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Gramps landed a $60k job during the Eisenhower administration with a strong handshake and looking people in the eye. Clearly, today’s grads aren’t trying hard enough
58% of students who graduated within the last year are still looking for their first job, according to a recent report from Kickresume.
If you’re wondering why the Director of Housing is spiraling in real time… Just know: Pulte Homes’ Q2 net income dropped 25% from $809M in 2024 to $608M in 2025. All this noise is about protecting a business model that breaks the moment money isn’t free.
Since 2020, the dollar has lost over 20% of its value. Wages didn’t go up 30%. Groceries did. Rent did. Everything did. This is what quietly getting poorer looks like.
Wouldn’t have an issue going after gov officials for perjury, if it were about actual accountability. But if it’s only because interest rates weren’t cut fast enough? Yeah…that’s banana republic behavior. Weaponizing the DOJ over monetary policy is how institutions rot from the…
BREAKING: Jerome Powell has just been referred to the DOJ for criminal charges for perjury related to his $2.5 billion “renovation” to the Federal Reserve Building
Crypto was born to exit the system. Now it's being absorbed by it and praised by the very people it was meant to displace. Life comes full circle.
"Lower rates or resign" is the battle cry of men who borrowed $2 million to flip homes to each other during a pandemic
The American economy isn’t about producing, it’s about positioning. Buy early, call it growth. Show up late, and you’re the exit liquidity
You work. They tax. You save. They printed $8 trillion in 3 years. You budget. They blow trillions, running a $2 trillion deficit every year. It’s a system where fiscal insanity is the norm and the can keeps getting kicked until there’s no road left.
Amazon Prime Day sales down 41% on day one. The majority of Prime members are 25-44 yrs old, middle to upper-middle class, and supposedly the most financially stable demographic. If the stable consumers are sitting out the deals, it’s because the rest of the market has nothing…
It’s genuinely bizarre watching Boomers convince themselves that a couple making $15/hour at 7 Eleven can buy a home, raise family, and retire. They’ll go down as the generation that was chronically delusional
"Jay Powell should ask me about housing" says man who celebrated 0% rates by pricing out an entire generation
High mortgage rates ironically cause inflationary shelter costs - Jay Powell should ask me about housing, something which he knows nothing about.
Hang on to those diamond hands NFTs. At this pace, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac might accept them as down payments by Q4
Renters were too risky and now they’re begging renters to buy homes the moment demand dried up. Even considering crypto holdings as mortgage qualifiers. We’ve reached the part of the cycle where desperation bends the rules
The Director of Housing aka the Pulte Homes heir is having meltdowns because inventory isnt moving. It's always the Fed's fault. Never the $900K beige boxes sitting in the middle of nowhere
$34 trillion in debt. Adding $1 trillion every 100 days Their solution? Scrap the debt limit They’re driving us off a cliff and expect a thank you note at the ballot box
Boomers bought it for $80k in 1986 and now it’s listed for $1.2M with the same wallpaper. Welcome to the $698B illusion
Yes to tariff transparency. And yes to exposing Amazon’s markup. Show us how that $12 item became $49.99
This is music to my ears. Sellers are losing control of the narrative and price discovery is shifting from ambition to buyer tolerance. The logical next step is widespread price cuts.
BREAKING: 44.4% of home sellers gave concessions to buyers in March, near the highest share on record. The percentage has increased by ~10 points since July 2024 and has DOUBLED since June 2022. In Seattle, 71.3% of sellers gave concessions, the highest share among the 24 major…