leash on big banksmaking it easier for analysts to hype stocks to help a bank make a deal. The ruling could make it harder for investors to determine whether research is biased or neutral whether prices are true or inflated whether prices are being pumped only to leave retail holding the bag later (Hmm what does that sound like) Some background: XX major Wall Street banks were caught in the early 2000s issuing biased stock research to win investment banking business. That led to a landmark 20032004 settlement that imposed strict rules separating research from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1997790488238408173)  2025-12-07T22:09Z 30.5K followers, 11.1K engagements


"$CVNA Carvana Pops XX% as Traders Call Its S&P XXX Addition Market Manipulation and Bet Against Rally Yet retail sentiment tells a starkly different story. On Reddit and X traders remain deeply skeptical with social sentiment scores hovering around XX out of XXX firmly bearish territory. While institutional money prepares to pour in through index funds retail investors are calling it "one of the greatest market manipulations in history." The disconnect is striking. Carvana has surged XXX% year-to-date and XX% in the past month alone. Analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co.(NYSE:JPM) upgraded the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998055742985650629)  2025-12-08T15:43Z 30.5K followers, 4680 engagements


"Californias Commercial Real Estate Crisis A real-estate tycoons San Diego exit is turning the city upside down Big landlords have the deep pockets to support buildings even when times are tough. When they retreat tenants grow hesitant lenders tighten and values and rents slip. Irvine began unwinding its six-building downtown San Diego portfolio last year and completed the exit with the sale of One America Plaza the citys tallest building. The tower changed hands for more than XX% below Irvines original purchase price consistent with the sharp price cuts seen with the rest of its downtown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998322088004690063)  2025-12-09T09:21Z 30.5K followers, 2702 engagements


"No peoples dreams can be destroyed by going public because trade settlement is not enforced. ______________ November 2025 How does a $.46 stock trade its float 1329 times in one day $MSPR -Float is 659000 Shares -875+ Million Shares Traded on 11/1/25 @FlyEaglesFly529 @Hamnakedshorts @timburchett @realannapaulina @realDonaldTrump"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998448732677791999)  2025-12-09T17:44Z 30.5K followers, 9453 engagements


"Citadel alum Jack Woodruff to shutter hedge fund Candlestick .The firm manages about $XXX billion of assets and is down single digits in 2025 the letter said. A separate investor update seen by Bloomberg showed the hedge fund down X% through October after a XX% gain in 2024. Our returns while good have not met my own extremely high standards Woodruff said in an investor letter seen by Bloomberg explaining the decision. He said the firm expects to return to investors a substantial portion of their capital by year-end"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998450483736739854)  2025-12-09T17:51Z 30.5K followers, 11.1K engagements


"Is Jane Street Behind Bitcoins Daily Dumps Chart Pattern Raises Big Questions If it was just a leverage it should have been a very short term and the market should have bounced pretty fast but instead we kept dumping without any major bounce. This is not normal. This looks like a few big institutions are playing with the market and liquidating both longs and shorts. Another rumor in town is that many big funds blew up on October 10th and they are selling BTC to cover their losses he added. - @AshCrypto _______________________ December 82025 Bad news = Market dumps Good news = Market dumps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998456741479198985)  2025-12-09T18:16Z 30.5K followers, 4902 engagements


"More Blatant Market Manipulation $NCPL traded its float 71X Tuesday -Float is X Million Shares -XXX Million shares tradedon 12/10/25 ________ $XCUR traded its float 12X Tuesday -Float is XXX Million Shares -XX Million Shares Traded12/10/25 _____________ $PBM traded its float 8x today -Float is XXXX Million Shares -XXXX Million Shares Traded12/10/25 ____________ And the @SECGov wonders why fewer companies are going public @FlyEaglesFly529 @Hamnakedshorts @realannapaulina @timburchett"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998543826919596141)  2025-12-10T00:02Z 30.5K followers, 3877 engagements


"The options market always moves first. Right now its signaling someone is trapped and scrambling for upside hedges This is what the early stages of a squeeze ignition look like @Macrobysunil on Silver"  
[X Link](https://x.com/kshaughnessy2/status/1998658123645723120)  2025-12-10T07:36Z 30.5K followers, XXX engagements