Daniel Alpert
@danielalpert.bsky.social
Executive Chairman, Westwood Capital LLC; Adjunct Professor and Fellow in Macroeconomics and Finance, Cornell Law School; Author of "The Age of Oversupply;" Co-founder and Chief Economist of Facent; Father and Step-father to six amazing children.
Trump gathered his Generals and Admirals to rant like a madman? Leaders acting out of control in front of the people who control their military forces has lead to coups elsewhere.
And the US military pledges an oath to the Constitution, not a king!
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
And the US military pledges an oath to the Constitution, not a king!
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
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September 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Trump gathered his Generals and Admirals to rant like a madman? Leaders acting out of control in front of the people who control their military forces has lead to coups elsewhere.
And the US military pledges an oath to the Constitution, not a king!
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
And the US military pledges an oath to the Constitution, not a king!
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
The senseless murder of Charlie Kirk has been swiftly transformed by MAGA into its own 1933 Reichstag moment.
Today MAGA will hold its version of the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.
**Beware of calls to place absolute power with Donald Trump.**
The timeframe may be compressed, but the history rhymes.
Today MAGA will hold its version of the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.
**Beware of calls to place absolute power with Donald Trump.**
The timeframe may be compressed, but the history rhymes.
September 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The senseless murder of Charlie Kirk has been swiftly transformed by MAGA into its own 1933 Reichstag moment.
Today MAGA will hold its version of the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.
**Beware of calls to place absolute power with Donald Trump.**
The timeframe may be compressed, but the history rhymes.
Today MAGA will hold its version of the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.
**Beware of calls to place absolute power with Donald Trump.**
The timeframe may be compressed, but the history rhymes.
Trump: "Grab what ya want."
The motto for his presidency...
[The merch room off the oval office.]
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The motto for his presidency...
[The merch room off the oval office.]
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August 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Trump: "Grab what ya want."
The motto for his presidency...
[The merch room off the oval office.]
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The motto for his presidency...
[The merch room off the oval office.]
www.instagram.com/reel/DNmdJmd...
Trump's Friday sacking of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics marks our ext to an Orwellian world. Big Brother Trump seeks to turn the publisher of non-political data into a "Ministry of Truth" to produce his propaganda.
Open your eyes, America!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
Open your eyes, America!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook
www.nytimes.com
August 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Trump's Friday sacking of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics marks our ext to an Orwellian world. Big Brother Trump seeks to turn the publisher of non-political data into a "Ministry of Truth" to produce his propaganda.
Open your eyes, America!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
Open your eyes, America!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
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Wait! Trump's logocracy is banning "1984," "Brave New World* and "Animal Farm" from Red State school libraries and reading lists?
The very volumes that helped topple Communism are now feared by Republicans, because they describe Trumpworld too closely?
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
The very volumes that helped topple Communism are now feared by Republicans, because they describe Trumpworld too closely?
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
Opinion | ‘1984’ Hasn’t Changed, but America Has
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Wait! Trump's logocracy is banning "1984," "Brave New World* and "Animal Farm" from Red State school libraries and reading lists?
The very volumes that helped topple Communism are now feared by Republicans, because they describe Trumpworld too closely?
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
The very volumes that helped topple Communism are now feared by Republicans, because they describe Trumpworld too closely?
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
Wait! Trump's logocracy is banning "1984," "Brave New World* and "Animal Farm" from Red State school libraries and reading lists?
The very volumes that helped topple Communism are now feared by Republicans, because they describe Trumpworld too closely?
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
The very volumes that helped topple Communism are now feared by Republicans, because they describe Trumpworld too closely?
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
Opinion | ‘1984’ Hasn’t Changed, but America Has
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Wait! Trump's logocracy is banning "1984," "Brave New World* and "Animal Farm" from Red State school libraries and reading lists?
The very volumes that helped topple Communism are now feared by Republicans, because they describe Trumpworld too closely?
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
The very volumes that helped topple Communism are now feared by Republicans, because they describe Trumpworld too closely?
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
AI killing jobs?
See this response from a not-too-complex task I asked from the "powerful" Perplexity engine.
It bullshitted!
I then asked it to perform the same function using its Deep Research setting and it admitted it could not becasue of the Fed required API authentication.
AI is not there yet!
See this response from a not-too-complex task I asked from the "powerful" Perplexity engine.
It bullshitted!
I then asked it to perform the same function using its Deep Research setting and it admitted it could not becasue of the Fed required API authentication.
AI is not there yet!
July 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
AI killing jobs?
See this response from a not-too-complex task I asked from the "powerful" Perplexity engine.
It bullshitted!
I then asked it to perform the same function using its Deep Research setting and it admitted it could not becasue of the Fed required API authentication.
AI is not there yet!
See this response from a not-too-complex task I asked from the "powerful" Perplexity engine.
It bullshitted!
I then asked it to perform the same function using its Deep Research setting and it admitted it could not becasue of the Fed required API authentication.
AI is not there yet!
Dear Media,
WTI Crude in the mid-to-low $70s does not constitute an oil spike or a "surge in energy prices." At worst it is a reversion to the mean. But after adjustment for inflation, it is just plain cheap, historically.
Just have a bunch of futures traders ginning up some vol.
WTI Crude in the mid-to-low $70s does not constitute an oil spike or a "surge in energy prices." At worst it is a reversion to the mean. But after adjustment for inflation, it is just plain cheap, historically.
Just have a bunch of futures traders ginning up some vol.
June 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Dear Media,
WTI Crude in the mid-to-low $70s does not constitute an oil spike or a "surge in energy prices." At worst it is a reversion to the mean. But after adjustment for inflation, it is just plain cheap, historically.
Just have a bunch of futures traders ginning up some vol.
WTI Crude in the mid-to-low $70s does not constitute an oil spike or a "surge in energy prices." At worst it is a reversion to the mean. But after adjustment for inflation, it is just plain cheap, historically.
Just have a bunch of futures traders ginning up some vol.
Whatever your political persuasion, you should be watching this remarkable achievement on June 7th. It has the capacity to Bring America Together Again.
CNN to air George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Broadway play live on June 7
www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/e...
CNN to air George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Broadway play live on June 7
www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/e...
CNN to air George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Broadway play live on June 7 | CNN
CNN will exclusively televise actor George Clooney’s record-breaking Broadway show “Good Night, and Good Luck,” on Saturday, June 7, the network announced Thursday.
www.cnn.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Whatever your political persuasion, you should be watching this remarkable achievement on June 7th. It has the capacity to Bring America Together Again.
CNN to air George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Broadway play live on June 7
www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/e...
CNN to air George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Broadway play live on June 7
www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/e...
A very different trade for US assets now than was seen earlier this month:
1) US economic data is crap;
2) US bonds responding to the above with a strong bid.
3) US equities gaining on lower bond rates and earlier value destruction.
4) US$ weaker on economics, not capital flight.
1) US economic data is crap;
2) US bonds responding to the above with a strong bid.
3) US equities gaining on lower bond rates and earlier value destruction.
4) US$ weaker on economics, not capital flight.
April 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A very different trade for US assets now than was seen earlier this month:
1) US economic data is crap;
2) US bonds responding to the above with a strong bid.
3) US equities gaining on lower bond rates and earlier value destruction.
4) US$ weaker on economics, not capital flight.
1) US economic data is crap;
2) US bonds responding to the above with a strong bid.
3) US equities gaining on lower bond rates and earlier value destruction.
4) US$ weaker on economics, not capital flight.
Volatility is a traders friend...normally. But this ain't normal.
As I noted to CNN's @allisondmorrow today, it's pencils down on the buyside until there is more clarity on the misbegotten Trump temper tantrum tariff.
Markets see no end game in all this.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/b...
As I noted to CNN's @allisondmorrow today, it's pencils down on the buyside until there is more clarity on the misbegotten Trump temper tantrum tariff.
Markets see no end game in all this.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/b...
Wall Street is seeing right through the Trump 2.0 spin | CNN Business
So, what happens now that President Donald Trump has art-of-the-dealed his way out of his own centerpiece economic initiative because it nearly broke financial markets?
www.cnn.com
April 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Volatility is a traders friend...normally. But this ain't normal.
As I noted to CNN's @allisondmorrow today, it's pencils down on the buyside until there is more clarity on the misbegotten Trump temper tantrum tariff.
Markets see no end game in all this.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/b...
As I noted to CNN's @allisondmorrow today, it's pencils down on the buyside until there is more clarity on the misbegotten Trump temper tantrum tariff.
Markets see no end game in all this.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/b...
Overnight, China allowed the Yuan trading band to widen to 7.35. The 84% retaliatory tariff from China is nothing compared to this resounding shot across the bow. They are signaling intent here: to use their fully controlled currency to force open export markets. >>
April 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Overnight, China allowed the Yuan trading band to widen to 7.35. The 84% retaliatory tariff from China is nothing compared to this resounding shot across the bow. They are signaling intent here: to use their fully controlled currency to force open export markets. >>
Naughty Elon.
You're going to get yourself thrown off Trump's island.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
You're going to get yourself thrown off Trump's island.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Musk Hopes US, Europe Move to Zero-Tariff Free-Trade Zone
Elon Musk hopes for a “zero-tariff” system between the US and Europe that would effectively create “a free trade zone,” he said on Saturday, days after levies set by US President Donald Trump sent glo...
www.bloomberg.com
April 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Naughty Elon.
You're going to get yourself thrown off Trump's island.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
You're going to get yourself thrown off Trump's island.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.
April 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.
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There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
April 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
A year of market gains wiped off the board.
Yep. Only HE can do it.
Yep. Only HE can do it.
April 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A year of market gains wiped off the board.
Yep. Only HE can do it.
Yep. Only HE can do it.
I am on the fly today and my Jobs Day posts are on that other site. x.com/DanielAlpert...
Take a look.
Take a look.
Dan Alpert on X: "And here is the #BLS data: Non-farm payrolls: 228,000 Private: 208,000 Government: 19,000 Unemployment: 4.2% Revisions from priors: -48,000 Blowout! But will be viewed as the last hurrah." / X
And here is the #BLS data: Non-farm payrolls: 228,000 Private: 208,000 Government: 19,000 Unemployment: 4.2% Revisions from priors: -48,000 Blowout! But will be viewed as the last hurrah.
x.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I am on the fly today and my Jobs Day posts are on that other site. x.com/DanielAlpert...
Take a look.
Take a look.
A good day to recall this bit of wisdom (on 9/11 Memorial):
April 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A good day to recall this bit of wisdom (on 9/11 Memorial):
Near the top of Trump's tariff menu is Fiji. Presumably so because of the vast US imports of WATER from that island manufacturing behemoth. Need to protect American water bottling jobs?
Make America Wet Again!
#MAWA ha-ha-ha
Make America Wet Again!
#MAWA ha-ha-ha
April 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Near the top of Trump's tariff menu is Fiji. Presumably so because of the vast US imports of WATER from that island manufacturing behemoth. Need to protect American water bottling jobs?
Make America Wet Again!
#MAWA ha-ha-ha
Make America Wet Again!
#MAWA ha-ha-ha
Since President Lame Brain did his thing yesterday, the US$ has tanked against all major currencies. Yet crude oil, a $-based commodity, has - counterintuitively - also cratered, just when those long oil should be asking more for it in the now-weaker $. Why?
A: Recession risks now loom far larger.
A: Recession risks now loom far larger.
April 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Since President Lame Brain did his thing yesterday, the US$ has tanked against all major currencies. Yet crude oil, a $-based commodity, has - counterintuitively - also cratered, just when those long oil should be asking more for it in the now-weaker $. Why?
A: Recession risks now loom far larger.
A: Recession risks now loom far larger.
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Fox meet henhouse www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Fox meet henhouse www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick decided that Elon Musk's financial situation was so desperate that he would break the law to help him www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... A truly noble act of civil disobedience.
Lutnick urges Fox News viewers to buy Tesla stock, raising ethics questions
The commerce secretary’s promotion of Tesla was the latest move by a Trump administration official to bolster support for Elon Musk’s car company.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick decided that Elon Musk's financial situation was so desperate that he would break the law to help him www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... A truly noble act of civil disobedience.
Any member of the military cooperating in this is committing treason. Any civilian cooperating under orders of the president is involved in a criminal conspiracy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China
Giving Elon Musk access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets is a major expansion of his role as an adviser to President Trump and highlights his conflicts of interest.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Any member of the military cooperating in this is committing treason. Any civilian cooperating under orders of the president is involved in a criminal conspiracy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
The Trump Stock Market
March 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The Trump Stock Market
After averaging between 30K and 60K per month, the Challenger corporate layoff number for last month (and this does not include government jobs) skyrockets to 172,100. Canary in the coal mine?
March 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
After averaging between 30K and 60K per month, the Challenger corporate layoff number for last month (and this does not include government jobs) skyrockets to 172,100. Canary in the coal mine?