Sunday, July 6, 2025

If it hasn't been jet fuel since 2017, it won't be now

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Real GDP has been 2.43% compound annual 1Q2017 through 1Q2025. And that includes all the obscene pandemic spending. This isn't even clos...

U. S. House GOP majority declines to 219-212 as Mark Green of TN-7 resigns, as expected

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  Story . Democrats are down three seats temporarily due to deaths. 
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Performance of some older Vanguard funds since inception, through June 30, 2025

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In chronological order:   Wellington Fund, VWELX, inception July 1, 1929: 8.35% Windsor Fund, VWNDX, inception October 23, 1958: 11.24% U. S...

Vanguard performance: Total bond and total stock market indices since inception

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 VBMFX, inception 12/11/1986: 5.03% through 6/30/25 VTSMX, inception 4/27/1992: 10.47% through 6/30/25 

SPX since August 2000 continues to underperform the pre-Reagan era by almost 20% in real terms, the Reagan bull market era by almost 68%

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SPX 8/2000-5/2025: 7.62% per annum nominal, 4.95% per annum real (inflation rate 2.54% per annum) SPX 1/1871-7/1982: 8.15% per annum nominal...

SPX vs. gold since 1913

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  Gold 1913-2025 ($20.67-$3500.05 peak on April 22, 2025): 4.689% compound annual growth rate, nominal. The S&P 500 did better than that...

US Treasury yields were down modestly in June 2025 on an average basis

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Long bets continue to demand higher compensation both relatively speaking and relative to January 2024.  

Billionaire becomes homeless

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 Welcome to the club, bub. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he’s ‘politically homeless’ in July 4 post bashing Democrats  
Friday, July 4, 2025

America to Ukraine: Freedom for me, but not for thee

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Putin attacks Kyiv after call with Trump:  
Thursday, July 3, 2025

The GOP House bowed down and worshipped before the GOP Senate and voted for its reconciliation bill lock, stock, and barrel today at 2:30pm, including all the clowns of the House Freedom Caucus

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The roll call vote is here . The $36 trillion national debt will soar. The interest payments on that debt were $639 billion fiscal year to d...

Hakeem Jeffries has finished his speech in the US House, which took 8 hours and 44 minutes, a new record

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You can't win: State and local government employment is up 175k since January, which more than offsets federal employment down 69k

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 The swamp is everywhere lol. down 69k up 119k up 56k

Pressure on the House GOP reconciliation bill holdouts got them all, save one, to flip at 03:23 this morning, finally allowing the bill to come to the floor for debate

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Thomas Massie was originally for bringing the bill to the floor for debate, then switched to against that after Trump got testy with him lol...

In education news, the once great Indiana University has turned its back on Western civilization and purged its traditional degree programs because the children of the barbarians don't enroll in them anymore

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 A victory for the mouth breather, Marco Rubio, fellow servant of Mammon.    

Donald Trump has managed to fire a measly 69,000 federal employees since January, state government employees up 56,000 lol

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Looks like a lot of federal workers found new jobs lol. 

We had a record average number who were eating but not working in the United States in 1H2025, not seasonally adjusted: 102.65 million

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 The seasonally adjusted figure is also a record high: 102.50 million in 1H2025.  

The Rush Limbaugh/Donald Trump dumb ass unemployment rate was 37.58% in the first half of 2025

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Trump's own government says he has 103.2 million eating but not working in June 2025

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I don't make the rules. Rush Limbaugh makes the rules.  

Full time employment in June 2025 rises to 49.83%, first half of 2025 falls to 49.30%, as bad as 2021 or 2017

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  Full time was 49.83% of civilian population in June 2025 Full time was 49.30% of civilian population in 1H2025
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

CNBC also is wondering where the fuel comes from for future GDP under the Trump tax cuts since they are already not cutting it lol

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