🇬🇷🇨🇾🇵🇹 Greece & Cyprus have orchestrated an excellent display of fiscal responsibility in the years since their sovereign debt & banking crises respectively, and the dividends have really rolled in over the past five years. Portugal, on the other hand, has been consistently prudent since its 2011 debt crisis. The success reminds one of Ireland last decade.

As a result, we've seen outstanding reductions in all 3 debt-to-GDP ratios. Greece has reduced by 56.1% over the period but still has some work to do with a total of 150.3% remaining. Cyprus has reduced by 43.5% to a very healthy 71.1%! And Portugal has reduced by 37.5% for a final ratio of 97.4%.

All three turned their GDP growth exceptionally positive by 2021. There were enormous gains in 2021-2022, with readings between 5.7% & 8.4%. Portugal & Cyprus achieved primary account surpluses in 2021, Greece in 2022, and all three ever since—an encouraging pattern that will serve these nations well if they can maintain it.

These three along with Denmark are fiscally some of the best situated in Europe. Meanwhile, many EU nations that weren't in dire straits a decade ago have fallen apart economically for various reasons...looking at you, France, Romania, Czechia, et cetera.

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🇺🇸 Al deal activity in the US already far outstrips the dotcom era...

Unfortunately, the ground it sits on is even shakier.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The number of annual births in Scotland hasn't been this low since 1855.

Let me say that again: the number of annual births in Scotland hasn't been this low since 1855.

Shockingly, the fertility rate has dropped below 1.25. This is a full-blown crisis, and radical action must be taken to reverse course.

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🇺🇸 ADP's new weekly release of their preliminary U.S. employment estimate shows an average gain of 14,250 private-sector jobs in the four weeks ending Oct. 11, 2025.

"For nearly two decades we have provided our valuable labor market data to the public at no cost through the ADP National Employment Report. ADP's near real-time employment data, released weekly, will now provide an even clearer picture of the labor market at this critical time for the economy," said Dr. Nela Richardson, chief economist, ADP.

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🇺🇸 Both parties are taking blame for the government shutdown—specifically Trump & Schumer.

All of this over paying for all of the healthcare of illegal residents of America.

Are they just trying to buy 3 generations of votes again? Or do they know denying all of the benefits (over a third of them just collect those) will cause much of their antidemocratic project in social & political engineering to self-deport?

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🇺🇸 The Democratic Party made war on our meat industries during the entire Biden Administration.

So far, Trump has done little to help. There are even still nonsense regulations about methane in effect. But it's not restricted to climate; it's the same game as energy: drum up an environmental pretext and grind the industry to a halt through prohibitive cost.

As a result, beef prices are making new highs again...sure does seem to be happening all over the world too.

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🇦🇷 Here's the polling history from the Argentinian election this past weekend.

Funny how the Establishment favorite always swells right before, huh?

Really funny.

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🇺🇸 🇪🇺 Natural gas is still four times more expensive in Europe than it is in America.

Such is life when you flip your cheap energy supplier the bird and have to rely on one of the following: (1) heavily demanded Middle Eastern sources, (2) super expensive American LNG, or (3) buying that same cheap Russian gas at a premium from Turkey.

What are they thinking? The financial pundits will call them stupid, but you aren't that naïve, are you?

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🇪🇺 The Euro area's PMIs. Services is looking alright; manufacturing seems to be in contraction.

I will never understand not putting a 50-line on a diffusion index...

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🇺🇸 It's the first time Alphabet Inc.'s average price target is under the price of $GOOGL in the last ten years...

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🇺🇸 If you take the M2 money supply as a proxy for inflation, the Nasdaq 100 is now 14.83% higher than the Dotcom peak.

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🇺🇸 The Nasdaq 100 ($NDX) is also smacking its head on the top of the channel it's been bound in since the post-Liberation Day pump.

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🇺🇸 Taking a more long-term view, the S&P 500 is breaking through a bit of historical resistance.

In this case we speak of the dynamic resistance running from the 1929 Roaring Twenties peak to the 2001 Dotcom peak...

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🇺🇸 8% of Americans say they participated in a No Kings protest on October 18

Question: Did you participate in the No Kings protest on October 18? (% who say "yes")

By the way, it's YouGov, so as always🧂.

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🇺🇸 America's Richest & Poorest States vs G7 Countries
(GDP per capita)

Mississippi is hot on Germany's ass, and not far off Canada either.

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🇺🇸 Nvidia's ($NVDA) market cap exceeds $5 trillion now.

Sounds reasonable.

No way this ends poorly.

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