The Alex Jones Show Live - August 18, 2026


🚨BREAKING： Top Banks Warn Of Global Economic Collapse As All Lights FLASH RED!


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00:00:00.000 It is Tuesday, the 18th day of August 2026. We are 171 days into this war, and as predicted by all
00:00:08.040 the economists, it has devastated the world economy, and the really bad repercussions are
00:00:13.200 just beginning to show up on the horizon. This is a bombshell live Tuesday transmission. Top
00:00:21.040 banks warn of global economic collapse as all lights are flashing red. Trump declares trade
00:00:25.040 over Moose's U.S. territory. Obviously, this right here. When I give you a headline like that,
00:00:30.620 that's what the banks are saying. That's what the big brokerage firms are saying. That's what
00:00:34.420 the governments are saying. Sea of red. Sea of red. Futures slide as markets wake up to soaring
00:00:43.720 bond yields and diesel prices. Agricultural commodity prices break out as J.P. Morgan's
00:00:50.180 food crisis warning gets louder foreign holdings of u.s treasuries fall in june led by japan uk
00:00:56.380 china data shows u.s housing starts plummet in july near covid lows a lot of the retail market
00:01:05.460 imploding meanwhile trump post map depicting hormuz as new u.s territory just after latest
00:01:11.580 tanker attack by iranians the straits basically closed as japan bond yields soar unrealized losses
00:01:17.660 that life insurance hit $200 million.
00:01:20.120 Japanese main business now is committing suicide
00:01:22.200 to be able to fund their families.
00:01:23.420 I'm not kidding.
00:01:23.900 Look it up.
00:01:25.060 Absolutely unprecedented.
00:01:26.120 Diesel spread hit lows, record,
00:01:30.820 as refined products crisis arrives.
00:01:33.580 They don't have enough massive shortages.
00:01:37.620 More huge attacks taking place inside of Russia.
00:01:43.140 We'll be getting to all of that.
00:01:44.420 generates a number of risk. UBS warns German natural gas storage levels alarmingly below
00:01:52.740 seasonal norms. Strategic oil reserves basically gone. That's just some of what we've got
00:02:00.740 for you today. On that front, we'll be drilling more into, and this is known numbers.
00:02:07.940 This is known this would happen. This has derailed Trump's recovery.
00:02:11.560 And the polls are out, even lower polls for him, on the war, on the economy.
00:02:16.720 And he's making all these Marie Antoinette, let them eat cake statements about everything's fine.
00:02:21.220 So are his surrogates the worst possible thing he could be doing.
00:02:24.480 I'm not even criticizing Trump.
00:02:26.260 I'm just watching this train wreck, this circular firing squad, and it is just terrible.
00:02:32.800 Real-time, uncensored, unstoppable.
00:02:37.780 AlexJonesLive.com.
00:02:39.640 Take a stand.
00:02:41.100 Share the link.
00:02:43.660 Do you want to fight?
00:02:44.820 You better believe you got one.
00:02:47.200 I'm sitting here looking at all of this news, and I'm asking myself, what is it I want to get into first?
00:02:52.820 There's a lot more I didn't mention.
00:02:55.860 And it just hits me that we are in this train wreck.
00:03:04.500 It's a slow motion train wreck, and it's only going to get more intense.
00:03:08.000 and so much of the problems are already baked into where we are that we need to continue to
00:03:14.360 try to mitigate these crises and get governmental corrections and corporate individual corrections.
00:03:19.180 But at the same time, those of us that have been right about all this, now we've been positioned
00:03:23.740 for a design global collapse, need to just get to the point of getting out front of it and pointing
00:03:28.520 out we were right, we were correct, and what to expect next. So when all this carnage unfolds,
00:03:33.480 economic, cultural, militarily, that when the globalists have all of their horrible solutions
00:03:39.840 from the crisis they've created to bring in an even deeper level of their control,
00:03:44.540 people understand it's a trap and speak out against it. So I've been working really hard
00:03:49.180 to stop this designed economic collapse. I've been working really hard to
00:03:53.620 get grassroots support to put pressure on the administration. But unfortunately,
00:04:00.160 Unfortunately, they have not course-corrected on the main issues, and so we need to have a larger discussion about how we're going to deal with what's going to happen because that economist on the show, I agree with them, who were optimistic a year ago that things should be turned around.
00:04:21.380 But now with this war, six months in, and what it's already triggered and done, we have to start really getting prepared for what's going to happen, and it's not going to be pretty.
00:04:34.660 Just the UN's own reports, and I don't just believe them out of hand.
00:04:38.200 I study all this myself, and their reports are pretty accurate for dead reckoning because then they're the ones that are helping orchestrate it,
00:04:45.940 and they'll get all the money for UNICEF and the tens of millions donated
00:04:49.780 and the live aid programs, they're predicting 50-plus million people
00:04:54.540 are going to starve to death conservatively next year around the world
00:04:57.960 on top of the normal 20 million or so that starve to death
00:05:00.640 just because half the fertilizer that Africa gets comes out of the Strait Hormuz
00:05:04.400 causes chain reactions around the world.
00:05:07.140 More than half the world population is living literally at a subsistence level
00:05:10.840 near starvation.
00:05:12.320 With this exacerbation alone, that is going to kill a bunch of people
00:05:15.820 then they're going to have the military age men who are the strongest and the meanest try to flee
00:05:21.820 into europe that's already been predicted you're already seeing record level flows a lot of that's
00:05:26.520 being orchestrated and directed by the islamic groups that control north africa but you're going
00:05:30.920 to see massive economic cultural military refugees that are going to be weaponized and directed at
00:05:39.000 the west at levels we've never seen and if you think what you've seen has been bad so far you
00:05:43.320 ain't seen nothing yet. And that's only one aspect of this. Then we're going to have conflicts
00:05:49.560 that arise and are sparked out of this and regional wars that are already simmering,
00:05:55.880 and some of them burning brightly, will explode. And then that will cause larger regional wars.
00:06:03.200 And you see the chain reaction of the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine. You see the expansion of the Iran
00:06:09.080 war into a regional war. You see all these new alliances forming. Trump and Netanyahu are really
00:06:16.400 playing with fire, allowing the Strait of Hormuz to be closed by triggering this war.
00:06:22.120 But it got the green light by powers that be above them. That's why BlackRock is so happy,
00:06:26.740 because this will cause the world economic collapse they want. The only question is,
00:06:32.400 how bad will it be? And then out of that, they have the unlimited fiat currency to loan everyone.
00:06:36.780 And out of this crisis will come out the new central bank digital currency, the new global social credit score, the market-to-be system that they're openly promoting and pushing, that Bill Gates and the communist Chinese have designed at the United Nations and is now standardized and prepared and ready to be rolled out.
00:06:50.940 And Bill Gates gave an interview three weeks ago.
00:06:52.760 He rarely pops up now talking about how the rollout is imminent.
00:06:57.520 And BlackRock's Larry Fink has talked about how great this war is for their whole globalist system.
00:07:01.880 So they've gone from being very depressed a couple years ago and a year ago
00:07:05.800 to being bright-eyed and bushy-tailed because they're getting what they want.
00:07:11.360 And that's why when we see the people that are on the, quote, Trump train,
00:07:15.240 who are either mad at Trump and against the war and obsessed just with Israel,
00:07:19.460 or the other side that's pro-war and pro-Israel, many of them on the Israeli payroll,
00:07:25.260 that is only one level of the debate.
00:07:31.420 and they boil it down to are you for the Muslims or are you for Israel
00:07:35.400 when it's much more complex than that.
00:07:38.100 And above that, at the international banking level,
00:07:41.820 they are extremely pleased with where all this has gone
00:07:44.600 because it is going to destroy the average individual's income and savings.
00:07:49.520 It is going to put countries that were on the verge of economic collapse
00:07:52.360 and having their credit ratings downgraded like we have been.
00:07:56.180 It's going to push us with our $40 trillion of debt,
00:07:59.820 and it's a lot bigger than that in reality.
00:08:01.420 right over the edge. We were in bankruptcy, basically. He just hadn't announced it yet.
00:08:05.940 Trump had real plans that really were going to work. They got sabotaged at every level by the
00:08:12.640 courts and by people even in his administration that wrote the tariffs. And now this war and
00:08:17.560 other conflicts on top of that and the debt they've created and the destruction of energy
00:08:24.500 production, not just in the Middle East, but in obviously Russia and in Ukraine has triggered a
00:08:31.000 chain reaction. So we are in a lot of trouble. And I am tomorrow's news today. This is not a
00:08:38.420 hard prediction to make. We're already here. We predicted that these actions were going to have
00:08:47.180 this effect. And now they have. And so we need to start having a debate about how bad this is going
00:08:55.440 to be what it's going to look like, the type of domino effects it's going to trigger, not
00:09:02.200 just the migrant flows, not just the mass death, not just the increase in conflict and
00:09:05.880 wars and regional wars and larger potential wars, but also not just here, but around the
00:09:12.920 Western world, the communists, the socialists with heavy establishment funding are positioning
00:09:18.460 themselves to push socialism and communism during this economic collapse we're entering
00:09:26.180 to position themselves as the saviors. And so now we're in a real fight during this extremely
00:09:35.340 dangerous, destructive, painful period we're now entering to really get the word out to explain
00:09:42.840 to everybody exactly who engineered this, how they did it, and how their solutions will only
00:09:47.500 get us deeper into it as a form of economic slavery and control. So now I'll go into these
00:09:52.940 articles I just mentioned a little bit more detail. Sea of red futures slide as market wakes
00:09:58.800 up to soaring bond yields and diesel prices. U.S. futures are a sea of red, as Bloomberg describes
00:10:06.200 it in early trading. My way of saying that in the headline I wrote today for AlexShillsLive.com was
00:10:11.780 all the lights are flashing red. U.S. futures are a sea of red, as Bloomberg described it in early
00:10:19.640 trading, as thin summer volume persists with the wrong kind of inflation coming in the fore and
00:10:25.520 Monday's tech sell-off weighing on sentiment despite bullish AI news. Yeah, the AI bubble,
00:10:31.660 as I told you a month ago, I believe is beginning to break within the next few months. I think we're
00:10:35.980 already in the beginning of the popping of the bubble in slow motion. My opinion, it may be
00:10:40.120 reversed, but that's where I think we're at. It's not 100% prediction, but if I was a betting
00:10:45.380 man, I'd say it's going to bust by, officially by. Very good chance you have a dot-com bubble
00:10:56.440 crash 2.0, AI bubble crash. I'd say by late October for sure, but we'll see. We'll see if
00:11:05.560 Alex Jones was right again. Not happy about it, even though it's fiat, even though they're
00:11:09.640 corrupt, even though they have liability protection, even though it's going to send
00:11:12.980 a chain reaction through everything. I'm not happy about that because even though it's
00:11:17.640 corrupted out of control, it's the tree we're sitting in. The recent stock bonds disconnect
00:11:24.420 is finally being reappraised with U.S. futures lower across the board. S&P 500 futures fell
00:11:33.440 0.4 with Nasdaq 100 contracts down 1.1. And it just goes to the numbers. NVIDIA dropped 1.8
00:11:41.820 as a cost of production in its debt against default closed in on high.
00:11:51.000 Reached last month. Basically, all the debts are coming due. The bubbles are starting to pop,
00:11:56.200 the sub-bubbles. Yields seem to be reacting to the combination of energy prices,
00:12:01.260 the deteriorating U.S. fiscal situation, elevated credit insurance, and BOJ-JPY dynamics,
00:12:09.020 which are all driving term PERMA higher. And then you've got all the crude oil at $85 a barrel,
00:12:18.380 diesel exploding above $100 for the first time, Brent trading in oil hitting $91,
00:12:31.260 you can see the futures graph here it's not not not good chip makers and their ai related firms
00:12:42.460 slide weighing on u.s stock futures as risk of sentiment sets in abercrombie and french is down
00:12:50.380 two percent after they were downgraded a bunch of pharmaceutical companies are in trouble
00:12:56.380 AON slips 1%.
00:13:01.240 It just goes on and on.
00:13:03.320 I could read this for hours.
00:13:08.880 The Middle East is clearly re-escalating again,
00:13:11.180 and long-term interest rates are rising,
00:13:13.680 and these things that end up corroding the value of equities.
00:13:19.320 Meanwhile, agricultural commodities, these prices,
00:13:22.380 break out as J.P. Morgan's food crisis warning gets louder,
00:13:25.980 You don't need to be an analyst at J.P. Morgan to know you caught off a third of the world's fertilizer, and that's just the Strait of Hormuz.
00:13:32.020 A bunch of others have been disrupted.
00:13:33.920 You've got the U.N. and ESG governments following the WFESG program cutting back on farming and ranching forcefully.
00:13:44.200 Quote, we've got to get rid of half the farming or people will starve.
00:13:47.540 John Kerry three years ago, they are deliberately undermining and dynamiting the economy.
00:13:52.260 and the basic energy production and animal and human energy, which is called food.
00:14:00.600 It's an attack on the world economy.
00:14:03.060 J.P. Morgan's analyst warning last week,
00:14:05.620 the next global food crisis could begin as early as next year
00:14:09.060 has been a major wake-up call for some,
00:14:11.540 adding the Growing Voices of Institutional Desk warning
00:14:15.660 that the food inflation is poised to re-accelerate.
00:14:18.880 It's guaranteed.
00:14:19.720 We already look at a lot of farmers the U.S. aren't planting or have cut back because the diesel costs so much,
00:14:25.280 and they can get fertilizer, but it costs way too much.
00:14:29.960 Remaining extra watchful about agricultural prices,
00:14:32.520 Bloomberg report earlier that U.S. corn futures moved higher after preliminary results from the pro-farmer crop tour
00:14:41.100 indicated weaker-than-expected yields in part of critical growing belts across the Midwest.
00:14:46.560 The crop tour has somewhat buoyed markets so far,
00:14:50.100 considering the expected lower yields and unfavorable weather.
00:14:54.280 And then, of course, it gets into the rest of the graphs on production
00:14:58.680 and cost of diesel and cost of fertilizer
00:15:01.680 and all the different trends that that shows.
00:15:05.300 These are the red lights flashing.
00:15:07.720 Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries fall in June,
00:15:09.600 led by Japan, U.K., China, data shows.
00:15:12.160 foreign holdings of u.s treasury slid in june data from the treasury department
00:15:18.700 showed on monday led by declines in holdings from japan the uk and china holdings of u.s
00:15:24.180 treasury slipped to 9 299 trillion in june from 9.371 trillion in the previous month but compared
00:15:32.580 with last year treasuries owned by foreigners were up 2.3 japan holdings fell 1.16 trillion
00:15:40.480 down 2.3 from May.
00:15:44.320 And it just goes through all the numbers.
00:15:45.660 China slashed treasuries.
00:15:51.320 Other countries slashed to the UK, you name it.
00:15:58.980 U.S. corporate bonds are having issues.
00:16:01.960 U.S. housing starts plummet in July.
00:16:04.440 I remember the numbers are always about a month behind.
00:16:06.740 After housing starts exploded higher in June, driven by a massive rebound in multifamily units,
00:16:14.200 July was expected to see a reflexive decline of 5.9.
00:16:18.120 Things were considerably worse with U.S. housing starts slumping 12.4.
00:16:24.600 Big problems in the consumer market and retail.
00:16:29.320 Showing major slides across the board with online retailers.
00:16:32.760 but Trump says everything's okay because we're declaring the Strait of Hormuz
00:16:38.120 Strait of America. I get calling it the Gulf of America, really is for the Americas. It's a fun
00:16:46.380 little stunt, but calling it the Strait of America when you don't even control it is really a sick
00:16:52.140 joke. And again, in Japan, as Japan bond yields soar, unrealized losses at life insurers hit
00:17:00.520 $200 billion, mainly because of the massive increase in suicide, which is the main business
00:17:04.460 model on average of Japanese families, where one of the family members will commit suicide
00:17:08.020 so the other family can live and stay in their house.
00:17:12.120 Not good.
00:17:15.480 And again, absolutely unprecedented diesel crack spread hits record as a refined products
00:17:21.080 crisis arrives.
00:17:22.260 What do the farmers use?
00:17:23.280 Diesel.
00:17:25.360 Brent and WTI futures remain below $100 a barrel on Tuesday morning.
00:17:29.780 partly suppressed by government release strategic oil reserves in the global markets but the more
00:17:34.020 serious issue is building downstream with the russian ukraine war russia's cut all its diesel
00:17:38.940 exports there's the infrastructure because now the refined diesel is running out hi folks
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