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Bill’s Commentary:

“And this will now be the hidden danger, margin calls. Any system as levered as we are currently, has the hidden dangers of margin calls…that spread uncontrollably in a domino like fashion. They had better turn this thing immediately before the entire system is detonated with a systemic margin call with zero chance of ever being met!”

Hedge funds hit with steepest margin calls since 2020 Covid crisis

Hedge funds have been hit with the biggest margin calls since Covid shut down huge parts of the global economy in 2020, after Donald Trump’s tariffs triggered a powerful rout in global financial markets.

Wall Street banks have asked their hedge fund clients to stump up more money as security for their loans because the value of their holdings had tumbled, according to three people familiar with the matter. Several big banks have issued the largest margin calls to their clients since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020.

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Bill’s Commentary:

“A shooter with an “equitable conscience”? Isn’t that sweet of he/she/it!”

Rage and Racism: Nashville Shooter Switched School Target to Avoid Claims of Racism

Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old transgender shooter in Nashville, reportedly wanted to kill children so that she would not be forgotten. According to police, the only concern that she had throughout her “rage storms” was not that she would be called a mass murderer or child killer but a racist. Her primary grievance appeared to be with Creswell Middle School, where she was bullied as a transgender student. However, she dropped that target at the last minute because it had a large black population and she did not want to be thought of as a racist.

Hale shot and killed six victims at a Nashville Christian school on March 27, 2023. However, she originally planned to shoot up another school. She created detailed plans for the attack on Creswell Middle School, which she attended, and she blamed for the past bullying. She said that she wanted to become a “god . . . by killing victims nobody would forget: children.”

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