Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
Even the queen New York raccoon will no longer be flying his spirit airlines what shall we ever do! 😂 pic.twitter.com/fac8qsI0ek — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) May 1, 2026 While Spirit was already in bankruptcy, the surge in jet fuel prices to $4.51/gallon (due to the conflict in …
6 doesn’t sound like a lot. But an additional 6 percent demand for houses drives up costs more than 6%. 6% is a lot. Adding 5% more cars to a city can make traffic 25% worse. Same situation. 6% can take a buyer’s market and make it a sellers one. It’s a big deal. On …
JUST IN 🚨: The odds of a rate cut at this month's FOMC have plummeted overnight from 25% to less than 5% pic.twitter.com/BsgMUCKAQC — Barchart (@Barchart) July 3, 2025 Rate cut expectations pic.twitter.com/GZ01ookcEz — zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 3, 2025
Markets hit weekly high right after Israel strike but low summer liquidity could trigger another brutal crash… Oil is pointing to a new global deflation. That I predict will be outside of central bank control aka. a mass deleveraging event. pic.twitter.com/Srkj9RtjbJ — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) June 24, 2025 Today was the biggest down day for oil …
by Michael Did you know that we just witnessed the largest decline in U.S. imports in the entire history of our nation last month? Unfortunately, things didn’t get any better this month. In fact, during the final week of May imports at major ports on the west coast are down by almost a third compared …
Home sales in Miami, FL have collapsed. Down 48% from their pandemic peak. Miami has experienced the largest drop in buyer demand of any large metro area in the last 3 years. Prices in Miami are still high. But could start dropping in 2025 as a result of this monumental collapse in demand. Home sales …
View post on imgur.com https://www.conference-board.org/topics/consumer-confidence Consumers’ view on the economy tumbled in September, falling by the largest level in more than three years as fears grew about jobs and business conditions, the Conference Board reported Tuesday. The board’s consumer confidence index slid to 98.7, down from 105.6 in August, the biggest one-month decline since August …
2/ Over the last 50 trading sessions, investors have grown increasingly bullish on the market This optimism has reached levels of complacency similar to December 2021 Just months before the market began a 25% drop pic.twitter.com/HvhkblDRMP — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) June 20, 2024 4/ When many investors are bullish, smart money gets defensive, scaling back …
$VIX closed the last week below 12, something not happening since 2019 Can it go lower? Sure it can, $VIX All Time Low was 8.56 on Friday 24 Nov 2017… Few months before Volmageddon that triggered in February 2018 ⚠️ Beware, $VIX is like a spring, the more and the longer is… https://t.co/f29dYyuaZh pic.twitter.com/2JZz8TidRh — …
The US birth rate has fallen by somewhere between 14% and 20% since 2012, depending on the estimate per Bloomberg. Today, about 35% of women ages 25-44 have never given birth, almost double the number in 1976. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) February 14, 2024 Both my granddads owned homes, had no degree and had multiple children …
by GigiLorenzo4094 This is a medium article (poorly written), and I’m a stranger, but the reason Whitney Wolf Heard is stepping down from Bumble is because the board became aware of systematically created fake-users that if deleted would alone crash their stock price. Bumble has a small fraction of the users it claims to, and …
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Something has been going very wrong in the US economy for a very long time, and whatever is going wrong accelerated from 2009 to the present. Longtime readers know I’ve covered America’s soaring wealth and income inequality for many years, and so I read economist Noah Smith’s …
by AC Lowered prices greatly still no sales. Collectible market in the toilet. 7 days no sales on eBay and almost two weeks no sales on Facebook. I sell Vintage items toys, watches, mid century items, jewelry, pop culture items, video games. I’ve been on eBay since 1998. This is the worst it’s been the …
via YAHOO: Save America, the leadership PAC founded by former President Donald Trump, has less than $4 million cash on hand, after siphoning over $101 million to pay legal fees for Trump and his allies since the beginning of 2022, reports the New York Times. Mid-year tax filings for PACs provide awareness about presidential campaign …
Large Banks Experience Record $921B Deposit Drain in 40 Years, Outpacing Small Banks’ Decline Data from the Federal Reserve reveals that large banks in the U.S. are experiencing the fastest decline in deposits in four decades. Since April 2022, deposits at the 25 largest commercial banks have plummeted by $921 billion, a decline of 7.88 …
