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15 Aug 2024

BREAKING: US crude oil production has officially hit a record 13.4 million barrels per day.

Daily oil production has increased by 22% over the last 4 years. Since 2008, production has skyrocketed 350% from ~3.8 million barrels per day. The US is now the world’s largest oil producer exceeding Russia's output by ~35% and Saudi Arabia by ~38%. The US is dominating global oil production. Source: The Kobeissi Letter, The Daily Shot

15 Aug 2024

Torsten from Apollo: the reality is that firms on earnings calls talk less and less about recession

Source: Mike Z.

15 Aug 2024

US July CPI inflation expectations:

1. Kalshi: 2.9% 2. TD Securities: 2.9% 3. UBS: 2.9% 4. Goldman Sachs: 2.9% 5. Citigroup: 3.0% 6. Morgan Stanley: 3.0% 7. Bank of America: 3.0% 8. Barclays: 3.0% The median July CPI expectation shows headline inflation at 3.0% and Core CPI inflation at 3.2%. If today CPI inflation comes in at 2.9% or lower, it will mark the first month with inflation under 3.0% since March 2021. Today's CPI report could solidify a hashtag#fed September rate cut. Source: The Kobeissi Letter

15 Aug 2024

Temu overtook eBay to become the 2nd most-visited e-commerce website in the world

Source: SimilarWeb, Juozas Kaziukėnas on X

15 Aug 2024

$SBUX Starbucks replaces CEO Laxman Narasimhan with $CMG Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol

$CMG Chipotle's stock is up 773% since Brian Niccol became CEO in March 2018 Just 9 S&P 500 stocks have performed better than $CMG since March 2018 $SBUX must have paid him the star bucks... Source: Stocktwits

15 Aug 2024

Top monetary assets worldwide

Source: Porkopolis Economics

14 Aug 2024

The European Commission has denied that its internal market commissioner had approval from Ursula von der Leyen to send the letter

one EU official saying, 'Thierry has his own mind and way of working and thinking'. Source: FT

14 Aug 2024

Naval Ravikant Happiness Theory

Source: artofpoets.com

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