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Ninja News 4/26/26


ECONOMIC NEWS NINJA

Get Far Ahead Financially In The Next 6 Months

April 25, 2026 | Economic News Ninja

💰 The 2007 playbook is exactly what to run right now. Back then, Ninja sold 14 properties down to three, pulled an equity line he didn't touch, side-hustled every weekend, and saved every dime. That capital became the buying power for the 2008 fire sale.

🔥 The opportunity in a downturn is buying from panic, not predicting it. In 2008, Ninja was buying inventory from closing companies at 1–5 cents on the dollar and selling at 10–15 cents. Doubling and tripling money on stuff that was about to be thrown out.

📚 The right spend right now is on a skill, not stuff. Tax liens, side hustles, anything that turns into cash flow inside the next 6–12 months. High fuel prices are about to crush the people who never planned for this. Be the buyer, not the seller.

KPMG Layoffs Just Hit 10% Of Workforce

April 24, 2026 | Economic News Ninja

💼 KPMG is cutting roughly 100 US audit partners — about 10% of partners — after a yearlong voluntary retirement push fell short. The cuts are explicitly to "align partner numbers with the size of the audit business," meaning the business itself is shrinking.

📊 KPMG audits about 10% of all SEC-registered companies. When a Big Four firm shrinks its audit bench, that's a direct readout that real corporate America is doing less business, hiring less, and needing fewer audits.

⚠️ The hidden tell is partners refusing voluntary retirement. Senior accountants — the people best positioned to know when they have "enough" — are saying they don't have enough to retire. That's not a KPMG story. That's the entire workforce.

Goodbye

April 24, 2026 | Economic News Ninja

🚀 Ninja is announcing the next chapter of his work — a movement focused on business owners and entrepreneurs around the world. The mission: teach 10x and 100x revenue growth alongside kingdom-giving and tithing. Faith-led, business-results-driven.

🏢 The pivot is being driven hard by what he sees in the real economy right now. The cycle that has run through precious metals, crypto, and real estate is now landing on businesses — and the next 12–24 months will create asymmetric opportunities for prepared owners and acquirers.

🎯 This season, Ninja is going deep on tax liens personally — flying to Florida in a few months to buy liens and deeded properties at auction. The strategy stays the same: buy when others can't, sell when others must.

Urgent Warning To Business Owners Worldwide

April 23, 2026 | Economic News Ninja

The Hormuz blockade is going to cause supply chain damage worse than what hit when Russia invaded Ukraine. Higher fuel costs land on every business at once — input costs, freight, packaging, and end-product margin all compress simultaneously.

💰 Most owners haven't audited where their margin is leaking — pricing, frequency of sale, average ticket, and referral systems are the four levers that hold the most untapped revenue inside an existing book of customers.

📊 Proactive beats reactive in every cycle. The owners who tighten margin, raise average ticket, and lock in customer retention BEFORE the supply chain breaks are the ones who buy out wounded competitors at fire-sale prices on the other side.

A Serious Warning About The Economy

April 23, 2026 | Economic News Ninja

📊 Per the CNBC All-American Economic Survey, Americans are cutting back on entertainment, travel, groceries, and even medical care. Fuel-driven inflation is changing behavior in real time across thousands of polled households.

📉 Trump's economic-outlook approval just hit an all-time low for his administration. Headlines and sentiment numbers reinforce each other — consumers read the bad news, then act in alignment with it. That's how a slowdown becomes a recession.

📝 The next 90 days will print quarterly earnings warnings naming higher fuel as the boogeyman. The pattern matches 2007 (pre-2008 crash) and 1980 — consumer pullback before companies admit the slowdown publicly. Position now, not after.

Coinbase Giving UK Crypto Holders Some Huge News

April 22, 2026 | Economic News Ninja

💵 Coinbase just launched crypto-backed USDC lending for UK users — up to $5 million against Bitcoin and $1 million against Ethereum. Service runs on Morpho, the open-source lending protocol on Coinbase's Base network.

💰 This is the wealthy-person playbook now available retail. Borrow against appreciated assets, deploy the proceeds into other assets in a different part of the cycle, never realize the gain, never trigger the tax. Coinbase is making the mechanics trivial.

📈 The strategic move: borrow against crypto when it's high to buy real estate, tax liens, or distressed assets when those are low. Rotate capital across cycles instead of trading prices. Watch the margin requirements — that's the only way this strategy breaks.

China Is Dumping Oil

April 22, 2026 | Economic News Ninja

🛢 Per Mercuria's CEO, Chinese oil companies have been aggressively selling crude to multiple nations in tenders over the last 2–3 weeks. They're not hoarding ahead of the Hormuz crisis — they're offloading.

🇨🇳 The strategic read: China is buying global goodwill while the US is being blamed for the oil-price spike. Western media won't frame it that way. Watch where countries quietly rotate their loyalties over the next 12 months.

⏱️ Mercuria estimates China can keep this pace for roughly 3 more weeks before flipping back to rebuilding reserves at lower prices. Buy low, sell high, repeat — the trade most retail investors never actually run.

Trump's BIG Stock Market TACO Plan

April 22, 2026 | Economic News Ninja

🚨 Trump extended the Iran ceasefire by 3–5 days right after the IRGC seized the MSC Francesca and a Greek-owned ship named Euphoria — a third tanker hit in the Hormuz choke point in hours. Stocks rallied on the extension anyway.

📊 This is the "TACO" pattern — threats, then walk-back, then a market melt-up on the relief. Algorithmic traders are pricing the predictable Trump pivot, not the geopolitical reality on the ground.

Iran's senior advisor stated the US naval blockade is "no different from bombing" and must be met with military response. Fuel prices are not letting up into peak summer driving season — that's the pressure that breaks the algo melt-up.

What Are The Warning Signs Of A US Economic Collapse

April 25, 2026 | The Economic Ninja

📊 The median home price has been falling since July 2022 — down over 8% on the Fed's series. That's already roughly half of the entire 2008 housing market crash, and most people don't even know we're halfway in.

💼 Rising unemployment, sticky inflation, and a Fed that just finished its rate-hike cycle are all already in motion. Government revisions consistently make prior-month jobs numbers worse later, masking the trend in real time.

📈 The stock market is the LAST domino to drop, not the first. Housing, employment, and consumer confidence crack first; the S&P puts in highs while it's happening. Trump's economic-outlook approval is at all-time lows — consumer confidence is already cracking.

Meta Laid Off Thousands — Here's Why AI Companies Are Doing This

April 24, 2026 | The Economic Ninja

💼 Meta is cutting 8,000 employees (10% of global workforce) AND not filling thousands of open roles it had previously been hiring for. The threshold from single-digit to double-digit layoffs is the line where Wall Street starts paying attention.

🤖 Meta is spending $135 billion on AI this year — roughly equal to the previous three years combined. Zuckerberg telegraphed this in January: workers using AI heavily are completing projects that previously required entire teams.

💻 If you're an employee, learning AI is no longer optional — companies are openly choosing AI-fluent workers over the rest. Expect more large-cap layoff announcements through summer as the rest of the industry follows the Meta playbook.

Did You Make Money From Spark Token?

April 24, 2026 | The Economic Ninja

📈 Spark (SPK) ripped 120%+ in the last week after the Kelp DAO hack pushed liquidity into adjacent projects. Ninja called this one in his free January 6 video at roughly 2.5 cents.

💰 The rule that wins in crypto: pull initial investment and profit on a double, then ride the house money. A 10-project, $100-each portfolio with one 100% winner already moves the whole book up 10%. Most people miss this because the win number doesn't feel "big enough."

🔥 Wealth comes slowly, riches come fast and leave faster. Lottery winners prove this constantly. The discipline of taking small, consistent wins — not chasing the moonshot — is what compounds into real money over a cycle.

XRP Holders That Acted On Jan 6th Just Crushed It

April 24, 2026 | The Economic Ninja

📈 The Spark setup Ninja flagged on January 6 just doubled. Anyone who entered during that flatline period at ~2.5 cents is sitting at exactly 100%, with several other adjacent projects setting up similar flat-line patterns right now.

💰 The PayPal × Spark deal that XRP holders kept waiting for — Spark actually inked it. Three deals total. The tokens that get the real liquidity catalysts move first; the rest bag-hold the narrative.

💡 Most retail crypto holders never take profits because they fear the tax bill. Pay the tax on a real win, redeploy the principal, and hit it again. That's how the pros compound through cycles — not buy-and-pray.

Goldman Sachs Warning About Future Stock Market Support

April 22, 2026 | The Economic Ninja

⚠️ Goldman's Delta One desk warning: "we're in the final innings of systematic support for stocks." The easy part — passive flows, systematic buying, the algorithmic melt-up — is officially behind us per their own trading desk.

📊 The desk's read on the Iran ceasefire: "term of convenience more than a true resolution." The US extends truce after truce while keeping the blockade in place. Markets keep ripping on relief headlines because the algos are programmed to buy the de-escalation, not weigh it.

🥇 Gold is now trading in DIRECT correlation with stocks — up when stocks are up, down when they're down. That's not how the safe-haven trade is supposed to work. Ninja is staying in cash watching for the last hurrah before the break.

US Treasury Just Sanctioned 14 Targets For Supplying Iran

April 22, 2026 | The Economic Ninja

🚨 The US Treasury just sanctioned 14 individuals, entities, and aircraft based in Iran, Turkey, and the UAE for involvement in procuring or transporting weapons components for the Iranian regime.

💥 The Treasury noted Iran is increasingly relying on one-way unmanned drones to target US and allied positions — the operational mix is shifting from missiles to autonomous swarms.

📊 The pattern of sanctions, retaliation, and quiet escalation is wearing thin. Each round adds fragility to the dollar's reserve status as countries reroute trade outside the US system. The market keeps shrugging — until one round it doesn't.

15 Million Vacant Homes In America Now

April 25, 2026 | Real Estate Ninja

🏠 Per a new LendingTree study using 2023 Census Bureau ACS data, there are 14.9 million vacant homes nationwide. Maine leads with over 157,000 vacancies, followed by Vermont (67,000) and Alaska (59,000). New England is over-represented at the top of the list.

📊 The vacancy epidemic is the data nobody covers because it doesn't fit the "housing shortage" narrative the homebuilder advertisers prefer. The supply is there — the price/affordability disconnect is the real story.

🅿 Ninja is flying to Florida in a few months to buy tax liens and deeded properties at auction in towns with massive vacancy concentrations. The 2007–08 setup is here — the convoluted parts of the deal are exactly where most retail buyers walk away.

A Shift In The Real Estate Market Is Happening

April 24, 2026 | Real Estate Ninja

📍 Real-time anecdote: a beachfront listing dropped $50,000 the day BEFORE its open house. That's not strategy — that's desperation. Sellers and agents are openly capitulating in a way Ninja hasn't seen in years.

📊 In a single high-end coastal area, roughly 10% of homes in contract just fell out of contract within a month or two. That's mass capitulation in the segment that's supposed to be the most resilient.

🎯 The play is to wait, sniper-style, into fall. Around the midterms, fuel prices likely stay elevated, consumer psychology gets worse, and the spring-stacked inventory that didn't sell becomes the buyer's market everyone has been forecasting.


The Takeaway

Two large companies crossed the 10% layoff threshold this week — Meta and KPMG. That's the line where Wall Street and Main Street stop pretending the labor market is fine. KPMG audits 10% of all SEC-registered companies. When their book is shrinking, real corporate America is shrinking. When senior partners refuse the voluntary retirement package, the people closest to the math are saying they don't have enough.

Goldman's own Delta One desk is now calling this "the final innings of systematic support for stocks." Gold is trading in direct correlation with the S&P, breaking the textbook safe-haven trade. China is quietly dumping oil to build goodwill while the US is blamed for the price spike. CNBC's own consumer survey shows Americans cutting groceries and medical care to absorb the fuel hit. Real estate sellers are dropping prices the day BEFORE open houses, and 14.9 million homes sit vacant across the country.

The pattern matches 2007 perfectly — not because history rhymes, because human emotion doesn't change. The next 90 days will print earnings warnings citing fuel as the boogeyman. Position now: cash, skill-building, and a short list of assets you'll buy when the panic crowd is selling.

— Ninja

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