Inflation ripping higher while real spending collapses is the exact combination that breaks markets and no amount of AI fairy dust changes that math. SPY has just officially topped?

Keep acting like the consumer is still strong and spending like nothing’s changed… and yeah, it’s going to look fine until it suddenly isn’t. Inflation still hot and people already stretched, that’s the kind of setup where things can roll over, but timing is always the tricky part. U.S. inflation picture is the worst in …

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The CEOs of Twitch, Discord, Steam, and Reddit have been summoned to testify before Congress about the radicalization of their users.

Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) invited the Chief Executive Officers of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to testify at a full committee hearing on October 8, 2025. The hearing will examine the radicalization of online forum users, including instances of open incitement to commit politically motivated acts. “The politically …

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Trump-backed nuclear plan gains steam with Westinghouse and Google teaming up for 10 reactors

TRUMP WANTS 10 REACTORS, WESTINGHOUSE JUST SAID LET’S DO IT Trump wants a nuclear comeback. Westinghouse just promised 10 new reactors. The first shovels hit dirt before 2030. Each reactor powers three-quarters of a million homes. That’s a lot of juice. They pitched it straight to Trump in Pittsburgh. The plan comes with $75 billion …

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ADP Jobs Report: 1.3% YoY Jobs Added As Federal COVID Spending Runs Out of Steam (Grizzly Bear Economy)

by confoundedinterest17 We are dancing the Grizzly Bear with jobs reports. The more truthful ADP report is out and it shows a wimpy 1.3% YoY addition in jobs. So much for a dynamic, growing economy under Biden/Harris. The Covid era Federal spending has run out of steam. Ahead of tomorrow’s “most important data point in history” payrolls print, …

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Chinese activity data lost some steam and the real estate crisis just got worse.

2/By sector, automobile production remains very strong, followed by electronics… two of the categories targeted by the new US imports tariff hikes. pic.twitter.com/vUmh3zk03r — Patrick Zweifel (@PkZweifel) May 17, 2024 4/Investment spending fell in April, but remains very solid over 3 months (>14% ann.), driven by the manufacturing sector, which benefits from public support for …

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A Global Recession Wave Is Building Steam

About the author: Desmond Lachman is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He was previously a deputy director in the International Monetary Fund’s Policy Development and Review Department and the chief emerging market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. The world economy is in trouble. Not only are there clear indications of a …

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