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Animal Spirits: The Fed Needs to Cut
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From Carl Whitaker at RealPage:
“The U.S. median rent/income ratio for market-rate apartments has recorded 15 straight months of decline”
“From a purely rent/income based perspective, rents are now at their most affordable level since January 2021”
— Conor Sen (@conorsen)
2:14 PM • Jun 11, 2024
In the past 21 quarters of earnings calls, which goes back to Q1 2019. This quarter marks the 4th fewest number of times the word recession has been mentioned.
— Eric Soda (@EricSoda)
2:44 PM • Jun 17, 2024
Robinhood has surpassed $20B in overnight trading volume since launching Robinhood 24 Hour Market last year. 🔥
— Vlad Tenev (@vladtenev)
11:53 PM • Jun 5, 2024
So, it has been degens all along.
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Advisors ‘wary’ of bitcoin ETFs are on slow adoption journey, says BlackRock exec
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For now, about 80% of bitcoin ETF purchases have likely been coming from “self-directed investors who have made their own allocation cnbc.com/2024/06/16/adv…— Jim Bianco (@biancoresearch)
4:01 PM • Jun 17, 2024
"The 50 richest people in the world own wealth equal to the poorest 50% of the US" - BofA
— Sam Ro 📈 (@SamRo)
8:05 PM • Jun 16, 2024
The FBI just announced that crime has plummeted in the first quarter of 2024:
According to the report:
Murder decreased by 26.4%
Rape decreased by 25.7%
Robbery decreased by 17.8%
Aggravated assault decreased by 12.5%
Reported property crime decreased by 15.1%— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1)
1:35 PM • Jun 11, 2024
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