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Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Manifest Destiny
Futures Fireworks
Well, stick a feather in my cap and call me Macaroni: I had no idea that futures would be trading overnight and into today. How about that? In any case, since Trump can’t seem to leave well enough alone, he decided to muse aloud about trade and tariffs, which pretty much undid any boost on the /ES futures the Big Beautiful Bill yielded on Thursday.
Independence Day ETFs
Crack-Up Booming
Credit expansion, AKA more and more debt, into von Mises Crack-Up-Boom would bring Stagflation at best, and Hyperinflation at worst in the not too distant future
[edit] Today’s better than expected Payrolls number is just a number. Real? Cooked up? To be revised? Whatever it is, it is in alignment with the article below, written before the data release. It’s a boom, after all!
At more than $36 trillion and due to be pushed toward $40 trillion by the big, beautiful debt bill, the United States is booming baby, booming! Great again, beautiful and will you look at those stock markets, ticking new highs!
Easy now, a Crack-Up-Boom is when credit (along with its evil twin, debt) runs amok. As a whole, our system creates credit and shoves it out into the economy. See The U.S. is Not a Capitalist Country for more on our debt-for-growth addiction in the age of Inflation onDemand, kicked off by Sir Alan the Monetary a quarter century ago.
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