Christopher de Vidal

@profstonge People are going to learn the term “Yen Carry Trade”.

Oil prices drive yen past 160 per dollar -- 2 points from the weakest since the Reagan Administration 🤯

@zerohedge Former Californians, now Floridians: “We love it here. So much safer, cleaner, and quieter. There’s only one problem: The mayor’s a Republican.”

Blue States Are Still Facing A Mass Taxpayer Exodus Long After COVID zerohedge.com/economics/blue…

This is worth pursuing

@IAmVerySilky @disclosetv ...getting ready to pay $2 million in Iranian Rial with every ship

@disclosetv Meanwhile Europeans are getting ready to... Nevermind. Nothing.

JUST IN - United Arab Emirates is preparing to help open the Strait of Hormuz by force — WSJ

@OrangeStandardX @Polymarket They can just visit China and get a fresh organ harvested from one of the Falun Gong

@Polymarket the organ donor waitlist in the us sits at around 100,000 people at any given time. if viable lab-grown organs become available at scale the humanitarian upside is enormous and the ethical debate about how they are grown is a secondary problem worth having.

JUST IN: California startup, R3 BIO, revealed to be working to grow "headless" human clones for organ harvesting.

@Polymarket Pretty sure this is the plot to The Matrix

@PythiaAtDelphi @nickgerli1 He alluded to as much with more nuance

@nickgerli1 You’re wrong, the interest rates could 1%, leading much better affordability, and people still wouldn’t return. They come back when prices fall off a cliff…

When will homebuyers return to the U.S. Housing Market? When affordability hits the yellow line. Currently, the Mortgage Payment/Income Ratio is 36.5%, near the highest level on record, and comparable to the 2006 housing bubble. The long-term average is 30%, and it will take affordability crossing below that level for homebuyers to come back into the market. Until then, demand will remain low. And homebuyers will remain on strike.

@nickgerli1 And labor has headwinds: AI can hit incomes either w/ performance improvements bringing layoffs or the bubble bursts, bringing down businesses w/ it. The private credit markets are wobbly, potentially drying up business credit. ICE is less active; foreign labor should increase.

11) Incomes typically grow between 2-4% per year, and most indicators from the BLS, Paychex, Indeed, and Atlanta Fed are showing current wage growth in that range. With that type of wage growth, it would take approximately another 4-5 years to close the affordability gap through income growth on its own. And we don't have time for that.

@Matt_Bracken48 They'll just pay Iran the toll and life will go on

Trump is causing the entire world to hate America. If this is not 25th Amd territory, what is?

@TheInsiderPaper They'll just pay Iran the toll and life will go on

BREAKING: Trump says countries hit by Strait of Hormuz fuel disruptions should buy U.S. fuel or secure their own oil routes themselves

@KJB_4_3 @TheInsiderPaper Precisely _because_ we have plenty--and are selling it overseas

@TheInsiderPaper If we have plenty why are Americans gas prices going up?

@FirstSquawk Temporary is the new permanent

MAERSK WILL INTRODUCE A TEMPORARY EMERGENCY BUNKER SURCHARGE.

@disclosetv They'll just pay Iran the toll and life will go on

JUST IN - Trump tells the "countries that cant get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz" and who refused to help in the Iran war that "U.S.A. won't be there to help you anymore, just like you weren't there for us."

❗️First case of COVID-19 variant BA.3.2 detected in 10-yo, arriving to Taiwan from Singapore — CDC Officials inform there was no community transmission and the strain remains 'under monitoring' with no evidence of increased severity Existing vaccines still effective, WHO says

We may have another problem

@RT_com They still hide comments with certain words. I have to use abbreviations and euphemisms or no one will see it.

Google caught on the spot inflating YouTube metrics with a simple trick… They switched the usual ‘Play/Pause’ button with ‘Share’, so people click it by accident. Numbers in the next quarterly report will look great for them

Robot wars: a Russian trireme-drone skewers a Ukrainian "Darts" one-way strike drone, rips its heart out and flies away.

@ekwufinance Might end the petrodollar, but won't (yet) end the debt-dollar. 100 trillion plus in USD-denominated loans by nations and businesses, and not just owed to USA but each nation owes one another. Defaulting on those is mutually assured destruction. The IMF spun a sticky debt trap.

This is the end of the petrodollar The deal was that the US would provide the GCC ruling families with military support. In exchange, the ruling families promised to sell their oil in USD and recycle their vast surpluses into US assets. This was crucial for the US, as it had just defaulted on the world by ending the convertibility of USD to gold. With the petrodollar in place, the USD was now backed by oil - the lifeblood of our economy. Now the first war has broken out, the GCC nations have quickly realized that this was a one-sided deal. Allowing US military bases on their soil and letting the US use their airspace and land to launch attacks against Iran has put a target on their backs. Instead of being defended, the US pulled air defense equipment out of the GCC to defend Israel, and now they are being threatened to join the war against Iran or face consequences. Iran is in full control of the Strait of Hormuz and is letting ships through if oil is paid in yuan, not in USD. A decoupling from the US with new defense alliances makes sense for the GCC. This would mean less demand for dollars, less demand for Treasuries, less demand for US equities at a time in which the US badly needs it.

@ka_grieco We're gonna just overlook that they have set up a toll booth on the strait. Two million dollars denominated in Yen, please.

@seanfeucht This picture makes me cry 😭 I am glad they were in Christ.

The Palm Sunday massacre of Christians last night in Nigeria should be front page news everywhere this morning — but it isn’t. Why? Because the media DOES NOT CARE about the plight of African Christians. I am here today in Nigeria to share the truth.