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by Brian Shilhavy
Health Impact News

U.S. consumer debt as well as U.S. government debt is making headline news today, as stocks were down for the second day in a row.

According to April 2026 data released by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, U.S. margin debt surged another $83 billion in a single month to a record $1.304 trillion. Over the last 12 months alone, margin debt has risen by roughly $453 billion, or 53%.

As Yahoo Finance reports, “Those aren’t normal numbers.”

They go on to report that even more concerning is that the margin debt now equals about 5.2% of U.S. GDP, according to data compiled by Sakkonet Research using FINRA and federal economic data and that level sits roughly 3 percentage points above pre-2008 financial crisis levels and above the peak reached during the Dot-Com Bubble.

From Yahoo Finance:

The Trump Bull Market Has a Very Dark Side That Could End Badly for Investors

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The stock market has climbed a wall of worry since President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Jan. 20, 2025. Tariff fights rattled investors. Treasury yields spiked. Recession fears surfaced more than once. Yet the benchmark S&P 500 has still surged roughly 23.5% since Inauguration Day.

That kind of resilience usually feels bullish. And to be fair, artificial intelligence has delivered real growth. Corporate spending on AI infrastructure continues climbing, cloud demand remains firm, and semiconductor giants keep posting eye-popping revenue gains.

But here’s the uncomfortable question savvy investors should ask: What happens when too many investors start believing markets only go up?

Margin Debt Has Reached Dangerous Levels

But here’s the Trump market rally’s dark underbelly:. According to April 2026 data released by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), U.S. margin debt surged another $83 billion in a single month to a record $1.304 trillion. Over the last 12 months alone, margin debt has risen by roughly $453 billion, or 53%.

Those aren’t normal numbers.

Even more concerning, margin debt now equals about 5.2% of U.S. GDP, according to data compiled by Sakkonet Research using FINRA and federal economic data. That level sits roughly 3 percentage points above pre-2008 financial crisis levels and above the peak reached during the Dot-Com Bubble.

In any case, history shows the same pattern repeatedly:

• Investors borrow heavily during strong bull markets

• Asset prices rise further because borrowed money fuels buying

• A sharp correction forces margin calls

• Investors must sell stocks to cover loans

• Selling pressure accelerates the decline

That’s where leverage becomes dangerous.

Margin investing magnifies gains on the way up — but it also magnifies losses on the way down.

Full article.

Is The U.S. Debt Bomb About to EXPLODE?

This was published on Redacted today.

The American economy now has a new slogan: Buy now. Pay later. The idea is spend now. Borrow now. Pretend everything is fine now. And let somebody else deal with the bill later. More and more Americans are not buying luxury items with credit cards, they’re buying gas and food for their family. And many of them are using these buy it now pay later services to survive.

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Bill Gates Just Did the Unthinkable — He Sold Every Last Share of Microsoft Stock

The Big Tech – AI bubble still has to burst. Perhaps Bill Gates sees the handwriting on the wall….

From 247Wall St:

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For decades, owning shares of Microsoft felt almost synonymous with owning a piece of the modern economy itself. Artificial intelligence, cloud computing, enterprise software, cybersecurity — the company has embedded itself into nearly every corner of corporate America.

That is precisely why the latest SEC filing from the Bill Gates Foundation Trust landed with such force. Bill Gates, the company’s co-founder, no longer owns a single share through the Trust.

For years, Microsoft stock represented the largest holding inside the Gates Foundation Trust portfolio. At one point, the position dominated the fund. But the Trust has steadily reduced its exposure.

According to SEC 13F filings, the Trust owned roughly 28.5 million Microsoft shares at the end of last year’s first quarter. By the end of 2025, that position had shrunk to approximately 7.7 million shares. The Trust’s latest SEC filing for Q1 revealed the final step — it sold every remaining share.

Elon Musk compares his company’s work to that of Jesus

From MarketWatch:

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Elon Musk on Monday compared the work of one of his startups, the brain-chip company Neuralink, to that of Jesus Christ.

Musk, speaking virtually at the Samson International Smart Mobility Summit in Tel Aviv, was asked to describe an exciting breakthrough technology that he’s working on and that people “aren’t talking about enough.” After touting the potential of SpaceX’s rocket technology, Musk pivoted to describing Neuralink’s work.

“It has enabled people who have completely lost their brain-body connection to speak again … and we believe it will enable people to walk again,” Musk said of Neuralink’s brain-computer interface, or BCI, technologies.

The startup has implanted its Telepathy BCI in at least 21 patients with paralysis, allowing them to control phones, computers or robotic limbs with their thoughts. Neuralink has also been running a clinical trial testing an implant designed to restore speech since last October.

On Monday, Musk said Neuralink expects to give a patient its Blindsight implant for the first time by the end of this year. In January, Musk had said that Neuralink was waiting for regulatory approval to implant the BCI meant to restore patients’ vision. It’s unclear whether approval has been granted.

Musk said that Blindsight could, over time, not only bring back patients’ sight but also give them “perhaps superhuman vision.”

In the past, he’s talked about giving people “superpowers” once Neuralink’s technology is refined. Neuralink wants to put a BCI in an ”otherwise healthy person” by the end of the decade, the company’s president and co-founder, DJ Seo, said last year.

Trump’s $499 Mobile Phone Exposed for Using Fake AI American Flag and Cheap Chinese Hardware: Report

From International Business Times:

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Donald Trump’s business venture, a $499 ‘patriotic’ smartphone called ‘Trump Mobile’, is under scrutiny in the US after tech outlets and social media users flagged what they term a fake, AI-generated American flag on its branding and drew alleged similarities to a cheap Chinese handset.

Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr pushed out a glossy video on Wednesday claiming that customers who had placed $100 deposits would finally begin receiving their T1 phones, with shipments supposedly starting ‘this week.’

That promise followed months of missed deadlines. Launch dates have slipped from August last year to October, and then again to May, fuelling persistent doubts about whether the phone even exists in meaningful numbers.

Trump Mobile has marketed the T1 as a defiantly pro-America alternative to mainstream tech brands, plastered in patriotic imagery and, at least initially, billed as ‘MADE IN AMERICA.’

The company’s own messaging has since softened.

Promotional material now says the phone is ‘designed with American values in mind, shaped by American innovation and supported by American teams helping guide design and quality’, language that carefully avoids saying where the device is actually built.

That tension between rhetoric and reality is at the heart of the latest controversy. In the new promotional clips shared on X, formerly Twitter, viewers quickly noticed something wrong with the American flag logo glowing on the back of the Trump-branded phone.

The United States flag has 13 stripes. In one video, the Trump Mobile version appears to have 11. In another, it drops to nine.

This article was written by Human Superior Intelligence (HSI)

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