Pete Arethas
@petea.bsky.social
Visiting Professor of Economics, Private Equity and Finance.
Adjunct Professor of Economics and Business Strategy.
Chicago
Adjunct Professor of Economics and Business Strategy.
Chicago
This Democrat copy and paste messaging strategy is failing. Badly.
How in the heck is your party’s approval rating sooo awful when the other party is running their fascism authoritarian playbook?
How in the heck is your party’s approval rating sooo awful when the other party is running their fascism authoritarian playbook?
October 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This Democrat copy and paste messaging strategy is failing. Badly.
How in the heck is your party’s approval rating sooo awful when the other party is running their fascism authoritarian playbook?
How in the heck is your party’s approval rating sooo awful when the other party is running their fascism authoritarian playbook?
And they’re doing a phenomenal job at it. These poll numbers seem bad. Perhaps it’s time for them to wake up. Their “cut and paste” posts aren’t working.
October 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
And they’re doing a phenomenal job at it. These poll numbers seem bad. Perhaps it’s time for them to wake up. Their “cut and paste” posts aren’t working.
Wandering and dementia.
August 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Wandering and dementia.
Reminds me of this story of Reagan’s security detail.
August 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Reminds me of this story of Reagan’s security detail.
Breaking Away (1979)
Blues Brothers (1980)
Bloomington, Chicago. Top 10 sports movie. Top 10 comedy.
Blues Brothers (1980)
Bloomington, Chicago. Top 10 sports movie. Top 10 comedy.
July 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Breaking Away (1979)
Blues Brothers (1980)
Bloomington, Chicago. Top 10 sports movie. Top 10 comedy.
Blues Brothers (1980)
Bloomington, Chicago. Top 10 sports movie. Top 10 comedy.
From Chicago’s south side … Pope Leo XIV.
May 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
From Chicago’s south side … Pope Leo XIV.
95% chance this is Madagascar they negotiated with.
April 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
95% chance this is Madagascar they negotiated with.
US-based, car-making robots will be happy.
April 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
US-based, car-making robots will be happy.
Just posting this randomly. Nothing to see with one person causing a 15% selloff and then a 10% rebound in 5 trading days in the U.S. public equity market.
www.investor.gov/introduction...
www.investor.gov/introduction...
April 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Just posting this randomly. Nothing to see with one person causing a 15% selloff and then a 10% rebound in 5 trading days in the U.S. public equity market.
www.investor.gov/introduction...
www.investor.gov/introduction...
Yes, Treasury yields are up.
Yes, we’d expect a flight to safety during equity mkt turbulence.
No, the world hasn’t abandoned our debt just yet.
But the consequences are potentially catastrophic for one foolish person to risk our T-bill’s decades-long status as the planet’s “risk-free” asset.
Yes, we’d expect a flight to safety during equity mkt turbulence.
No, the world hasn’t abandoned our debt just yet.
But the consequences are potentially catastrophic for one foolish person to risk our T-bill’s decades-long status as the planet’s “risk-free” asset.
April 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Yes, Treasury yields are up.
Yes, we’d expect a flight to safety during equity mkt turbulence.
No, the world hasn’t abandoned our debt just yet.
But the consequences are potentially catastrophic for one foolish person to risk our T-bill’s decades-long status as the planet’s “risk-free” asset.
Yes, we’d expect a flight to safety during equity mkt turbulence.
No, the world hasn’t abandoned our debt just yet.
But the consequences are potentially catastrophic for one foolish person to risk our T-bill’s decades-long status as the planet’s “risk-free” asset.
If you enjoy catching falling knives the S&P 500 futures are down another 4% tonight.
April 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
If you enjoy catching falling knives the S&P 500 futures are down another 4% tonight.
Hello Central Florida GOP - delete these tourism impact charts and stories before one of your neighbors in the Mar-a-Lago nursing home sees them.
He’s trying to crater your state’s entire economy.
He’s trying to crater your state’s entire economy.
April 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Hello Central Florida GOP - delete these tourism impact charts and stories before one of your neighbors in the Mar-a-Lago nursing home sees them.
He’s trying to crater your state’s entire economy.
He’s trying to crater your state’s entire economy.
Get to the know the “Multiplier Effect”.
The impact of fewer foreign visitors spending money in the US this spring, summer and fall will reverberate through the economy. Tourism accounts for $2.5 TRILLION in U.S. GDP.
If you know anyone in Florida, tourism is 10% of their entire economy.
The impact of fewer foreign visitors spending money in the US this spring, summer and fall will reverberate through the economy. Tourism accounts for $2.5 TRILLION in U.S. GDP.
If you know anyone in Florida, tourism is 10% of their entire economy.
April 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Get to the know the “Multiplier Effect”.
The impact of fewer foreign visitors spending money in the US this spring, summer and fall will reverberate through the economy. Tourism accounts for $2.5 TRILLION in U.S. GDP.
If you know anyone in Florida, tourism is 10% of their entire economy.
The impact of fewer foreign visitors spending money in the US this spring, summer and fall will reverberate through the economy. Tourism accounts for $2.5 TRILLION in U.S. GDP.
If you know anyone in Florida, tourism is 10% of their entire economy.
If you had $401k in your 401k on Wednesday, you have about $357k in you 401k today.
The 1930s tariff strategy cost you $44,000 in just 2 days.
The 1930s tariff strategy cost you $44,000 in just 2 days.
April 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
If you had $401k in your 401k on Wednesday, you have about $357k in you 401k today.
The 1930s tariff strategy cost you $44,000 in just 2 days.
The 1930s tariff strategy cost you $44,000 in just 2 days.
"Market Correction vs. Bear Market:
A market correction is a decline of 10% to 20%, while a bear market is a more substantial decline of 20% or more."
- Google AI
A market correction is a decline of 10% to 20%, while a bear market is a more substantial decline of 20% or more."
- Google AI
April 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"Market Correction vs. Bear Market:
A market correction is a decline of 10% to 20%, while a bear market is a more substantial decline of 20% or more."
- Google AI
A market correction is a decline of 10% to 20%, while a bear market is a more substantial decline of 20% or more."
- Google AI
If you had $401k in your 401k yesterday, you have about $381k in your 401k today.
This 1930s tariff strategy cost you $20,000 in just a few hours.
Also if you buy any of the following prices are going higher:
Everything
This 1930s tariff strategy cost you $20,000 in just a few hours.
Also if you buy any of the following prices are going higher:
Everything
April 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If you had $401k in your 401k yesterday, you have about $381k in your 401k today.
This 1930s tariff strategy cost you $20,000 in just a few hours.
Also if you buy any of the following prices are going higher:
Everything
This 1930s tariff strategy cost you $20,000 in just a few hours.
Also if you buy any of the following prices are going higher:
Everything
Car manufacturing jobs in the US aren’t coming back in any scenario. (*** unless you happen to be a robot). This isn’t Hank Ford building Model Ts in 1909. This is what car manufacturing looks like today.
April 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Car manufacturing jobs in the US aren’t coming back in any scenario. (*** unless you happen to be a robot). This isn’t Hank Ford building Model Ts in 1909. This is what car manufacturing looks like today.
Day 67 since Jan 20:
The United States eliminates the office that uses science to combat pandemics.
The United States had 99,000,000 reported cases and 1,100,000 deaths during the COVID pandemic.
www.usafacts.org
The United States eliminates the office that uses science to combat pandemics.
The United States had 99,000,000 reported cases and 1,100,000 deaths during the COVID pandemic.
www.usafacts.org
March 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Day 67 since Jan 20:
The United States eliminates the office that uses science to combat pandemics.
The United States had 99,000,000 reported cases and 1,100,000 deaths during the COVID pandemic.
www.usafacts.org
The United States eliminates the office that uses science to combat pandemics.
The United States had 99,000,000 reported cases and 1,100,000 deaths during the COVID pandemic.
www.usafacts.org
And how long before Google removes this?
March 3, 2025 at 3:53 AM
And how long before Google removes this?
Katie Britt.
RFK Jr.
NIH funding cut.
Concern in … Alabama.
You chose this irresponsible path, Alabama.
Enjoy your upcoming unemployment and awful healthcare system. You’ve earned it.
RFK Jr.
NIH funding cut.
Concern in … Alabama.
You chose this irresponsible path, Alabama.
Enjoy your upcoming unemployment and awful healthcare system. You’ve earned it.
February 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Katie Britt.
RFK Jr.
NIH funding cut.
Concern in … Alabama.
You chose this irresponsible path, Alabama.
Enjoy your upcoming unemployment and awful healthcare system. You’ve earned it.
RFK Jr.
NIH funding cut.
Concern in … Alabama.
You chose this irresponsible path, Alabama.
Enjoy your upcoming unemployment and awful healthcare system. You’ve earned it.
Head Start: "provides early education and comprehensive services to children and families in greatest need to prepare them for success in school and later in life."
Here are the 18 states ranked by the most children benefiting from the program. 14 of the 18 voted for Trump in Nov.
Here are the 18 states ranked by the most children benefiting from the program. 14 of the 18 voted for Trump in Nov.
January 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Head Start: "provides early education and comprehensive services to children and families in greatest need to prepare them for success in school and later in life."
Here are the 18 states ranked by the most children benefiting from the program. 14 of the 18 voted for Trump in Nov.
Here are the 18 states ranked by the most children benefiting from the program. 14 of the 18 voted for Trump in Nov.
How does endangering public health while also lowering real GDP and increasing unemployment make Americans better off?
Americans fund NIH. We get:
7 million jobs funded.
$69b more real GDP annually.
43% ROI.
new drugs.
better health.
Seriously. Why pause this funding for even one day?
Americans fund NIH. We get:
7 million jobs funded.
$69b more real GDP annually.
43% ROI.
new drugs.
better health.
Seriously. Why pause this funding for even one day?
January 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
How does endangering public health while also lowering real GDP and increasing unemployment make Americans better off?
Americans fund NIH. We get:
7 million jobs funded.
$69b more real GDP annually.
43% ROI.
new drugs.
better health.
Seriously. Why pause this funding for even one day?
Americans fund NIH. We get:
7 million jobs funded.
$69b more real GDP annually.
43% ROI.
new drugs.
better health.
Seriously. Why pause this funding for even one day?