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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Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Reports Tech-Driven Loss – See’s Great Long Term Success in American Companies

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-04-24/norway-s-sovereign-wealth-fund-reports-tech-driven-loss-video https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-24/norway-1-7-trillion-wealth-fund-reports-tech-stock-driven-loss?embedded-checkout=true World’s largest sovereign wealth fund reports $40 billion loss in first quarter on tech downturn Norges Bank Investment Management — the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world — on Thursday reported a first-quarter loss of 415 billion …

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Roaring 20s or Great Depression 2.0?

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, The binary ahead is the result of a simple law of Nature: adapt or die. Will we revel in a New Roaring 20s of exhilarating expansion, or will we suffer a Great Depression 2.0? Gordon Long and …

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Things are going great for Melania coin… heading to zero… First time in 11 weeks that MicroStrategy did not announce a Bitcoin purchase.

And here's Trump coin. It's sitting just above its $36 support. If that gives way, it's lights out. pic.twitter.com/uPRPzCEefG — Jesse Colombo (@TheBubbleBubble) January 20, 2025 THE PASTOR THAT SANG AT THE INAUGURATION IS NOW SHILLING HIS OWN MEMECOIN 😭😭😭 …

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