🚨 “No risk free path.”
Powell just told you the endgame is here.
Either inflation silently destroys your savings
Or recession violently destroys jobsThe Fed cannot save both.
Liquidity already broke the system.
There is no escape. Pick your poison. pic.twitter.com/m6RZGK2b03— Wall Street Gold (@WSBGold) December 16, 2025
4.6% unemployment rate is very serious. There has not been a time since the 1980 (and the 1980 recession was the ONLY exception – unemployment was high throughout the 70s in a lost decade economically) that unemployment has been this high and it did NOT indicate the early days… pic.twitter.com/ibNE1uvgrG
— Uncle Milty’s Ghost (@his_eminence_j) December 16, 2025
Donald Trump, the man who rode to the White House last year on a promise to fix America’s cost-of-living crisis, is now struggling to convince voters that he even thinks it is a real issue after dismissing it as a Democratic 'hoax'. https://t.co/orJ1Lk4gud pic.twitter.com/FAwgsqWEsm
— Financial Times (@FT) December 16, 2025
Retail sales, after accounting for inflation, haven't budged since Spring '21 – it was just four years of prices going up, not more stuff being sold: pic.twitter.com/XTfxhk4t0a
— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) December 17, 2025
Retail sales, after accounting for inflation, haven't budged since Spring '21 – it was just four years of prices going up, not more stuff being sold: pic.twitter.com/XTfxhk4t0a
— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) December 17, 2025
The US has lost -67,000 manufacturing jobs since Liberation Day…
AI data centers aren’t cutting it. pic.twitter.com/ni7ClQy9n4
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) December 16, 2025
Excluding covid, the unemployment rate is at its highest level in over 8 years.
The labor market is deteriorating particularly quickly for young workers, who are facing a 10.6% unemployment rate. pic.twitter.com/5GvKz7w0OX
— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) December 16, 2025
Macro Doom@HenrikZeberg lays out why he expects the worst recession since the 1930s.
Misallocated capital. Rising unemployment. A massive bubble and fiscal policy on fumes.
He thinks the Fed will respond with force.
But this time the rescue fuels inflation instead of saving… pic.twitter.com/fWLtJvDiF0
— Kyle Chassé 🐸 (@Kylechasse) December 16, 2025
ELON: “INFLATION HAPPENS WHEN YOU PRINT MORE MONEY THAN YOU PRODUCE VALUE”
In the simplest terms, inflation isn’t mysterious, it’s math.
When governments print more money than the economy produces in goods and services, prices rise.
“If you add money to the system… pic.twitter.com/YESovtI6bW
— Hedgeye (@Hedgeye) December 16, 2025
$54 billion in money printing is coming in a single money courtesy of the Federal Reserve. How much is that really? It’s the size of QE1, 2, and 3. So it’s massive and while inflation has been consistently high, you can expect it to be MUCH higher as the devaluation of the currency continues.