🇺🇸 🇨🇳 U.S. TO CHINESE SHIPBUILDING: TIME TO PAY PORT FEES OR PLACE A DOMESTIC ORDER The U.S. is rolling out new fees on Chinese-built vessels docking at American ports, with charges starting at $50 per net ton in October and climbing to $140 by 2028. The policy, first floated under Biden and finalized under Trump, aims to boost U.S. shipbuilding—without sinking global trade overnight. Operators can dodge the fees by ordering U.S.-built ships. Source: CNBC

NEW: ETF ISSUER SAYS STATES AND CORPORATIONS WILL BUY "HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS" OF #BITCOIN THIS YEAR "BTC IS PART OF THE GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKETS" 🔥

Mark Zuckerberg recently built a MASSIVE data center for META in Georgia - There are residential homes just hundreds of yards away - It uses so much water, residents no longer have water pressure in their homes - Their sink water no longer works - Their toilets don’t fill with water - Their homes physically shake from the constant new construction - The data centers use so much power they often go without power - The small amount of water they do get to their homes is full of sentiment “It's overwhelming because you really feel like you are up against this huge wall that you can't penetrate. There's nothing that you can do and they don't care.”

Manufacturing jobs are coming home, with green sprouts even before Trump's big tariffs. Will America's Rust Belt be replaced by charming downtowns with quirky antique shops? Or will the tariff war postpone it?

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Meanwhile in the Japanese legislature: "Americans are extortionists... If you get mugged and put money in their hands, the mugger will come back for more."

NEW: 🇸🇻 El Salvador bought more #bitcoin today and added to their strategic reserve.

I'm standing in front of a burning house, and I'm offering you fire insurance on it. Bitcoin

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Just a gentle reminder…