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Credit spreads spike while S&P barely moves, history says bear markets follow. Investors have rotated into cash at the fastest rate since the COVID-19 pandemic. “Buy the first pullback after a new high, sell the first rally after a new low.”

The bond market is getting twitchy. Over the past 20 years, when credit spreads blew out but the S&P 500 wasn't even beyond a pullback yet, it was 3-for-3 in bear markets. h/t @sentimentrader pic.twitter.com/xiba9GU3z2 — Jason Goepfert (@jasongoepfert) March 17, 2026 The market is green today and nobody's talking about the sector that refused …

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The Inflation You Feel… But CPI Barely Counts

By Peter Reagan You’re smart. You already know that, when planning for the future, factoring inflation into those plans is vitally important. After all, if your plans don’t account for inflation, how do you know that you’ll actually have enough funds in your golden years to pay for even the most basic of necessities, much less …

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115 S&P stocks crash 7% in days, index barely moves. VIX backwardation worsens before long weekend when volatility usually collapses.

VIX is still in backwardation. In fact it is more so than it was yesterday. This is typically not a bullish sign, especially going into a 3 day weekend where normally vol would be expected to be crushed. pic.twitter.com/kc1814fhLo — Michael Bento (@MichaelPBento) February 13, 2026 $VIX is goin 25 tuesday/wednesday and there is not …

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ADP headline hides a weakening labor market. UPS and Amazon just erased 46,000 high paying delivery jobs in 24 hours. Low income households barely growing this year. Overall slowdown in consumer. Stocks at all-time highs

ADP National Employment Report And What the Headline Misses About Today’s Labor Market ADP says private employers added 41,000 jobs in December, framing it as a rebound. But when you slow down and look at where those jobs came from, the picture changes. Nearly all of the net… pic.twitter.com/D1zs99G6CR — EndGame Macro (@onechancefreedm) January 27, …

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Elon Musk: Population barely changed, but SNAP doubled due to massive fraud

Population barely changed, but SNAP doubled due to massive fraud https://t.co/MxEWwquS1I — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 22, 2026 SNAP didn’t double because population doubled.. it doubled because COVID policies expanded eligibility and boosted benefits. Fraud exists, but it’s not the main driver of that spike. — Squirrel Technologies 🥜🐿 (@squirrel_wallet) January 22, 2026

Families are paying 24% more for home appliances, 7% more for electronics and 6% more for clothes this Black Friday. America’s small businesses are barely surviving. Forget 2007. The US consumer today is facing a worse crisis.

Forget 2007. The US consumer today is facing a worse crisis. It's not Systemic Leverage; it's Household Arithmetic. My new memo breaks down the structural squeeze: why the 2026 economy faces a consumer solvency crisis, not a liquidity crisis. — Craig Shapiro (@ces921) December 3, 2025 This Black Friday, shoppers paid 7% more for electronics, …

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Companies raced to put AI chatbots online for novelty but users barely use them while adoption stalls and investors start questioning the promised super intelligence

So you’re saying there are now thousands of them and cost almost nothing. How are the big guys gonna pay back those $500 billion in debt with $10 month subs? — The Coastal Journal (@1CoastalJournal) December 2, 2025 I'm not bearish on AI as a whole, but I am increasingly skeptical about the potential of …

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Retail investors are fueling a new meme-stock mania, driving 6 million daily options contracts in unprofitable small-cap stocks while most of the market barely participates. Fund managers are running almost no cash.

Appetite for risk is incredibly strong: Options trading volumes in loss-making Russell 2000 stocks have risen to ~6 million contracts per day, an all-time high. Volumes have more than doubled since April and surpassed the previous record set during the 2021 meme-stock mania. By comparison, options activity in profitable stocks is only 33% as large. …

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Inflation explodes worldwide, UK gas soars 28 percent, Americans and Europeans see major buying power crash, China barely moves.

Compounding inflation is a global crisis: Since January 2021, the UK gas experienced the largest surge in prices among major economies, at +28.2%. The US saw cumulative inflation of +23.8%, followed by the Euro Area at +23.1% and Germany at +21.2%. France’s cumulative inflation reached +15.1%, while Japan recorded +12.4% over the same period. On …

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Global GDP released – U.S. GDP shrank. China’s manufacturing is rolling over. Mexico barely avoided technical recession. Europe? Artificially propped up…

The latest GDP data just dropped from the U.S., China, Europe, and Mexico… And at first glance?It doesn’t look disastrous.But under the surface — there’s a payback wave building.U.S. GDP shrank.China’s manufacturing is rolling over.Mexico barely avoided technical… — Jeffrey P. Snider (@JeffSnider_EDU) May 1, 2025

Bond markets rattled across continents: Japan 20-year auction flops, German 5-year sale barely fills lowest demand in over a year

Bond shockwave slamming global markets: Japan 20-Yr Bond Sale Draws Weakest Demand Ratio Since Dec 2023 Oversubscription rate for a 5-year German debt sale lowest since March 2023. — zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 15, 2025 Japan 30-year bond yields spike signaling shift in global bond stability and risk… Japan’s 30-year bond yield just spiked to 2.798%, …

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Saylor hailed as a genius, but his returns barely beat inflation. Bitcoin was a distraction from gold and silver

I love how everyone suck off Saylor like he is the greatest investor ever. He is up 20% on his investments over the past six-years or a whopping 3% a year. Not even outperforming inflation, but nobody wants to talk about that. https://t.co/j2Hl3eeUN8 — blake (@blakestonks) March 30, 2025 Bitcoin was a psyop.Bitcoin was "controlled …

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Slow Down? Existing Home Sales Rise YoY For First Time Since July 2021 (Near 2010 Levels, So Barely Rising)

by confoundedinterest17  Its a slow down in the housing market. Existing Home Sales were expected to rebound modestly in October (+2.9% MoM) after dropping for 6 of the last 7 months to the lowest levels since 2010, and they did. Sales rose 3.4% MoM (a beat) but thanks to a downward revision for September from -1.0% …

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Japan’s “Warren Buffett” could only barely beat SP500’s return over 38 years

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-29/japan-s-octogenarian-trader-who-built-a-14-million-fortune https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/15312895 “In 1986, he raised ¥65 million after selling his parlors, and started investing full-time in financial markets…Fujimoto says trading in his late 80s helps him enjoy life and “prevents me from getting senile.” But he’s not without regrets, saying he is “full of dissatisfaction” with his ¥2 billion pot of wealth.” Adjusting for …

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Can barely notice. But if this keeps going, then we have real problems…

Can barely notice. But if this keeps going, then we have real problems… https://t.co/Ynvyph5qW4 pic.twitter.com/cluJzGMMcn — Peter Spina ⚒ GoldSeek | SilverSeek (@goldseek) August 2, 2024 $NVDA's "share price still uncomfortably resembles Cisco Systems Inc., which played a similar role in the development of the internet when it peaked during the dot-com bubble in 2000."@johnauthers pic.twitter.com/l2kJJgVLAd — Daily …

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Principal has barely gone down

Principal has barely gone down byu/kaiyabunga inREBubble This is how all mortgages have worked since mortgages began. Look at an amortization calculator. https://www.nerdwallet.com/mortgages/amortization-schedule-calculator Pay extra on your principal. h/t pantherpack84

Japan’s yen woes: A staggering $62 billion barely moved the yen; $7 trillion may barely suffice.

JAPAN 🇯🇵 Depression turns to Stagflation . Japans problems are about to worsen. pic.twitter.com/YcNMeO8YS8 — The Great Martis (@great_martis) June 2, 2024 Yen before BoJ blew $62 billion propping it: 157.74Yen one month later: 157.24 At this rate it'll only cost $7 trillion to fix the yen 🫡 https://t.co/oU1ZDLlUTz pic.twitter.com/OUOlOrIy1R — Peter St Onge, Ph.D. …

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VIDEO: Joe Biden can barely form a sentence

Joe Biden can barely form a sentence. He can't remember Winston Churchill. This is why they are persecuting Trump. To keep Biden and Democrats in power.pic.twitter.com/f2vXUmzQEj — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 9, 2023

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