RT Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital)Holy. Shit.Trump’s National Security Strategy questions Europe’s future as reliable allies:"Their economic decline is eclipsed only by the real and stark prospect of civilizational erasure. If present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years." https://t.co/o0JjuI6eMd ...

This morning’s big market news comes from the monthly jobs report from Automatic Data Processing (ADP) . Headline private-sector payrolls came in at a negative -32K for November, below expectations for +40K and the prior month’s upwardly revised +47K. This marks the fourth negative month for private-sector payroll growth in the last six.It’s also the first time a 4-month trailing average, at -4K currently, has been negative since the early months of the Covid pandemic in 2020. While the survey saw losses in ...

Western politics is zero-sum. For every 51% election winner, a 49% loser.However, the intensity of the competition actually turns it negative-sum. Each succeeding 51% election winner weaponizes (and thereby destroys) legacy institutions to fend off the 49% loser, leaving less for both parties after each cycle.The political conflict is so intense because the West is in relative economic decline. Unfortunately, intense conflict further accelerates that decline.roon (@tszzl):one thing that was immediately palp ...

RT Claire 💙 (@clairebubblepop)Said this before but I’ll say it again. Just one lifetime ago in the UK, our grandfathers could buy a home, buy a car, have 3 to 4 children, wives could stay home, take annual vacations, and then retire… all on one middle-class salary. What happened?We had same day GP, ambulances within minutes, dentists, good education, decent public transport, clean river and beaches. So AGAIN WTF happened? ...