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The housing market is collapsing, and buyers are running for the exits. They don’t wait. They don’t negotiate. They cancel. They saw the foundation crumble and refused to stand on it. This isn’t a seasonal hiccup. It’s a total retreat, …
When you see a guaranteed 10% dividend, you have to ask the obvious question, how are they earning it? U.S. Treasuries are yielding about 4%. Anything paying more than double that is only possible if the company is taking outsized, …
The AI frenzy is setting the stage for a systemic financial implosion. Investors pouring billions into a technology that cannot deliver will leave banks, pension funds, and retirement accounts exposed. When the illusion of growth shatters, markets could crash, credit …
Houses are everywhere, prices stop climbing, buyers rejoice eventually. Insanity. I don’t see how housing doesn’t struggle going forward. Wait until the boomers die off. There will be no one left that can afford to buy. https://t.co/aNWA55mzBY — QE Infinity …
Factories are shutting. Shops are closing. Workers are walking out under stress that has nowhere to go. The air smells of fear and exhaustion. Bank accounts are shrinking while bills climb. The institutions meant to protect us are either blind …
The warning bells are deafening, yet most Americans refuse to listen. Our national airwaves have been weaponized. Two of the largest broadcast networks in the country are no longer news outlets. They are political tools, openly serving one party while …
If consumer demand is frozen and margins are squeezed, are stocks about to fall? Data and full report here: https://t.co/pxYDtGgI1a pic.twitter.com/Lp3Bzo280Z — The Coastal Journal (@1CoastalJournal) August 20, 2025 Corporate bankruptcies are heading for a record high this year higher …
by Michael Other than the early months of the pandemic, we haven’t seen anything like this for a long time. Mass layoffs are happening all over the nation, major retailers and large restaurant chains are deeply struggling, and the cost …
‼️US commercial real estate CRISIS in one chart: Office space vacancy rates hit ~20% in Q2 2025, the highest share on RECORD. Vacant office space has almost DOUBLED in 5 years. This is also WAY above the post-Great Financial Crisis …
Target posted fiscal second-quarter earnings and revenue that topped Wall Street’s expectations. The company stuck by its full-year outlook, which forecasts a single percentage point decline in sales. Target named Michael Fiddelke as its new CEO, effective Feb. 1. Target …
BREAKING: Trump says D.C. restaurants are “bursting.” Reality check. After his Aug 11 police takeover, OpenTable shows seated diners in Washington fell 16% that day, then cratered 31% by Aug 13, and were still down around 20% through Aug 16. …
by Michael What I am about to share with you is some of the clearest evidence yet that the middle class in America is being systematically destroyed. Young adults are forming middle class households at an extremely depressed rate, and …
Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, Trump’s support, even among Republicans is dropping. But does it matter? More Opposition than Support Pew reports Trump’s Tariffs and ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Face More Opposition Than Support Six months into his second term, …
RepCloudTX hits the mark. COVID relief fraud? $280B vanished—half to foreign hackers. Trump flagged this economic ambush, but D.C. snoozed. Time to slash foreign aid and protect U.S. taxpayer cash. Enough with the globalist freebies. — Watch DOGE (@dogeai_gov) February …
Container shipping traffic from China to the US is falling again byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts
United Parcel Service at $88–90 is often perceived as cheap because of the high dividend yield near 7.41 percent. At first glance the yield seems attractive, but the stock remains expensive because the dividend payout is nearly unsustainable. True value …
Looks like gold just put PPI to shame. Gold has beaten producer price inflation by around 600% so far this century. We have also crossed the 'paradigm shift breakout line' as we forecast 6 years ago. pic.twitter.com/4bFoyujuwS — Northstar (@NorthstarCharts) …
Good chips, bad quarter, everyone panics anyway. One of the biggest indicators of the need for non AI based chips…. “Net Sales- Corporate and Other: $12 million versus $14.87 million estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago …
Hotter inflation proves you can’t print your way out of rising prices. Inflation is diverging across regions of the US: Pacific Coast states such as California, Oregon, and Washington saw inflation rates above +3.1% in July, according to BLS data. …
$UNH has filed for 26% increase in ACA rates for the next year. Even $OSCR filed for 21% increase. Healthcare companies are set to see a V-shaped margin recovery next year. It’s currently the cheapest S&P 500 sector at 16 …
One in seven Americans now use BNPL to buy groceries The number of Americans using BNPL services like Klarna, Affirm, and Afterpay for food has surged. A LendingTree survey found that 25 percent of BNPL users are using the loans …
U.S. July CPI: Core Inflation Hits 3.1 Percent Year Over Year Headline CPI rose 0.2 percent month over month, matching expectations. Year-over-year inflation came in at 2.7 percent, just below the 2.8 percent estimate. Core CPI rose 0.3 percent month …
by Michael Why are social media platforms filled with videos of Americans complaining about grocery prices right now? Needless to say, those videos must be striking a chord, because some of them are receiving millions of views. Government bureaucrats are …
It's interesting to see some people claim inflation is slowing. The equal-weighted commodities index is up 12% in the past year. That’s real-world inflation. Meanwhile, US money supply just hit a new high, and the dollar is weakening sharply against …
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 …
Trump claims he’s cut drug prices by “1,500 percent” pic.twitter.com/n9meMZxS6R — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 4, 2025
by Michael Have the official employment numbers finally achieved peak fakeness? We just got another perfect example of why so many of us have completely lost faith in the fake figures that government bureaucrats have been feeding us. For months we were told …
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ASML reported net sales of 7.7 billion euros ($8.95 billion) in the second quarter, ahead of estimates. However, the company said it cannot confirm that it will grow in 2026. ASML is one of the most critical semiconductor supply chain …
⚠️US stock market concentration Bubble is huge: The top 10 largest S&P 500 stocks reflect ~38% of the index market capitalization, just shy of a RECORD high. This is over 10 percentage points higher than at the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble …