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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 · 19h
The "radical" DSA endgame is court expansion that FDR already threatened, energy nationalization that most industrialized nations already have, and amendments that the Constitution is already made of. That it sounds impossible is the measure of our loss. Watch the full video: youtu.be/t7Gb6DfHM68
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 04/10/2026
The question was never whether AI works. It's whether the people lending into it get paid back. The 30-year Treasury is at its highest level since 2004, and those rates flow into private credit portfolios full of variable loans nobody gets to see. Watch the full video: youtu.be/x-w6kuo7F8s
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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
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 · 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
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
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 · 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 · 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
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 · 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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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 24/07/2026
Trump shook hands and broed out with Canada's prime minister Mark Carney in a luxury box, then slapped a 50% tariff on Canadian imports. He can't stop fighting with our allies for a single day. Watch the full video: youtu.be/DTzf52JTVJ0
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 23/07/2026
The leading index has been rolling over for years while the coincident index climbs. Wall Street's fine. Consumers feel like garbage. Builders are pulling back. Same country, two timelines: the investor's economy and everyone else's. Watch the full video: youtu.be/DTzf52JTVJ0
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 22/07/2026
The right wing's taking the wrong lessons from Homer. Hegseth loves buff guys. Trump burns his bridges. Ro Khanna got a talking-to. Bessent declares war on antifa. The UK's PM revolves. And the economy? Two timelines, one country. Catch this week's OTR. Watch the full video: youtu.be/DTzf52JTVJ0
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 17/07/2026
The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest level since 1983, while China's about to flood the market and Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. Traders have kept oil stable so far, but fundamentals always catch up eventually. Watch the full video: youtu.be/czzbuPyQD_0
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 16/07/2026
Sam Altman and Elon Musk are feuding on X over technology *they* built together (which happens to be designed to optimize our obsolescence), and everyone's just watching it like entertainment instead of a preview of who actually controls the future. Watch the full video: youtu.be/czzbuPyQD_0
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 15/07/2026
June's budget is a masterclass in priorities: more from paychecks, more refunds to the top, less for classrooms. Lindsey Graham's replacement makes sense, right? Oh, and we're draining oil reserves. Anything else going on? It's On The Record for 7/14/26! Watch the full video: youtu.be/czzbuPyQD_0
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 14/07/2026
Credit card delinquencies are brushing up against '08 peaks. Auto loan delinquencies have blown past Great Recession records. Subprime borrowers are missing payments at unheard of rates. The symptoms echo '09, yet the underlying crisis is different. Watch the full video: youtu.be/gGL-2C8HNhI
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 11/07/2026
The money supply is two to three times larger than 2008. The problem is, it's not circulating. It's parking at the top while the bottom of the economy bleeds out with weak hiring and frozen housing. That's not a shortage. That's a distribution problem. Watch the full video: youtu.be/gGL-2C8HNhI
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 11/07/2026
OpenAI's giving America a 5% stake in their company. You know, the one that lost $40 billion last year with no path to profitability. All they ask in return: forget about the wealth tax and just let them operate. Oh, and maybe a bailout when it collapses. Watch the full video: youtu.be/gGL-2C8HNhI
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 09/07/2026
Yes, we absolutely believe reports that Senate Majority Leader John Thune spoke with Mitch McConnell, and that the two had a “lengthy and substantive conversation that covered a variety of topics.” Substantive. Lengthy. Of course! Watch the full video: youtu.be/gGL-2C8HNhI
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 08/07/2026
Silliness meets substance on this week's On The Record: dead senators, OpenAI's gift to America, the Palantir CEO insisting he's not on drugs, Trump's meme coin casino, and whether 2026 really is shaping up like 2008. Watch the full video: youtu.be/gGL-2C8HNhI
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 02/07/2026
Money's circulating through Wall Street at velocity with fees extracted at every rotation. Billions deployed into tech that isn't delivering returns, powered by an energy grid that can't support it, outcompeted by China. We're circling the bowl in slow-mo. Watch the full video: youtu.be/BZ9RDkDB7bg
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 01/07/2026
Wall Street is throwing everything at the wall and calling it a thesis. The press releases may scream confidence, but the actual behavior screams incoherence. Today's OTR breaks down how the financialized economy is cooked. Watch the full video: youtu.be/BZ9RDkDB7bg
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 30/06/2026
Trump is *thrilled* about NY's rent freeze, his 2 supporters showed up to the America 250 fair, and we dive into Wall Street's fever dream. Inflation's about to "cool" on paper, and the Venezuela crisis keeps getting worse. On The Record for June 30, 2026. Watch the full video: youtu.be/BZ9RDkDB7bg
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 30/06/2026
A bipartisan housing bill with real backing is hostage to a voter suppression farce over an imagined crisis. The Heritage Foundation's own data: 130 fraudulent votes in 150 million cast. Meanwhile, 745,000 people have no roof. #UNFTR for @meidastouch.com. Watch the full video: youtu.be/MCPjytZiWnA
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 29/06/2026
The bubble isn't private credit. It's you. The system is engineered to siphon wealth from the middle and lower classes. When purchasing power collapses, everything else falls with it. Everyone looking at private credit is looking at it backwards. Watch the full video: youtu.be/lQLy82yuQMA
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 28/06/2026
Summer on Long Island is undefeated. A day away from the fray.
Photo of the Fire Island Lighthouse
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 27/06/2026
Trump is blocking a bipartisan housing bill to attach a voter suppression act over a "problem" that only affects 130 people a year, while 745,000 Americans sleep outside. Bad math, and even worse priorities. #UNFTR for @meidastouch.com. Watch the full video: youtu.be/MCPjytZiWnA
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 26/06/2026
A century of alliance-building between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia collapsed in three months. The Gulf States are now negotiating directly with Iran. Trump managed to unravel what survived the Great Depression, two world wars, and OPEC. Watch the full video: youtu.be/u1yTWUNCkhU
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 25/06/2026
@edzitron.com leaked OpenAI's financials and they're catastrophic: $20 billion lost on $13b revenue in 2025. They spent three times more to lose twice as much. No economies of scale, falling behind Anthropic, and their model guarantees future losses. Watch the full video: youtu.be/beGjScitbkk
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 23/06/2026
Greenspan made it a century. SpaceX is imploding. A fascist is taking over Colombia. A repo man is coming for your car. Housing starts nosedived. Left-wing trolls out-trolling right-wing trolls. Emma Vigeland crying is all of us. UNFTR's OTR for 6-23-26. Watch the full video: youtu.be/beGjScitbkk
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 20/06/2026
Secondary offerings are flooding the market, bond yields are competing with equities, and fiscally conservative voices are saying these are 1999 vibes. AI has no business model. Just naked emperors all around. Watch the full video: youtu.be/Nk7SLBAALHw
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 17/06/2026
@franifio.bsky.social called Jared + Ivanka's Albanian island scheme a Gaza test run before it happened. The corrupt government changed its laws, waived taxes, and funded the infrastructure. The people of Albania called bullshit. Franny called it first. Watch the full video: youtu.be/Nk7SLBAALHw
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