The crash is coming, it’s just a matter of time. Everything is overpriced.

The crash is coming, it’s just a matter of time.

Everything is overpriced. https://t.co/jxvpab9qE8

— Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸 (@EricSpracklen) August 17, 2026

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— Amanda Goodall (@Amanda_Goodall) August 18, 2026

Squeeze time https://t.co/RmfO9pJb2g

— Joseph Brown (@heresyfinancial) August 17, 2026

The AI job apocalypse keeps not showing up in the data.

Travel agents were supposed to be first on the chopping block. AI now searches, compares, and books entire trips. US travel agency payrolls have sat flat near 75,000 since early 2023.

The layoffs live in headlines. The BLS… pic.twitter.com/R8UGiDDhTj

— Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) August 17, 2026

🚨The AI boom is getting harder to justify:

Average LLM token cost is down to $1.05 per 1 million tokens, the lowest since December.

AI token prices are falling as models become more efficient, while the cost of the infrastructure needed to run them remains enormous.

At a… pic.twitter.com/oe8lokB9cE

— Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) August 17, 2026

100%

We are in the Bubbles BlowOffTop – and when that is done – it will become nasty! https://t.co/AlUfTteQgK

— Henrik Zeberg (@HenrikZeberg) August 16, 2026

JUST IN: 30% of Americans reportedly have no emergency savings

— Kalshi (@Kalshi) August 17, 2026

US financial conditions have never been looser. Not once since 1990.

Bloomberg’s index of how easy it is to raise money across stocks, credit, and rates just closed at the easiest level in its 35-year history, looser than 2021 and looser than the dot-com peak. This is the liquidity holding stocks, gold, and credit near records all at once.

Conditions this loose have never lasted. When they tighten, the most leveraged trades, AI and credit, unwind first.

US financial conditions have never been looser. Not once since 1990.

Bloomberg's index of how easy it is to raise money across stocks, credit, and rates just closed at the easiest level in its 35-year history, looser than 2021 and looser than the dot-com peak. This is the… pic.twitter.com/gRGYYwdYZZ

— Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) August 17, 2026