After cutting 14,000 jobs back in October and denying there were more of them coming, Amazon confirmed yesterday there will be another 16,000 layoffs and made comments suggesting the company won’t be done even after then. These job cuts will only add to the worsening anxiety among American workers, who reminded everyone of those deep concerns in the latest plunge in consumer confidence. According to the most optimistic measure for it, from the Conference Board, confidence crashed to its lowest level in over a decade.

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CNBC Amazon laying off about 16,000 corporate workers in latest anti-bureaucracy push
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/amazon-layoffs-anti-bureaucracy-ai.html

Internal messages reveal which teams, jobs affected in Amazon layoffs
https://www.businessinsider.com/internal-messages-teams-jobs-affected-amazon-layoffs-2026-1

CB US Consumer Confidence Fell Sharply in January
https://www.conference-board.org/topics/consumer-confidence/

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One of BlackRock’s private credit funds has just resurrected the cockroach concerns over debt woes in the space. By announcing that it will have to write down 19% of its net asset value, the fund also discloses more areas of cockroach concerns beyond those we had already become aware of. While at the same time, further reminding everyone how everything that people were worried about before they need to keep worrying about and then some.

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BlackRock TCP SEC Filing 8K
https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001370755/000114036126002240/ef20063739_8k.htm

BlackRock Private Debt Fund Tumbles After Writing Down Loans
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/blackrock-private-debt-fund-tumbles-after-writing-down-loans

Flawed Valuations Threaten $1.7 Trillion Private Credit Boom
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-28/how-private-credit-market-boom-is-hiding-potential-valuation-problems

BlackRock to Auction Amazon Seller Once Valued at $1 Billion
https://pe-insights.com/blackrock-to-auction-amazon-seller-once-valued-at-1-billion/

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An unprecedented shakeup at the very top of the Chinese military has shaken up the rest of the world. Xi Jinping didn’t just go after a longtime friend and ally, he has gone after everyone in what increasingly looks like a paranoid, Stalinist shakeup. But why? I’ve told you many times before about the economic pressure on China that has only intensified more recently. But that’s not the only thing. That’s where it starts, but where it ends is what is increasingly being confirmed as Cold War 2.0.

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60 Minutes How China could use U.S. farmland to attack America
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-china-could-use-us-farmland-to-attack-america-60-minutes/

NYT Xi’s Purge of China’s Military Brings Its Top General Down
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/world/asia/china-top-general-xi-military-purge.html

U.S. Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications threat in New York tristate area
https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2025/09/us-secret-service-dismantles-imminent-telecommunications-threat-new-york

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