Stagflationary pressures are building in the US manufacturing sector. Powell: “Energy hasn’t even peaked yet, and we’d want to see the backside of that and progress on tariffs before we even thought about reducing rates”

ISM manufacturing prices paid index spiked to 84.6 points in April, a 4-year high. Over the last 3 months, prices paid have SKYROCKETED over 20 points, marking one of the biggest spikes in history. Meanwhile, the employment index dropped to 46.4 points, the lowest level in 2026. Employment has now been contracting for 15 months …

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Real personal Income per CAPITA hasn’t grown for the past 15+ Months

Meanwhile, Corporations are doing better than ever. pic.twitter.com/i34IvXtHqQ — Eric Basmajian (@EPBResearch) May 1, 2026 Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion. His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history. My @Morning_Joe Chart. pic.twitter.com/pLQcU0ySVF — Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) May 1, 2026

The Fed has no choice. If oil goes up to $150-200 it’s over. Yet we act as if Iran is obliterated and everything is awesome. The TACO traders get trapped. Trump has 3 options left in the Iran war. All 3 are catastrophic. The real war hasn’t even started yet.

The Fed has no choice. If oil goes up to $150-200 it’s over. Yet we act as if Iran is obliterated and everything is awesome. This is complete lunacy. https://t.co/xRRCIi61UV — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) March 26, 2026 Markets are losing hope of any logical solution in the Middle East: pic.twitter.com/DgXPiTeIVE — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) March …

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This is a lie. The DOJ simply released a statement with a list of names associated with epstein and the files. There hasn’t been a single new file release since the batch in late January 2026

🚨 JUST IN: AG Pam Bondi just UNLEASHED the FULL Epstein Files under the Transparency Act, ALL 3.5 MILLION pages DROPPED, redactions JUSTIFIED only for victims, and HIGH-PROFILE names EXPOSED with ZERO cover-ups for embarrassment or politics. “No records withheld or redacted… pic.twitter.com/Hr7mnBW1ZX — Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) February 15, 2026 This is some serious disinformation …

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White fertility has collapsed, while the rest of the world hasn’t. Elon Musk warns that if trends continue, Whites could become a tiny minority globally.

WHITE FERTILITY COLLAPSED – THE REST OF THE PLANET DIDN’T The generation now starting school is the first in recorded history that will grow up on a planet where people of European descent are a shrinking global minority. Native fertility across the entire Western world has collapsed below replacement and shows no sign of recovery. …

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This is where we are RIGHT NOW and the banking crisis hasn’t even started yet

This is where we are RIGHT NOW and the banking crisis hasn’t even started yet – think about it, just think… @kshaughnessy2 https://t.co/Nf7XyLhn4P pic.twitter.com/J7A7OnKvXE — JustDario 🏊‍♂️ (@DarioCpx) July 2, 2025 “Horrible” is a euphemism at this point https://t.co/OFL7LHgPPs — JustDario 🏊‍♂️ (@DarioCpx) July 2, 2025 The delinquency trends for Core CRE (excludes multifamily, construction, …

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All the signs point to recession. The data just hasn’t been given a name yet.

The U.S. economy is showing recession symptoms, even if the official label hasn’t been applied. The data is moving in one direction. Real consumption is falling. Housing is rolling over. Payrolls are being revised down. Construction is contracting. And the labor market is sending mixed signals that don’t add up. Start with consumption. Real personal …

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There hasn’t been a red July in the past decade

There hasn't been a red July in the past decade pic.twitter.com/4eQg9zN7oZ — zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 30, 2025 It’s July again. Markets have noticed. For ten straight years, the S&P 500 has finished the month in the green. From 2015 through 2024, July never closed negative. Not once. And the first sessions of 2025 are already …

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Should Trump Fire Powell? YES (Fed Hasn’t Removed The Covid Stimulus And Should, Rates Too High)

by confoundedinterest17 Should President Trump fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell and replace his with someone else like Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent? The answer is … YES! Why? First, there was a massive response to the Covid outbreak in 2020. And the monetary stimulus (aka, stimulypto) has never been removed. The Fed Funds Target Rate (upper …

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The market hasn’t priced it in: This isn’t a cycle but a structural shift where a new trade era begins and growth never returns.

🚨Container bookings from China to the US are COLLAPSING: Bookings for standard 20-foot shipping containers from China to the US fell 45% Y/Y in mid-April, according to Vizion. Next will be a trucking demand DROP leading to empty shelves, lower sales, layoffs and a RECESSION. pic.twitter.com/4hJ4tg53fo — Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) April 29, 2025 🚨Container …

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Senator Todd Young meets with Hegseth, still hasn’t endorsed him.

Great to meet @PeteHegseth, Pres. Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense and a combat veteran. I appreciated his candor as we discussed our readiness challenges, the China threat, auditing the Pentagon, his vision for DoD, and other important national security issues. https://t.co/7ktw6AgJ2n — Senator Todd Young (@SenToddYoung) December 11, 2024

$SMCI lacks a plan, BDO hasn’t audited, and Nasdaq’s delisting looms. MicroStrategy $MSTR is going to crash hard. Just like it did in 2000.

$MSTR’s market cap now surpasses $NEM and $GOLD combined. This is insane. $MSTR's market capitalization now exceeds the combined market caps of $NEM and $GOLD, the two largest gold mining companies in the world. I wonder how much longer it will take before MSTR's market cap exceeds the capitalization of the entire gold mining industry! …

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Musk hasn’t been invited to the UK’s International Investment Summit because of his social media posts

Musk responded to not being invited “I don’t think anyone should go to the UK when they’re releasing convicted pedophiles in order to imprison people for social media posts.” Follow for the very latest political news! Story: https://t.co/FfyaKHpmVx — Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) September 26, 2024 https://twitter.com/_/status/1839207864449032451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw   Tess

This Hasn’t Happened Since the 2020 Crash!

By Graham Summers, MBA Deflation and recession fears are on the rise. Economically sensitive commodities like copper and oil have erased all of their 2024 gains and are now declining rapidly. Defensive sectors like utilities are soaring… while growth-oriented sectors like Tech are struggling to move higher. And worst of all, the ratio between stocks …

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First time since the 1970s Fed hasn’t cut rates amid rising unemployment. Economic data may be manipulated like in Weimar Germany; real impact felt later.

They will fake the economic data just like they did during Weimar Germany, and you won't know you are in a recession or a depression until you are waiting in the bread lines. It's called "political arithmetic" and it's always used during periods of monetary debasement and rampant… pic.twitter.com/7hgKSCF8QD — TheRoadtoWiganPier (@RoadtoWiganPier) August 17, 2024

Social Security’s 2025 Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Is on Track to Do Something That Hasn’t Happened in 28 Years

In May, 51 million retired-worker beneficiaries took home an average Social Security check totaling $1,916.63, which works out to $23,000 on an annualized basis. While this might not sound like a game-changing amount of money, the average retiree would struggle mightily without their guaranteed monthly benefit. Over the last 23 years, national pollster Gallup has …

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Still hasn’t passed but is pushing it hard.

https://twitter.com/RadarHits/status/1789709501567807572 This will not help the issue of housing affordability. It will merely increase the value of homes as homebuyers will have more ‘money’ for mortgage payments, which are already elevated: https://t.co/lr4zzxT26b — Reef Insights (@ReefInsights) May 12, 2024

Capital-Gains Tax Hits More Home Sellers – The $500,000 exemption for home sales hasn’t changed since 1997

Selling a home is now so profitable that many more Americans are getting hit with an unexpected tax bill. Roughly 8% of 2023 home sales brought windfalls over the $500,000 limit for couples to be exempt from capital-gains taxes, more than double the share in 2019, according to CoreLogic, a real-estate data firm. More sellers …

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This Hasn’t Happened Since Lehman Collapsed

via Zerohedge: Total money-market fund assets plunged by $112BN in the last week as Tax-Day demands took the total assets below $6 Trillion for the first time sine January (to $5.97 Trillion)… Source: Bloomberg Corporate taxes collected from April 11 through April 17 totaled $100.7 billion, Treasury data show. While Tax-Day’s impact matters obviously, we note …

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Well now we know what the Dems are planning if they are blaming the RNC for something that hasn’t happened yet.

It’s all just propaganda now. They don’t even attempt to hide it. They are good we are bad. If anyone joins us they become bad too. Just another form of censorship. Related: CNN is already promoting another round of investigations into Trump's businesses—this time, focusing on the publicly-traded Truth Social. "It's not just credulous…stock-buyers; I …

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