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As you surely have heard, SNAP benefits (called “food stamps” back in my day) are at risk of being chopped off immediately since the government is shut down. Below is a map (larger when clicked) showing the percentage of households using this handout. It’s jaw-dropping to me that this goes up to nearly 50%. Does ANYONE besides me (and premium members) work anymore?
This shows the ratio of debt to GDP of various countries. The United States is a proud member of the triple-digit-percentage club.
Forty Trillion isn’t far away, folks.
This week escalated fast: Beijing moved to tighten rare-earth export controls, and late Friday the U.S. answered with an additional 100% tariff headline. Markets read “decouple”—but the sequence matters.
(more…)Let’s just say that the world has decided shiny, nice-to-feel GOLD has become more appealing than sheets of paper with American bric-a-brac printed all over it.
