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The US Economy in a Nutshell: A Few Winners, Everyone Else Loses Ground
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Maybe this arrangement isn’t as stable and sustainable as the winners imagine. Here’s the US economy in a nutshell: corporate/state concentrations of financial, market and political power are the winners, and everyone outside these fortresses is losing ground. The Wall Street Journal is generally viewed as pro-business, and so it’s particularly …
This dude owns more land than anyone else in America.
Stanley Kroenke owns the world’s most valuable sports empire, including the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams. Now the sports tycoon is also America’s largest private landowner, according to the newly released Land Report. At 2.7 million acres, Kroenke’s holdings are larger than Yellowstone National Park — or the equivalent of roughly 2 million football fields. Kroenke …
“The Donroe Doctrine”: Are Cuba, Colombia And Mexico The Next Targets, Or Will Someone Else Be First Instead?
by Michael We are witnessing the most profound shift in U.S. foreign policy that we have seen in decades, and it is going to have enormous implications. President Trump and his team have determined that the entire western hemisphere is our sphere of influence. If somebody is doing things in the western hemisphere that we do …
Anyone else feel like the world quietly broke after 2019?
by extraqc I’m not saying timelines merged or we slipped into another dimension or whatever. I’m not even trying to be dramatic. I just can’t shake the feeling that something… shifted after like 2019/2020. Ever since then, time feels fake. Weeks disappear but somehow nothing actually happens. People seem more irritable, more checked out, or …
Tech is way overpriced and everyone else is way too cheap
🔴This is the largest valuation gap since the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble: US technology stocks now trade at their highest valuation premium relative to defensive stocks since the Dot-Com peak. It has rarely been this cheap to own utilities or consumer staples relative to technology.… pic.twitter.com/umH0M4ow31 — Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) December 16, 2025 The Nikkei …
When all else fails, blame consumers
https://twtter.com/cherrygarciafan/status/1992698170460225737 The nation is suffering a serious affordability crisis. Prices for many necessities, from groceries to a car, have increased significantly since the pandemic, and most prices continue to rise at an uncomfortably quick pace. Consumer price inflation is near 3%, well above the Fed’s inflation target, and everything points to even higher inflation dead-ahead. …
In America’s K-Shaped Economy, The Rich Are Getting Richer While Almost Everyone Else Is Getting The Sharp End Of The Stick
by Michael Pundits have been talking a lot about America’s “K-shaped economy” lately, but most average people on the street have no idea what that means. Basically, it means that the wealthy are getting even wealthier while almost everyone else is getting monkey-hammered. Yesterday, I detailed 11 signs that economic conditions in the U.S. are the worst …
They’re acting outraged because it’s Musk. If anyone else had those performance targets, nobody would care.
pic.twitter.com/dedI4AmIdt — Scott (@scottconso) November 8, 2025
Bifurcated Economy — The rich are spending big, while everyone else is watching every dollar. 50% of food stamp benefits will be paid. GOOLSBEE: Inflation ‘going wrong way’
Third-quarter earnings are indicating a divided economy With more consumer companies preparing to report third-quarter earnings this week, Wall Street will be watching for signs of a bifurcated or “K-shaped” economy as consumers diverge in their spending behaviors. There have been increasing signals that wealthier Americans are spending more while lower-income Americans are significantly paring …
OpenAI lost $11.5 billion in three months. They want a $1 trillion IPO. The insiders will cash out. Everyone else will be left holding the wreckage.
Something feels off at OpenAI. For a long time, people talked about it like it was untouchable, the company that would rewrite everything we know. That kind of talk is always loudest right before the trouble begins. The excitement is gone now. The numbers look worse each time someone opens the books. You can almost …
The market now reflects America right now. The 1% thrive while everyone else collapses because they’re tailored towards the middle class consumer.
The market now reflects America right now. The 1% thrive while everyone else collapses because they’re tailored towards the middle class consumer. https://t.co/zayjxGcTJ9 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) October 31, 2025 iPhone growth in China is sliding, and margins are getting thinner.In the U.S., growth is modest — around 5%.The only silver lining? $AAPL isn’t burdened …
Tony Blair: Digital IDs + facial recognition + AI = safety. Everyone else: That’s literally a surveillance state.
Tony Blair on the incredible “benefits” of combining digital ID with facial recognition and AI. 😳 “Facial recognition can now spot suspects in real time from live video… [It] helps identify suspects quickly in busy places like train stations and events.” “AI will go even further—spotting crime patterns, guiding patrols and streamlining decisions… This is …
Gold is the only real money. Everything else is worthless.
Actually now you need far less gold to buy a nice house, even though the average size of American homes has increased at the same time. 1975 = 294 gold oz and 2025 only 95 gold oz. See chart. pic.twitter.com/2s0VTG7YhO — Petri Kuittinen (@KuittinenPetri) October 3, 2025 The illusion of prosperity is breaking. Stocks up …
JPM: 75% of S&P 500 returns tied to AI stocks since ChatGPT; 95% of firms seeing zero return. Everyone else pays the bill.
Mind blowing that investors still can’t see it. The market keeps getting bid up to unrealistic levels on rumors and empty hype. Greenspan once called this irrational exuberance. It always ends the same way badly. "AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 80% of earnings growth and 90% of capital spending …
Washington thinks inflating prices will feel like winning, everyone else disagrees
Washington is making a massive bet on tariffs that could reshape the entire economy. If tariffs rise as Bessent predicts, small businesses and manufacturers may collapse under higher costs while large corporations collect enormous windfalls. Global allies could retaliate, threatening exports and destabilizing trade networks that have supported markets for decades. Everyday goods will get …
Bond market to Washington: Cut Social Security or else
Social Security and Medicare cuts are coming because the bond market will eventually bring Congress to its knees, economist says. The insolvency of the trust funds next decade will be the key driver for reforms, just as it was in the early 1980s when lawmakers hiked taxes to shore them up, Yaros said. “For lawmakers …
Europe will suffer from the next economic crisis like no one else
Central banks lowered rates, but did not start QE. Money is tight. It’s begun. pic.twitter.com/fHDFLNQWUC — The Great Martis (@great_martis) September 1, 2025 a British 30-year just hit its highest rate in forever. pic.twitter.com/E3ayXlnwYs — Michael J. Kramer (@MichaelMOTTCM) September 1, 2025 *UK 30-YEAR BOND YIELD RISES TO 5.64%, HIGHEST SINCE 1998 — *Walter Bloomberg …
China Pours Exports Into Africa Faster Than Anywhere Else
(Bloomberg) — Africa has become a new hotspot for Chinese exports as Donald Trump’s tariffs redraw trade for the world’s biggest manufacturing nation. With a 25% on-year jump to $122 billion, growth in sales to the continent of 1.5 billion people has far outpaced other major markets this year while orders from the US slumped. …
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
People are still paying their mortgage, everything else is slipping
Delinquency rates across consumer debt classes are now brushing up against levels seen during the Global Financial Crisis. The New York Fed reports that 4.4% of all outstanding household debt is delinquent. “Loan delinquency rates remained ‘elevated,’ according to the report, at 4.4% of outstanding debt overall, with student loan delinquencies spiking sharply higher, into …
S&P 500 at the Great Liberation Day Divide. Bank Of America’s Hartnett – Sell U.S. stock rallies and buy the dip on everything else.
S&P 500 at the Great Liberation Day Divide pic.twitter.com/mhRfSFfXyt — Michael J. Kramer (@MichaelMOTTCM) April 25, 2025 Bank Of America’s Hartnett – Sell U.S. stock rallies and buy the dip on everything else. — TT3 (@TradingThomas3) April 25, 2025 Technicians are pointing to a rare technical indicator called the "Zweig Breadth Thrust" which purportedly has …
The panic in D.C. is real. When three times more people are searching for criminal defense lawyers than anywhere else, you know something’s up.
These people aren’t worried about parking tickets—they’re sweating bullets over something much bigger. Imagine if Trump made a deal: confess, spill the truth, and your sentence gets cut in half. The rats would be tripping over each other to save their own skin. The swamp would drain itself. The fact that so many are even …
Anyone else think the Trump market will end up crashing?
by Normal_Commission986 Everyone is expecting more massive market gains because of trump. Big tech to get bigger, crypto to go to 1027374083727033 zillion, and pretty much indices to keep going vertical. With everyone on one side of the boat does anyone think it’s possible that trump and his asset pumping / gas on the fire …
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding – “Even if you don’t wear a mask anywhere else, wear a mask in the bathroom. Honestly, just take it with you.”
Eric Feigl-Ding: “You should really mask up in airports if possible. And, N95 masks are best, especially the duck the best ones are the duck build types. But, N95 masks. And if you don’t have an N95 masks, at least go with the one of the N95 ear loop ones.” “The surgical mask, not so …
Fix This or Nothing Else Matters
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, The top 10% are the dog sipping a drink as the cafe burns down, saying “this is fine.” What’s the one thing we need to fix or nothing else matters? There are plenty of potential candidates: immigration, healthcare, wokeism, hot war in Europe, inflation, draining The Swamp, etc. Human history …
Anyone else seeing a massive spike in apartment availability? (My area Raleigh, 10700+ units available)
If I add in Cary and Durham into the search there’s 19,000+ units for rent in the region. I can’t recall seeing the rental market this flooded before. I’m curious about other cities h/t IDontKnow_JackSchitt
Is Social Media Actually “Media,” Or Is It Something Else?
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, By placing search/social media in the bucket of newspapers, radio and TV networks, perhaps we’ve obscured their true nature as “Digital Marketing Mechanisms.” Language is a funny thing. If we don’t have a word for something, in some way it doesn’t exist. When we find a word in another language …
Is the Harris Media Blitz Backfiring or Is Her Slippage Due to the Something Else?
by Mike Shedlock The polls and election odds are breaking for Trump. Why? Sky News has a nice video of the Harris Media Blitz. I would not call a dead heat a polling disaster. Let’s be honest. The disaster was Trump’s election odds 22.7 percentage point drop in the span of three weeks due to …
NOTHING about these people is real, it is all made up or just stolen from someone else.
CHRIS RUFO EXCLUSIVE: Kamala Harris plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book, Smart on Crime, according to a new investigation. The current vice president even lifted material from Wikipedia. EXCLUSIVE: Kamala Harris plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book, Smart on Crime, according to a new investigation. The current …