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The FED balance sheet is $6.6T right now. It will exceed $10T by the end of 2026.

War is good for innovation

@TroyTeslike Great to see you back. Hope all is well 🙏

Based on the latest data, Tesla deliveries this quarter are expected to come in between 360,000 and 390,000 units. I’ll tweet my final estimate on the last day of the quarter, as usual.

@darioperkins The Dalllas Cowboys are fixing to be good again!

🧵Let me take you back to August 1990. Three weeks ago, Iraq invaded Kuwait, oil prices have surged, and the FOMC is meeting to decide how to respond. The economy looks wobbly. Payrolls just recorded a small decline. Greenspan talks about a credit bubble that has started to deflate. There's more than a few credit cockroaches. But nobody thinks the US economy is sliding into recession. The Maestro urges stoicism. Nobody knows what’s going to happen in the Middle East, central banks cant really alter the outcome, so its best to provide stability – by doing nothing.

In today's episode of "nothing is passive" The S&P reconstitution of the S&P 500 Value Index swapped out BRK (now a 0% weight) for... Wait for it... Wait for it... TSLA Now a 1.88% weight and the 3rd largest holding in $IVE

5 minutes before Trump’s announcement: * $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip. * $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold. More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close. Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!

@FredLambert @thunderf00t He can’t sell for another month.

Watch my boy sell a few billions of $TSLA stocks claiming it is for this, but in fact, it will be mostly used for his fraud case.

Hedges for an epic squeeze tomorrow are dirt cheap

Filled the gap. Back to scheduled programming

$SPY 0DTE call volume must be epic right now

$TSLA looks ready 400 to 300 by end of April

@jordyhansen Daniwah youtu.be/PA4lxpeg-eg?si…

the congressional candidates are all over Butte, apparently

Irish Zionism

Must read - this is free and not me. @georgenoble/note/c-226667679?r=4repfn&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@georgenoble/n… This is the most SHAMELESS structural manipulation of a major index I've ever seen. SpaceX is preparing what could be the largest IPO in history. Target valuation: $1.75 trillion. That would make it the sixth-largest company in America on day one. And Nasdaq wants the listing so badly they're literally CHANGING how the Nasdaq-100 works. In February, Nasdaq published a "consultation" proposing sweeping changes to how companies enter the index. The timing is pure coincidence, of course. Just like it's pure coincidence that SpaceX has reportedly made fast index inclusion a CONDITION of listing on Nasdaq. Here's what they're proposing: A new "Fast Entry" rule would let any newly listed company whose market cap ranks in the top 40 of current Nasdaq-100 members get added to the index after just 15 trading days. No seasoning period. No liquidity requirements. Completely exempt from the standards every other company had to meet. Currently, new public companies typically wait up to a year before they're eligible for major index inclusion. That waiting period exists for a reason. It lets the market establish real price discovery. It protects passive investors from being forced into untested, illiquid stocks. And Nasdaq wants to throw all of that out. For ONE listing. But the Fast Entry rule isn't even the worst part... The real scandal is the 5x float multiplier. Right now, the S&P 500 uses a free-float adjusted methodology. If only 5% of a company's shares are available for public trading, the index weights you at 5% of total market cap. That's common sense. You weight a company based on what investors can actually buy. Nasdaq's current methodology already uses total market cap rather than free-float for weighting. But for very low-float stocks, they at least had a 10% minimum float threshold. Under the new proposal, that threshold DISAPPEARS entirely. Instead, any stock with less than 20% free float gets weighted at FIVE TIMES its actual float percentage, capped at 100%. Do the math on SpaceX: If SpaceX IPOs at $1.75 trillion and floats 5% of its shares, there would be roughly $87.5 billion worth of stock available for public trading. Under Nasdaq's proposed 5x multiplier, the index would weight SpaceX at 25% of its total market cap. That means passive funds would be forced to buy as if SpaceX were a $437.5 billion company. But only $87.5 billion of stock actually exists in the market. You are forcing hundreds of billions in passive buying into a $87.5 billion float. QQQ alone manages nearly $400 billion. The total Nasdaq-100 ecosystem represents over $1.4 trillion in exposure across ETFs, mutual funds, structured notes, and derivatives. Every single passive vehicle tracking this index would be REQUIRED to buy SpaceX at whatever price the market dictates. On Day 15. With zero price discovery. Zero track record as a public company. And a float so thin you could read through it. So what this actually does is it creates a structural wealth transfer mechanism. The passive bid from index funds pushes the stock price higher. That higher price benefits exactly one group of people: the insiders and early investors who own the other 95% of the shares. And when lock-up periods expire 90 to 180 days later? Those insiders sell into the artificially inflated passive bid. Your 401(k) is the exit liquidity. This is the fundamental corruption of indexing. Indexing used to be brilliant. Low cost. Efficient. You were free-riding on the price discovery done by active managers. The index reflected the market. Now the index IS the market. Trillions of dollars flow blindly into whatever the index tells them to buy. And the people who control the index methodology are changing the rules to serve the interests of a single IPO candidate. The S&P 500 requires companies to have at least…

This should have 1B views youtu.be/aQoZdM3Cleg?si…

This is why we went to war with Iran.

Sports blogger who consistently gets less than 50% of his picks correct is now pontificating about transformative technologies.

@isosteph The Jeff Garland Epstein letters bit?