AOC for the win!

The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class

Was about to drop cash on some Chinese LEGO-style historical train sets—American and European classics. But thanks to Trump’s toddler-tier tariffs? Canceled. Blocked by MAGA economic illiteracy. So where are the $ going now? Straight into Euro stocks. Deliberately avoiding anything Made in America.

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sectors today at noon from my portfolio

American is cooked. Nobody even wants to vacation here anymore because they know they can get shipped to a gulag on a whim.

When your new president is doing great

Wow: American economic confidence is now the worst it’s been in 45 YEARS. Reminder: this is before the inflationary impact of tariffs even reaches consumers.

The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that 10% of its equipment procurement budget will be earmarked for novel technologies, with the newly established UK Defence Innovation (UKDI) body set to lead the effort. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=58455

Indonesia eyes joining Turkish 5th-generation fighter jet program KAAN https://breakingdefense.com/2025/04/indonesia-eyes-joining-turkish-5th-generation-fighter-jet-program-kaan/

The Dollar Is Falling—Not Just in Value, But in Trust This chart should terrify anyone who still believes in the myth of American exceptionalism as an eternal constant.

If you find talk of bond and forex markets hard to track, this graph does an amazing job illustrating what's going on.

🇺🇸 Trump Didn't Just Break Norms—He Made the World Stop Trusting America As U.S. Treasuries lose their safe-haven status, global markets are turning to Germany—exposing how Trump’s chaos fractured the trust America took centuries to build.

This latest whiplash in the S&P 500 and SPY ETF has all the hallmarks of a Vegas rollercoaster: massive money on the line, wild bets, short squeezes, and speculative hope riding on thin air. Here’s a breakdown of what this chaos means and whether it’s worth diving in—or sitting tight:

07:20 AM EDT, 04/11/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/A) has priced a six-tranche Japanese yen-denominated bond totaling 90 billion Japanese Yen ($626.7 million), Reuters reported Friday, citing the term sheet.

Economic uncertainty update: The thing about veering wildly between policy positions, favouring and then discarding a new maverick advisor each week, and using contradictory justifications at every turn, is that even if one particular pivot is in the direction of sanity, chaos is the constant.

Gold absolutely ripping 🚀

The insiders seem to have had a 20min warning before the public

GOLDMAN raises recession odds to 65%. “.. We Now Forecast 2025 Q4/Q4 GDP Growth of -1%, Well Below Consensus .. “.. We Expect the Unemployment Rate to Rise 1.5pp to 5.7%”

FUN FACT 🚨: Today was the first time in history that the S&P 500 has ever been up 4% or more during the day and closed down more than 1%

Indeed. If the 1929 stock market played out today it would look like this If you had a $500K portfolio last month it would be worth $54K when the market bottoms on July 21st, 2027

If you're like me, you think of a stock market crash as sudden. But after Black Monday, 28 October 1929, it took two and a half years for the stock market to hit bottom. fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1HWnn

The Trump administration has fired a top Navy admiral assigned to NATO headquarters in Brussels, people familiar with the matter said Monday, the latest ouster in an ongoing purge of senior military officers that has disproportionately targeted women.

Just increased positions (BOUGHT) in BAESY BDRBF CAE DRS EADSY EUAD EZU FEZ FINMY HAGHY HWM ISMAY KBGGY NATO RNMBY SAABY SAFRY SHLD THLLY

❗️Stock markets today: 🇭🇰 Hong Kong: -13.6% 🇹🇼 Taiwan: -9.6% 🇯🇵 Japan: -9.5% 🇮🇹 Italy: -8.4% 🇸🇬 Singapore: -8% 🇸🇪 Sweden: -7% 🇨🇳 China: -7% 🇨🇭 Switzerland: -7% 🇩🇪 Germany: -6.8% 🇪🇸 Spain: -6.4% 🇳🇱 Netherlands: -6.2% 🇦🇺 Australia: -6.2% 🇫🇷 France: -6.1% 🇬🇧 UK: -5.2%

Is this good

Leonardo has signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to deepen industrial collaboration across the aerospace and defence sectors, building on the momentum of an earlier agreement signed in 2024. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/leonardo-exp...

S&P 500 $SPX could continue falling until 4,850 warns the "The Chart Master" Carter Worth 🚨

First time mother at 100 (I was 35) how could this NOT be my news to me good news for April 5 #EarthOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/s...

BREAKING 🚨: Crude Oil Crude plunges below 60 for the first time in 4 years 📉

Saab CEO confirms talks with Canada 🇨🇦 and Portugal 🇵🇹 #Gripen www.di.se/nyheter/jatt... Article in Swedish. Pic w/ Google Translate.

Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Index rises to highest level in history 🚨

Live news: Japanese stocks plunge as global rout continues https://www.ft.com/content/44ea27d8-f166-41e5-b347-dbd39dc9b7de

JUST IN 🚨: President Trump says he doesn't want stocks to go down but sometimes you have to take your medicine

BREAKING 🚨: China Chinese Stocks plunging more than 8% to open Monday's trading session 📉

BREAKING 🚨: Stock Market Dear God, S&P 500 Futures opens down more than 4%!

Asian shares nosedived as Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index dropped nearly 8% after the meltdown on Wall Street over President Donald Trump's tariff hikes and the backlash from Beijing.

BREAKING: #Colombia has selected Saab 39 #Gripen E/F as its future fighter. 🇨🇴🇸🇪 LOI signed. - President Petro Gustavo Official source: x.com/petrogustavo... #military #aircraft

Anyone else get a phone call today?

Odds are low but never 0

From the @financialtimes.com article on “investors flock[ing] to gold funds.” #markets #investors #investing #gold

❗️🇸🇪Sweden has ordered four 🇧🇷Brazilian C-390 Millennium multi-purpose military transport aircraft that will replace the 🇺🇸American C-130H transport aircraft.

JUST IN 🚨: The odds of a U.S. Recession occurring this year just soared to 50% on Polymarket 👀👀

S&P 500 $SPX could fall to 5,300 over the next 3 months warns Goldman Sachs 🚨

ECONOMY IN FREE FALL 📉 The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's GDPNow model now estimates real GDP growth for Q1 2025 in the United States to be -3.7% — plunging from its previous estimate of -2.8% on March 28.

Stock Market hits an Extreme Fear Level of 19, the most amount of fear in more than 2 weeks 🚨🚨