🤑 Will Ethereum & the Russell 2000 break out to new highs like Bitcoin & the NASDAQ 100?

Whatever happens, since mid-2021, these two assets ($ETH, $IWM) do it together…

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🇺🇸 Trade & tariffs still top the list of firms’ most pressing concerns, but it’s falling, while monetary policy, inflation, and labor availability are rising…

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🇺🇸 The breakout will continue as anticipated in the Lithium ETF ($LIT).

+25.85% in six & a half weeks…

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🇺🇳 Topics by percentage of Trump’s UN speech…

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🇭🇺 Share of Hungary's electricity generation by source. Solar has overtaken gas to become Hungary's second largest electricity source.

The four largest sources are shown; these made up 92% of electricity production in 2024.

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🤑 The evolution of market share in cryptocurrency from 2015–2025…

Naturally, Bitcoin’s share has declined, and Ethereum has replaced XRP at #2.

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🇺🇸 COVID-19 vaccine uptake since start of the pandemic

The percent of U.S. adults who have gotten the most up-to-date COVID-19 vaccine available [through March 2025].

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🇺🇸 The local affiliates who took part in the Jimmy Kimmel boycott…

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🇺🇸 Overtime hours & temporary work seeing a bump in what may be the beginning of a recovery…

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🇺🇸 US Economy Expands at Fastest Pace in Nearly Two Years (GDP & Personal Consumption, QoQ)

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🇺🇸 The S&P 500 ($SPX) in log scale and the S&P 500 divided by the M2 money supply (to roughly account for inflation).

We’re just south of Dotcom highs now in the latter case…

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🇺🇸 The breakout in solar ($TAN) has pressed forward 13.4% over the last 11.5 weeks.

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🇺🇸 The SPDR Energy Sector ETF ($XLE) is breaking out of the rising wedge it dropped into just before Liberation Day.

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🌎 Bitcoin’s Bull Market Correction Drawdowns

The drawdowns this cycle have been relatively modest.

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🇺🇸 Federal Rent Subsidies by State

Average monthly federal housing subsidy per assisted home (2024).

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🇺🇸 Polymarket odds for the 2028 Presidential Election in the United States…

🇺🇸 J.D. Vance 27%
🇺🇸 Gavin Newsom 22%
🇺🇸 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 7%
🇺🇸 Marco Rubio 5%
🇺🇸 Andy Beshear 3.5%
🪨 Dwayne Johnson 3.5%
🇺🇸 Wes Moore 3.3%

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🇺🇸 How those 2028 Polymarket odds have moved since mid-summer.

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🇺🇸 Global Gold Reserves: the United States of America vs. the World

After the beginning of the end kicked off in 2008, many central banks (particularly in developing & emerging economies) began buying gold hand over fist, correctly anticipating devaluation in the Dollar & all other fiat currencies operating within its system.

The average total purchase from 2011-2021 was around 118 tons/year. In the year or so after the Russo-Ukrainian War began, they averaged 291 tons/year. Here in the second half of 2025, buying is picking up again (as is inflation) after a period of subdued buying (waiting to see if Trump would blow up the world economy & create a significant discount).

While Asia has added tons of gold to its reserves in the last decade & a half, the developed world has largely resisted this trend. Most Western central bankers either stood pat like the U.S. or sold off all of their gold like the U.K. Now during the Trump Administration, it appears America is embracing cryptocurrency.

The Administration has discussed revaluation of gold as one solvency strategy. With Asia’s buying spree & the U.S. share in gold reserves falling to 20% (from 53% in 1957), will D.C. decide to take up gold purchases? Or is it stablecoin hegemony & U.S. military dominance all the way?

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