Spending slows down, layoffs speed up. Bonds are setting up the ultimate catch-up trade. All the hard data that feeds bonds is looking great (oil prices, housing data, growth data).

And now, it is showing up in the hard data. Credit card transactions began falling in a highly unseasonal manner in the last week of April. Spending slows down, layoffs speed up. It’s just that simple. pic.twitter.com/I7zBVDie5u — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) May 5, 2025 Bonds are setting up the ultimate …

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China braces for external shock from US tariffs, warns G20 global growth breaking down…

🇨🇳🇺🇸CHINA PREPS FOR “EXTERNAL SHOCKS” AS TRADE WAR ESCALATES Xi’s Politburo is scrambling emergency plans and new monetary tools as Trump’s 145% tariffs slam the world’s number 2 economy. Beijing says it's done talking until the U.S ditches all unilateral tariffs – and it's not… https://t.co/MhpDMuo9ne pic.twitter.com/LCJSitlqNI — Mario Nawfal …

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FBI deputy director bongino says swatting is deadly we are hunting them down…

🇺🇸FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR BONGINO: SWATTING IS DEADLY—WE’RE HUNTING DOWN WHO’S BEHIND IT "SWATTING is deadly serious. The potential for serious injury or death is high. I’ve asked our team to double efforts to locate the people and/or groups behind it. I’m on the road in our… https://t.co/6je1qUPhzw pic.twitter.com/IRdqHOpb3s — Mario …

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CHINA THREATENS $1.9 TRILLION ‘TSUNAMI’ in tariff war with U.S…. Chinese Embassy: ‘We don’t back down.’

🇨🇳We don’t back down. https://t.co/p1Nmun8csv — Chinese Embassy in US (@ChineseEmbinUS) April 10, 2025 *CHINA SCOOPS UP BRAZILIAN SOY AS TRADE WAR WITH U.S. WORSENS 🇨🇳🇧🇷 pic.twitter.com/z3OxjejuKD — Investing.com (@Investingcom) April 10, 2025 Malaysia to host China's Xi Jinping from April 15 – Asia & Pacific – The Jakarta Post …

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It’s grift, all the way down.

Is This the Real Reason the Left Is Freaking Out About the Department of Education? The NEA sent $420,000 to Sixteen Thirty Fund, between 2019 and 2021, for example. Sixteen Thirty Fund, one of the nonprofits established by the for-profit company Arabella Advisors, helped fund other activist groups that staffed …

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Tariffs, Gold And Bitcoin! Gold Stable, Bitcoin And Stock Market Down, Mexican Peso Down And On Verge Of Collapse

by confoundedinterest17 As expected, the Trump Administration levied tariffs against Canada, Mexico, China, etc. The short-term result? Gold is stable, Bitcoin fell. Or as Gene Autry sang, “South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)”. The stock market? Down -1.53%. And then we have the doom porn about Mexico’s “impending” collapse. The …

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Would’ve paid good money to hear him say, “Calm down.”.

To sum up the Pete Hegseth hearings: Drunk accuses him of alcoholism Cheater accuses him of cheatingStolen valor accuses him of lying The Democrats are a joke. pic.twitter.com/mU3q6U5uOi — CaliRN619 🚑🩺🚑 (@CaliRN619) January 14, 2025 https://twitter.com/chadcbianco/status/1879263262560403928 Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the last decade is how much time the nation …

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August: Stocks gapped down, VIX surged, low on Monday. Today: Gapped down, complacency, bounce likely week’s high. The big boys are liquidating their market positions

Compare to August. On the Monday after the jobs report, stocks gapped down and the VIX exploded. Monday open was the low of the week. Today, the market gapped down amid relative complacency. This morning BTFD bounce could be the high of the week. pic.twitter.com/PnHNYjtIWw — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) January 13, …

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New highs – lows peaked the week of the election and are now negative. The election gap that was a bear trap on the way up, will be a bull trap on the way down. Bank reserves drop below $3 trillion, nearing pre-March 2023 banking crisis levels.

The S&P 500 is at the same level today as it was on the day after the election. It has gone nowhere for two months, amid EPIC levels of bull shit. New highs – lows peaked the week of the election and are now negative. The election gap that was …

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If NVDA goes down, the black swan will unleash. BlackWell disappeared from MSM, hiding its failure while promoting inflated $NVDA growth narratives.

Great point. If Nvda goes down, the black swan will unleash — Eyowa (@EzzineDe24450) December 29, 2024 BlackWell literally disappeared from all MSM that are now busy regurgitating all other vapourware PR fed to them in order to hide the big BlackWell failure elephant in the room and convince the …

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These wind farms need to all be torn down, they are HORRIBLE! Billions in pork for contractors, while average citizens bear the cost.

The Biden administration just approved a wind farm project off the coast of Massachusetts. It’s the eleventh commercial-scale wind project of its kind to get approval and comes at a key moment for the sector, as President-elect Trump, a frequent critic, prepares to take office. Miles O’Brien reports.

Shut the ATF down. Of the many terrible federal law enforcement agencies, it’s arguably the worst.

ABUSE OF POWER: Why Did the ATF Raid Baltimore Gun Rights Advocate Mark ‘Choppa’ Manley’s House? “It isn’t really clear what the feds were looking for in the raid. They spend hours tossing Manley’s home, checking gun serial numbers, and ultimately confiscating his phone. But no one was charged or arrested and …

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Value is now down 11 days in a row, more decliners than advancers, the VIX up 4%. Textbook Head & Shoulders pattern playing out for Nvidia

https://twitter.com/leadlagreport/status/1868776221615759669 Yup pic.twitter.com/EUPCKrVnbz — Alex Desjardins (@PrimeTrading_) December 16, 2024 DJIA topped in Dec ‘99, and the NASDAQ didn’t top until 3/4/2000 — TitansJets (@TitansJets) December 16, 2024 Textbook Head & Shoulders pattern playing out for Nvidia $NVDA – does it get a close below the important $132 level tomorrow? …

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Wait, what? The White House says the government doesn’t have the authority to shoot down drones.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday said the government doesn’t have the authority to shoot down drones https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/new-jersey-mysterious-drone-sightings-live-updates So any country can just violate our airspace and we are just helpless? This is one of the stupidest things I’ve heard yet under the current administration. Are they really this …

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