🇺🇸 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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🇺🇸 Margin Debt As Percentage Of Real Disposable Personal Income

Retail is a big part of the market today, and yes, a whole lot of it involves margin…

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🇺🇸 The Dollar is once again rejected at the 50-day moving average.

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💸 Unlike its Dollar pair, Bitcoin has not hit a new all-time high against the Euro since January 20th.

By contrast, $BTCUSD has had 7 days with new all-time highs since then.

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