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On today’s show, we discuss:
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- Is This the Top?
- More Working-Class Americans Than Ever Are Investing in the Stock Market
- Where Have All the Young Home Buyers Gone? Check the Stock Market
- The Cash on the Sidelines Fallacy
- Delta, boosted by premium ticket sales, says customers who go Comfort+ don’t go back
- Biggest Crypto Liquidation Ever Sees $16B Longs Decimated Amid Market Chaos
- A Historic Crypto Selloff Erased Over $19 Billion, but Two Accounts Made $160 Million
- America Is Minting Lots of Cash-Strapped Millionaires
- L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie
- Celebrating our twentieth blogiversary
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Tweets/Bluesky:
"The market was STRETCHED … only 7th 119 day stretch w/o a 3% pullback and the strongest ever. 3-6% pullback healthy/necessary and expected…"@WarrenPies pic.twitter.com/jZBSpzhdqS
— Daily Chartbook (@dailychartbook) October 11, 2025
Red dots are all days the Nasdaq hit a 52-week high then closed down 2%+ from that high. Thoughts here? pic.twitter.com/gmI067Pk82
— Bespoke (@bespokeinvest) October 11, 2025
REMINDER: I predicted the biggest crash in world history was coming in my book Rich Dad’s Prophecy. That crash will happen this year.
Baby Boom Retirements are going to be wiped out. Many boomers will be homeless or living in their kids basement. Sad.
REMiNDER: I have…
— Robert Kiyosaki (@theRealKiyosaki) October 11, 2025
It's crazy to see both stocks and gold booming in the same decade
This has never happened before in modern times pic.twitter.com/0OR5M1RXPI
— Ben Carlson (@awealthofcs) October 8, 2025
I was wrong oklo is the perfect stock, no revenue, no product, hence no exposure to anything
— dalibali (@dalibali2) October 11, 2025
I'm closing my short on $IONQ and $RGTI – market makes no sense.
They will drop 90% but taking the L on this trade.
— Common Sense Investor (@commonsenseplay) October 13, 2025
What we die from vs what we hear in the news.
Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News. pic.twitter.com/cJG0POpa1N
— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) October 11, 2025
We just bumped up the max leverage from 20x to 50x on international perpetual futures.
A bunch of traders asked for this update. Let us know what else we can add! https://t.co/1YWMtJygBZ
— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) September 3, 2025
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