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Felix Prehn - US Panic: The Great Liquidation Just Started + Stock Market News 11 February 2026 (Goat Academy)

February 12, 2026·25 min·1 clip

Japan’s 10-year rate hit 2.35% after Sane Takahichi’s landslide win, and Felix Prehn says $1.4 trillion can move U.S. markets overnight.

1. FELIX PREHN DAILY MARKET NEWS By Goat Academy centers on Japan’s 11 February 2026 election and the reaction in U.S. markets. 2. Felix Prehn, a former investor and banker and the founder of Goat Academy, says his Wall Street mentors teach market mechanics that retail investors usually miss. 3. The episode asks what Japan’s new prime minister, Sane Takahichi, means for U.S. investors if Japanese money starts moving home. 4. Felix says Takahichi won a two-thirds supermajority and now has broad room to push policy without gridlock. 5. He describes her as nationalist, China-hawkish, and strongly pro-stimulus. 6. Felix says she is promising large government spending, tax cuts, and a two-year suspension of the food tax. 7. He argues that Japan’s post-election rate spike to 2.35% is the highest in 27 years and signals stress in a long period of near-zero borrowing. 8. He explains the yen carry trade as borrowing in Japan at low rates, converting to dollars, and buying U.S. stocks, U.S. real estate, or U.S. bonds. 9. Felix says the trade’s profit margin is shrinking because Japan’s loan cost is rising above 2% while U.S. rates have fallen toward 4%. 10. He warns that unwinding the trade would force Japanese investors to sell U.S. assets and could trigger ETF, pension, and margin-call selling. 11. Felix says Japanese investors are among the largest owners of U.S. assets and that even a partial unwind could pressure American markets. 12. He recalls a 2024 mini-meltdown in the U.S. after Japan signaled possible rate increases as an example of this mechanism. 13. The episode then shifts to Japan’s $1.4 trillion in foreign reserves and the special account that recently showed a surplus of about five trillion yen. 14. Felix says Takahichi may use that surplus to fund tax cuts instead of borrowing more. 15. He argues that selling U.S. debt would raise U.S. borrowing costs, lift mortgages and car loans, and pressure corporate profits. 16. Felix says a stronger dollar would also hurt U.S. exports and link the bond market move back to stocks and real estate. 17. The tone is fast, conversational, and loosely structured, with several direct addresses to viewers and repeated reminders to watch Japanese rates and the yen. 18. Felix mixes market explanation with personal asides about a nine-hour flight, a golden retriever, and advice he learned from long-time Wall Street mentors. 19. People watching U.S. stocks, gold, silver, and rate-sensitive sectors would get the most out of this episode. 20. Viewers wanting a tightly edited, context-light market briefing may skip it.

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