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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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