US labor nightmare: Hiring is at its lowest level since 2009, inflation refuses to budge and credit card delinquencies are also at GFC levels

Lowest hiring since 2009.Payroll growth has slowed to <0.1% MoM.Openings down 25% YoY.Wage growth still sticky at 3.8%. It’s the worst mix possible — weak labor, stubborn inflation. — Shashank Sindhe (@shashank_sindhe) October 13, 2025 WTF! Hiring just hit the lowest level since 2009. Only 204,939 hires so far in 2025.That’s a 58% collapse YoY.Worse …

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Tariffs don’t budge the numbers but seem to rattle everyone else. Chinese PMIs stay oddly stable

If you've ever wanted evidence that Chinese data are completely made up, now's a good time for that view. The US imposed huge additional tariffs on China early this year. But China's GDP growth (black) is rock-solid and the PMIs also look suspiciously stable. This is fiction… pic.twitter.com/XLBC5GSgpC — Robin Brooks (@robin_j_brooks) August 10, 2025

Bulls won’t budge… that stubbornness is what makes this market so dangerous. The S&P ended today one year overbought on the breadth oscillator.

Bulls refuse to capitulate, which makes this a very dangerous market. The volume oscillator has been a very accurate indicator for when a rally can be bought for more than just a few days. pic.twitter.com/nUQo9Efvc8 — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) April 24, 2025 Trump was just caught in another market manipulating lie. Yesterday stocks were bid on …

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Navarro says Trump won’t budge, trade must be on U.S. terms… Jim Cramer is suggesting there’s a chance the $SPX could drop to 3220.

Saw the Navarro interview on CNBC this morning. The Trump administration is not budging on anything. They don’t have any interest in negotiation. They want trade on their terms period. Now Europe is retaliating. All I see are lower stock prices. — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) April 7, 2025 He's losing his mind … lol pic.twitter.com/mN0t3jOZqL …

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