1 billion hours ago humanity emerged
1 billion seconds ago IBM released the first PC
1 billion Google searches were made in the past 4 hours

-Haim Israel, BAML

There have been times when the US economy was performing far better

But there is a case to be made that coming into 2025 was the best US economic performance ever relative to the rest of the world

We were lapping the field

And now...we'll see

The good news is I’m sure we’ll have a perfectly rational plan 90 days from now and not something completely insane and unplanned

I have been learning of the overlap between ADHD and Autism, and it's a fascinating rabbit hole that I KNOW is going to consume hours of my life researching despite numerous other looming deadlines...

Trade War Retaliation Will Hit Trump Voters Hardest

"China has targeted corn farmers and carmakers. Canada has put tariffs on poultry plants and air-conditioning manufacturers, while Europe will hit American steel mills and slaughter houses."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"The Stock Market Vigilantes have spoken. They don't like tariffs, and they don't like mass firings of federal workers. That's because they don't like stagflation, and they fear that Trump 2.0's focus on these measures could cause a recession with higher inflation."

-Ed Yardeni

This is a great chart from Morningstar on 150 years of stock market crashes

www.morningstar.com/economy/what...