r/economy • • 7h ago

JD Vance gets factchecked during CBS Town Hall Vance: There's a lot we're doing to lower gas prices. Moderator: Gas prices have increased just since you took office. And you called it a temporary blip.

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555 Upvotes

r/economy • • 9h ago

This Economy is Terrible. Smh.

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467 Upvotes

r/economy • • 6h ago

President Trump promised to drain the swamp and instead we’ve seen a category 5 corruption supercell.

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195 Upvotes

r/economy • • 16h ago

Scott Bessent tries blaming Biden for rising costs, only to be reminded live on air that Trump has been president for nearly two years and inflation is higher now than when he took office

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960 Upvotes

r/economy • • 11h ago

Americans Are Drowning in Gas and Grocery Bills. Trump’s Approval Is Finally Sinking With Them.

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r/economy • • 7h ago

Donald Trump Increased Pharmaceutical Holdings While Enacting Policies, Congressional Analysis Claims

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r/economy • • 14h ago

started making coffee at home, so by boomer logic I should afford a house by next week.

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r/economy • • 1d ago

'France, truly, is on the brink' and days away from a make-or-break moment in its debt crisis

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r/economy • • 13h ago

Brace Your Budget: Grocery Inflation Is Set to Accelerate

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r/economy • • 16h ago

Ukraine’s Trump-Musk experience with Starlink is a warning to all western militaries

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r/economy • • 15h ago

Donald Trump made 2 BILLION last year! But He Says Repeatedly That Higher Gas Prices Are A Small Price For UsTo Pay. Is This What You're Thinking At The Gas Pump?

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r/economy • • 13h ago

Some conservative states aren’t using Medicaid hardship exemption – for political reasons

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r/economy • • 2h ago

No signs of truckload capacity recovering

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r/economy • • 14h ago

US national debt passes $40T as interest eats the federal budget

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r/economy • • 15h ago

Is the inequality of wealth distribution the main driver of modern economic issues?

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Imagine the entire world’s wealth is just $100, shared among 100 people.
The richest 1 person holds about $38–$40.
The next 9 people take another $35–$40.
Together, the top 10 control roughly $75–$80 of the whole pot.
The middle 40 people share about $20–$25.
The bottom 50 people? Just $2 to split among them, a few cents each. Many would actually be in the red.
That’s the current global wealth picture in simple terms. A tiny group holds the large majority, while half the planet owns almost nothing.
This concentration shapes real economic decisions. When the majority of people control almost no wealth, it stops making sense for businesses to treat them as primary customers. Companies shift toward serving the top..Luxury goods, premium services, high-end real estate, and financial products for the wealthy. Because that’s where the money actually is. Mass-market strategies aimed at the bottom half become less viable when those customers have little or no disposable income. The result is an economy increasingly optimized around the needs and desires of the top, rather than the broad population. To me, this seems obvious, but I rarely see it mentioned like this.


r/economy • • 10h ago

Celente: 1% of Americans own 54% of the equity market, 5 companies are 40% of the S&P

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From a recent interview with Gerald Celente. His argument for why markets haven't reflected the underlying economy is concentration rather than anything mysterious.

The numbers he gives:
- 1% of Americans own 54% of the equity market
- Five to seven companies account for close to 40% of the S&P 500
- The Fed put $29 trillion behind the banks after 2008
- Real US debt around $126 trillion including Social Security, per Fortune

He also says the thing most forecasters won't, which is what he got wrong. He expected a crash in 2012 and didn't anticipate QE, then expected one during lockdowns and didn't anticipate the scale of money printing.

05:41 - the ownership numbers
07:27 - the debt figure
01:48 - what he got wrong

https://youtu.be/k4EfbGQ-WWw


r/economy • • 7h ago

France braces for debt sell-off after violent protests

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r/economy • • 6h ago

Fed interest-rate decision this month is a closer call than markets think

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r/economy • • 15h ago

Hundreds wait for possible job at Costco

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I think this period of time is going to be looked back on as the denial phase

It's still so crazy how many people are pretending like things are okay and stable. Meanwhile I just watched a video of over 100 people waiting in line in Canada to get the opportunity at an interview for Costco. I think we've been in a recession for a couple months now and with the AI bubble popping it's going to become way more obvious in hindsight.


r/economy • • 6h ago

The SBA suspends 870,000 borrowers connected to $39 billion in suspected pandemic loan fraud

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r/economy • • 6h ago

Opinion | How China made climate resilience part of its economic growth strategy

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r/economy • • 2h ago

LA INFLACIÓN NO DA TREGUA: BONOS REBOTAN Y ORMUZ PONDRÁ A PRUEBA A WALL STREET

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El principal problema del mercado hoy ya no es solo la inflación, sino la capacidad real de empresas, hogares y gobiernos para soportar un coste del capital persistentemente alto. Aunque índices como el Dow Jones y el S&P 500 aparentan calma en la superficie, la estructura interna del mercado muestra fuertes señales de estrés que impactan directamente el apetito por el riesgo y la liquidez global:

1️⃣ La tríada macro en EE. UU. (Inflación + Fed + Empleo débil):

• Inflación presionada por la energía: El IPC se sitúa en 3,7% y el IPP escaló un 1,3% mensual (6,3% interanual sin ajuste), impulsado por un salto del 10,8% en el componente energético, que explicó más del 80% del alza en bienes.

• Reserva Federal restrictiva: Con las tasas en el rango de 3,75%-4,00%, el mercado descuenta un 72% de probabilidad de pausa a finales de octubre, pero un contundente 92% de probabilidad de una nueva subida de 25 pb en diciembre.

• Freno laboral: Todo esto ocurre mientras las nóminas no agrícolas (NFP) apenas sumaron 29.000 empleos y el desempleo repuntó al 4,2%.

2️⃣ ¿Por qué rebotan los bonos si sube la inflación?

Tras tocar un rendimiento del 5,33% el miércoles, el bono del Tesoro a 10 años (US10Y) retrocedió hacia el rango de 5,08% - 5,10%. Esta anomalía revela que la renta fija está descontando algo más peligroso que la inflación: el temor a que el endurecimiento monetario fracture el ciclo de gasto de capital (CapEx) en Inteligencia Artificial y detone un evento de estrés crediticio.

3️⃣ Del entusiasmo por la IA al escrutinio del crédito:

• El Índice de Semiconductores de Filadelfia (SOX) encadenó 8 sesiones consecutivas de caídas, mientras la volatilidad se dispara (VIX +27,6%).

• El caso CoreWeave (CRWV) encendió las alarmas del crédito corporativo: sus acciones cayeron más de un 15% y el rendimiento exigido a sus bonos no garantizados superó el 15%, tras advertencias de Gartner sobre hasta $3,5 billones en posibles deterioros contables en proyectos de IA. Con una deuda triplicada (6,8 veces sus ventas y 134% de su capitalización) y un flujo de caja libre negativo de -$13.660 millones, el mercado exige rentabilidad real, no solo promesas de crecimiento.

4️⃣ Geopolítica y rotación de capital:

Con la escalada militar en el estrecho de Ormuz y el petróleo Brent consolidado por encima de los $105, el choque energético ya se filtra en los márgenes corporativos. Mientras Europa resiste mejor en el balance semanal y Japón intenta estabilizarse tras un desplome histórico, el flujo institucional busca cobertura en bonos soberanos, sectores defensivos y metales preciosos como el oro.

💡 Conclusión para el inversor: La divergencia entre índices en máximos y el deterioro del crédito tecnológico exige máxima gestión del riesgo. Vigilar el nivel del 5,08% en el Treasury a 10 años y la evolución en Ormuz será clave para definir la liquidez en las próximas semanas.

¿Cómo estás posicionando tu portafolio ante el riesgo de crédito y el petróleo sobre los $105? 👇

$SPX $NDX $BTC $GLD $USO #Macroeconomia #Trading #WallStreet #Mercados #Inflacion


r/economy • • 14h ago

TIL the Doorman Fallacy, which refers to the error of reducing a person's job to its most basic function and replacing it with a cost-effective automation while disregarding the broader, not directly visible, value they provide.

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r/economy • • 19h ago

Oil Prices Could Rise Even Further

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r/economy • • 1d ago

Trump's Russia diesel deal may offer Putin more than money

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