🇽🇰🇻🇳🇷🇸🇧🇦🇲🇳 Countries with drastic improvements in the Life Evaluation Index over the last 10 years…

The Balkans are very well represented, with Kosovo, Serbia, and Bosnia & Herzegovina all showing up in the top 4 gainers.

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🇺🇸 Organic traffic to news sites has been falling since this time last year, when it peaked just shy of 2.5 billion.

The share of searches resulting in zero clicks (perhaps due to AI, perhaps due to the abomination that is modern search results) has gone up about 8% this year, reaching about 2/3rds.

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🇺🇸 U.S. Stock Market Performance:
Top Gainers & Laggards Over Last 7 Months

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🇺🇸 This is what’s called the “Jobs-Workers Gap.”

It is the difference between labor demand (the sum of job openings & civilian employment) and labor supply (civilian labor force).

Returning to a 0.0 reading is in accord with the decline in job openings and the increase in people struggling to find one…

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🇺🇸 One-year shift in active housing inventory for sale between July 2024 and July 2025…

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🇺🇸 The CNN Fear & Greed Index is barely back to neutral.

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🇺🇸 Sellers increasingly outnumber buyers in the U.S. housing market…

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🇺🇸 Top Platforms for Podcasts:

🥉 📱 Apple ($AAPL)
🥈 📱 Spotify ($SPOT)
🥇 📱 YouTube ($GOOGL)

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🇺🇸 MP Materials ($MP) has been rapidly appreciating, being the most significant American rare earth play in the age of Chinese restrictions.

It’s up over 300% since May 28th.

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🇺🇸 Atlanta Fed Wage Growth Tracker

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🇺🇸 The healthcare sector ETF ($XLV) is getting crushed by the S&P 500 this year. It’s underperformed by 26%.

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🇺🇸 U.S. defense & rare earth.

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🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🇻🇳 Hmm…whatever could be happening here?

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🇺🇸 Is the border closure what explains downward pressure in nonfarm payrolls?

Have they been running a shadow economy the entire time on top of the anemic above ground economy?

Does this explain the 2024 incongruence of the celebratory modeling of economists & government statisticians and the economic malaise suffered by the working class?

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🇺🇸 Big Tech has beat EPS expectations by 12%, with Nvidia ($NVDA) still to report.

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