Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
Bonds do not move with stock prices like shares do. If the stock market crashes, Trump’s bond holdings (especially the many municipal bonds and U.S. Treasuries) should stay much steadier. The issuers — cities, states, school districts, or the U.S. government — still have to pay the same fixed interest on schedule and repay the …
The most stable index in history – DJT (Dow Jones Transportation) is -7% today …. pic.twitter.com/TKQioA40FY — Data Driven Stocks (@stockdatamarket) April 22, 2026 So we are flat for the last few days. Most of the market gains are due to the $SOXX – which rises for the straight 22 days. Still S&P 500 / …
Woman who lives only 1.6 miles from the META Data Center in Wisconsin speaks out She says their water system has been completely destroyed She says there is discharge that turns the entire river white like milk. She paid for testing and found extremely high heavy metal levels “I live on a horse farm and …
BREAKING: A recession model that has predicted every single US downturn in 80 years just hit 49%. The threshold is 50%. Every time it has crossed that line, a recession followed within 12 months. No exceptions. And the data behind this reading doesn’t even include the Iran war yet… Moody’s built an AI model trained …
All patients injured in the Dec. 13 mass shooting at Brown University are now either in stable condition or have been discharged, according to an update from Rhode Island Hospital. As of 2:45 p.m. on December 18, Rhode Island Hospital confirmed it treated nine people with gunshot wounds related to the incident and six patients …
If you've ever wanted evidence that Chinese data are completely made up, now's a good time for that view. The US imposed huge additional tariffs on China early this year. But China's GDP growth (black) is rock-solid and the PMIs also look suspiciously stable. This is fiction… pic.twitter.com/XLBC5GSgpC — Robin Brooks (@robin_j_brooks) August 10, 2025
by confoundedinterest17 As expected, the Trump Administration levied tariffs against Canada, Mexico, China, etc. The short-term result? Gold is stable, Bitcoin fell. Or as Gene Autry sang, “South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)”. The stock market? Down -1.53%. And then we have the doom porn about Mexico’s “impending” collapse. The Peso is declining, and Senator …
"If AI is having such a profound impact on call centers, telemarketing, and other business process outsourcing jobs, then unemployment in the Philippines and India should be moving higher. But that is not what the data is showing." – Apollo Sløk pic.twitter.com/zkPGelkn6B — Daily Chartbook (@dailychartbook) September 4, 2024
i feel better now — steph pomboy (@spomboy) August 29, 2024 A debt crisis always leads to a currency crisis, bringing inflation, asset and debt implosion, political and geopolitical instability, social unrest, and even wars. We're closer to this risk than ever. — Egon von Greyerz (@GoldSwitzerland) August 29, 2024
The #BTFP is currently being drained as banks have to pay back their loans. This is now draining liquidity out of the markets. Here is what it means going forward and why the bank stocks have not fully crashed yet: The Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) allows banks to borrow… pic.twitter.com/rxD21yDYhJ — The Coastal Journal …
Recent economic updates from the U.S. paint a bleak picture, stirring deep unease among investors. The latest indicators, including the sharp decline in the Bloomberg Economic Surprise Index, signal a worrisome underperformance reminiscent of the tumultuous trends observed in 2019. This downturn in economic sentiment comes at a precarious moment, with all eyes fixed on …
AP: Russia's economy is growing despite Western pressure After more than two years of the special operation in Ukraine, little has changed economically for most Russians. And this despite large-scale sanctions that have seriously limited Moscow’s trade with Europe, the United… pic.twitter.com/6HPQ1aUAQv — Sprinter Press (@SprinterPress) March 12, 2024 https://apnews.com/article/russia-economy-putin-election-ukraine-97a5f92113e54cd9af0aa31778069a3e An interesting graph from Sky …
Type in a scene and it poops out a world to video, all made up out of thin air (and compute). This is starting to get good now and rumor is they have had it for a year. Here is a better one than the embed below https://openai.com/sora?video=tokyo-walk This is an example of OpenAI’s new …
Our eyes are continuously bombarded by an enormous amount of visual information – millions of shapes, colors, and ever-changing motion all around us. For the brain, this is no easy feat. On the one hand, the visual world alters continuously because of changes in light, viewpoint, and other factors. On the other, our visual input …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJi2TaSvd8E Detransitioned boy castrated by doctors warns kids about perils of gender ideology: ‘Patient for life’ A young male, who formerly identified as a transwoman, who was castrated and became a “patient for life” as part of “gender-affirming care,” wants to warn others not to follow in his footsteps. He discussed his story of resilience …