So several different indicators are showing the US economy heading for the cliff. Consumer spending, jobs market, housing market and massive unrealized losses on US banks' securities are just some of the indicators pointing to a crash.

But maybe most worrying of all is that the Oracle of Omaha hasn't bought back a share for five straight quarters and is sitting on 400 Billion $ in cash!

Be afraid, be very afraid.

 

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffetts-berkshire-hathaway-cashed-222442230.html

 

 

 

 

 

More on this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the Fed is reacting to a liquidity crunch:

 

 

 

 

And here we have another thread of an alarmed Trump fearing person way out in left field. Life will definitely get much better once you turn it off and find something other than Trump pogo sticks bouncing around in the head.

4 minutes ago, khunJam said:

And here we have another thread of an alarmed Trump fearing person way out in left field. Life will definitely get much better once you turn it off and find something other than Trump pogo sticks bouncing around in the head.

 

Thank you for your valuable contribution!

15 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

So several different indicators are showing the US economy heading for the cliff. Consumer spending, jobs market, housing market and massive unrealized losses on US banks' securities are just some of the indicators pointing to a crash.

But maybe most worrying of all is that the Oracle of Omaha hasn't bought back a share for five straight quarters and is sitting on 400 Billion $ in cash!

Be afraid, be very afraid.

 

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffetts-berkshire-hathaway-cashed-222442230.html

 

 

 

 

 

He doesn’t need to buy more shares.

2 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

 

Thank you for your valuable contribution!

You are very welcome ❤️😘

20 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

So several different indicators are showing the US economy heading for the cliff. Consumer spending, jobs market, housing market and massive unrealized losses on US banks' securities are just some of the indicators pointing to a crash.

But maybe most worrying of all is that the Oracle of Omaha hasn't bought back a share for five straight quarters and is sitting on 400 Billion $ in cash!

Be afraid, be very afraid.

 

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffetts-berkshire-hathaway-cashed-222442230.html

 

 

 

 

 

You sound like @Wingate.  You both have miserable prediction records.

 

6 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

 

Thank you for your valuable contribution!

What about me?  Where is my thank you?

14 minutes ago, khunJam said:

And here we have another thread of an alarmed Trump fearing person way out in left field. Life will definitely get much better once you turn it off and find something other than Trump pogo sticks bouncing around in the head.

Anything on the topic?

32 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

So several different indicators are showing the US economy heading for the cliff.

 

Have you ever known or heard of a year, during the past 300 years, when this was not the case?

 

Alarm Bells.....IN FACT....are pretty-much ALWAYS Ringing......

 

Always.....

 

I guess there was always fear mongering, and the witch was never entirely put to rest, unless it might have been during this great film:

 

 

ALARM BELLS....????

Ding

Dong

 

DING

DONG

 

Just more utter useless tripe.

 

Why not tell us what to do....?

Just as Dorothy did?

 

 

21 minutes ago, Rocky Sullivan said:

He doesn’t need to buy more shares.

Wow, what a penetrating analysis!

16 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Have you ever known or heard of a year, during the past 300 years, when this was not the case?

 

Alarm Bells.....IN FACT....are pretty-much ALWAYS Ringing......

 

Always.....

 

I guess there was always fear mongering, and the witch was never entirely put to rest, unless it might have been during this great film:

 

 

ALARM BELLS....????

Ding

Dong

 

DING

DONG

 

Just more utter useless tripe.

 

Why not tell us what to do....?

Just as Dorothy did?

 

 

Fake news, some of those soldiers had beards!

47 minutes ago, khunJam said:

And here we have another thread of an alarmed Trump fearing person way out in left field. Life will definitely get much better once you turn it off and find something other than Trump pogo sticks bouncing around in the head.

That's all he's got...and many others on AN like him.  This includes all members of the Democratic Party leadership.  The only thing they can say is "Trump is bad, Trump is a Nazi, Trump makes me cry"

1 hour ago, BLMFem said:

Be afraid, be very afraid.

Alarmist nonsense to some. In short, there are valid headwinds in a high-rate environment, but the economy's decoupled from a crash narrative. Buffett's moves scream "wait for bargains" in an expensive market, not "head for the hills." If anything, it's a reminder to diversify beyond headlines—doomsayers have been wrong since the 2022 bear market lows.

1 hour ago, BLMFem said:

 

Thank you for your valuable contribution!

And thank you for your non stop political BS

This YouTube video about the yield curve tells you all you need to know!

 

Its coming and it will be massive when it hits, the timing is down to the puppet masters who have been quietly protecting their capital from the coming storm.

 

 

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Have you ever known or heard of a year, during the past 300 years, when this was not the case?

 

Alarm Bells.....IN FACT....are pretty-much ALWAYS Ringing......

 

Always.....

 

I guess there was always fear mongering, and the witch was never entirely put to rest, unless it might have been during this great film:

 

 

ALARM BELLS....????

Ding

Dong

 

DING

DONG

 

Just more utter useless tripe.

 

Why not tell us what to do....?

Just as Dorothy did?

 

 

Prove that your claim is true. Good luck with that.

It looks like there is one area of the economy that will continue to be strong. And that's AI. Companies are investing cumulatively well over a hundred billion. So, that should help the people who build the data centers, electric power companies, investors, and the highly skilled people who work in this field.

But the rest of the economy is not doing well at all. For most Americans the most important economic consideration is jobs.

 

"Corporate America has ended its firing freeze. 

Companies scrambled for years after the pandemic to build back their workforces, learning a simple lesson along the way: Keep the workers you’ve got, because if you lose them you will have a hard time getting them back.
The job market has softened in recent months, however, marking a safer environment for companies to start streamlining their workforces. A host of them have pounced, including Amazon.com, United Parcel Service, Target and Meta Platforms, which have announced tens of thousands of layoffs in recent weeks...

Over the past two years, America’s businesses have become increasingly reluctant to bring new employees on, especially as more recent uncertainty over the direction of tariffs made it harder to plan ahead. But they have also been hesitant to cut the employees they already have, an example of what economists term “labor hoarding.”

https://archive.ph/InaW5#selection-725.68-729.156

 

More and more, America's economy is turning into 2 tiers.

Ray Dalio says America is developing a ‘dependency’ on the top 1% of workers, while the bottom 60% are struggling and unproductive

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ray-dalio-says-america-developing-085611547.html

 

And manufacturing employment has actually declined a bit since Trump took office.

11 hours ago, peterrabbit said:

Its coming and it will be massive when it hits, the timing is down to the puppet masters who have been quietly protecting their capital from the coming storm.

 

I have watched some of this Wolf guy's videos in the past and he seems like a snake in the grass fearmonger.

 

 

2 hours ago, howlee101 said:

That's all he's got...and many others on AN like him.  This includes all members of the Democratic Party leadership.  The only thing they can say is "Trump is bad, Trump is a Nazi, Trump makes me cry"

That's a lie, buddy. We can all explain precisely how, why and when Trump is bad, okay?

18 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

It looks like there is one area of the economy that will continue to be strong. And that's AI. Companies are investing cumulatively well over a hundred billion. So, that should help the people who build the data centers, electric power companies, investors, and the highly skilled people who work in this field.

But the rest of the economy is not doing well at all. For most Americans the most important economic consideration is jobs.

 

"Corporate America has ended its firing freeze. 

Companies scrambled for years after the pandemic to build back their workforces, learning a simple lesson along the way: Keep the workers you’ve got, because if you lose them you will have a hard time getting them back.
The job market has softened in recent months, however, marking a safer environment for companies to start streamlining their workforces. A host of them have pounced, including Amazon.com, United Parcel Service, Target and Meta Platforms, which have announced tens of thousands of layoffs in recent weeks...

Over the past two years, America’s businesses have become increasingly reluctant to bring new employees on, especially as more recent uncertainty over the direction of tariffs made it harder to plan ahead. But they have also been hesitant to cut the employees they already have, an example of what economists term “labor hoarding.”

https://archive.ph/InaW5#selection-725.68-729.156

 

More and more, America's economy is turning into 2 tiers.

Ray Dalio says America is developing a ‘dependency’ on the top 1% of workers, while the bottom 60% are struggling and unproductive

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ray-dalio-says-america-developing-085611547.html

 

And manufacturing employment has actually declined a bit since Trump took office.

 

I read recently that if you take the development of these gigantic data centers out of the equation the economic growth drops to just above zero.

I'll post the link if I can find it.

12 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

 

I read recently that if you take the development of these gigantic data centers out of the equation the economic growth drops to just above zero.

I'll post the link if I can find it.

Here's something about that:

AI's economic boost isn't showing up in GDP, and Goldman says that's a $115 billion blind spot

 

• AI is transforming corporate America, but its growth is understated in government data.
• AI added $160 billion to the US economy, but only $45 billion shows up in GDP, Goldman Sachs says.
• Goldman Sachs says GDP undercounts AI's impact because semiconductors are treated as intermediate inputs.
• https://archive.ph/Q4JL1#selection-1915.0-1927.105

Just now, Alan Zweibel said:

Here's something about that:

AI's economic boost isn't showing up in GDP, and Goldman says that's a $115 billion blind spot

 

• AI is transforming corporate America, but its growth is understated in government data.
• AI added $160 billion to the US economy, but only $45 billion shows up in GDP, Goldman Sachs says.
• Goldman Sachs says GDP undercounts AI's impact because semiconductors are treated as intermediate inputs.
• https://archive.ph/Q4JL1#selection-1915.0-1927.105

And the pace of investment has picked up massively this year.

To quote Bill Clinton's strategist, James Clavell, "It's the economy, stupid!"  We'll all know where the America economy stands on November 4th, 2026.

51 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

That's a lie, buddy. We can all explain precisely how, why and when Trump is bad, okay?

As I said before, I'll never be your "buddy" so refrain from addressing me as such.  You can "explain precisely" but it's nothing more than you far left liberal opinion.

8 minutes ago, howlee101 said:

As I said before, I'll never be your "buddy" so refrain from addressing me as such.  You can "explain precisely" but it's nothing more than you far left liberal opinion.

"As I said before, I'll never be your "buddy" so refrain from addressing me as such."

Well, now you're just being mean!

 

"You can "explain precisely" but it's nothing more than you far left liberal opinion."

Wrong again. I can objectively and precisely explain how, why and when Trump is a bad/failed president/leader/person, but since your side is impervious to facts what's the point, buddy.🤷‍♂️

2 hours ago, Alan Zweibel said:

It looks like there is one area of the economy that will continue to be strong. And that's AI. Companies are investing cumulatively well over a hundred billion. So, that should help the people who build the data centers, electric power companies, investors, and the highly skilled people who work in this field.

But the rest of the economy is not doing well at all. For most Americans the most important economic consideration is jobs.

 

"Corporate America has ended its firing freeze. 

Companies scrambled for years after the pandemic to build back their workforces, learning a simple lesson along the way: Keep the workers you’ve got, because if you lose them you will have a hard time getting them back.
The job market has softened in recent months, however, marking a safer environment for companies to start streamlining their workforces. A host of them have pounced, including Amazon.com, United Parcel Service, Target and Meta Platforms, which have announced tens of thousands of layoffs in recent weeks...

Over the past two years, America’s businesses have become increasingly reluctant to bring new employees on, especially as more recent uncertainty over the direction of tariffs made it harder to plan ahead. But they have also been hesitant to cut the employees they already have, an example of what economists term “labor hoarding.”

https://archive.ph/InaW5#selection-725.68-729.156

 

More and more, America's economy is turning into 2 tiers.

Ray Dalio says America is developing a ‘dependency’ on the top 1% of workers, while the bottom 60% are struggling and unproductive

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ray-dalio-says-america-developing-085611547.html

 

And manufacturing employment has actually declined a bit since Trump took office.

That's a significant issue.

 

MAGAs are rejoicing about Trump sowing chaos, owning the libs, and hitting other countries' economy. 

 

What they don't understand is that businesses don't like chaos and uncertainty. They need to make business plans, assess cost, market potential and prices, and then dimension R&D and production accordingly. If markets, cost and prices are uncertain, they tend to be cautious and spend/invest less.

2 hours ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Prove that your claim is true. Good luck with that.

 

You wish me to prove my claim that there has always been fear mongering, you mean?

Please be specific about which of my claims you wish me to prove before you ask me to prove them....

OK?

 

Otherwise, I might be tied up here, for years, as you will imagine.

 

 

15 minutes ago, candide said:

MAGAs are rejoicing about Trump sowing chaos

 

I guess...only TRUMP could be so great as to SOW anything, including chaos.

 

Still, Trump's wife is anything BUT a sow, compared to the wife of BIG BUSH.....

 

I could go on....