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Acid Breath - Kobayashi Test - 7 October 2025

Government shut, data feed dead, and the market is whispering its sins. I open today’s Acid Breath by reading price as confession, not scripture.

Regional banks are mating for survival as Fifth Third reaches for Comerica, a fear of dying small dressed up as synergy.

A trillion dollars threatens to seep from emerging world vaults into dollar stablecoins, sovereign power seeping through circuitry, not warships. Stellantis vows 10 billion to resurrect itself. Fools. This is a suicide pact with a countdown clock.

Then Japan takes center stage, a forty percent yen slide and a Nikkei that feels like a séance, the no win Kobayashi test for policy where every choice bleeds. Dots connect to form a melt up that flatters before it flays, with crypto and gold crowned as strange refuges when trust itself is scarce.

This is provocation, not permission, a field guide to Tuesday’s hangover and tomorrow’s reckoning. Listen in, breathe deep, send me your heresies.

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