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21 Apr 2025

The world’s biggest economies based on purchasing power parity (PPP), not nominal GDP — according to the IMF.

(PPP adjusts for cost of living and inflation, so it reflects what people can actually buy in their own countries — not just raw dollar totals.) Source: Wall St Engine on X

21 Apr 2025

Dollar Crashes On Powell Removal Speculation, Gold Soars To All Time High And Bitcoin Suddenly Spikes

The result is that while bitcoin had generally tracked the DXY Dollar index lower for much of 2025, the last few weeks - and certainly Sunday night - have seen a very tangible snap in this relationship. Source: zerohedge, Bloomberg

21 Apr 2025

BREAKING: U.S. Dollar

U.S. Dollar Index $DXY plunging to its lowest level since March 2022 Source: Barchart

21 Apr 2025

This chart shows how much uncertainty driven by Trump affects all major asset classes — including stocks, bonds, currencies and oil

Stock market volatility is still leading the way, but what's more concerning is that volatility is rising across the board. All the major volatility indices are climbing at the same time, which reflects the growing global uncertainty caused by US trade policy coming out of DC. (via SRP) Source: HolgerZ

21 Apr 2025

President Donald Trump is registering the worst economic approval numbers of his presidential career amid broad discontent over his handling of tariffs, inflation and government spending

The survey found that the boost in economic optimism that accompanied Trump’s reelection has disappeared, with more Americans now believing the economy will get worse than at any time since 2023 and with a sharp turn toward pessimism about the stock market. The survey of 1,000 Americans across the country showed 44% approving of Trump’s handling of the presidency and 51% disapproving, slightly better than CNBC’s final reading when the president left office in 2020. On the economy, however, the survey showed Trump with 43% approval and 55% disapproval, the first time in any CNBC poll that he has been net negative on the economy while president. Source: CNBC

21 Apr 2025

Beijing has warned it will retaliate against countries that negotiate trade deals with the US “at the expense of China’s interests”

The statement by the commerce ministry, which was responding to reports that US President Donald Trump’s administration planned to use trade talks with multiple countries to try to isolate China, called on them to instead join Beijing to “resist unilateral bullying”. “China firmly opposes any party reaching a deal at the expense of China’s interests,” the ministry said on Monday. “If this happens, China will never accept it and will resolutely take countermeasures in a reciprocal manner.” China has become the focus of Trump’s trade war after the US president paused a wave of unilateral “reciprocal” tariffs on most countries but left levies on Chinese goods as high as 145 per cent in place. Beijing has retaliated, imposing its own tariffs of 125 per cent on US goods.

21 Apr 2025

Is it a memecoin?

- 36 trillion supply - No supply cap - 1 node - 25% of supply minted in the last 6 months - 1% of holders own 30% - Backed by the U.S. government Source: Not Jerome Powell on X

21 Apr 2025

Long term investing

Source: Dividend Growth Investors

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