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19 Feb 2025

Is there a secret "gold" tunnel in NY?

Source: @zerohedge on X

19 Feb 2025

BREAKING: Prediction markets are now showing a 74% chance of Grok being the best AI in the world this month

Since the release of Grok-3, the odds of Grok being the best AI this month have soared +50 percentage points. In Grok's benchmarks, Grok-3 outperforms both ChatGPT and DeepSeek in multiple categories. The AI race continues to heat up. Source: The Kobeissi Letter, @Kalshi

19 Feb 2025

We're currently witnessing the longest period of U.S. equity outperformance in history.

But there's a cycle to everything, and international diversification is perhaps more important today than ever before. Source: Peter Mabrouk

19 Feb 2025

Investors are extremely bullish—heavily invested in stocks while betting against everything else.

Cash levels have dropped to just 3.5%, the lowest since 2010, according to the BofA Fund Manager Survey. Source: BofA

19 Feb 2025

Trump’s Tariff "cheat sheet"

Source: Bloomberg

19 Feb 2025

GROK 3 IS AMERICA’S ANSWER TO DEEPSEEK—AND IT’S DOMINATING

xAI deserves credit for building world-class reasoning models at record speed—proving that America still leads in AI. With Grok 3 outperforming competitors, it’s clear xAI is setting the new standard for intelligence and innovation. Perplexity AI CEO: “Once the API is live, integration is coming.” America builds fast. Elon is proving it.

19 Feb 2025

U.S. has the largest Gold Reserves in the World by far,

in fact it has more than Russia, China, Switzerland, India, and Japan combined. Source: Bloomberg

19 Feb 2025

Thank you Jim Simons

Source: Investment Books (Dhaval) @InvestmentBook1

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