Yes

More anti-dollar guidance & rhetoric from Chinese officials, this one instructing state-owned banks to curtail US Treasury purchases, citing risks of overdependence on market prone to sharp swings I'm sure these concerns are legitimate, but this is also about feeding the de-dollarization narrative

And, again, the agent-doxxed-and-then-attacked scenario the masks ostensibly are intended to prevent has never actually occurred. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

Okay wait. The vice-chair of the National Governors Association - who just so happens to be Black - has been disinvited from a White House event? wtaf

It’s, well, interesting that Epstein might cost the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom his job but….

Huh

Just sitting here with the idea that the president of these United States just said out loud that “nobody” understands Spanish. What are we even doing.

This de-aging thing is weird.

What the F was that Dunkin’ ad?

👇 still true

The ads so far suck. Game, too

More than half the drugs on the TrumpRx site have a cheaper generic version on the market. Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply. A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.

Officials in authoritarian regimes frequently make absurd false statements in public to signal their loyalty

This is what Hess said: “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the US right now. I think it’s a little hard. There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of. Just because I wear the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the US.”

That last sentence waaaaay misses the mark

> @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Watergate, but if someone was killed.

Days after Washington Post laid off 300 journalists, publisher Will Lewis -- conspicuously absent during the notifications to those whose jobs were cut -- is stepping down. Attached is Lewis' memo to staff, courtesy of my NPR colleague David Folkenflik. READ: https://loom.ly/vZyjS90

JFC

Trump’s advisors told him he was going to be booed mercilessly, so he isn’t going this year and he’s canceling the F-22 flyover too.

Dow 50k... how did it happen? $GS +67% last 9 months, $CAT +126% @stockcharts I was early on my 50k call, but as often happens, stocks eventually went up. articles.stockcharts...

What a stupid, stupid way to run a government

So, first of all, of course it was Trump. But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.

'erroneously'

Props to NPR for leading the newscast w/ the president's racist post. But, c'mon...they're not false narratives. They're lies. Words matter (Once again, don't give me the 'but we don't know what he knows or is thinking.')

Fed's Daly: "We’ve been in a relatively low-hiring, low-firing environment...That may persist, but workers are aware that things could change quickly, leaving them in a no-hiring, more-firing labor market. With inflation printing above the FOMC’s 2 percent goal, this rightly feels precarious."

Oh, were there other, less racist things, senator?

"Donald Trump posts a lot of election conspiracy theories online, and he posts a lot of racist memes, too. But it’s not every day that he makes an elections-conspiracy-theory post that is also insanely racist." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

NYT: “The depiction of Mr. and Mrs. Obama as apes perpetuates a racist trope promoted by slave traders and segregationists,” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

(Variety) - President Donald Trump posted a racist video to his Truth Social account late Thursday with an AI-generated video of the Obamas as apes. @variety.com variety.com/2026/digital...

Bitcoin hit a high of $126,000 last year. Then it dropped to $120K, $110K, $100K, $90K, $80K, $70K and is no hovering around $60K. More than a trillion in notional "value" wiped out. There is no Fed or Treasury ready to bail it out. But Congress is close to blessing it...

There are drawdowns. And then there’s Melania Coin.

This chart seems to suggest a striking pattern: Kevin Warsh's speeches are consistently hawkish, except when Trump is President and about to appoint a new Fed Chair. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

1 dollar still equals 1 dollar tho

Religious tests from the president.

The best available data we have is the JOLTS survey; there has not been an increase in layoffs and the last ~5 years have had unusually low layoff rates. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSLDR

I mean…

January job cut announcement data generating predictable doomer headlines. *Don't use this data without caveats.* It's a small, unrepresentative sample of actual layoffs, and much noisier. Increases of this magnitude in announcements => small increases in actual layoffs.

Suspect initial claims got a storm effect in the week ending Jan 31, also unfav residual seasonality. So modest uptick after running very hot to start the year. Continuing claims still negative YoY despite a pickup in the week ending Jan 24.

Saying this at a religious event.

“Your mountainish inhumanity” We’re doing this to ourselves

Because of course they did. Cowards

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT ALLOWS CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL MAP INTENDED TO BENEFIT DEMOCRATS

Literally, show me the money

Oh come the F on... "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at a congressional hearing Wednesday that the president has the right to interfere with the decision-making of the Federal Reserve."

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

The January jobs report will come out on Wednesday, Feb. 11. CPI delayed to Friday, Feb. 13. JOLTS will come out tomorrow (Feb. 5). #NumbersDay #EconSky www.bls.gov/bls/2025-lap...

Let’s remember Lummis owns $$$ worth of BTC. Of freakin’ course she wants the government to buy.

NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning. Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

#SellAmerica trade: 🇺🇸