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31 Mar 2025

Great Visualization

source : miningvisuals

31 Mar 2025

The global economy is currently benefiting from massive tariff front-running, as evidenced by the surge in imports to the US.

This has temporarily propped up production in places like Europe, Canada, and China. Will the floor fall out this week? Source: BCA, Peter Berezin on X

31 Mar 2025

The World’s Top 10 Largest Trade Deficits by Country

Source: Voronoi

31 Mar 2025

Since Trump’s second term began, the US $SPY is trailing Germany $EWG by more than 19 percentage points and China $MCHI by more than 24 percentage points.

A steep hill to climb already for those keeping score. Source: Bespoke @bespokeinvest

31 Mar 2025

The Mag Seven is off to a historically rough start in 2025:

$META: -2.38% $MSFT: -11.26% $AAPL: -12.74% $AMZN: -13.40% $GOOG: -18.55% $NVDA: -19.82% $TSLA: -33.41% Source: Trend Spider

31 Mar 2025

Goldman Sachs raises U.S. Recession odds to 35%

Source: Barchart

31 Mar 2025

European tech

Source: The Economist

31 Mar 2025

“‘The dollar has lost 96% of its purchasing power over the last century’ is the most misleading claim in all of finance,” says ⁦Riholtz in his new book.

As long as spend or you invest (instead of sitting on cash), you should be ok. Source: Eric Balchunas on X

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