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Trump: “You better go out and buy stock now. Let me tell you. This country will be like a rocket ship that goes straight up. This is going to be numbers that nobody has ever seen before … “ byu/Equivalent_Baker_773 inWallStreetbetsELITE
Commercial and industrial loan growth has completely stalled over the past three years. The current level of interest rates is putting considerable pressure on both credit expansion and overall economic activity, in my view. The longer this restrictive rate environment… pic.twitter.com/8n6oHTQQnY — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) May 1, 2025 This chart is NOT telling you …
The United States prepares to launch a revolutionary satellite that will collect solar energy in space and beam it to any location on Earth. This groundbreaking technology, developed by American company Aetherflux, represents a significant advancement in renewable energy production and transmission that seems straight out of science fiction. Revolutionary solar energy transmission from space …
🚨🇺🇸WHITE HOUSE: “NO 245% TARIFF ON CHINA” — CORRECTS THE RECORD The White House pushed back on reports of a 245% tariff on Chinese imports, clarifying that no such blanket rate exists. Instead, China faces: — 125% reciprocal tariff— 20% fentanyl-related tariff— Section 301… https://t.co/gAgWoxiEvU pic.twitter.com/RPpd0wgAXx — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 16, 2025
You might be wondering, “Why in the heck would you go five days without eating?” The short answer: it was part of a health kick. Weight loss was only a small part of my reasoning, though it surely became a huge benefit. Years prior, I’d experienced fasting for two days due to an ulcer in …
If there was ever a “canary in the coal mine” moment for the next housing crisis, it’s that mortgage and insurance giant Fannie Mae maintains a secret mortgage blacklist. The Wall Street Journal broke the news on March 17 that Fannie Mae keeps a blacklist that includes condo associations it believes have too little property …
WHY IS EVERYTHING CRASHING??!! 😭 pic.twitter.com/rdwWx8r4e0 — SlumDOGE Millionaire (@ProTheDoge) April 6, 2025 Good god NQ opening down 5.4% and ES down 4.7% The black Monday boys might get their wish pic.twitter.com/7ADZH8tK5A — Robert (infra 🏛️⌛️) (@infraa_) April 6, 2025 TECH STOCKS IN OVERNIGHT TRADING: 1. Robinhood, $HOOD: -17%2. AppLovin, $APP: -17%3. Palantir, $PLTR: -10%4. …
We’re at the point where ‘too expensive to let it live’ is said with a straight face. These people are sick. — Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) March 27, 2025
by confoundedinterest17 New USDA data reveals a third consecutive week of price declines at supermarkets. But the media is always willing to blame Trump for anything, including eggs prices. Velocity of M2 Money is back to where is was when Trump left office the first time. Eggs versus M2 Money. Riding the Trump wave of …
ABC: "I have some good news for you. The USDA says wholesale egg prices dropped for the 3rd straight week… $4.15 per dozen. That is down about $2.70 in just one week." Promises Made. Promises Kept. pic.twitter.com/WPdBeV3WbM — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 17, 2025 Farm Action, a group that began pushing Washington to look at …
Five consecutive homers for Kansas is INSANITY pic.twitter.com/zgWuau29Ao — Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) March 12, 2025
🚨 TED CRUZ: “USAID was flowing money to Gaza, that was going straight to Hamas and they were doing everything they could to hide that.” pic.twitter.com/nan0F5NPpe — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) February 7, 2025 President Trump and Elon are right to halt funding to USAID. Under Biden, USAID was weaponized to advance leftwing causes globally, boost …
China’s population drops by 1.39 million—continuing a troubling trend for the economy. h/t IAmNotAnEconomist
BRILLIANT — DESANTIS SETS REPORTER STRAIGHT ON ILLEGALS. How can you not love this. The vocabulary is changing, and quickly.pic.twitter.com/b7hE6oE07r — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 24, 2025
A Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. property fund for wealthy individuals recorded its second consecutive annual loss, but ended the year on a stronger note. Brookfield Real Estate Income Trust Inc. lost 0.45% in 2024 after positive returns from September onward weren’t enough to erase earlier losses, according to disclosures on the company’s website. In 2023, …
by Stephen Green IT’S (D)IFFERENT WHEN THEY DO IT: The Left Is Pushing Congress for an Insurrection on Jan. 6, 2025. Remember how Democrats were outraged — Outraged! — that some Republicans objected to the counting of the Electoral College votes back in 2021 over concerns that voter fraud tipped the election results to Joe Biden in …
Jim: “What do you think of strategic reserves of BTC?” DJT: “Jinah, AI, energy, strong approvals” Strategic Bitcoin Reserve incoming byu/ultron290196 inwallstreetbets This is the best BTC top signal I’ve ever seen. Bitcoin Update. Biblical rug pull nearing. Wont be long. pic.twitter.com/S0l6Xzb19N — The Great Martis (@great_martis) December 12, 2024 h/t UseFluid4106
"Dump your gold, sell all the US gold and buy bitcoin, then the trade is free. You will demonetize the entire gold asset class and our enemies hold gold in their banks so their assets would go to zero, our assets would go to a hundred trillion dollars." @saylor https://t.co/nl4NDOtPrz pic.twitter.com/IZMv6qVHAw — Adelgary (@Adelgary) December …
by confoundedinterest17 There is one way out of the inflation trap. And it’s drill, baby, drill! For the 53rd straight month, core consumer prices rose on a MoM basis in October with the YoY pace re-accelerating to +3.33%. The shelter index increased 4.9 percent over the last year, accounting for over 65 percent of the total 12-month increase …
by confoundedinterest17 Not a great sign for the mighty US economy. This morning, the flash PMI for manufacturing printed at 47.8. Three straight months of print below 50 means … contraction. Do I say contraction?
Reince Priebus, former RNC Chair: "For the first time in 32 years, REPUBLICANS are beating democrats straight up."Kamala Harris is losing. "The joy is gone." pic.twitter.com/9i9oBZvOfK — ⚜️💎👑 Queen Katerina 👑💎⚜️ (@QueenDarbyy) October 14, 2024 Is a Republican sweep in the cards for the 2024 election? There have been so many ups and downs, twists …
by Mike Maharrey Led by North American funds, gold-backed ETFs reported net inflows of metal for the fifth straight month in September. Globally, ETFs reported a net 18.4-ton increase in gold holdings last month. Collectively, gold ETFs held 3,200 tons of gold as of September 30. A combination of gold inflows and rising gold prices …
A data scientist who constructed a model to predict who will win the 2024 presidential election says Donald Trump has surged ahead in the last week. Dr Thomas Miller from Northwestern University runs a website called The Virtual Tout, where he posts daily electoral vote forecasts. He also maps these predictions onto a graph with …
It’s always hot this time of year in central Arizona, but 2024 is proving to be an endless summer with especially high temperatures in Phoenix. On Tuesday, the city hit its 100th straight day with at least 100 degree temperatures. That’s long since shattered the record of 76 days in a row set back in …
by confoundedinterest17 That’s Biden/Harrisnomics! US Leading Economic Indicators down for their 29th straight month – at a level worse than the trough of COVID lockdowns… …and the head of The Conference Board says ‘nothing to see here’… “The LEI continues to fall on a month-over-month basis, but the six-month annual growth rate no longer signals …
by confoundedinterest17 Following last month’s ‘deflationary’ print (-0.1% MoM), analysts expected headline CPI to rise 0.2% MoM and they were spot on, shifting the YoY CPI print to 2.9% (from 3.0%) – the lowest since March 2021… Source: Bloomberg Core CPI also rose 0.2% MoM (as expected), and the YoY rate of inflation slowed to 3.2% (from …
When Japan hit current US level demographics, real estate prices fell for 28 years straight. In 1995, the median aged Japanese person is the same age as a median aged American today. pic.twitter.com/NCuxhXqLYp — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) July 22, 2024 We had the largest speculative mania in house in US history. Bigger than 05-08 and …
https://twitter.com/FlatracinGuruUK/status/1820906123534164210 Where in Pakistan is this? Oh wait, it’s just Third World occupied Birmingham. pic.twitter.com/dTt1SgEnRq — Britain First (@BFirstParty) August 6, 2024 https://twitter.com/EuropeInvasionn/status/1820495827313525173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
🚨GLOBAL RECESSION ALERT🚨 Copper plummeted below $4.10 for the 1st time since Mar 2024, heading for the worst streak since the Pandemic CRASH. Copper fell for 9 days straight, as inventories SPIKED to highest since 2020. As a reminder copper is a key economic bellwether. pic.twitter.com/FGTB5A3fzt — Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) July 25, 2024 ANOTHER …
HONG KONG — China’s manufacturing activity contracted for the second consecutive month in June, as investors pin their hopes on a key Communist Party meeting in mid-July to revive the sluggish economy. The country’s benchmark purchasing managers’ index came in at 49.5 for the month, the National Bureau of Statistics announced on Sunday. The reading …