Korea is heading for a current account surplus of close to $500 billion this year -- That of course raises the question of how is the surplus being recycled. Korean purchases of US equities is definitely a big part of the answer, but no longer the entire answer 1/many https://t.co/R6Pq60XPjJ
Bottom -- very little has so far flowed into the US bond market (to fund either the borrowing to build the data centers that use the chips or the US fiscal deficit) ... but it isn't clear that the old equity outflows offsetting the surplus equilibrium will persist going forward
Equity outflows were almost the entire answer in the first half of the year (foreigners selling Korean stocks because of concentration limits/ Koreans buying foreign stocks) but not in July and August 2/ https://t.co/V1iKtMdXzi
Using Grok @Bot is like hiring a super smart, hard-working person for peanuts 引用 @B_doong2daddy:First month I paid $200 Cursor Ultra just to try Grok Bot. I said to myself.. it's okay even I don't find it worth it, I will still learn something. I learned so much since I started Grok Bot + Cursor. I
One Big Bet US stocks have held up in the face of surging bond yields, corporate spreads, and higher oil prices. The AI mania is the only thing left supporting the market. https://t.co/IYnRYJhBLq https://t.co/QXkeGEyneI
NEW ODD LOTS What people get wrong about Europe's economic decline @TheStalwart & I speak with @NewLeftEViews about the nuances of Europe's competitiveness problems: https://t.co/pVW13W1M69
With everyone talking about Europe’s various crises these days, listen to @NewLeftEViews explain what is and isn’t going wrong right now. 引用 @tracyalloway:NEW ODD LOTS What people get wrong about Europe's economic decline @TheStalwart & I speak with @NewLeftEViews about the nuances of Europe's co
There is little consensus on the effect of AI adoption on employment. In today's post, the authors study this topic for U.S. small businesses using data from the 2025 Small Business Credit Survey to examine the 12-month forward employment & revenue expectations of AI users.
Initial jobless claims down to 197k vs. 200k est. & 199k prior; continuing claims at 1.716M vs. 1.700M est. & 1.699M prior … greatest increases in CA (+4.6k), IL (+1.2k), & NY (+1.0k); greatest decreases in HI (-0.3k), MI (-0.2k), & MD (-0.1k) https://t.co/sW75FYCuOk
If SpaceX ($SPCX) was in the $SPX now, AI-related stocks would be 51% of the index. With Anthropic and OpenAI coming public, add them to the $SPX in 2027 and AI would be ~55% of the $SPX. The last time a single theme was >50% of the $SPX was the railroads in the 19th century. 引用 @AlexMalitas:AI-
The Trump administration said Thursday that it would suspend an immigration program for multiple tech firms, including Microsoft, alleging widespread abuse of a worker visa system https://t.co/9uAsxGpVLZ
Bullish sentiment jumped to 40.3% vs. 34.6% in latest @AAIISentiment (week ending 10/7/26) while bearish sentiment declined sharply to 39.0% from 46.5% the prior week ... this week’s special question polls AAII members on allocating new cash https://t.co/VvsNHORes1
Latest 3Q2026 real GDP estimate (a “nowcast,” not a forecast) from @AtlantaFed GDPNow model is +3.6% , down from October 6 prior read of +3.7% https://t.co/Q9OgM6Ykg2
Regular reminder that this kind of thinking has always been wrong. https://t.co/HmwjhAmYQH 引用 @Forbes:Jeff Bezos Claims AI Could Allow For 3-Day Workweeks And One-Income Families https://t.co/cpgZl69ut8 https://t.co/00QCFHBOq5
Many nasty replies to my piece yesterday on flatlining model revenue b/c they were highly confident OpenAI ARR surged to 70bln based based on an unsourced leak. Lots mocking the use of @tickerplus as an estimate. Turns it was... 50bln. smh https://t.co/MQWQAAMi79 https://t.co/X47HrfOpom 引用 @BobEU
It was great chatting with @NewLeftEViews about what all the discussions about "lack of European competitiveness" get wrong, and why the Draghi report is a dead end. https://t.co/BAYotVKwiS
And a few other technical points here -- (1) the IMF itself has long indicated it puts the most weight on the "current account" model, which now implies a 21% plus undervaluation (4% surplus is over 3% of GDP higher than the 0.5 to 1 % of GDP norm, each pp of excess surplus is
Yes, they are traitors aiding an invasion and they deserve the fate of traitors 引用 @xenocosmography:Anyone facilitating the entry of these fiends into the country should be considered an accessory to their crimes, and face draconian punishment upon the restoration of patriotic government. ... https
Starlink is licensed in over 165 countries and has spent five years complying with every single law and requirement of the government of India, so why still no license? Is Ambani the real boss of India? 引用 @malpani:The government is more interested in protecting the interests of crony capitalists