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I was messing around with our Economic Database (yeah, honestly, that’s what I do at night) and happened to find one data set of the credit card rates banks charge to consumers. This is……..shocking. Considering how the government has literally gone into debt by TRILLIONS to support this parasitic industry, you’d think maybe banks wouldn’t be completely shafting consumers. But, nope! These are loan shark rates.
From the good people who brought you Viagra and the Covid-Jab, we see PFE continues to get blown to smithereens, now down about 60%, and in an environment in which the government has poured trillions into keeping stocks propped higher. In an actual organic market, this would be a penny stock by now.
I spent Tuesday evening working on my novel and messing with economic data (yeah, that constitutes a fun evening for me) and I made something worth sharing with Chart Lab. All I did was take a long-term chart of home prices (which, of course, was like a bottle rocket) and divided it by the CPI.
