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Max from UNFTR

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Publisher of UNFTR.com and host of the Unf*cking the Republic. MeidasTouch contributor. Leftist Politics. History. Humor. Realism.

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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 29/09/2026
Zagged a bit this week. Watched a frustrating conversation between leftists about DSA; Netanyahu name-checking Hasan; Trump paying more attention to Zohran than his own party. Felt the need to put DSA's mobilizing efforts in historical context and offer some perspective on left movements.
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The Rise Of The DSA: What You Need To Know
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 26/09/2026
The financial media got bored of private credit and moved on. I get it. Lots to talk about these days. But we should be looking into private credit, not past it. Inside this opaque world there's a debt bomb tied to AI financing. A responsible administration would make them open their books.
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How AI Debt Could Blow Up Private Credit
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 26/09/2026
44.7% of home sales in the three months ending August included seller concessions, the highest share since Redfin started tracking in 2020. Closing cost help, repair credits, rate buydowns. The market is softening. That still isn't the same as affordable. Watch the full video: youtu.be/icDcWDmmojE
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 25/09/2026
Trump greenlit a nearly $3 billion arms package for Israel: 40,000 one-ton bombs, paid for by American taxpayers. Israel's defense minister pledged to "finish the job" in Gaza. Congress could block it, but they're on a six-week break. The latest from @rashedmian.bsky.social for #UNFTR.
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Trump OKs More Weapons of Mass Genocide to Israel
Amid statements from a top Israeli official vowing to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza, Trump green lights a taxpayer funded weapons deal that includes 40,000 one-ton bombs.
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 23/09/2026
The $40t debt number is a cudgel conservatives use to cut vital programs. Nobody asks who's on the other side of the ledger. We're asking. Plus Alex Karp is unhinged, 750k Americans lost health coverage, and Scott Bessent does Scott things. It's OTR time. Watch the full video: youtu.be/icDcWDmmojE
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 23/09/2026
We're having the wrong national debt conversation. Also, Alex Karp shouldn't have a driver's license let alone control of Palantir. Also, eyeliner boy just cut 750,000 people from health insurance on Dr. Oz's recommendation because we're in the worst timeline. On the Record is here.
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The Fake Debt Crisis | Scott Bessent Fail | Housing Decline
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 19/09/2026
Video essay. Thinking out loud about how this all ends.
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The Final Chapter: Trump and the End of the American Experiment
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 16/09/2026
Tonight! 8PM EST. The premiere of our cover story / doc on Milton Friedman. This has been months in the making in collaboration with @currentaffairs.bsky.social. If you're wondering how the new world neoliberal order was established and who was responsible, I've got answers.
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Why We’re Still Living in Milton Friedman’s Neoliberal World
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 16/09/2026
Despite a Democrat's best efforts to enrich the Trump family and do the bidding of the crypto lobby, the CLARITY Act is officially done. (For now.) We don't win often these days so when we do, we should celebrate. Oh.. and f*ck you KG.
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The CLARITY Act is DEAD: Why Trump’s Crypto Scheme Failed
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 15/09/2026
On the record is out! I'm not buying Dario Amodei's bullshit anymore. There's one answer to the AI problem and I've solved it using Dario's own logic. So there. Also, I took the Trump pledge! So fun. Try it! KLTW to Chris Hedges and our Chart of the Week is the 10 Year Treasury.
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Dario Amodei is NOT your friend | The 10 Year is Blowing Out
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 11/09/2026
The PPI report (Producer Price Index) was a bigger disaster than people realize. In and out of the news cycle already, but a foreshadowing of epic inflation set to hit this fall. On top of existing inflation. This is a breakdown of PPI and a forecast of what's to come.
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Terrible Inflation Report Warns of Economic Tsunami
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 10/09/2026
This guy is catching Ls like he's catching COVID in 2020. Can't win for losing. Less than 2 yrs into the job and he WILL go down as the worst TS of all time. And that includes Donald Regan. Oh! Bingo! Blammo! Thwap!
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The Treasury Secretary Who Can't Get It Right
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 08/09/2026
Hillbilly hypocrite JD Vance's new scheme is a disgrace. Trump appears to be melting. Here we go again (again) Germany. Phone a friend is back with @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social. @davidgriscom.bsky.social for KLTW. And proof the Wage-Price Spiral is horseshit. This week's On the Record.
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JD Vance Latest Stunt is DISGUSTING | Nathan Robinson Interview
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 05/09/2026
Kevin Hassett thinks Trump's economy is a labor day "present" for the American people.
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The Jobs Report Is A Scam: Here’s Why
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 04/09/2026
Historians will file Venezuela and Iran among the dumbest, most shortsighted moves in the long, ugly history of American intervention abroad. And that's saying something. Same playbook as Iraq: install a government, take the oil, mistake "easy" for wise. Watch the full video: youtu.be/yMpeIh0ZT_0
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 03/09/2026
The real outcome of cutting access to healthcare? People die. It's pretty straightforward. Our system was always built on perverse incentives that guaranteed poor outcomes for expensive care. But by killing what's left of this "system" the GOP has opened the door for Medicare for All. #M4A #UNFTR
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Healthcare Is Broken—And It’s Not Getting Better
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 02/09/2026
Reagan's boosters credit him with restoring American pride. What he actually did was cut taxes for the top, break unions, and make the military budget untouchable. We're still living inside that wreckage. 🎧 Listen to the latest episode of #UNFTR: Did Ronald Reagan Destroy the American Dream?
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Did Ronald Reagan Destroy the American Dream?
Ronald Reagan. Champion of neoliberalism. To some, the man who lifted the spirits of a nation and restored a sense of pride and optimism after a period of despair. To others, the Reagan years marked t...
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 01/09/2026
The largest proven oil reserves in the world and it only cost us a kidnapping, decades of sanctions, an evil think tank, and a dash of colonialism. Plus John Roberts' long war on voting rights and day 78 of the McConnell disappearance. It's OTR from UNFTR. Watch the full video: youtu.be/yMpeIh0ZT_0
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 01/09/2026
A full explanation of the "deal" for Venezuelan oil - a crock of shit that has Heritage Foundation fingerprints all over it. ICE sends Milo packing. @theprogressivemag.bsky.social on the Roberts court. @brittanyepage.bsky.social for the Killer Left Take of the Week. And anyone seen Mitch?
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The Real Story Behind the 'Great' Venezuela Oil Deal
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 29/08/2026
Pundits are saying that Bessent is falling back on his hedge fund instincts. Those instincts ran Key Square Capital from $5 billion down to $577 million, four years of losses during a historic bull run. That is the resume he brought to Treasury. Watch the full video: youtu.be/2J0nFcqT2cI
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 28/08/2026
Did Reagan destroy the American Dream? Of course he did. Blueskyers know that. A quick tale on how he grabbed power, three ways he shredded the poor and working class and what the Left can learn (and in one case has already learned) from Reagan's politics.
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Did Reagan Destroy the American Dream?
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 27/08/2026
Operation Economic Outcast will foreclose every option available to the Iranian regime, per Scott Bessent. Same promise Carter made. And Bush. And Obama. And Trump. We have the clips. Nearly 50 years of the "toughest sanctions ever imposed." Watch the full video: youtu.be/2J0nFcqT2cI
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 26/08/2026
New sanctions on Iran are finally going to work this time! The Trump family stablecoin keeps climbing. Supreme Court blows it, again. Hard to tell which side Hakeem Jeffries is on. And Scott Bessent's running for president. On The Record is here. Let's go. Watch the full video: youtu.be/2J0nFcqT2cI
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 25/08/2026
Scott Bessent can't stop losing. Nevertheless, he continues to take over the failed Trump presidency and put his own stamp of failure on it. Personally, I think he's the GOP frontrunner for 2028 so it's helpful to understand what a loser this guy is. Also, everything else is terrible.
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Scott Bessent is a Loser Who Wants to be President
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 25/08/2026
Musk, Bezos, Brin, Griffin, Cuban, etc., are spending more to lobby against wealth taxes than the taxes would cost them. The point was never the money. It is that they can bend the political system to their will, and that is what has to be prevented. Watch the full video: youtu.be/cKDaQG_ZQ2U
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 23/08/2026
You paid the 2025 tariffs. The New York Fed put close to 90% of the burden on American firms and consumers. Now the Supreme Court voided them and $166B in refunds is going back to importers. Apple got $2.2B. Walmart is in line for $10B. You get nothing. Watch the full video: youtu.be/cKDaQG_ZQ2U
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 22/08/2026
The more we focus on taxing the rich, the further away we get from addressing the problem. Instead of taxing individual billionaires, focus on preventing individuals from becoming billionaires. The real fuckery lives within the corporate tax code.
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Why Taxing Billionaires Won't Save Us
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 21/08/2026
Behind every part of your life that costs more and delivers less is a corporation whose bank account gets fatter. Media, food suppliers, pharma, tech, ag. Trump said he would run the country like a business and he has. One of his businesses. Watch the full video: youtu.be/GCKq2-jE0ME
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 19/08/2026
The Powell Memo was a blueprint for corporatocracy, and it worked. Trump is a distraction from the fact that the corporate enemy will still be here once he's gone, stronger and better organized. And nobody on the left has the answer to it. Watch the full video: youtu.be/GCKq2-jE0ME
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 19/08/2026
Investors are trying to price roughly $70 billion in what Bloomberg calls phantom liabilities: real promises that never hit a balance sheet. Nvidia, Broadcom and Meta are all in it. If you are getting 2007 vibes, you're on the right track. Watch the full video: youtu.be/GCKq2-jE0ME
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 18/08/2026
Sailors out of TP, AOC freezing eggs, a suggestion for what ICE can do with their new gloves, the AI financing Ponzi scheme, an Amber Alert for Hakeem Jeffries' soul, and in Max Notes, who Trump really works for. It's Season 2 of On The Record. Let's go. Watch the full video: youtu.be/GCKq2-jE0ME
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 18/08/2026
Back from vacation to kick of Season Two of On the Record. Covering AI Ponzi financing schemes, Trump's corporate masters, what ICE should do with their shock mittens, Hakeem is a punk and @moreperfectunion.bsky.social crushes it again.
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The AI Ponzi Scheme | Trump Recession | Hakeem Jeffries
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 18/08/2026
In 2008 the underlying asset was a mortgage. Today it's a corporate bond, stacked into CLOs, hedge fund leverage and private credit. Aschenbrenner didn't blow up because his thesis was wrong. His brokers called margin and dumped his entire book overnight. Watch the full video: youtu.be/sDlH8OwFqgU
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 14/08/2026
Exxon's scientists proved in the 1970s that burning fossil fuels would heat the planet. In the 1990s the military mapped which bases would end up underwater. Not Al Gore, not Greenpeace. They knew it and buried it, and we're running the same play with AI. Watch the full video: youtu.be/VVYO4A25eqI
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 13/08/2026
Japan holds over a trillion dollars of our Treasuries, so when the yen hit a 40-year low, the textbook fix was selling them into an already fragile bond market. Instead Bessent, who made a billion shorting currencies for Soros, spent euros propping one up. Watch the full video: youtu.be/zVV_AqiBEG8
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 08/08/2026
First beach read of vacation. Nice and light peek into the planet's destruction. Let's see what @mikegrunwald.bsky.social has cooked up for us. Probably not the best analogy. Phenomenal writer. Been looking forward to this.
Photo shows cover of "We are eating the Earth" a book by Michael Grunwald
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 07/08/2026
My closing arguments on the US economy before heading on vacation. Returning the week of the 17th with vigor to begin a new season. For now, take care and be well.
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High Yields, Surging Crude Oil and Dollar Under Pressure
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 07/08/2026
Private credit barely existed before 2008. It filled the gap banks walked away from, and now holds somewhere between $1.5 and $2 trillion. We only see inside when the loans fail, and what surfaces is loose underwriting, punitive rates and missed fraud. Watch the full video: youtu.be/K0JbfG0G9Oc
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 06/08/2026
The yen hit a 40-year low and the U.S. helped fund the largest currency intervention since 1998. This was not a favor. Japan is the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasuries, and a country burning reserves has to sell something eventually. Watch the full video: youtu.be/K0JbfG0G9Oc
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 06/08/2026
James Carville says he'll leave the Democratic Party if Hasan Piker becomes a force in it. Don't let the door hit ya buddy! A man who spent 30 years defending neoliberalism and introduced Palantir to the military. More reason to root for DSA wins. Watch the full video: youtu.be/K0JbfG0G9Oc
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 04/08/2026
Good news! We don't have a $39t debt problem. Bad news. It's actually $72t. Plus why we bailed out Japan, the least productive conversation feat. Dana Bash and RFK Jr., and @abdulelsayed.bsky.social stunning a tv host into silence. UNFTR's OTR is here. Watch the full video: youtu.be/K0JbfG0G9Oc
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 04/08/2026
RFK's an awesome interview, isn't he? So buttoned up. Why we're pumping up the yen. US debt is 2.5X GDP. I'm volunteering to help James Carville pack up his shit. And the war is Iran is off (on) off (on) off....
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The Yen Bailout, RFK Jr. Fail, and the $72 Trillion Debt
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 03/08/2026
Elon Musk spent years warning that AI could end humanity. Then he decided he couldn't stop it anyway, so he just joined the acceleration club instead. That's the ultimate grift: manufacture concern, claim powerlessness, profit from chaos. Watch the full video: youtu.be/ztEHE6N5kHM
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 31/07/2026
A 25 year old hedge fund manager might have shown how this all falls apart this week.
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Situational Awareness: How a 25-Year-Old's Hedge Fund Exposed the Entire AI Bubble
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 30/07/2026
Marco Rubio's war on "leftist terror" relies on incidents from 50+ years ago. He couldn't cite a single modern example. Meanwhile, Americans are dying in Iran. This is a distraction, and a direct attack on free speech. The latest from @rashedmian.bsky.social for #UNFTR.
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With Iran War Lost, Trump Seeks to Start One at Home.
The Trump administration is going to extreme levels to quash dissent by conflating speech with violence and labelling people on the left domestic terrorists.
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 29/07/2026
America's paternalistic racism, Cold War brain damage, and inability to define socialism are all wrapped up in how we've treated Venezuela. We're finally naming the pattern instead of pretending it's about democracy. This is UNFTR's On The Record. Watch the full video: youtu.be/ztEHE6N5kHM
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 28/07/2026
It's our weekly roundup. No one seems to know what socialism is. Maduro trial set for June, 2027. Elon blows interview with The Economist. Trump blows his comedy set. How Venezuela encapsulates American imperialism and racism.
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Crushing Venezuela | Trump Bombs | Elon Blows | Socialism
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 28/07/2026
Russ Vought wants bureaucrats traumatized. Unable to work, defunded agencies failing. The genius is, when services collapse, you blame the person in front of you, not the saboteur. This is the crisis of confidence opening neoliberals have been waiting for. Watch the full video: youtu.be/HTciDEqUlUU
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 25/07/2026
NY Fed warns: PE is loading insurers with $300m in mezzanine debt, packaged like pre-'08 mortgage securities. With $2t in corp. debt exposure and inflation still elevated, we're a black jelly bean away from catastrophe. 🎧 Listen to the latest episode of #UNFTR: Trump & the Black Jelly Bean Theory.
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Trump and the Black Jelly Bean Theory.
The New York Fed released a troubling report detailing the risk of Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) exposure in the insurance industry. Over the past several years, private equity has taken larger...
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 24/07/2026
Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary, is committing the resources of the federal government to fighting antifa! Totally under his jurisdiction. Watch the full video: youtu.be/DTzf52JTVJ0
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