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9 Jul 2025

Euro makes new all-time highs every day in trade weighted terms.

Indeed, many countries - above all China - are pegged to the dollar. That supercharges the rise in Euro vs USD (white), taking Euro to stratospheric levels in trade-weighted terms (orange). Is inflation coming for the Euro zone... Source: Bloomberg, Robin Brooks

8 Jul 2025

US debt has consistently risen regardless of which party is in power

Source: The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole84

8 Jul 2025

Oxford Economics thinks maybe everything is just being rerouted thru Vietnam

Source: RBC, Oxford Economics

4 Jul 2025

The sky is the limit... Hartnett BofA

Porky Big Beautiful Bill set to raise US debt ceiling $5tn to $41tn. Source: BofA thru Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT, MBA

4 Jul 2025

Notable: Coming back to yesterday's US non farm payrolls

-> The 147,000 job gains in June were almost all (over 75%) in healthcare and government. Government: +73,000 Healthcare: +39,000 The government job gains looked like this: State gov't education +40,000 State gov't non-education +7,000 Local gov't education +23,000 Local gov't non education +10,000 Federal gov't -7,000 Source: Heather Long on X

4 Jul 2025

Overall 2025 fed rate cut expectations tumbled on "Big Beautiful Bill" being passed & better us payrolls

Source: www.zerohedge.com, Bloomberg

4 Jul 2025

⚠️YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP

‼️ The US job numbers will likely be REVISED DOWN by nearly 800,000 for the 9-month period ending December 2024, according to QCEW data. ▶️ This means non-farm payrolls were OVERSTATED by ~88,888 jobs each month during this period. Source: Global Markets Investor

4 Jul 2025

ADP Yesterday -- "We use social security numbers and we process paychecks. Private sector lost -33,000 jobs in June."

NFP Today -- "You're wrong! We do phone survey. Sometimes they answer, sometimes they don't. We show private sector created +74,000 jobs in June." Source: Jaguar Analytics

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