ABSOLUTE BLOODBATH

KOSPI crashed -10% in a single day, making this the 3rd largest crash in its history.

₩716,000,000,000,000 has been wiped out from the Korean stock market.

That’s half a trillion US dollars.

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Seeing your neighbour getting rich quick.

Hype. Greed.

The end is usually near.

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SOUTH KOREA JUST PROPOSED TAXING UNREALIZED GAINS.

And this is one of the major reasons behind today's massive selloff in the Korean market, now being called BLACK TUESDAY in Korea.

At a forum hosted by South Korea's ruling Democratic Party, lawmakers called for comprehensive taxation that would treat unrealized gains on stocks and real estate as taxable income, even before the asset is ever sold.

The ruling party has pushed escalating wealth tax measures throughout 2026, including a February forum proposing to lower the real estate capital gains exemption threshold from 1.2 billion won to 800 million won, and an April push to abolish the long term holding tax deduction entirely.

Today is the first time this campaign has explicitly extended to taxing unrealized stock gains.

Under current law, investors are taxed only when they sell a stock and realize a profit.

Under this proposal, investors could owe tax on paper gains they have not sold or collected, simply for holding a stock that went up in value.

The Netherlands tried almost this exact policy four months ago.

On February 12, 2026, Dutch lawmakers passed a law taxing unrealized gains on stocks, bonds, and crypto at a flat 36% every year, whether or not anything was sold.

The backlash was immediate. A petition against it gathered more than 61,000 signatures, and Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke called it "the dumbest thing any government on planet earth is pursuing right now."

Just 13 days after the bill passed, the Dutch finance minister announced the government would scrap the unrealized gains portion entirely, admitting the law "cannot pass as is."

This lands directly on a South Korean market that just ran up nearly 95% over the past year, built largely on heavy retail buying with borrowed money.

A tax on gains that exist only on paper is a direct threat to the exact rally that created that exposure in the first place.

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ORACLE SPENT NEARLY 2 BILLION IN SEVERANCE WHILE REDUCING HEADCOUNT 21,000

We have covered the layoffs extensively, but now we have the official data for FY2026.

21,000 net jobs cut

$1.84B in severance paid

They confirm data center investment will result in more cuts

$ORCL

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