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Source: https://x.com/Barchart/status/2072393208235974912/photo/1 Tapped-out consumers in our “booming economy” can’t even afford Wal-Mart, yet the Fed’s Ponzi markets are near their all-time highs. One of these things is not like the other. h/t Boo_Randy_Revival
WE HAVE NEVER BEEN THIS BROKE… Searches for ‘can’t pay credit card’ smash records… 11% of accounts now seriously delinquent… Savings rate vanishes… 🚨 Americans have never been this broke before. Google searches for “can’t pay credit card” just hit an all time high. At the same time, US consumer confidence has collapsed to one …
President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs have been deemed illegal by the U.S. supreme court, but that doesn’t mean he’s changing his view on the policy tool — far from it. “The TRADE DEFICIT was down 55%, the biggest drop in history,” Trump declared in a recent post on Truth Social (1). “THANK YOU MR. TARIFF!” …
They're hiding a job market collapse. Hiding the job market collapse keeps the stock market higher. Keeping the stock market higher lets the top 10% keep spending. What happens when the charade ends? https://t.co/cDYrPPyai7 pic.twitter.com/38KbSeVM7f — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) February 17, 2026 Cass Freight index plunges. Only weaker at the depths of the GFC. pic.twitter.com/lWKGk8TVcX …
View post on imgur.com BREAKING: Silver officially enters bear market territory, down -22% from its record high byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts Silver: Parabolic + Thin Liquidity + Vol Panic = Tearshttps://t.co/sPnuELogbv — The Market Ear (@themarketear) January 30, 2026 Parabolic moves don’t fade, they always break. We warned in Silvergeddon earlier this week that silver was morphing …
Silver moon dream just hit a hard wall. SILVER CRASH: $83 to $72 in a Single Day! ⚠️ Silver just wiped out $550B in market cap, plunging 13% after hitting an all-time high. Here’s the breakdown 👇 🔸 The CME raised margins to $25,000/contract, forcing a mass exodus of leveraged traders. 🔸 Unconfirmed reports of …
Terrified passengers feared they would be ‘smashed to pieces’ as their jet’s engine exploded and the plane plummeted ‘nose first’ nearly 30,000 feet within minutes on a flight over France. Passengers on flight AF 7721 from Paris to Ajaccio experienced a nightmarish situation when their plane was forced to divert. Just 30 minutes after takeoff …
This is one of those quiet setups that looks boring right before it bites. Vol is getting crushed even though stocks are barely moving, which tells you complacency is doing the heavy lifting. When UVXY and UVIX bleed this hard without a real rally, it usually means traders are leaning the same way. That works …
$JPM 👀 pic.twitter.com/I9AEkddf7K — Godzilla Trader 🦖 (@David_Tracey) December 9, 2025 JPMorgan shares drop as bank warns of fragile consumers, higher costs Investing.com — JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) stock fell 4.3% by 2 pm Tuesday after the bank’s consumer and community banking CEO Marianne Lake warned of a “bit more fragile” consumer environment and projected higher-than-expected …
“The company behind Donald Trump’s social network Truth Social has lost more than $400m (£305m) on its stash of Bitcoin as the price of the cryptocurrency plunges in a trillion dollar market sell-off. Trump Media & Technology Group held more than 11,542 Bitcoin at the end of September, according to its latest financial statement. These …
CoreWeave shares closed down 16% on Tuesday after CEO Mike Intrator addressed delays at a third-party data center developer that hit full-year guidance in its latest earnings report. “Quite frankly, every single part of this quarter went exactly as we planned, except for one delay at a singular data center,” Intrator told CNBC’s “Squawk on …
even if we run it back to new highs right now i personally know traders who ended their own life because of what happened on Friday. we shouldn’t be quick to forget that the market manipulation taking place since Trump got into the office is some of the highest ever seen. https://t.co/tKB7n2kK1e — lyxe (@cryptolyxe) …
Postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, the United Nations postal agency said Saturday. The Universal Postal Union says it has started rolling out new measures that can help postal operators around the world calculate and collect duties, or taxes, …
CHINA'S BYD OUTSELLS $TSLA IN EUROPE FOR 2ND TIME THIS YEAR BYD crushed Tesla again in July with European 🇪🇺 sales more than tripling to 13,503 vehicles versus Tesla's 6,600 registrations that dropped over 42% from last year. This marks the second time BYD has outsold Tesla in… pic.twitter.com/PwvTJrpD3W — Wall St Engine (@wallstengine) August …
Container shipping traffic from China to the US is falling again byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts
$NVO is still blaming their weakness on " knockoff GLP1s"😂 I like the company, but why isn't $LLY doing the same? Management has to take accountability at some point! pic.twitter.com/sLzJniQLyY — Patient Investor (@patientinvestor) July 29, 2025 The fall hit hard. Early in the morning Novo Nordisk shares dropped over 20% after slicing its full‑year …
The numbers came early. Stellantis dropped its unaudited first-half results on July 21. No waiting. No spin. The damage was too big to hold. Net loss landed at €2.3 billion. That’s $2.68 billion. Revenue fell to €74.3 billion. Last year’s first-half pulled €85 billion. That’s a €10.7 billion drop. The company suspended guidance in April. …
Centene just pulled its 2025 earnings forecast. The numbers didn’t slip, they cratered. The company warned of a $2.75 per share hit, wiping out $1.8 billion in adjusted earnings. That’s not a guidance tweak. That’s a full retreat. The trigger came from updated morbidity data across 22 states, covering 72% of Centene’s ACA marketplace footprint. …
The Chicago Purchasing Managers’ Index fell for a second straight month to its lowest level in four months. The index sank to 40.5 this month from 44.6 in April, falling short of the 45.1 forecast. The latest reading marks the 18th consecutive month the index has contracted. — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) May 30, 2025 Hedge …
$TEM DOWN OVER 16% AFTER SPRUCE POINT SHORT REPORT Spruce alleges AI drives just 2% of revenue, cites questionable leadership and aggressive accounting — sees 50–60% downside 👀 pic.twitter.com/ONPxUYyYQM — Shay Boloor (@StockSavvyShay) May 28, 2025 Tempus AI is facing a sharp selloff after Spruce Point Capital released a scathing short report questioning the company’s …
Wow … UnitedHealth $UNH stock is down another 10% so far in pre market trading after it suspended its full year 2025 financial outlook along with announcing a new CEO 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 pic.twitter.com/BcN0vBeoYp — Evan (@StockMKTNewz) May 13, 2025 BREAKING: UnitedHealth stock, $UNH, falls -11% after announcing the unexpected exit of its CEO and suspending 2025 …
🇺🇸 AMERICANS THINK THE ECONOMY IS A FLAMING DUMPSTER People are freaking out—for the fourth month in a row—because everything feels like it’s getting worse, not better. Blame the T-word: tariffs. They mess with prices, and now folks are scared their paychecks won’t keep up with… https://t.co/siOu6uomud pic.twitter.com/3HZyOZ9vEg — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 25, 2025 …
Global trade outlook is deteriorating: The World Trade Organization expects world merchandise trade to fall -0.2% in 2025, down from +2.7% growth expected at the beginning of the year. This would follow the +2.9% growth recorded in 2024. North American trade is set to be hit… pic.twitter.com/c6h7dlUv4h — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) April 23, 2025 …
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Denmark saw one of the steepest declines, in an indication that anger over Trump’s hostility towards Greenland may be contributing to the steep drop-off in visitor numbers. pic.twitter.com/pM39dnh1yu — John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) April 11, 2025 Here’s our full story from Eva Xiao, @philgeorgiadis, @Claire_Bushey and me, featuring many more eye-opening stats and reactions from tourists …
ONLYFANS star plunges to death during wild threesome shoot and Police are still analyzing CCTV footage. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/GQikwhHCGm — Phencrown👑 (@phencrown1) January 31, 2025
Moderna on Monday lowered its 2025 sales guidance by roughly $1 billion due to a few potential headwinds later this year, as the biotech company continues to cut costs and expand its portfolio. Moderna now expects 2025 revenue to come in between $1.5 billion and $2.5 billion, most of which will come in the second …
The December Philly Fed Manufacturing survey was another disaster, collapsing from -5.5 to -16.4, versus an expected rise to +2.8. This is the weakest level of the year. More problematic, prices paid jumped while prices received fell. All signs point to #stagflation. Sorry, Fed. — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) December 19, 2024 The markets still don't …
Macy’s Inc. said it would delay its third-quarter earnings release after an investigation revealed an employee hid more than $100 million of expenses. An employee “intentionally” made erroneous accounting accrual entries to hide about $132 million to $154 million of cumulative delivery expenses stretching over multiple years, the company said Monday. The worker, who was …
