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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🏴☠️ …
“Payroll employment growth slowed sharply to only 35,000 jobs per month over the three months ending in July. This is well below the moderate pace seen earlier in the year, likely due to a significant softening in labor demand.” https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/08/09/federal-reserve-rate-bowman/1681754774717/ …
Mortgage rates are falling. Home price growth is slowing. But the market is not recovering. It is unraveling. “The median U.S. asking price rose just 2.3% year over year… one of the smallest increases in two years.” https://www.redfin.com/news/housing-market-update-mortgage-rates-fall-price-growth-slow/ “Zillow anticipates …
CDC quietly reports childhood vaccine rates dropped again for the 2024–2025 school year, with coverage falling below 93% for all major shots. MMR vaccination (measles, mumps, rubella): 92.5% Polio vaccine: 92.5% DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis): 92.1% Exemptions also hit a …
Donald Trump called Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell a “stubborn MORON.” He urged the Fed board to take control of interest rates if Powell refuses to cut them. Trump said, “IF HE CONTINUES TO REFUSE, THE BOARD SHOULD ASSUME CONTROL, …
The Fed’s choice to hold rates high is often misunderstood. It removes dollars from circulation, balancing the impact of tariffs and fewer global trades. Liquidity dries up, which means stocks lose their usual momentum. Investors turn to bonds instead, pushing …
by Michael Did you know that U.S. households are carrying $1.18 trillion in credit card debt? Considering the fact that the average rate of interest on credit card balances is now over 20 percent, that is not good news at all. …
S&P 500 hits frothy 39 P/E as markets soar in historic rebound but past peaks signal danger ahead If the credit market was pricing this in interest rates would be over 10%. The problem is everything is being ignored. https://t.co/5SPicZHZpp …
Trump misreads Fed’s playbook. Powell ain’t cutting rates😅 pic.twitter.com/IiGQkdh4wi — The Great Martis (@great_martis) July 30, 2025 OH MY US Q2 GDP INITIAL ESTIMATES 3.0% VS 2.6% EXPECTED economy grew in Q2… pic.twitter.com/bdsm6u8Vle — amit (@amitisinvesting) July 30, 2025 Get …
Wall Street is gearing up for a massive surge in Treasury bill issuance in the third quarter, that is more than half a trillion dollars. That means the government is borrowing heavily to cover spending, which puts pressure on interest …
Mean reversion on that going to be rough! Pulte owns 38 million shares of $PHM or around 19% of the company stock. Imagine how much he borrowed from the bank using his stock as collateral. This is why Pulte is …
Fed stress test hints at silent zero rate countdown…
The AI industry just dropped some numbers that should terrify every executive who’s betting their company’s future on AI agents. Carnegie Mellon researchers put these systems through real workplace tasks, and the results are brutal. OpenAI’s flagship GPT-4o? Failed 91% …
If the economy is already "booming," why do we need to cut the rates ? https://t.co/VuNcTJCX3h — Craig Shapiro (@ces921) July 8, 2025 Copper breaks to an ATH today in a monster 13% move. Hmmm … but everyone wants rate …
Fed faced same risks in ‘99 as today… June 1999. The Fed is concerned about: -Rampant equity speculation and its impact on wealth (SPX PE 24x, today 23x)-Too tight labor markets (UR 4.3%, today 4.1%)-Too high wage growth (ECI 3.5%, …
European yields set to explode. Consequence of cutting rates inbound. Hope this helps. pic.twitter.com/iJpPDssWY2 — The Great Martis (@great_martis) July 2, 2025 Economic boom https://t.co/Vh9utBfYIc — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) July 2, 2025
Jerome Powell just confirmed what markets already suspected. The Federal Reserve would have cut rates by now if it weren’t for the tariff barrage coming out of the White House. That’s not speculation. That’s Powell’s own words. Inflation forecasts jumped …
Big moves in yields, especially at the front. While twos are making a move on their own, it’s the very front at the first-in-line bills that draws our attention. Steepening has been given a boost by some ugly recent data …
I hate to pop your narrative bubble…not really…but, interest rates are not the cause or fix of inflation. See below. The US had 7-years of a 0% federal funds rate. No inflation. Then, we had 2-years of 0% and got …
by confoundedinterest17 New home sales are going down. New home sales plunged in May, the biggest MoM drop since June 2022. The median sales price increased 3% from a year ago to $426,600 last month, marking the first year-over-year price gain …
Dose of reality: Congress is spending, printing, and borrowing so much that the Fed has lost its ability to “set rates.” Banks and foreign governments who buy our 10 year U.S. treasuries are demanding more than 4.5% return. BBB makes …
*SWISS CENTRAL BANK CUTS KEY INTEREST RATE BY 25BPS TO 0.0%, LOWEST SINCE JUNE 2022$CHF 🇨🇭🇨🇭 pic.twitter.com/Ajfw639gAz — Investing.com (@Investingcom) June 19, 2025 Zero yields are back! For those who believed zero and negative interest rates were something of the …
Auto insurance rates in the US have increased by 84% over the past 5 years. That's the biggest 5-year spike on record.https://t.co/l5IYmkeySJ pic.twitter.com/8oALpnRJEQ — Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) June 16, 2025 The average American now pays $2,165 a year for full …
by confoundedinterest17 Should President Trump fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell and replace his with someone else like Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent? The answer is … YES! Why? First, there was a massive response to the Covid outbreak in 2020. And …
The problem isnt the interest rates the problem is wages and the shrinkflation down to 450 sq/ft units — Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) June 9, 2025
