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High European taxes deliver slower care and lower take-home pay in practice. US model rewards productivity and innovation with better personal finances. Europe risks falling behind if it sticks with heavy regulation and welfare focus. Europe faces energy and growth struggles while US pushes AI and deregulation. Americans don’t dream about moving to Europe to …
Federal financial flow charts reveal domestic household stock ownership has breached its highest level in two decades… Retail accounts scooped up an additional $4 trillion year-to-date, following a massive $10 trillion insertion across 2025… Total household equity dominance now commands 40% of the entire U.S. financial market, outpacing all institutional blocks… Foreign investment desks hold …
For each additional spouse who is a member of the same household as the claimant and one or more of the members are State Pension age or over 121.60 127.35 If the claimant is a member of a polygamous marriage and all of the members of the marriage have attained pensionable age on or after 1 April …
JPMorgan's Dimon: Obviously, gas prices going up going to hurt people a little bit, but they still have money to spend and they still have jobs… I hear people say they were not imminent threat. These people have been doing something bad for 47 years. These are bad people that… pic.twitter.com/xgNAHo1LHy — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April …
By Peter Reagan I’m going to start with something that sounds like good news. Most of the truly catastrophic things we worry about… never actually happen. That’s not just optimism – it’s human experience. As Mark Twain supposedly said, most of the terrible things in his life never occurred. But here’s the problem. The things …
ADP National Employment Report And What the Headline Misses About Today’s Labor Market ADP says private employers added 41,000 jobs in December, framing it as a rebound. But when you slow down and look at where those jobs came from, the picture changes. Nearly all of the net… pic.twitter.com/D1zs99G6CR — EndGame Macro (@onechancefreedm) January 27, …
Aka Microsoft needs an excuse that sounds good to get their asses out of these data center construction deals https://t.co/gzy7oWlvaj — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) January 12, 2026 Trump: Joe Biden caused power prices to rise by 30%, big tech firms need to pay for their own power #MacroEdge — MacroEdge (@MacroEdgeRes) January 12, 2026 Whaaaaaaatttttt? …
Wow..he had the balls to put israel on there…interesting. — VΩX (@VoxExVeritas) January 4, 2026
The economy might hum along on paper, but real demand and real buying power are trapped at the top. US consumer spending is extremely concentrated among high-income households: Households in the top 20% of the income distribution now reflect ~39% of all spending on goods and services. Their concentration is even higher in new vehicle …
by Martin Armstrong Around 29% of low-income American households are currently living paycheck to paycheck, according to a new study by the Bank of America Institute, up from 23.5% in 2024. Spending on necessities such as groceries, utilities, housing, autos, and credit cards now exceeds over 95% of household income for over a quarter of …
Credit card companies just handed out $1.5 trillion in new credit limits since 2020 but Americans only actually borrowed an extra $430 billion. That gap $4.1 trillion in unused credit tells you everything you need to know about what banks are doing right now. Imagine your bank raises your credit limit from $5,000 to $8,000 …
If this AI debt bubble ever pops, it won’t be just the Silicon Valley taking the first hit, it’ll be your pension and retirement funds. Why? Because the AI buildout has gotten so capital intensive that companies are relying heavily on debt rather than equity. Around $800 billion in private credit is needed for these …
More $$taxation because the government has no restraint on spending. NY, IL , Calif & Colorado….see a pattern? — floridanow1 (@floridanow1) November 5, 2025 Shannon Thompson, public policy and legislative chair for the Colorado School Nutrition Association, speaks at an event in support of two ballot measures that would shore up funding for the state’s …
LA County Mobilizes Food Assistance as Federal Government Shutdown Continues CalFresh food benefits at risk for more than 1.5 million children and adults More than 1.5 million children and adults are within days of being cut off from their CalFresh food benefits due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, so LA County and its partners …
Trump’s legacy will be defined by America’s downfall, and everything he is doing right now makes that almost certain. Ray Dalio says it happens within 3 years max 💀 👀 👀 pic.twitter.com/A3zcUHg3lY — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) September 2, 2025 Link:https://t.co/mtTG5lOBrc — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) September 3, 2025 Ray Dalio warned the U.S. faces a “debt-induced …
Trump slaps 50% tariffs on 407 more metal products Nails, pulleys, brackets, rails all get hit with no exemptions CBP confirms every entry taxed with no transit relief Trump’s tariff war just got bigger. Household basics like truck trailers, auto parts, nails, brackets, pulleys, and appliances now face 50% levies under expanded Section 232 rules. …
BREAKING 🚨: U.S. Housing Market Homeowner Households declined for the first time in 9 years 👀📉 pic.twitter.com/8lUGHnHx93 — Barchart (@Barchart) August 14, 2025 Las Vegas has the 3rd highest home foreclosure rate among major US metro areas as of July pic.twitter.com/0iYxb3C9cx — Las Vegas Locally 🌴 (@LasVegasLocally) August 14, 2025 Cheap REITs aren't bargains – …
Wyoming’s new AI data center will consume five times more electricity than the entire state’s households combined. Yet no one knows who’s behind it. Located near Cheyenne, the facility will begin with a 1.8-gigawatt capacity and expand to 10 gigawatts more than five times the power used by every home in Wyoming. “The initial 1.8-gigawatt …
by Michael Are you old enough to remember when you could buy a really nice house for less than $50,000? Today, the average price of a home in the United States is more than half a million dollars. Of course everything else has become dramatically more expensive as well. I just asked Google, and I …
The deal looks like a headline win. Japan agreed to invest $550 billion into U.S. infrastructure and accept a 15% tariff on its exports. Trump’s team calls it leverage. The talking points promise economic victory. But underneath, the funding channel runs domestic. Japan exports roughly $150 billion worth of goods to the United States every …
Budgeting is not hard. Finding a decent, honest budgeting sheet is. Most people searching for one end up on some sketchy website. Popups asking for your email. Templates that promise ease but deliver blank boxes and confusion. Some cost money. Some come with trackers. Others bury you in categories you don’t even need. So what …
Housing affordability has rarely been worse: 94 million American households cannot afford a $400,000 home, according to a National Association of Home Builders analysis. By comparison, the estimated median price of a new house is ~$460,000. To put this differently, 70% of US households cannot afford a typical-priced home. Concerningly, ~53 million households cannot even …
Let them eat cake 🍰 pic.twitter.com/oo61kcRt9x — The Great Martis (@great_martis) May 13, 2025 Seeing another push higher across yields today after CPI, with some noteworthy exceptions pic.twitter.com/bWQH9ht1Cx — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) May 13, 2025 Is the bond market the scorecard for Bessent anymore? That's the big macro question. Global long term bond markets …
Retail investor activity is higher today than it was prior to the 27% ^IXIC drawdown in Feb (hard to believe) – this likely stays the case through another larger downside impulsive move We’ve never had so many households or individuals ‘all in’… speculative fever continues🤒🌴 — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) April 11, 2025 Very disturbing chart …
You're missing the best part, 80% of the people who can afford ALREADY OWN pic.twitter.com/BeDXsEK7ap — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) March 31, 2025
Now, it’s not just a matter of market cycles. It’s a matter of exposure, risk, and a financial system increasingly tilted toward the reckless pursuit of short-term gains. Those who remain exposed are gambling with their futures—and they might not get a second chance. We’ve hypothesized since last August that the reason we’re seeing such …
Zillow just revised down their 2025 housing market forecast to 0.6% price growth on a national basis, down from 2.9% earlier this year. The result is that Zillow is now forecasting home price declines in 250 cities across America, a clear sign of a slowing housing market. The areas in the U.S. where home prices …
With CPI 35% higher, the real financial crisis is even worse… Percentage of borrowers at least 60 days late on their car payments is at the highest on record: pic.twitter.com/1JTIwgnSWY — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) March 20, 2025 Fed data shows that only 62% of households can come up with $2,000 for an emergency expense within a …
Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, The European Union’s new emissions trading system, expected to take effect in 2027, is set to hike prices for home heating and transportation, research firm BloombergNEF says in a new report. The new EU Emissions Trading System for buildings, road transport, and small industry, dubbed ETS2, is scheduled to become fully operational in 2027. …
⚠️US HOUSEHOLDS STOCK ALLOCATION HIT A NEW RECORD⚠️ Americans' exposure to stocks as a % of financial assets rose to a record 43.4% in Q3 2024. The percentage has DOUBLED over the last 15 years. It has now surpassed the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble levels by 5 percentage points. pic.twitter.com/2cegQ67N3s — Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) December …