Memorial Day barbecue ‘essentials’ have JUMPED 28% since last year. Even long weekends getting squeezed by inflation.

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source: https://datasembly.com/grocery-price-index/ Datasembly found that barbecue staples are more expensive than they were last year, with condiment prices leading the charge. The price of a 32-ounce bottle of ketchup has increased 28% since this time last year, going …

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Credit Card Debt JUMPED Most Ever!

a March study from Wallethub found “credit card debt increased by $85.8 billion during Q4 2022 – the highest quarterly increase ever recorded.” Job losses are cutting into spending power, even for six-figure earners Recent months have also seen big …

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‘Buy now, pay later’ orders jumped 68% during the week of Black Friday (Yellen the Felon calls this “evidence of a strong consumer” – let’s see what she calls it when millions of debt donkeys end up defaulting on their loans)

Online purchases using the type of financing known as buy now, pay later jumped 68% during the week of Black Friday (Nov. 21 to Nov. 27) compared to the previous week, according to the latest Adobe Analytics report, published Monday. Revenue from …

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Who the F does this arrogant, jumped up, cocaine-fuelled little Emperor Zelensky think he is? This is the result of western sycophants treating him as if he’s a god

Zelensky takes a swipe at Ireland for ‘ALMOST standing with Ukraine’ while praising nations who have backed Kyiv The Ukrainian president has criticised Ireland for not abandoning its policy of neutrality despite Russia’s brutal invasion of the country – while …

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Volatility has jumped, failed trades have increased; Margin debt is moderating; Puts outpaced calls for the first time this year and smashed the prior record set in Feb 2020

Volatility has jumped, failed trades have increased — and Wall Street analysts warn that the Federal Reserve’s exit from bond-buying is set to make matters worse https://t.co/tglbmvrsLj — Bloomberg Markets (@markets) December 6, 2021 Put options volume across all symbols …

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FYI Container costs just jumped from $2500 to $25000…

  https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-i-will-tell-you-why-america-s-shipping-crisis-will-not-end-bbe0ebac6a91 What is going to compel the shippers and carriers to invest in the needed infrastructure? The owners of these companies can theoretically not change anything and their business will still be at full capacity because of the backlog …

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Quarterly bank OCC report: Total Swaps jumped by $10T of nominal value in 2021 after being flat for the last 5 years. GS still leveraged 136:1 on their nominal derivatives, but was reduced. Top 5 increased their swaps by ~$1T each. Top 4 added $200B in short term Equity Derivatives alone.

by laflammaster Caption: Derivative Contracts by Products https://www.occ.gov/publications-and-… Caption: Table 1: NOTIONAL AMOUNTS OF DERIVATIVE CONTRACTS https://www.occ.gov/publications-and-… Caption: Table 3: DISTRIBUTION OF DERIVATIVE CONTRACTS https://www.occ.gov/publications-and-… Caption: Table 4: CREDIT EQUIVALENT EXPOSURES https://www.occ.gov/publications-and-… Caption: Table 10: NOTIONAL AMOUNTS OF DERIVATIVE CONTRACTS BY …

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Summer of ’97? The SPX jumped 6% in the month after the baht took its bath…. EM is the canary for U.S markets. It’s going to be swift and violent

https://twitter.com/KyleKovacovsky/status/1029084819639087105 H O L Y S H I T–> "The emerging market foreign exchange basket just witnessed its largest 4D drawdown since Lehman. That’s -5.3% being a 5.2% standard deviation move over a ten year period," h/t @Convertbond #Lira $USD …

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