🇺🇸 More polling on the New York mayoral race from the Tulchin Research report. This shows ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo defeating Zohran Mamdani by 11 percentage points in a hypothetical head-to-head contest.

Cuomo garners 52% of the vote to Mamdani’s 41%. Rumors have flown about the White House aiding in cutting down on the participants. The voting begins October 25th and runs through Election Day, November 2nd.

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🇫🇷 France’s debt-to-GDP ratio is at 113% and pushing the COVID highs of 115%.

🇩🇪 Germany, on the other hand, is not suffering from a debt crisis but a stagnation crisis. Its debt-to-GDP ratio is 62.5%.

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🇺🇸 The growth in American jobs has been woefully dependent on additions to the Health Care and Social Assistance sector.

If you remove those from non-farm payrolls, we’ve lost 143,000 jobs over the last four months.

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🇺🇸 The 3-month moving average of total job growth excluding healthcare.

It’s been noted this is the first time in 25 years that it has gone negative outside of a recession.

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🇺🇸 The gerontocracy in the House of Representatives.

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🇺🇸 It appears most of the nation is entering or already is in recession.

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🇪🇺 This is the change in government primary balance (y axis) and the change in the unemployment rate (x axis)in the Eurozone, latest vs. Q4 2019.

Best Fiscal Shape: 🇬🇷 🇪🇸 🇨🇾
(Greece, Spain, Cyprus)

Worst Fiscal Shape: 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 🇩🇪
(Finland, Austria, Germany)

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🇮🇹 🇫🇷 This says more about France than Italy.

This is a trillion dollar issue Paris has to deal with…

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🇺🇸 The Fed Funds & Unemployment Rates

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🇺🇸 Total Job Growth Before & After CES Benchmark Revisions (thousands, seasonally adjusted)

More at NFU: We Need Independent Public Data Collection

The madness of making financial & economic decisions on the basis of the work of statisticians with immense career incentives to politicize (both in the partisan & nonpartisan senses) the numbers must end.

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🇺🇸 Target Rate Probabilities for 17 September 2025 Fed Meeting

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🌎 Returns Leaderboard for the week ending on September 12th (in USD)…

🥇 🪙 Bitcoin
🥇 🇨🇳 China Equities
🥇 🇨🇳 Emerging Market Equities

⬇️ Japanese Yen, the Dollar Index

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🌐 The top 10 & bottom 10 countries in local vs. international representation in the Spotify Weekly Top 200 charts…

🇫🇷 60% of artists played in France are French (double that of the United Kingdom or Spain).

🇪🇸 Speaking of the Spanish, Puerto Rican Bad Bunny outranks all natives.

🇺🇸 American artists are in the top 5 of 70 out of 73, demonstrating global presence.

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🇩🇪 Alternative for Deutschland is surging beyond its East German enclave.

AfD has tripled their last performance in the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), moving from 5% to 14.5%, as the Greens have taken a beating, losing a third of their support and the third position among parties.

This jump to 3rd for AfD is even more remarkable given 32% of the population of NRW has a “migration background,” as they say over there.

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🇺🇸 Impact of Childhood Vaccination on Short- and Long-Term Chronic Health Outcomes in Children: A Birth Cohort Study

This is Figure 1 from the Henry Ford Health System study of 16,511 vaccinated & 1,957 unvaccinated children. They used medical records from 2000-2016 and tracked children for a decade. The higher on the y axis, the higher your probability of making it through the period disease-free.

The study found that unvaccinated children have a 17% chance of acquiring at least one chronic disease by age 10. Vaccinated children (at least one, with a median of 18 among the group) exhibited a whopping 57% probability of ending up with a disease by the time they are 10 years old.

The vaxxed are 2.48 times more likely to suffer from a chronic health condition within 10 years.

The routine childhood vaccination schedule generated 5.96 times more autoimmune disease, 5.53 times more neurodevelopmental disorders, 4.29 times more asthma, and 3.03 times more atopic disease.

The 453% increase in neurodevelopmental disorders includes a 228% increase in developmental delay, a 192% increase in motor disability, and a 347% increase in speech disorders.

Just to reiterate: only 43% of vaccinated children escaped their first decade without a chronic health issue. 83% of unvaccinated children did not meet this fate. The authors were confident in their conclusions, but “higher-ups” in their hospital system insisted on hiding it instead of publishing it…

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🇺🇸 Autozone is on fire over the past 5 years. $AZO is up 240.94% over the period.

Google ($GOOGL) is at 235.82% and Meta ($META) is at 188.9%.

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🇺🇸 Quarterly GDP for the present period is estimated by the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model to be at 3.4%.

That’s up 0.3% over the past few days and 0.9% since August 5th.

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💎 Gold is up roughly $2500 and 7.5% since I posted about its compressed triangle on August 28th…

Just sayin’.

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