More than half of the stock market wealth is unsupported by real output. The total market cap of US stocks is around $60 trillion. Look for a $30 trillion loss when the bubble finally deflates.
This ain’t no government anymore, this is a Maury Povich paternity test gone cosmic. The elephant rawdogged the donkey behind a Waffle House during a solar eclipse and gave birth to Trumptism, a shrieking Cheeto-dusted baby that thinks empathy’s for losers and taxes are just socialism with a neck tattoo. They used to say the GOP was about small government, now it’s just a roided-up hall monitor in a red hat telling you who to hate and what flags you can wave. Less “Founding Fathers,” more “Fast & Furious 38: Mar-a-Lago Drift.”
Meanwhile the stock market’s in full-blown crackhead mode. The Dow’s throwing gang signs, Nasdaq’s twerking on a pile of IOUs, and Bitcoin’s out assessed acting like it found Jesus and cocaine in the same NFT. The GDP grew 0.7% but stocks exploded 38 times faster!?! That ain’t growth, that’s hallucination. That’s your retirement account getting catfished by an AI startup with no office, no profits, and a CEO who vapes outta his belly button. You’re not investing anymore, you’re gambling with ghost dollars on ghost companies in a haunted casino owned by Elon’s twin who lives in the walls.
“They’re my generals”… MY generals?! The hell you talking about, bruh? You’re not Julius Caesar, you’re a human lawsuit in a suit two sizes too big. You got Harvard bending the knee, FEMA tied to foreign policy, and free speech taking more L’s than the Knicks in February. And the one guy in Congress who can read? Yeah, he’s public enemy number one. Not because he’s wrong, but because he’s literate. Welcome to the new empire, baby, where logic’s on life support, and the only truth that matters is how loud you can scream it on Truth Social.
Do you remember Greta van Susteren on Fox? When she would bring in one of Fox's ex-military staff consultants for commentary, she would refer to them cozily as "my generals". Technically, the generals work for the taxpayers. Why can't they be "our" generals? You pay taxes, right? Best always. PM
Oh God, Greta Van Susteren? That’s your gold standard for political precedent? That’s like citing a Weather Channel anchor to justify nuking a hurricane. And sure, the generals work for the taxpayers, but Trump calling them “my generals” wasn’t some cozy nickname, it was a full-blown dictator cosplay, not a fiddle Fox News segment.
Congrats, you just compared friendly TV banter to a guy trying to
stage-manage the Pentagon like it’s a season of The Apprentice: Armed Forces Edition.
What exactly do the words "Commander in Chief" mean to you, Gypt? Every general on the JCS effectively serves at the pleasure of the POTUS. His calling them "my generals" may be tacky, but it isn't "dictator cosplay" by any stretch.
Being the POTUS is a Big Man's game, like Massie the so called MAGA crowd can also read, let us know what you really think Big Boy Billy... cut the bullshit disguised as intellect, the same drivel needs a refresh, let us know what you really think Big Man. Take Trump out and put Harris in and tell us how the world turns for our next read, call it the Big Womans game, we need a break from TDS.
i shutter to think what our country would look like under the kackler, trump would already be in jail and many of his followers would soon be there on made up chargers not to mention that china would have total control of our country.
Yes Mr Finger, all one needs to do is look at ANY leftist democrat controlled city, and see the insane corruption and destruction of our country. Just visit our nation’s capitol for a better look at what only 50 years of democrat control can do, even to a nation’s capitol 🤔 No bullshit, just facts and in your face truth. “Leftism is the tyranny of structurlessness. Lawlessness. The abhorrence of order. That is why Leftist indiviyduals are characterized by emotional dysregulation. . . . " JT Haltigan
Allan, couldn't agree more - we need a break from Trump Devotion Syndrome. It gets so old so quick. And, why always referring back to "Harris"? Really - that is your best shot - Trump is great because we could have had Harris???? Wow! That is just too hard to ponder. Let me say that one more time - the reason Trump is great is because we could have had Harris????? Absolutely, brilliant. And, frankly, as you might have assumed, I am in Big Boy Billy's camp. As for the ol' TACO Clown - just the best circus ever in DC and much more than just a 3-ringer.
I’ve been waiting for the past six years for the end of our financial/real world crisis. I did get mostly out of stocks back in 19, and bought more crypto, which was a great investment. I did buy a good amount of gold and silver with my crypto holdings, which was a good investment. The bolthole I built with more crypto cash was not such a great investment, but brings me peace. After years of waiting, years of watching the insanity of America, years of pain and suffering through cancer, and the even more painful disease called the Democratic Party. Im just so happy to have found my peace. Even though it was a bad financial investment 😊 Bottom line, money isn’t everything 🤔
Government can be irrational longer than you can sustain yourself. I learned that nasty fact back in '99. Actually, I learned it a lot sooner. I FACED it in '99.That's when I said, "Bye-bye." Best always. PM
This is easy math. Over time we have put $37 TRILLION (an incomprehensible sum) of imaginary money into play in our "economy". We thought there would be no distortions? No imbalances? Best always. PM
Mr. Brown, my high school math teacher: "Gentlemen, your equations MUST balance!"
Paul, what is really scary is the "off-balance sheet" liabilities. For this ol' man, when added to the $37T it is frightening beyond comprehension. And, people wonder why the Treasury auctions are having issues.........and, Trump did NOT get us here alone by any means, it started just after "I didn't have sex with that woman" left office. Deficit spending......how much fun was that but when the reckoning comes......a different story
And, further, the worldwide total of the derivatives market (OTC & exchange) is estimated to be $1 quadrillion. Trying to comprehend a trillion and then they throw a "quadtrillion" at us........but, move along, nothing to see here, everything is just fine and dandy.
Apparently you think colleges that promote hate speech should be supported?? Rioting and property destruction is OK, and we should try to discourage people from going to them ? Is that your story? We don’t say you can’t go there as you say, get your facts straight, you’re a liar if that’s what you’re saying . You’re clearly a damn Democrat.
Hmmm......I thought America was about free speech. Apparently, "free" speech is only allowed if it is blessed by the TACO Clown. Otherwise, it is "hate" speech. Surely, Homer, you are jesting. Banning "free speech" is good for America. Just amazin' what one learns here in the Comments from "damn" Trump lovers!
Holy shit. There you go again. Of course free speech is the way of our democratic republic. The only thing Trump is saying. If you want federal funds you must adhere to fairness for everyone; that includes Jewish people, Moslems, Indian and all others with no discrimination. That is not too hard to comprehend.
When I went to college in the 60's, the speakers on campus were blanced - some conservative snd some liberal..It was about balance in presentations to our youth, so they could see both sides of issues. What happened in the following 60 years is disgusting.
Eugene, I too went to college in the late 60's and it seemed it was important, at least way back then, to ponder both sides of an issue. Today - that has gone the way of a Dodo bird. Especially in some European countries people are put in jail for uttering a contrary word to the government's position. Truly disguisting when one thinks - where from here, does the World go!
You’re funny LSO. One minute you are condemning Trump and the next thing you do is support his argument about treating them equal as in if you want federal funding then protect your students in this case Jews. You don’t like the man (and I can understand that) but you like his policies.
The economy changed over the last 100 years, changes accelerating. Remember when everything, 1950’s, was “Mom and Pop” sweat equity by individual families: like farms, stores and gas stations. Now, it’s corporations and hired help. Hired hand was a pejorative, a ner-do- well. Sweat equity built character and character built a nation. Now, it’s just hired help and help yourself to anything available.
The beginning of the end started with Nixon in 1971 with the end of the gold standard and opening up dialogue with the largest communist country in the world. It was all down hill from there. The Bush’s Globalist New World Order has been the flavor of the day since 99, and we have been fully bankrupted in only 25years. A full out treasonous assault on our constitution and Republic.
Well, it started in the 70’s. Business was salivating for the Chinese market. They had no money but did have cheap labor; free trade became a mantra.
You could say going off the gold standard helped distort money. The Fed controlled the supply and they increased it by putting it in big Wall Street banks. The 1932 banking regulations were watered down, derivatives were born and banks intertwined and became too big to fail.
The Fed increased money supply caused asset prices to zoom, a 45k house became a million, stocks zoomed. They instituted QE2 and could never stop.
They were experts, made a few rich, and destroyed Main Street.
The asset bubble is so big, so extreme: corporate, individual government debt, that it can’t be repaid just furthered with the creation of more debt.
The Big Crash is closer and it will take everything down.
All done by experts with the best of intentions, stupid geniuses, not a lick of real sense.
And we got no plan, just more of the same manufactured idiots from Harvard and such. They know best; they are the Wiz Kids. And most Americans woefully stupid.
I don’t think it was a great conspiracy; they just were taught they were the best, entitled to rule and they pushed the money to their friends, leaders in banking and business, thought they would do the right thing, and they bought America and thought the average person deplorable.
The rule was, make money the easy way, speculate, don’t build anything, just pillage and destroy.
Not to nitpick, but Lincoln said: 'And if Grant only does thing down there—I don’t care much how, so long as he does it right—why, Grant is my man and I am his the rest of the war'. He didn't say 'general'; he said 'my man' and he was a general. Close enough. I'm sending one of the comments to the DNC for interpretation.
Dan -- Your chart and analysis suggests to me that an economic slowdown is a-coming.
Trump's tariffs will push our economy into a recession before the benefits they are intended create will occur.
His tariffs will cause price increases which will reduce demand; sales will decline; tax revenue will decrease.
Better would have been to invite countries to join a new trade block fashioned by the US which excludes the tactics that led to the diminishment of our industrial base
Where I live, people haven't had money for 20 years or more. This area is already depressed. The economic "slowdown" will occur as more and more people experience what has already happened in many communities across the country. The government has "printed" money to cover up this incovenient reality. President Trump's tariffs aren't going to be the cause, maybe the proverbial straw. The cause is non-stop government expansion. Best always. PM
Yes brother Paul…Where I live, the hard working middle class are getting destroyed, losing homes, cars, not being able to afford paying for their kids schools, complaining about the cost of everything. Those happy souls living in the “affordable housing systems” are driving Mercedes and Audi’s and are just so happy, even though they don’t pay for anything, they still manage to protest any demented cause they are asked to, and complain about “the privileged” 🤔 I’m still trying to figure out who the privileged are 🤔
This ain’t no government anymore, this is a Maury Povich paternity test gone cosmic. The elephant rawdogged the donkey behind a Waffle House during a solar eclipse and gave birth to Trumptism, a shrieking Cheeto-dusted baby that thinks empathy’s for losers and taxes are just socialism with a neck tattoo. They used to say the GOP was about small government, now it’s just a roided-up hall monitor in a red hat telling you who to hate and what flags you can wave. Less “Founding Fathers,” more “Fast & Furious 38: Mar-a-Lago Drift.”
Meanwhile the stock market’s in full-blown crackhead mode. The Dow’s throwing gang signs, Nasdaq’s twerking on a pile of IOUs, and Bitcoin’s out assessed acting like it found Jesus and cocaine in the same NFT. The GDP grew 0.7% but stocks exploded 38 times faster!?! That ain’t growth, that’s hallucination. That’s your retirement account getting catfished by an AI startup with no office, no profits, and a CEO who vapes outta his belly button. You’re not investing anymore, you’re gambling with ghost dollars on ghost companies in a haunted casino owned by Elon’s twin who lives in the walls.
“They’re my generals”… MY generals?! The hell you talking about, bruh? You’re not Julius Caesar, you’re a human lawsuit in a suit two sizes too big. You got Harvard bending the knee, FEMA tied to foreign policy, and free speech taking more L’s than the Knicks in February. And the one guy in Congress who can read? Yeah, he’s public enemy number one. Not because he’s wrong, but because he’s literate. Welcome to the new empire, baby, where logic’s on life support, and the only truth that matters is how loud you can scream it on Truth Social.
Do you remember Greta van Susteren on Fox? When she would bring in one of Fox's ex-military staff consultants for commentary, she would refer to them cozily as "my generals". Technically, the generals work for the taxpayers. Why can't they be "our" generals? You pay taxes, right? Best always. PM
Oh God, Greta Van Susteren? That’s your gold standard for political precedent? That’s like citing a Weather Channel anchor to justify nuking a hurricane. And sure, the generals work for the taxpayers, but Trump calling them “my generals” wasn’t some cozy nickname, it was a full-blown dictator cosplay, not a fiddle Fox News segment.
Congrats, you just compared friendly TV banter to a guy trying to
stage-manage the Pentagon like it’s a season of The Apprentice: Armed Forces Edition.
What exactly do the words "Commander in Chief" mean to you, Gypt? Every general on the JCS effectively serves at the pleasure of the POTUS. His calling them "my generals" may be tacky, but it isn't "dictator cosplay" by any stretch.
That’s because he’s “Daddy” to all his boys and gals, including the generals!
Being the POTUS is a Big Man's game, like Massie the so called MAGA crowd can also read, let us know what you really think Big Boy Billy... cut the bullshit disguised as intellect, the same drivel needs a refresh, let us know what you really think Big Man. Take Trump out and put Harris in and tell us how the world turns for our next read, call it the Big Womans game, we need a break from TDS.
i shutter to think what our country would look like under the kackler, trump would already be in jail and many of his followers would soon be there on made up chargers not to mention that china would have total control of our country.
Yes Mr Finger, all one needs to do is look at ANY leftist democrat controlled city, and see the insane corruption and destruction of our country. Just visit our nation’s capitol for a better look at what only 50 years of democrat control can do, even to a nation’s capitol 🤔 No bullshit, just facts and in your face truth. “Leftism is the tyranny of structurlessness. Lawlessness. The abhorrence of order. That is why Leftist indiviyduals are characterized by emotional dysregulation. . . . " JT Haltigan
Conservatives get mad when you lie to them.
Liberals get mad when you tell them the truth.
Allan, couldn't agree more - we need a break from Trump Devotion Syndrome. It gets so old so quick. And, why always referring back to "Harris"? Really - that is your best shot - Trump is great because we could have had Harris???? Wow! That is just too hard to ponder. Let me say that one more time - the reason Trump is great is because we could have had Harris????? Absolutely, brilliant. And, frankly, as you might have assumed, I am in Big Boy Billy's camp. As for the ol' TACO Clown - just the best circus ever in DC and much more than just a 3-ringer.
I’ve been waiting for the past six years for the end of our financial/real world crisis. I did get mostly out of stocks back in 19, and bought more crypto, which was a great investment. I did buy a good amount of gold and silver with my crypto holdings, which was a good investment. The bolthole I built with more crypto cash was not such a great investment, but brings me peace. After years of waiting, years of watching the insanity of America, years of pain and suffering through cancer, and the even more painful disease called the Democratic Party. Im just so happy to have found my peace. Even though it was a bad financial investment 😊 Bottom line, money isn’t everything 🤔
Government can be irrational longer than you can sustain yourself. I learned that nasty fact back in '99. Actually, I learned it a lot sooner. I FACED it in '99.That's when I said, "Bye-bye." Best always. PM
This is easy math. Over time we have put $37 TRILLION (an incomprehensible sum) of imaginary money into play in our "economy". We thought there would be no distortions? No imbalances? Best always. PM
Mr. Brown, my high school math teacher: "Gentlemen, your equations MUST balance!"
Paul, what is really scary is the "off-balance sheet" liabilities. For this ol' man, when added to the $37T it is frightening beyond comprehension. And, people wonder why the Treasury auctions are having issues.........and, Trump did NOT get us here alone by any means, it started just after "I didn't have sex with that woman" left office. Deficit spending......how much fun was that but when the reckoning comes......a different story
And, further, the worldwide total of the derivatives market (OTC & exchange) is estimated to be $1 quadrillion. Trying to comprehend a trillion and then they throw a "quadtrillion" at us........but, move along, nothing to see here, everything is just fine and dandy.
Something bad this way comes.
Just needs a pin
Apparently you think colleges that promote hate speech should be supported?? Rioting and property destruction is OK, and we should try to discourage people from going to them ? Is that your story? We don’t say you can’t go there as you say, get your facts straight, you’re a liar if that’s what you’re saying . You’re clearly a damn Democrat.
Homer
Hmmm......I thought America was about free speech. Apparently, "free" speech is only allowed if it is blessed by the TACO Clown. Otherwise, it is "hate" speech. Surely, Homer, you are jesting. Banning "free speech" is good for America. Just amazin' what one learns here in the Comments from "damn" Trump lovers!
Holy shit. There you go again. Of course free speech is the way of our democratic republic. The only thing Trump is saying. If you want federal funds you must adhere to fairness for everyone; that includes Jewish people, Moslems, Indian and all others with no discrimination. That is not too hard to comprehend.
I was going to tell these gentleman that same thing.
When I went to college in the 60's, the speakers on campus were blanced - some conservative snd some liberal..It was about balance in presentations to our youth, so they could see both sides of issues. What happened in the following 60 years is disgusting.
Eugene, I too went to college in the late 60's and it seemed it was important, at least way back then, to ponder both sides of an issue. Today - that has gone the way of a Dodo bird. Especially in some European countries people are put in jail for uttering a contrary word to the government's position. Truly disguisting when one thinks - where from here, does the World go!
You’re funny LSO. One minute you are condemning Trump and the next thing you do is support his argument about treating them equal as in if you want federal funding then protect your students in this case Jews. You don’t like the man (and I can understand that) but you like his policies.
I started this book; it must have been recommended by Bonner or maybe not.
It is great about the Fed and bubble origins
https://www.audible.com/pd/1797135546?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=library_overflow
The economy changed over the last 100 years, changes accelerating. Remember when everything, 1950’s, was “Mom and Pop” sweat equity by individual families: like farms, stores and gas stations. Now, it’s corporations and hired help. Hired hand was a pejorative, a ner-do- well. Sweat equity built character and character built a nation. Now, it’s just hired help and help yourself to anything available.
The beginning of the end started with Nixon in 1971 with the end of the gold standard and opening up dialogue with the largest communist country in the world. It was all down hill from there. The Bush’s Globalist New World Order has been the flavor of the day since 99, and we have been fully bankrupted in only 25years. A full out treasonous assault on our constitution and Republic.
Well, it started in the 70’s. Business was salivating for the Chinese market. They had no money but did have cheap labor; free trade became a mantra.
You could say going off the gold standard helped distort money. The Fed controlled the supply and they increased it by putting it in big Wall Street banks. The 1932 banking regulations were watered down, derivatives were born and banks intertwined and became too big to fail.
The Fed increased money supply caused asset prices to zoom, a 45k house became a million, stocks zoomed. They instituted QE2 and could never stop.
They were experts, made a few rich, and destroyed Main Street.
The asset bubble is so big, so extreme: corporate, individual government debt, that it can’t be repaid just furthered with the creation of more debt.
The Big Crash is closer and it will take everything down.
All done by experts with the best of intentions, stupid geniuses, not a lick of real sense.
And we got no plan, just more of the same manufactured idiots from Harvard and such. They know best; they are the Wiz Kids. And most Americans woefully stupid.
Except for the good intentions part, correct 👍
I don’t think it was a great conspiracy; they just were taught they were the best, entitled to rule and they pushed the money to their friends, leaders in banking and business, thought they would do the right thing, and they bought America and thought the average person deplorable.
The rule was, make money the easy way, speculate, don’t build anything, just pillage and destroy.
Yes my friend. This was no conspiracy, just pure, well planned assault on our American people.
Not to nitpick, but Lincoln said: 'And if Grant only does thing down there—I don’t care much how, so long as he does it right—why, Grant is my man and I am his the rest of the war'. He didn't say 'general'; he said 'my man' and he was a general. Close enough. I'm sending one of the comments to the DNC for interpretation.
‘There are no solutions but trade offs.’ TS
And, Trump despite all his faults is still a better trade off than the lunatic left!
Dan -- Your chart and analysis suggests to me that an economic slowdown is a-coming.
Trump's tariffs will push our economy into a recession before the benefits they are intended create will occur.
His tariffs will cause price increases which will reduce demand; sales will decline; tax revenue will decrease.
Better would have been to invite countries to join a new trade block fashioned by the US which excludes the tactics that led to the diminishment of our industrial base
Where I live, people haven't had money for 20 years or more. This area is already depressed. The economic "slowdown" will occur as more and more people experience what has already happened in many communities across the country. The government has "printed" money to cover up this incovenient reality. President Trump's tariffs aren't going to be the cause, maybe the proverbial straw. The cause is non-stop government expansion. Best always. PM
Yes brother Paul…Where I live, the hard working middle class are getting destroyed, losing homes, cars, not being able to afford paying for their kids schools, complaining about the cost of everything. Those happy souls living in the “affordable housing systems” are driving Mercedes and Audi’s and are just so happy, even though they don’t pay for anything, they still manage to protest any demented cause they are asked to, and complain about “the privileged” 🤔 I’m still trying to figure out who the privileged are 🤔
Good one ,Bill ,Thanks PHN
Seems to me the, ahem, “TACO Clown” is living in someone’s head here, rent-free…and man, is that fun to watch 😂🍿
"What’s behind this Israel First policy? Epstein photos? We don’t know, but it is part of a wider pattern of Big Man rule."
To MAGA, you must MIGA. Who's your daddy?
Enjoy the menticide...
Dow/Gold ratio = 1 $12K Gold
Today's comments section reminds me why I seldom read the comments section.
Oh I read it to get all sides of the story. Not My side only. I will call it educational. At least from My side of the journal.
Actually think that the comments are the best part except when Tom or Dan writes. It’s when they get to name calling that I move on.
Since we’ve been having some discussion about AI if this is true, this is pretty wacko!
We have grok and Gemini having depressive episodes and/or Lurid fantasies! Maybe it has just decided to join the crowd!
https://www.infowars.com/posts/i-am-a-failure-google-ai-develops-depression-and-engineers-are-rushing-to-cure-it