Chat's odds that #Trump will be #impeached within the next three years:

The odds of a January rate cut have fallen to just 22% 🚨

Hendrik Bessembinder's study of 28.6k stocks between 1926-2024 found that "Just 2% of the companies produced 90% of the aggregate wealth creation of $79.4 trillion, and the top 6 alone added $17.1 trillion". Source: Mauboussin & Callahan's paper on Drawdowns and Recoveries, 2025.

the shitshow is unraveling www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

“.. based on the data we have to date; it looks like manufacturing is experiencing more of a slump than is generally recognized ..” @deanbaker13.bsky.social cepr.net/publications...

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

She tried so hard 🤡

NEW: I was just on a call with @rokhanna.bsky.social — who says just 2.5 gigabytes out of a total of 300 gigabytes of the Epstein Files — have been released by the DOJ.

I want to raise a few issues with this ... - The unemployment rate was 4.6% in Nov 2025. - There are 982,000 more unemployed people in Nov 2025 than in Jan 2025. - There are 271,000 fewer federal government employees. - 982,000 > 271,000. More than 3 times more unemployed.

* Number of additional unemployed Americans since January: 982,000. * Number of federal government job losses: 271,000. 🤡

Of course they won’t apple.news/A3yQ0BWnCRUG...

Page One: “.. China is outfoxing Trump’s efforts to isolate Beijing, with shipments to Europe and Asia more than offsetting the 20% contraction to the US.” @wsj.com

Claude on the Kennedy Center renaming

> @theonion.com theonion.com/trump-announ...

WSJ: The Trump family’s ventures since re-election “generated at least $4 billion in proceeds and paper wealth for the family as of December, according to company statements and securities filings.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Yeesh. #CPI

Billionaires are social cancer www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

PIMCO: “.. The Supreme Court is likely to strike down the Trump administration’s IEEPA tariffs .. which would force the Trump administration to refund roughly $100 billion of tariffs paid in 2025.” www.pimco.com/us/en/insigh...

I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece. Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...

DataTrek: "When US large-caps peak in December, they do it in the second half of the month 71% of the time... the S&P 500 peaked on the last trading day of the year five times, the most of any single day." @inc.com www.inc.com/phil-rosen/s...

> @bencollins.bsky.social theonion.com/trump-assure...

The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.

Which Ivy League school has produced the greatest number of historically consequential sociopaths?

“.. Prices are expected to spike even further, especially as rising energy demands are driven by data centers and extreme heat, the study said.” $XLU abcnews.go.com/US/energy-bi...

One of the Oracle (ORCL) Stargate data centers in Michigan doesn't have financing after Blue Owl (OWL) pulled out. Increasing signals that capital is starting to turn away from the sector having gorged for the past year.

Where will we get our bad advice from? www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

I'll pay you to support my stupid mistakes

If you are a trader (both real money and retail day trader) you wake up every day and trade this turd ..... it's just the stock you trade regardless of anything like fundamentals. Momentum play pure and simple.

I'm sure they meant "klan" www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨 We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...

“.. The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America." - Lutnick, April 6, 2025

“.. The US unemployment rate is now up by 1.2 percentage points from its trough 30 months ago. We have never seen that kind of increase without the economy already being in a recession.” - Schwab #NFP

JUST IN 🚨: Federal Reserve just pumped $5.2 Billion into the U.S. Banking System through overnight repos 🤯 This is the 6th largest liquidity injection since Covid and surpasses even the peak of the Dot Com Bubble 👀

One is always wrong the other is a hedge fund psychopath www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...

Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.

Five minutes of Plunderphonic madness. bstevens.bandcamp.com/track/5-minu...