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$480k home with 10 percent down hits $3,400 monthly mortgage while he clears just $5,800 take home via PurpleRecognition216 I max my 401k, I have an emergency fund, no credit card debt, no car payment and no student loans. …
Notice, this never lasts.Homes are CURRENTLY priced at 2.75% mortgage rates. https://t.co/Qp5Z1P2x0l— Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) May 2, 2026 We are living through one of the largest artificially inflated real estate bubbles in history. Zero rates. Massive stimulus. Record speculation. Now …
George Noble @gnoble79 This is the most OUTRAGEOUS deal I’ve seen in my 45 years on Wall Street. SpaceX just disclosed Musk’s new compensation package: He gets up to 200 million super-voting shares if SpaceX hits a $7.5 trillion valuation, …
AMD wins the chart bubble race- but with a pe ratio of 133 and the nect 16 years of sales priced in – Look out below = PUTS byu/Salt_Yak_3866 insmallstreetbets Directionally you can be right, but if you’re wrong on …
China just made Silicon Valley’s entire AI industry look like a scam. The US government spent 3 years trying to stop China from building competitive AI. But this backfired HORRIBLY. Here’s what happened: Yesterday, a Chinese startup called DeepSeek released …
The top 20% of Americans now own the majority of US real estate: The top 1% of US earners hold a record $6.1 trillion in real estate, followed by the next 19% who hold $21.0 trillion, an all-time high. This …
Imran Lakha | Options Insight @options_insight $NVDA is going to crush earnings. Everyone knows this. That’s the problem. None of us are going to be surprised by good numbers. The question isn’t whether they beat. It’s the second derivative. How …
“Private credit exposure to AI disruption high, not priced in – UBS” No kidding. “…We estimate that 25–35% of private credit portfolios face elevated AI disruption risk. Using BDC portfolios as a proxy (AUM of ~$450 billion, $350 billion of …
All-time highs in dollars just expose how fast the currency is collapsing. Trump just celebrated the S&P 500 hitting an all-time high. But look at the chart below. This is the S&P 500 priced in Gold (Real Money). It isn't …
No way this is true. Tariff rate for a doll is 25%, so $800 tariff would be on a doll worth$3,200. — Jackie Staaf (@StaafJackie) December 22, 2025 pic.twitter.com/3QiXj2zlCu — Mahovolich (@mahovolich) December 21, 2025
This is how trouble sneaks in, quietly and all at once. When every major bond market starts pushing yields higher together, it means money is getting expensive everywhere, not just somewhere. Stocks can ignore that for a while, but balance …
“They Gave Mortgages to Illegal Immigrants.” – Ed Dowd Most thought the housing bubble was just rent subsidies. Wrong. The FHA was selling homes to illegals, using taxpayer-backed mortgages. “I thought they were just supporting prices via the rental market… …
And no magic liquidity indicator or fancy theory will change that. Major layoffs announced in 2025: • UPS: 48,000 employees • Amazon: up to 30,000 employees • Intel: 24,000 employees • Nestlé: 16,000 employees • Accenture: 11,000 employees • Ford: …
It now takes an income of 124k to buy the median priced home in America. Only 18% of single Americans make 100k. 62% of homebuyers are married. Lower rates won’t fix family formation. See the problem? pic.twitter.com/4DO0rEKUTh — Cherrygarciafan. USD🏴☠️ …
They hit $1 billion. But the multiple still demands miracles. Palantir posted second-quarter revenue of $1 billion, up 48% from last year. Earnings per share came in at $0.16, beating consensus by $0.02. U.S. commercial nearly doubled to $306 million. …
You can beat earnings. You can post record margins. But if your stock trades at 90 times forward revenue, none of that matters unless you rewrite physics. Palantir’s Q2 2025 earnings are set to land between $934 million and $938 …
pic.twitter.com/SBh2u4VzqM — Larissa (@Larissa84403556) August 2, 2025 Las Vegas is losing visitors fast. Rising costs are pushing tourists away. Hotel rooms have become nearly 70% more expensive since 2015. Coffee costs $9. Buffets can run $100. Parking garages at the …
The Oasis homecoming shows in Manchester have turned into a spectacle beyond the stage. Tickets were priced so high that many longtime fans in the band’s own city couldn’t afford to attend. Some took matters into their own hands. Over …
The fundamental problem in the housing market today. American households need to earn $112,000 in order to afford a house. However, the Median Household income is only $84,000. Meaning that a huge portion of the U.S. population is unable to …
🚨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 …
The median age of homebuyers has climbed to 56, marking a dramatic shift in the housing market. This is the highest recorded age for buyers, reflecting the impact of soaring home prices, high mortgage rates, and tightening inventory. Younger generations …
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, …
They say it is the future. They say it will change everything. But here we are, staring at a company trading at eighty times its sales with no path in sight to justify it. This is not a minor exaggeration. …
2/ The Fed had been on an unprecedented hiking cycle Taking rates from near 0% to 5.5% in just 1.5 years Ensuring tight monetary policy in the process pic.twitter.com/s8OvQS8I6C — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) April 21, 2025 4/ During the recent …
This chart shows the median U.S. homebuyer housing payment on a median-priced home from January 2020 to April 2025, according to Redfin data. It starts at $1,484 in early 2020. It dips slightly to $1,688 by late 2020. Then it …
Uncertainty rising—higher risk premiums ahead I keep hearing people talk about what they think is “priced in.” Some even say that the “worst case” is priced in. You are fooling yourself. Small samples of people pontificating on what’s going to …
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
Palantir isn’t valued on fundamentals. It’s running on hype, government contracts, and dreams. When the market wakes up, reality will hit hard. Palantir is 85% of the market cap of Salesforce. In the past twelve months: Salesforce did $11.87b in …
It’s a troubling reality that underscores the growing divide between the wealthy elite and the struggling majority. tick tock pic.twitter.com/FflitwaJ3G — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) January 23, 2025 The bottom 50% of households hold 2.4% of US wealth, per Bloomberg. — …
$AAPL GUIDES LOW SINGLE GROWTH FOR Q4 BUT THE STOCK IS PRICED 35X P/E pic.twitter.com/l3Xnnh0Etj — The Coastal Journal (@1CoastalJournal) October 31, 2024 During the years of its epic business growth post GFC, $AAPL traded below 20x Today $AAPL is …