2026 recession odds rise to 49%; The labor market for the foreseeable future is absolutely cooked; Bank of America CEO warns the middle class is breaking

🚨 2026 RECESSION ODDS UP TO 49% pic.twitter.com/sb2XNapYJW — Micah (@micah_erfan) October 28, 2025 So if we layoff everyone to increase margins this year, who will have money left to buy your products next year? https://t.co/1h0rTviPXw pic.twitter.com/2kAtdSgs2B — Boring_Business (@BoringBiz_) …

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From Amazon to Microsoft, tens of thousands of white-collar workers are being cut while the S&P 500 breaks records, showing how Wall Street’s profits rise even as Main Street bleeds

⚠️This is INSANE: Retail investors' options volume spiked to a RECORD HIGH in October, according to Citadel Securities data. Mom-and-pop investors are now trading options TWICE as FREQUENTLY as they did last year. Also, their activity in 0DTE options hit …

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Mega Bankruptcies On the Rise

by Martin Armstrong Corporations with assets exceeding $100 million are seeing a surge in closures and bankruptcies. Trends in Large Corporate Bankruptcy and Financial Distress—Midyear 2025 Update found that filings began to increase in early 2023 and have continued to rise into …

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A Weird Reason Why Dollar Should Rise

via Tom McClellan Every US president and Treasury secretary claims to favor a strong dollar, although they usually secretly wish for a weaker dollar, to make US exports more attractive.  But I am betting none of them have ever been …

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Mainstream media can’t explain gold’s rise, blaming uncertainty and geopolitics, while ignoring job losses, ballooning deficits, rate cuts, and a weakening dollar driving future inflation.

Gold is piercing a level that has held for 45 years. Moves of this size never happen in calm markets. Confidence in the current monetary system is fraying. The rally is powered by record central bank buying, ballooning U.S. debt, …

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Deadly Kissing Bug Disease on Rise Across the US

https://imgur.com/1NFuOyV Blood-sucking ‘kissing bugs’ have now carried a deadly parasite across 32 US states, the CDC warns, with hundreds of thousands of people likely already infected with the parasitic disease Chagas without realizing it. Only 29 confirmed infections were reported …

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Fed inflation expectations rise, Powell’s Jackson Hole speech looks awkward. How loose do they want things to get with core inflation above 3% and rising?

Fed’s Common Inflation Expectations Index just got updated and makes JPOW’s JH speech look even more awkward, if at all possible pic.twitter.com/xh36qnP5nW — KKGB (@INArteCarloDoss) August 27, 2025 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1960748123900252638 “No consumer price inflation” Is this a comedy act? Show me …

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Crash alert: Unemployment claims are rising, markets are flashing 2008-style warnings, shocking data is slumping, and a surprise index just sank to a 9-month low amid widespread misses.

Echoes of 2008 stir on Wall Street… Just as in 2000 & 2007, when weekly unemployment claims start nearing 300K you can kiss the bull market goodbye. Mark it down. 💯 Chart from @profplum99. pic.twitter.com/bJffcNyvN5 — John (@market_sleuth) June 19, …

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