Your OP comment stated that the Democrats would’ve had us here in 20-50 years. Which is a crazy statement considering there will be two entire generations that haven’t been born voting in 50 years.

Yeah, that’s why I called my senator because this isn’t really the same as Nancy Pelosi making her self rich on Google calls. This is robbing every single investor in the world. Stealing straight out of grandma’s retirement account.

Yea i love it. why take 20 years to maybe improve incrementally, when we can self destruct in months and you can get some wicked internet points before the hunger games begin.

I wasn’t a big fan of our trajectory either. I’m so thankful we could just speed up the process and have all the results at once. No time to fix anything when you’re drooling over everything burning down. You’re right this is all good. I’m looking forward to a world of insecurity where only the strong survive. Are you? Or are you just hoping that out of the choas some kind of order will magically appear that was better than before?

You we’re pretty much right on the money. I think the Zero Coupon bonds are more of a hedgefund favorites. Your average investor is going to be holding the couponed version in their 401k.

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There are two different kinds of bonds, you described the couponless bonds, but most bonds pay a coupon. We are responsible for paying interest on those bonds bi-yearly. It’s an important part of the trade dynamic because the bonds can be traded for USD and produce USD for the older. If there is no international trade there’s no reason for them to hold our bonds.

So just to help your example most people are looking for the cashflow. They give the US $1,000 and they want the $40 a year. They can then use the 40$ a year to exchange for goods and services without having to shuffle around much money. Since banks, countries and industrys are tied to this income the threat of default is truly a global wrecking ball.

European markets and bonds seem to be catching a lot of the fleeing capital so… big doubt.

We were up 3-0 in the finals and blew the lead. Enjoy generations of poverty if your family can survive the great depression.

Might as well if the bond market crashes. They basically have to control the entire market and demand payments in crypto. Declare victory in monopoly with USD and then invent a new currency off its death? I just honestly don’t see how you scam the world out of trillions and benefit from all the money. Especially if you completely devalue all the money and investment assets permanently.

This is the big news lol. He’s put the worlds faith in the US financial system at the brink of destruction. They are slowly winding it back for huge financial gains for insider traders. When the world is tired of being scammed they will abandon us at best. Attack us at worst.

But yes inbetweem this news he is still erasing minorities from history books, arresting tesla protestors. Supreme Court voted 9-0 against his deportation, so he’s still doing a constitutional crisis. He is still supported by a lame congress who can only rubber stamp his bad ideas into law. So ya the normal stuff is still in the background but we’re all starting to wonder if the great depression has arrived.

Straight to the woodchipper.

It makes you wonder where they plan to store and hide the stolen wealth?

What do you mean this is all brilliant insider trading. It’s going to cost us our economy and destroy our world order, but they are making crazy money right now!

It’s gonna be huge, biggest boats the world has seen, titanic vessels! Shuffling the suffering migrants back to europe.

Congratulations Boeing and Donald Trump. I traveled to over 30 countries as a young man and I guess that will have to do for this life time. I’m never getting on a place again. I don’t even want to get in a car to go to the airport anymore. I trust a 1960’s puddle hopper in Costa Rica more than any USA airline.

I cannot believe how many people/comments i hear that are scared to go to a peaceful protest. My 70 year old uncle didn’t go because he didn’t have a buddy. I called him hours before. Same with the die hard internet commies. Where’s the fucking revolution. Where are all the bodies resisting the fascist.

Nah Pizza cake did a great comic on a guy drilling a whole in the bottom of the boat we are all floating in. We all go down together and only the strong will survive.

And my trading account!

Hey that’s what i said!

Bstix had the correct answer. These are regular surveys provided to different regions of the country to gauge sentiment. How do you feel about the economy today, what do you think about the future. They have a similar one that goes out to business leaders. When you look at the business confidence and consumer confidence you get a picture of how people in that area will spend, and invest money. It’s not anyones favorite data point, but it can be a strong indicator of recession.

I believe during covid consumer sentiment cratered first and the economy went after it.

Ha the consumers confidence huh. We just dump and pumped global markets with a Tweet on truth social. The whitehouse is being run like North Korea. What about the investor confidence.

Consumers don’t need confidence when investors pull out of the country and we all lose our jobs.