🇺🇸 The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow says the U.S. is growing at +3.8%.

But Moody’s Analytics finds 22 states + D.C. already in recession, from Washington to Georgia to Massachusetts.

So... are we booming, or breaking?

Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi says the U.S. is “on the precipice” of a damaging contraction.

Job losses are mounting in states tied to manufacturing, farming, and transport, while high-cost states like Georgia are now seeing population pullbacks.

Even California and New York are “treading water.”

GDP paints one picture - broad averages lifted by consumer spending and services.

But the micro data tell another story...goods-producing regions are cracking.

In past cycles, state-level recessions often lead national ones.

The fissures start small… until real cracks appear

Zandi blames policy uncertainty: tariffs, job cuts, and stalled labor growth.

Others say the slowdown’s overhyped.

Either way, 22 recessions inside one economy isn’t a "no landing"...it’s a warning.

🔗 Simon Ree

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Battles in Aleppo have begun, with casualties reported on both sides.

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 Both the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Syrian National Army are accusing each other of violating mutual conventions and attacking each other's checkpoints in Aleppo.

Unclear who fired the first shot.

@CIG_telegram

🇸🇾📞🇸🇾 — Ongoing negotiations between the Syrian government and the SDF to stop the clashes.

🇩🇪 Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system

A new scientific advisory board under the German Ministry of Economy stated that there is almost no time left for reforms. According to experts, Germany’s economy has been stagnating for years, while the demographic situation continues to worsen.

The proposal sparked outrage in Berlin: just recently, Economy Minister Katharina Reiche suggested raising the retirement age to 70, and even that faced heavy criticism.

The average life expectancy in Germany in 2023 was about 81.2 years.

🔗 Visegrad24

🇻🇪🇻🇪❗️🇺🇸 — Venezuela has placed its US embassy under heightened security, warning that extremists may be planning a false flag operation involving explosives.

#BREAKING

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪🇻🇪❗️ — US President Donald Trump told US Special envoy Richard Grenell to cease all diplomatic efforts with Nicolás Maduro and any outreach to the Chavista regime.

During a meeting with military personnel, Trump called Grenell last Thursday and told him to completely suspend the efforts.

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪💊 — White House spokesperson on whether Trump will send troops to Venezuela on the "Phase 2" of action against the Cartel of the Suns network:

“I will not go into specific proposals considered by the president; but we have been very clear that Maduro is illegitimate.

Trump has taken unprecedented tough actions to end the drug trafficking”.

🇦🇷🐍📹 — Ahead of Argentine Legislative elections, Argentine President Javier Milei holds a major rally at Buenos Aires City with a crowded stadium

🔗 El colo edición (@GordoEdicion)

🇦🇷🐍📹 — Around 30,000 Argentines wait for Argentine President Javier Millei to start the rally ahead of the Argentine Legislative elections

🔗 ABRU 🇦🇷 (@abrucostaa)

🇦🇷🐍❌🌹 — Argentine President Milei at the presentation of his new book:

"Kirchnerists, you may have won a round but you haven't won the battle yet."

📝 The president thanked his supporters "for making the effort to be" at the Movistar Arena in Buenos Aires.

📊 Milei says that as his Libertarian-leaning La Libertad Avanza is in leading the polls in a tigh race against the Left-Peronist/Kirchnerist Fuerza Patria

🇦🇷🐍🎙 — Argentine President Javier Milei sang a cappella "Panic Show" by La Renga at the opening of the presentation of his new book in Buenos Aires tonight

🔗 Corta (@somoscorta)

🇦🇷🐍❌🌹 — 📹 During Javier Milei’s book presentation, a Star Wars scene was projected featuring Cristina Kirchner replacing Kylo Ren and the president in place of Luke Skywalker.