Anyone know more about what's to come next month? White collar doesn't have a union in the US, so the only thing we can count on to prepare for a disaster is information that people share here. I am sure there are people leaders here who know what's coming. I hope they share some helpful info instead of being a servant who follows their master like a puppet. Don't worry you won't get caught! If you believe all of what is happening is fair, then by all means keep quiet, but speak up here and share valuable info if you believe it's all a total BS.
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"Hey Jim, did you like it hard and deep?"
"Yes Mike, the wrecking ball burned like a cleansing fire."
I may not have any cards but he is not playing with a full deck.
Wow, you must be a millionaire !
Embrace the wrecking ball. Embrace the coming chaos, and think of it as opportunity. A cleansing fire wipes all away, and allows for new opportunity.
Yeah, while that sh*t is true, the stock market was at obscene overbought levels, spending out of control, government too damn big, people too damn unhappy, and too much division everywhere. Welcome to the cleansing fire. There's going to be chaos while reverting back to equilibrium. I've said before with the last clown administration, that the pendulum was swinging so damn far, you best watch out when it swings back. It's going to cut hard and deep. Welcome to hard and deep. It's not like it wasn't obvious. Welcome to the opposite side of pendulum clown administration. It's going to mess a lot of things up in the opposite direction. Some good, some bad. Embrace it. Did you not anticipate it? Of course most people didn't.
On a more serious note, the end of the business cycle has ended, around 2020 (1980-2020). We've gone through 4-5 years of death throes of that cycle, and now is a time of deleveraging. What does that entail. Well, look at it from an opposite point of view. 18% interest rates down to nothing in 2020. From 2020 we jumped to 5-7%, and are now walking rates back a little. Next will be a jump up to 10% or so. Deleveraging. What does this do to the stock market? What does this do to monetary circulation, and monetary velocity? IF, they do it right, it will be a nice smooth transition back towards 1980. If they do it wrong, many stock market black swans. Hope you don't need that 401k money anytime soon.
Do you know FRED? He's a friend you should become very familiar with.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
I find great beauty in finance, economics, stocks, and numbers. I enjoy the day to day theatrics they toss at us, and the people that read it and panic as if it's a surprise. The USA corporation is a business, and like all businesses, they have decade long plans constructed, before the current events you see today.
The more you know, the more this sh*t doesn't hurt you. You plan, you avoid, you allow those that can not see the oncoming train, take the abuse. Not because you are unwilling to help them, or share advice, but because they themselves, are not willing to listen to you. You are the crazy one. So, you watch in the distance as the cries and wails occur, when the event occurs.
Embrace, and brace, for the wrecking ball. Your only limitation is your ability to learn, decipher, and understand.
Stock market is down nicely the past few weeks. Anyone able to capitalize on the downside? Made a nice and respectable 37% in that time. We should have much more downside to come. Brace for impact, or if you don't want to, at least safeguard your investments. If you are using a financial advisor, God help you. If you don't know what that means, continue on the current path and you will.
"Hey Mr. Barber, do I need a haircut?" Of course you do. You always need a haircut. There's never a time not to need a hair cut. We can always take something off the top."
Hey Mr. financial advisor, should I sit out the market? "No, you always need to be invested in the market. There's never a time to sit out the market. Always buy the dip.
We work on averages."
Tariffs announced today; will take place in April.
25% Canada
25% Mexico
Stock market tanking.
GM Stock: 47.38/share, down -3.56%
You wanted layoffs? You will certainly GET LAYOFFS.
Should be very exciting for you people!
Tariffs are going to be a real problem.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/investing/us-stocks-tariffs-loom/index.html
Everything swirling around right wing media is a misunderstanding or an outright lie.
None of it is true.
Obviously there are problems in the government, but they're not what Trump, Musk, and Alex Jones are telling you.
They ignore the real problems and clutch their pearls over fantasy problems.
we had a 2.1 trillion dollar deficit
lets just see what the next one is
obviously this cannot and will not continue one way or another
"Real progress is being made to cut costs.
Just today it was found that there are 4.2 million government credit cards but 2.2 million government employees. 1 million of which didn't answer the email proving they exist."
Suppose that is true and the other horror stories as well like giving social security out to people that are 130.
The important question that needs to be asked is where was the judicial and legislativive branches providing checks against this abuse? Where were the inspectors general inside the executive branch? All 3 entities and more are still there and haven't changed, so why would you expect anything different in the future? This feels like a superficial show to fool some folks internally and abroad into believing that our financial system is being cleaned up. It's just another show.
@jm+1jn7jj09v
Jobs data for the past 4 years has been overstated and then downward revised each quarter. This data is in the FRED database. There's nothing to prove. It has been reported again and again. The TDS isn't amusing anymore but then again, you can cry into the void. Real progress is being made to cut costs.
Just today it was found that there are 4.2 million government credit cards but 2.2 million government employees. 1 million of which didn't answer the email proving they exist.
The grift is over. You can cry and complain. You can lie about Russian reporters. You can apply PH on your sore @ss. It doesn't mean a thing.
'That's not fake data, that's you not bothering to Google to understand the proess.'
No one understands the 'process'.
The reason why is because it is corrupt and there is no 'process'.
"If you're going to claim that published government data is "fake" you're going to have prove it, and not just that it doesn't fit your world view."
Wrong, if you are going to claim the government MEDIA is accurate, you are going to have to prove it.
That's the way job data has always worked because of the way it's collected.
Companies give the government preliminary employment data earlier in the month, then the official data at the end of the month, which is why monthly data is corrected.
That's not fake data, that's you not bothering to Google to understand the proess.
You only have to look at the history of >> corrections << to employment numbers to see how the government has been misleading its people with regards to how healthy economy supposedly is.
“2 GAZILLION JOBS CREATED!”
… no wait… never mind. Sorry, folks…
If you're going to claim that published government data is "fake" you're going to have prove it, and not just that it doesn't fit your world view.
Musk hasn't saved a trillion.
He claims 66 billion on his web site, but if you look at his "receipts" he's misstated amounts, counted contracts that already ended, triple counted some contracts, etc.
It's riddled with mistakes.
And only adds up to something like 10 billion.
Meanwhile he's ripping apart the government, and destroying the services it provides.
Like medical research and weather forecasts.
Wait til they start cutting Medicaid, which mostly helps people in rural areas in red states.
Which is the MAGA base.
In addition, the Republicans are planning to renew the tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations that will add almost 5 trillion to the national debt AFTER all their predicted spending cuts.
And the Trump tariffs, which are due to start Tuesday, will massively increase inflation.
So the price cuts for groceries Trump promised will never happen.
Everything will be even more expensive.
All of Trump's policies are just a mess for the American people.
Almost like he was ordered to do it by an enemy of America. Like his pal Putin.
@hb+1jn7jj09v
The government cutting $1 trillion, saving tax payers money is tanking the economy?
Explain how this works.
Also explain how the faked unemployment, faked GDP data, faked housing data and faked inflation data from the last 4 years is inconsequential to the current situation.
https://fortune.com/2025/03/01/us-economy-recession-outlook-q1-gdp-contraction-trump-tariffs-doge-job-cuts-consumer-spending-inflation/
The economic numbers were good until a week and a half ago, until DOGE, threatened tariffs, and other policy chaos began to crash the economy.
Elections have consequences.
@ex+1jn7jj09v
If you honestly think the day the orange guy stepped into the picture the massive government, corporate and personal debt suddenly spiked to trillions, you are hitching a ride on the short bus. If you get a small dopamine hit blaming him for what went on in the last 4 years... good for you. It won't change reality though. Everyone with a brain knows what transpired leading up to this moment. It's why the left has been destroyed politically. Get a reality check if you have the capacity.
'To the people cheering on new layoffs the minute the last one ends...
The Atlanta Fed just released a new statistic:
GDP suddenly and mysteriously dropped like the Demon Drop at Ceadar Pointe.
Great Depression straight ahead.'
We have seen this for quite some time daily bugle.
Everyone can see the national debt is out of control
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN
The companies are making 'profits' by cheapening the labor force, stock
buybacks, and other financial gimmicks.
Financialization has hollowed us out.
Europe will go first though.
The markets don't look good, that's for sure. Unless you are shorting the market, in which I am. It was a very healthy last month of profits.
Deleveraging is the game. Don't know what that means? That's too bad, you will find out if you remain invested. So I'll give you a hint. 1980-2020, business cycle ended. 2020 to now, death throes.
Have you met FRED?
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
Well, that's what you voted for in November.
Wasn't he going to lower grocery prices on day one?
How's that going?
Which executive order was that?
To the people cheering on new layoffs the minute the last one ends...
The Atlanta Fed just released a new statistic:
GDP suddenly and mysteriously dropped like the Demon Drop at Ceadar Pointe.
Great Depression straight ahead.
You and everyone you know are about to get wiped out.
This should be fun and exciting for you since you love the doom.
@da+1jn7jj09v
Well, I did bring my best efforts consistently, had the receipts and got a 10% raise. Maybe I just got lucky despite the FED and the propped up system?
You have to really keep on eye on the FED conspiring to keep you from getting ahead.
'You have zero leverage other than hard work, your attitude and your skill set.'
Sorry those days are gone. We are not in a merit based system.
We are in a system propped up by the FED, financial gimmicks, consistent labor force cutting, and monopolies.
If we had a society with small independent companies that battled each other with no influence from the Fraud market or the government then your statement would hold some weight.
Why will those who know not say?
In our current economic system, you are either referred to as a “human resource” or a “consumer”. Have you ever wondered why?
It's because you are at the mercy of corporations and the government.
You have zero leverage other than hard work, your attitude and your skill set.
The people who do not understand their place in this system obsess about getting fired when they know they truly have little to offer.
You are here.
How do you fix this? Complaining?
No one who knows will say