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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡

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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡

@shanaka86

Author of The Ascent Begins. Independent Analyst. Money, geopolitics, AI, science, and sovereignty. Mapping the collapse and the reconstruction of order.

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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86
Dec 14, 2025
Civilizations don’t collapse from war. They collapse from silence. 1177 BCE: Every Bronze Age power fell in 50 years. Trade stopped. Letters ceased. 2025: $346 trillion debt. 310% of GDP. Same pattern. Same physics. I wrote the manual for what comes after. THE ASCENT
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86
Oct 26, 2025
OCTOBER 26, 2025: THE DAY AMERICA BECAME AN EMPIRE While you watched TikTok, the United States just executed the greatest economic coup in human history. China controls 80% of rare earth processing—the neurons of every weapon system, smartphone, and AI server on planet Earth.
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86
Nov 10, 2025
CASH DIES IN 847 DAYS Europe just legislated the end of financial freedom and nobody noticed. January 2027: Every euro above €10,000 becomes illegal tender. Every Bitcoin needs government permission. Every transaction becomes a datapoint in Brussels’ surveillance grid. This
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86
Oct 11, 2025
4:30pm: Whale opens $100M+ BTC short 4:50pm: Trump announces 100% China tariffs 5:20pm: RECORD $19.3 BILLION liquidations That whale’s profit: $192 MILLION in 50 minutes. This wasn’t luck. This was insider trading. Subpoena the exchange logs. Name the desks. Prove markets are
The Kobeissi Letter
@KobeissiLetter
Oct 11, 2025
This is unusual: ~30 minutes before President Trump's tariff announcement yesterday, a "whale" took a multi-million dollar SHORT in Bitcoin. 1 hour later, crypto saw its largest ever liquidation and this position was liquidated for +$192 MILLION in profit. Did someone know?
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86
Nov 17, 2025
JAPAN JUST KILLED THE GLOBAL MONEY PRINTER AND NOBODY NOTICED The most dangerous number in finance right now is 1.71%. That’s Japan’s 10-year bond yield. Highest since 2008. Here’s why your retirement just got obliterated: For 30 years, Japan printed infinity money at 0% rates
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86
Nov 13, 2025
BURRY’S FINAL WARNING: The $9.2M Bet That Ends Silicon Valley The man who called 2008 while Wall Street laughed just walked away from public markets forever. Michael Burry didn’t just short Palantir. He executed the most asymmetric trade in financial history: $9.2 million for
Cassandra Unchained
@michaeljburry
Nov 13, 2025
So, I bought 50,000 of these things for $1.84. Each of those things is 100 doodads. So I spent $9,200,000, Not $912,000,000. @CNBC @WSJ @FT Each of those doodads let me sell $PLTR at $50 in 2027. That was done last month. On to much better things Nov 25th.
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86
Oct 22, 2025
THE $7.4 TRILLION DETONATOR: AMERICA’S HIDDEN LIQUIDITY BOMB ABOUT TO OBLITERATE EVERY MARKET ASSUMPTION The most dangerous number in financial history is hiding in plain sight. $7.4 trillion parked in money market funds. Not in stocks. Not in real estate. Not in gold. Not in
Amy Nixon
@texasrunnerDFW
Oct 21, 2025
There is SO MUCH MONEY Not in Gold. Not in Bitcoin. Not in stocks. Not in Real Estate. MMF is basically highly liquid cash equivalent If rates ever drop, much of this all goes somewhere else
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86
Nov 16, 2025
SCIENTISTS JUST PROVED YOU CAN REVERSE YOUR BRAIN AGE IN 4 HOURS What happened on November 2025 will rewrite human longevity. A single 25mg dose of psilocybin didn’t just alter consciousness. It physically rewound the human brain to a youthful state. Measurable. Reproducible.
Bryan Johnson
@bryan_johnson
Nov 15, 2025
First mushroom trip data is out: my brain activity. Dose: 5 g dried Psilocybe cubensis (B+ strain) Containing 24.9 mg psilocybin Psilocybin longevity experiment. What we see in the brain: + brain activity data mirror my subjective experience + strong decrease in my brain’s
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86
Oct 12, 2025
🚨 IF YOU STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW CATASTROPHIC YESTERDAY WAS 🚨 Let me spell it out: While Bitcoin dropped 10% like a normal Tuesday correction… THE ENTIRE ALTCOIN MARKET GOT SENT TO THE SHADOW REALM Here’s what “blue chip” really means 👇 $ATOM: $4.00 → $0.001 99.97%
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86
Oct 27, 2025
JUST IN: The Amazon Moment We Weren’t Ready For Amazon just announced 30,000 layoffs .. the largest in company history. But the number itself isn’t the story. What’s happening beneath the surface should concern every working person on Earth. THE SCALE 10% of Amazon’s 350,000
The Kobeissi Letter
@KobeissiLetter
Oct 27, 2025
BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, is preparing to announce mass job cuts beginning tomorrow in what is expected to be the largest layoff in company history. The company plans to lay off as many as 30,000 employees across its corporate workforce.
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86
Nov 4, 2025
THE RECKONING Michael Burry just bet $1.1 billion that the AI revolution is a lie. Not the technology. The valuation. Eighty percent of his entire portfolio now sits in put options against Nvidia and Palantir … the twin gods of the machine age. This is not hedging. This is
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*Walter Bloomberg
@DeItaone
Nov 4, 2025
$NVDA - NVIDIA FALLS AS ‘BIG SHORT’ INVESTOR MICHAEL BURRY BETS AGAINST AI AGAIN Nvidia shares fell 2% to $202.83 in premarket trading Tuesday after filings showed Michael Burry’s Scion Asset Management bought $187 million in Nvidia put options, signaling a bearish bet. Scion
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86
Oct 26, 2025
CHINA JUST SURRENDERED. 48 HOURS. $3 TRILLION GONE. Treasury Secretary Bessent: “China is ready to make a deal.” Translation: Beijing capitulated in 48 hours. The 100% tariff dies November 1st. But China paid a price that will echo for centuries. WHAT JUST HAPPENED: October
The Kobeissi Letter
@KobeissiLetter
Oct 26, 2025
BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Bessent says China is "ready" to make a trade deal with the US after 2 days of negotiations. Bessent says the agreement will remove President Trump's 100% tariff set to go live November 1st.
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86
Oct 5, 2025
The illusion of prosperity is breaking. Stocks up 40%, gold at $4,000, Bitcoin at $125,000, and the dollar down 10% … this isn’t growth, it’s a flight from fiat. The Fed is cutting rates into inflation, printing credibility while calling it policy. When gold, Bitcoin,
The Kobeissi Letter
@KobeissiLetter
Oct 5, 2025
What is happening? The S&P 500 is up +40% in 6 months, Gold is nearing $4,000/oz, and Bitcoin hit a record $2.5 TRILLION market cap. Meanwhile, the US Dollar is set for its WORST year since 1973. Are markets THAT strong or is the US Dollar just crashing? (a thread)
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86
Nov 13, 2025
The most underrated part of this whole story is not the $9.2M in puts, it is the paperwork. Burry didn’t just short PLTR, he shorted the incentive to cave. By deregistering Scion and moving risk to family capital, he turned off redemptions, CNBC, 13F tourists and LP politics. In
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EndGame Macro
@onechancefreedm
Nov 13, 2025
Why I Think Michael Burry Is Shutting Down Scion Now Let’s put a few things together…Burry’s liquidation letter, his depreciation thread on the hyperscalers, and his “me then, me now” Big Short meme and he’s basically spelling out one story. He thinks we’re in an earnings
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