Here is Jerome Powell from 60 minutes. A classic video well worth the watch about printing money.

JUST IN: Ethereum Shanghai upgrade officially goes live, enabling over $34.5 billion in staked $ETH to be withdrawn.

A Federal Reserve chart shows the percentage of banks tightening standards for business loans:

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 SEC Chair Gensler refuses to answer if Ethereum $ETH is a commodity or a security while testifying before congress.

New cars are selling below sticker price for the first time in 20 months, per Kelley Blue Book.

Largest U.S. bank failures of all time: 1st Washington Mutual: $386 billion 2nd First Republic: $233 billion 3rd SVB: $209 billion 4th Signature Bank: $118 billion Three of these have occurred in the last two months. 👀 (Credit Macro Dose)

I don't like charts much as you know but this is clean af

Bitcoin dominance has broken through 50% And is now at the highest level in the past 2 years

High net worth investors with more than a $1 million have their highest allocation into cash, per CNBC.

Cramer is bullish.

Millionaires held 24% of their portfolio in cash as of spring 2023, up significantly from 16% in fall 2022 and 14% from spring 2022, per CNBC.

BREAKING: Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and UAE to join BRICS on January 1st, 2024.

Royal Bank of Canada, $RBC, the largest lender of mortgages in Canada, has said that 43% of its Canadian residential mortgages had an amortization period of longer than 25 years, as of July. That’s up from 40% a year earlier, and just 26% in January 2022.

Americans outside the wealthiest 20% of the country have run out of extra savings and now have less cash on hand than they did when the pandemic began, per Bloomberg.

The Canadian economy is weaker than predicted, says Desjardins, with population boom masking the full extent of economic downturn:

Gold is officially the most oversold its been since Dec 2016 Back then, it marked the start of an uptrend

Bitcoin hits $40,000. unusualwhales.com/crypto

Fed holds rates steady, indicates three cuts coming in 2024: CNBC

$SPY Sentiment is king. 👑

Americans are increasingly tapping their retirement savings to cover housing and medical bills amid higher cost-of-living pressures, per Fidelity.