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Biden's Numbers, October 2023 Update

Today we take a look at the most recent statistical measures of how the U.S. has changed since President Biden took office.

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Means stock market bros listen to his podcast because otherwise they wouldn’t know

Here’s the clip where he says it and the article from stock magazine

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The face of a man that just successfully came back from war (R2 wimby) in a cursed place (centre court) that last for decades (3 and a half hours)

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"the housing market is crashing" "YES PLEASE I CANT WAIT TO BUY A SUPER AFFORDABLE AND CHEAP HOUSE" none of you are going to be able to buy a house when the market crashes. you've all got to give up this dream :/ you're gonna be so fucking disappointed when another recession hits and you're actually just poorer and less able to afford housing than before

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Euro Nears One-Year High as US Economic Risks Weigh on Dollar

On Thursday, the euro remained near a one-year high against the dollar due to Europe's strong economy in contrast to the potential banking contagion risks and debt ceiling standoff in the US that could lead to a recession.

The Australian dollar, which is sensitive to risk, struggled to remain above the key 66-cent mark, and Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, stabilized around $29,400 following significant fluctuations in the previous session.

Meanwhile, the yen remained unchanged as the Bank of Japan commenced a two-day policy meeting.

The euro increased by 0.05% to $1.10415, returning to the overnight peak at $1.1096, the highest since April last year.

The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major currencies, with the euro being the most heavily weighted, remained almost unchanged at 101.41 after a 0.42% drop on Wednesday, where it reached a near two-week low of 101.00.

On Wednesday, Germany revised its growth forecasts, and a survey indicated a sustained recovery in consumer confidence.

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Indian Stock Market Hit by SVB Crisis and Global Market Volatility

The Indian stock market is facing turbulence due to the SVB crisis and global market volatility. #OptionTrading #BankNifty #Nifty50 #BankCrises #IndianStockMarket #GlobalMarketVolatility

Indian Stock Market Hit by SVB Crisis and Global Market Volatility The Indian stock market is reeling from the recent failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the United States and the ripple effect it is having on global equity markets. This comes on the heels of the Adani crisis, making it another blow to the market’s recovery efforts. Investors have lost a whopping Rs 6.6 lakh crore in the…

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All About Dollar Vs Rand Today in South Africa | Klips

The South African Rand as anticipated can trade at 17.69 by the quarter end, Q4 2022. And in the coming days, analysts expect the Rand to trade at 19.08, indicating further depreciation against Dollar. The article at Klips will through light on Dollar Vs Rand Today and will give you an understanding of the exchange rate of the Rand against the Dollar. If you want to know more about it then you can visit our official website!

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Thanks for this expanation, OP! I've had vague feelings that something like this was going on but I'm not in tech so always uncertain I'm missing or misunderstanding things. Also, I'll totally be refering to the stock market as "Rich Person Feeling Graph" from now on

If anyone wants to know why every tech company in the world right now is clamoring for AI like drowned rats scrabbling to board a ship, I decided to make a post to explain what's happening.

(Disclaimer to start: I'm a software engineer who's been employed full time since 2018. I am not a historian nor an overconfident Youtube essayist, so this post is my working knowledge of what I see around me and the logical bridges between pieces.)

Okay anyway. The explanation starts further back than what's going on now. I'm gonna start with the year 2000. The Dot Com Bubble just spectacularly burst. The model of "we get the users first, we learn how to profit off them later" went out in a no-money-having bang (remember this, it will be relevant later). A lot of money was lost. A lot of people ended up out of a job. A lot of startup companies went under. Investors left with a sour taste in their mouth and, in general, investment in the internet stayed pretty cooled for that decade. This was, in my opinion, very good for the internet as it was an era not suffocating under the grip of mega-corporation oligarchs and was, instead, filled with Club Penguin and I Can Haz Cheezburger websites.

Then around the 2010-2012 years, a few things happened. Interest rates got low, and then lower. Facebook got huge. The iPhone took off. And suddenly there was a huge new potential market of internet users and phone-havers, and the cheap money was available to start backing new tech startup companies trying to hop on this opportunity. Companies like Uber, Netflix, and Amazon either started in this time, or hit their ramp-up in these years by shifting focus to the internet and apps.

Now, every start-up tech company dreaming of being the next big thing has one thing in common: they need to start off by getting themselves massively in debt. Because before you can turn a profit you need to first spend money on employees and spend money on equipment and spend money on data centers and spend money on advertising and spend money on scale and and and

But also, everyone wants to be on the ship for The Next Big Thing that takes off to the moon.

So there is a mutual interest between new tech companies, and venture capitalists who are willing to invest $$$ into said new tech companies. Because if the venture capitalists can identify a prize pig and get in early, that money could come back to them 100-fold or 1,000-fold. In fact it hardly matters if they invest in 10 or 20 total bust projects along the way to find that unicorn.

But also, becoming profitable takes time. And that might mean being in debt for a long long time before that rocket ship takes off to make everyone onboard a gazzilionaire.

But luckily, for tech startup bros and venture capitalists, being in debt in the 2010's was cheap, and it only got cheaper between 2010 and 2020. If people could secure loans for ~3% or 4% annual interest, well then a $100,000 loan only really costs $3,000 of interest a year to keep afloat. And if inflation is higher than that or at least similar, you're still beating the system.

So from 2010 through early 2022, times were good for tech companies. Startups could take off with massive growth, showing massive potential for something, and venture capitalists would throw infinite money at them in the hopes of pegging just one winner who will take off. And supporting the struggling investments or the long-haulers remained pretty cheap to keep funding.

You hear constantly about "Such and such app has 10-bazillion users gained over the last 10 years and has never once been profitable", yet the thing keeps chugging along because the investors backing it aren't stressed about the immediate future, and are still banking on that "eventually" when it learns how to really monetize its users and turn that profit.

The pandemic in 2020 took a magnifying-glass-in-the-sun effect to this, as EVERYTHING was forcibly turned online which pumped a ton of money and workers into tech investment. Simultaneously, money got really REALLY cheap, bottoming out with historic lows for interest rates.

Then the tide changed with the massive inflation that struck late 2021. Because this all-gas no-brakes state of things was also contributing to off-the-rails inflation (along with your standard-fare greedflation and price gouging, given the extremely convenient excuses of pandemic hardships and supply chain issues). The federal reserve whipped out interest rate hikes to try to curb this huge inflation, which is like a fire extinguisher dousing and suffocating your really-cool, actively-on-fire party where everyone else is burning but you're in the pool. And then they did this more, and then more. And the financial climate followed suit. And suddenly money was not cheap anymore, and new loans became expensive, because loans that used to compound at 2% a year are now compounding at 7 or 8% which, in the language of compounding, is a HUGE difference. A $100,000 loan at a 2% interest rate, if not repaid a single cent in 10 years, accrues to $121,899. A $100,000 loan at an 8% interest rate, if not repaid a single cent in 10 years, more than doubles to $215,892.

Now it is scary and risky to throw money at "could eventually be profitable" tech companies. Now investors are watching companies burn through their current funding and, when the companies come back asking for more, investors are tightening their coin purses instead. The bill is coming due. The free money is drying up and companies are under compounding pressure to produce a profit for their waiting investors who are now done waiting.

You get enshittification. You get quality going down and price going up. You get "now that you're a captive audience here, we're forcing ads or we're forcing subscriptions on you." Don't get me wrong, the plan was ALWAYS to monetize the users. It's just that it's come earlier than expected, with way more feet-to-the-fire than these companies were expecting. ESPECIALLY with Wall Street as the other factor in funding (public) companies, where Wall Street exhibits roughly the same temperament as a baby screaming crying upset that it's soiled its own diaper (maybe that's too mean a comparison to babies), and now companies are being put through the wringer for anything LESS than infinite growth that Wall Street demands of them.

Internal to the tech industry, you get MASSIVE wide-spread layoffs. You get an industry that used to be easy to land multiple job offers shriveling up and leaving recent graduates in a desperately awful situation where no company is hiring and the market is flooded with laid-off workers trying to get back on their feet.

Because those coin-purse-clutching investors DO love virtue-signaling efforts from companies that say "See! We're not being frivolous with your money! We only spend on the essentials." And this is true even for MASSIVE, PROFITABLE companies, because those companies' value is based on the Rich Person Feeling Graph (their stock) rather than the literal profit money. A company making a genuine gazillion dollars a year still tears through layoffs and freezes hiring and removes the free batteries from the printer room (totally not speaking from experience, surely) because the investors LOVE when you cut costs and take away employee perks. The "beer on tap, ping pong table in the common area" era of tech is drying up. And we're still unionless.

Never mind that last part.

And then in early 2023, AI (more specifically, Chat-GPT which is OpenAI's Large Language Model creation) tears its way into the tech scene with a meteor's amount of momentum. Here's Microsoft's prize pig, which it invested heavily in and is galivanting around the pig-show with, to the desperate jealousy and rapture of every other tech company and investor wishing it had that pig. And for the first time since the interest rate hikes, investors have dollar signs in their eyes, both venture capital and Wall Street alike. They're willing to restart the hose of money (even with the new risk) because this feels big enough for them to take the risk.

Now all these companies, who were in varying stages of sweating as their bill came due, or wringing their hands as their stock prices tanked, see a single glorious gold-plated rocket up out of here, the likes of which haven't been seen since the free money days. It's their ticket to buy time, and buy investors, and say "see THIS is what will wring money forth, finally, we promise, just let us show you."

To be clear, AI is NOT profitable yet. It's a money-sink. Perhaps a money-black-hole. But everyone in the space is so wowed by it that there is a wide-spread and powerful conviction that it will become profitable and earn its keep. (Let's be real, half of that profit "potential" is the promise of automating away jobs of pesky employees who peskily cost money.) It's a tech-space industrial revolution that will automate away skilled jobs, and getting in on the ground floor is the absolute best thing you can do to get your pie slice's worth.

It's the thing that will win investors back. It's the thing that will get the investment money coming in again (or, get it second-hand if the company can be the PROVIDER of something needed for AI, which other companies with venture-back will pay handsomely for). It's the thing companies are terrified of missing out on, lest it leave them utterly irrelevant in a future where not having AI-integration is like not having a mobile phone app for your company or not having a website.

So I guess to reiterate on my earlier point:

Drowned rats. Swimming to the one ship in sight.

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FintechZoom.com Top Stock Gainers Today: Full Analysis

In today's fast-paced financial world, staying updated on the stock market is crucial for investors looking to maximize their returns. FintechZoom.com, a leading financial news platform, provides a comprehensive list of the top stock gainers each day, giving investors valuable insights into the market's best performers. Let's dive into how FintechZoom.com identifies these top stock gainers and why this information is essential for traders and investors.

How FintechZoom.com Identifies Top Stock Gainers

FintechZoom.com leverages real-time data and advanced analytics to track the performance of thousands of stocks on major exchanges like the NYSE, NASDAQ, and others. The platform highlights stocks that experience the most significant price increases during the trading session. These stocks are identified based on percentage gains, trading volume, and market sentiment, helping users pinpoint the most profitable stocks for the day.

Stocks can become top gainers due to several factors, such as:

Positive Earnings Reports: Companies that exceed quarterly earnings expectations often see a surge in their stock prices.

Strategic Announcements: News about mergers, acquisitions, or new product launches can drive up a company's stock value.

Market Trends: Stocks in trending sectors like technology, healthcare, or renewable energy may attract more investor interest, leading to higher gains.

Upgraded Ratings: Analyst upgrades or new buy recommendations can significantly boost a stock's performance.

Why Tracking Top Gainers is Important

Monitoring the top stock gainers can be a powerful tool for investors, especially those involved in short-term trading or swing trading. These stocks often show high volatility, presenting opportunities for quick profits. Long-term investors can also benefit by identifying strong companies with growth potential based on their recent performance.

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What are the economic consequences of a victory for President Trump?

This morning we in the UK have woken up to the expectation of a second Presidential term for The Donald as he has 267 of the required 270 electoral college votes as I type this. Along the way it has been a bad election for the MSM as they have pushed the idea of it being a tight election and indeed in more than a few cases a Kamala victory. They seemed to forget how unpopular she was four years…

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The Resilience of the U.S. Stock Market Amid Political Uncertainty

The Current State of the U.S. Stock Market Amid Political Uncertainty The U.S. election has proven to be a thrilling contest, and the global atmosphere remains anything but serene. Interestingly, the stock market has maintained a surprisingly calm demeanor amidst this turbulence. This remarkable resilience suggests that many investors might be operating under the belief that national elections…