🇺🇸 How do Americans feel about Trump’s handling of the Epstein Files?

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🌍 / 🇺🇸 Speculative Dollar Longs vs. Currencies in the CFTC Commitment of Traders Report, in billions of dollars…

Despite the recent bounce, people aren’t very enthusiastic about longing the Dollar.

That said, they don’t seem to be all that enthusiastic about longing the Euro ($EURUSD) either (up about 12.25% YTD, providing for most of the year’s decline in $DXY).

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🇺🇸 Federal Government Employment Declines Slightly

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U.S. Tariffs Come to Southeast Asia.

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🇺🇸 The GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust Fund ($GSG) is finally starting to punch through the resistance stretching back to 2022.

Is this another sign inflation pressures are mounting?

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🇺🇸 The stock market’s history over short/small rate cutting cycles.

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🇺🇸 JPMorgan’s market cap surpasses the combined value of Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo.

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Ether dominance ($ETH.D) is having another strong week, up to 11.72% of the market now.

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🇨🇳🇮🇳🇮🇩🇺🇸🇦🇺🇷🇺 Global Coal Production Leaders

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🇺🇸 Are we finally seeing the long and much anticipated tariff “inflation?”

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Shorts on $ETH are mounting.

Feels a little premature. We shall see.

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🇺🇸 The Fed Funds Rate (inverted) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the 1970s.

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🇺🇸 The “real” return in U.S. treasuries by decade (5Y note, 10Y note, long-term bond)…

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🇺🇸 Rate increases requested by the biggest Obamacare plans.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Illinois is atop the list with a request for a 27% rate increase.

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🇹🇷 Turkey’s Lira is making fresh lows against the Dollar (as is tradition). It’s now worth 2.4 & a third cents.

It’s been one long slide since the start of 2008 (-97.14%), and it’s down a similar amount since March of 2001 (the last time the Lira saw Dollar parity).

It’s lost something like 85% of its value since the start of the COVID slide alone.

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🇹🇷 Turkey's current account deficit in May of every year from 2000–2025, in billions of dollars…

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🇪🇺 11 EU countries have deficits exceeding the targeted 3%.

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🇨🇳🇸🇬🇹🇼🇰🇷🇭🇰 Economy-wise holdings of US portfolio assets (as of April 2025)

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🇺🇸 Retail represents the largest percentage of overall shares traded since Trump gave them all stimulus checks & a market down 35%.

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🇺🇸 2x Long VIX Futures ETF - Fund Total Assets Hits 642.6819

People are hedging.

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🇯🇵 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election results…

Biggest Losses: The largest party, the Liberal Democratic Party (conservative) lost 18 seats, Komeito (centrist) lost 6 seats, and the communists lost 4.

Biggest Gains: Sanseitō (“ultraconservative”) went from 1 seat to 15, and the newly reformed Democratic Party for the People gained 12 for a total of 22.

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