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President Trump says all left over money from his $2,000 "tariff dividend" stimulus check will be used to pay down national debt.
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🏠 The 50-Year Mortgage: A Band-Aid on a Broken System
The new 50-year mortgage is being sold as a way to “make homeownership affordable again.” On paper, it sounds like relief for first-time buyers who are now hitting 40 before they can even think about buying. But the math and the reality tell a different story.
🟡 The Illusion of Savings
Take a $400,000 loan at 6%. Switching from a 30-year to a 50-year mortgage only cuts your monthly payment by about $166. That’s barely a dinner out. The tradeoff? You’ll end up paying over $860,000 in interest instead of $418,000, literally double the principal.
And lenders usually charge an extra 0.3–0.5% for the longer term, which eats up the savings entirely.
🟡 The Equity Trap
In the early years of a 50-year mortgage, nearly every dollar goes to interest. You build almost no equity while someone on a 30-year term is already gaining wealth and refinancing options. It’s like delaying your investment years, compounding works against you instead of for you.
🟡 The Real Problem Isn’t the Loan
The issue isn’t the mortgage length. It’s that home prices have detached from wages. The price-to-income ratio in the U.S. is around 5:1, when it used to be closer to 3:1.
Housing supply is tight, zoning laws are outdated, and institutional investors are buying up homes to rent them back at inflated prices. Stretching loans to 50 years doesn’t solve this - it just locks people into debt longer while ownership drifts further out of reach.
🟡 The Only Way It Makes Sense
The 50-year loan could make sense only if you use it tactically: take the lower payment now, then refinance later when rates drop or income rises. But that assumes discipline, stability, and good timing - three things most households can’t rely on in this market.
🟡 The American Dream Is Fading
The median age of first-time homebuyers tells the story:
1980 — 28 years old
1990 — 30
2000 — 31
2010 — 32
2024 — 38
2025 — 40
Each decade pushes the dream further out. The longer mortgage might look like a solution, but it’s really a mirror reflecting how far affordability has fallen.
The real fix isn’t a 50-year loan - it’s building more homes, reforming zoning, and making sure wages can actually catch up to the price of living.
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Discipline is doing it when you don’t feel like it.
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JUST IN: US stock market futures are rising in an initial reaction to $2,000 tariff "dividends" and reports that Congress is expected to pass a funding bill to reopen the US government.
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$TWT Long Update
Holding up well so far
Stop moved closer to entry, now just below the 1.155 low.
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JUST IN: President Trump has announced the introduction of 50-year mortgages in the US.
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You think you’re almost done learning.
Then psychology enters the room.
And you realize everything before was just warm up.
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JUST IN: President Trump has ordered the Department of Justice to immediately investigate meat packing companies accused of driving up beef prices.
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JUST IN: In September, global broad money supply rose 6.7% year-over-year to a record $142 trillion.
• This indicator spans 169 economies, encompassing 99% of global GDP.
• Year-to-date, the money supply has grown 9.1%, largely propelled by China and the US.
• Since 2000, global money supply has expanded substantially.
The rapid increase in global money supply may fuel economic growth expectations but heighten inflation worries, potentially pressuring central banks to adjust interest rates and influencing equity and commodity markets.
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JUST IN: US consumer sentiment has plummeted to its second-lowest level on record, now falling below the lows seen during the 2008 financial crisis.
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⚙️ The Trillion-Dollar AI Debt Bubble
The AI boom is being built on debt and most of it sits off the radar.
🟡 The Scale
By 2030, companies may need $3–8 trillion for AI data centers. That includes servers, infrastructure, and power. Traditional banks aren’t footing the bill. The money comes from private credit, insurance funds, pensions, and securitized deals that are hard to track. Just in September and October, $75 billion in AI-related debt hit the market.
🟡 How It Works
Meta’s deal with Blue Owl Capital is the model. Blue Owl owns the data center, Meta runs it — and because Meta doesn’t own over half, the $30B debt stays off its balance sheet. It’s the same accounting trick banks used with SPVs before 2008.
🟡 The Bet
All of this assumes AI delivers huge returns by 2028. If not, companies face massive liabilities tied to data centers that lose value fast. Chips age quickly, power grids lag behind, and every major tech firm — Oracle, Google, Amazon, Microsoft — is using similar structures with the same lenders. One failure could ripple through the entire private credit network.
🟡 The Risk
Regulators like the Bank of England are already warning about leverage piling up in shadow markets. The system’s stability now depends on one thing: AI making enough money to justify trillions in hidden debt.
If that payoff doesn’t come, this “AI revolution” could turn into the next financial mess.
💰 Apple Paying Google $1B/Year to Power Siri with Gemini AI
Apple finalizing deal to use Google’s 1.2T parameter Gemini model for Siri overhaul. Launch spring 2026.
🟡 Apple tested ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini before selecting Google
🟡 8x larger than current 150B parameter Apple Intelligence model
🟡 Handles summarizer/planner functions specifically
🟡 Runs on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute (data stays walled from Google)
🟡 Code-named “Linwood” internally
Apple positioning this as a temporary solution while building its own 1T parameter model.
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💣 Three Silent Account Killers
These habits don’t wipe your account in a day, they wear it down slowly. Every trader faces them at some point, but only a few learn to control them.
🟡 Overconfidence After Wins
A few good trades can trick you into thinking you’ve mastered the market. You start increasing position sizes, ignoring stops and taking trades outside your plan. Confidence turns into ego, and the market quickly reminds you who is in charge.
What to do:
After a winning streak, slow down instead of speeding up. Review your trades and figure out what actually worked. Was it your edge or just market conditions? Staying cautious after profits is what keeps them in your account.
🟡 Pattern Recognition Bias
When you want a setup too much, your brain starts seeing it everywhere. Every candle looks like an entry, every move feels like the start of something big. You stop waiting for confirmation and start chasing what you wish to see.
What to do:
Write down clear conditions for your entries. If even one factor is missing, skip the trade. Waiting feels boring, but it’s how you protect capital. Missing a trade costs nothing. Forcing one always costs something.
🟡 Attachment to Being Right
Many traders hold losers because closing means admitting a mistake. Pride gets in the way, and the loss grows. The market doesn’t care who is right. It only rewards those who react fast.
What to do:
Judge yourself by discipline, not by outcome. A small loss taken by plan is a good trade. Accept being wrong quickly, reset, and move on.
Trading is not about being perfect. It’s about staying in the game. Keep your ego small, your process clear, and your losses even smaller.
💸 Trump Brings Back Stimulus Checks — The “Tariff Dividend”
President Trump announced what he’s calling the “tariff dividend”, a payment of at least $2,000 per American, excluding high-income earners.
Over 85% of adults are expected to qualify, which means roughly $400–450 billion in direct cash will soon hit the economy.
🟡 Who Gets It
The plan mirrors the 2021 stimulus rules. Full payments would go to individuals earning under $75,000, heads of household under $112,500, and couples under $150,000. Around 220 million Americans fit that range, meaning almost everyone below the top 15% of earners will receive it.
🟡 Why It Matters
This move comes as US debt nears $40 trillion and markets trade near record highs. In 2021, similar stimulus checks turbocharged consumer spending but fueled the strongest inflation in decades. Now inflation is already ticking back up toward 3%, and this could push it higher again.
Trump says future tariff revenue will go toward paying down debt. But tariff income, around $30 billion per month, barely covers 10% of the current federal deficit. The math doesn’t balance, and the new spending wave risks widening the gap.
🟡 The Bigger Picture
The Fed has already started cutting rates again after years of tightening. Liquidity is rising, the economy is still expanding, and asset markets are hot. Layering in hundreds of billions in new cash could supercharge everything — from stocks and real estate to crypto.
🟡 What Comes Next
This is effectively the largest stimulus ever launched at market highs, not during a crisis. The S&P 500 is only a few percent below its all-time peak, tech investment is booming with $200B+ in quarterly AI spending, and household wealth is at record levels.
The macro setup is explosive: easier policy, more liquidity, and a fresh round of checks landing in consumer pockets. Whether it’s sustainable or not is another story, but for now, the message is clear.
Liquidity wins again. Own assets.
JUST IN: The median value of US consumers' stock market investments has exceeded $300,000 for the first time in history. This figure covers individual stocks, mutual funds, and retirement accounts such as 401(k)s or IRAs, and it has more than tripled since April 2020.
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President Trump announces that he will be paying a “tariff dividend” of at least $2,000 per person.
Stimulus checks are officially back.
Markets are about to perform like it’s helicopter money season again.
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The hardest part of trading isn’t losing.
It’s staying neutral after losing.
Because neutrality is power.
And power is the opposite of reaction.
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We chase wealth for freedom.
But the richest moments are the ones we already have.
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How Warren and Charlie would invest a small sum of money.
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Simplicity is the key to the charts.
Journaling is the key to improvement.
Trade management is the key to profits.
Discipline in rules is the key to consistency.
Focus on each of those, and put them all into one process.
Following that process is your key to trading.
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JUST IN: The Dow Jones Industrial Average has shifted into positive territory following a dramatic intraday reversal. Despite the surrounding volatility, the index remains just 3% from its all-time highs.
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💡 The Only Checklist You Need Before Taking a Trade
Most trading mistakes don’t come from bad charts. They come from skipping steps. This simple flowchart is one of the best reminders of how to trade with discipline instead of impulse.
🟡 Start With Your Plan
Before every trade, ask yourself: does this setup actually fit my trading plan? Not your mood, not your gut — your plan. If it doesn’t, that’s an instant pass. No trade is better than a forced one.
🟡 Confirm What You See
Be honest. Are you seeing your setup exactly as defined? The right market conditions, clean entry criteria, and playbook confirmation. If you’re squinting or convincing yourself, it’s not there.
🟡 Stick to Your Rules
Check your risk limits, the number of trades for the day, and how your recent performance looks. If you’ve already taken two losses, step back. Rules exist to protect you from emotional spirals.
🟡 Have an Exit Plan
Never enter without knowing how you’ll leave. That means stop loss, profit target, and exit conditions already mapped out. A trade without an exit is a hope, not a strategy.
🟡 If Everything Checks Out
When all the boxes are ticked, you’ve found an A+ trade. That’s when confidence matters — not from emotion, but from preparation.
Trading isn’t about constant action. It’s about waiting for moments where everything aligns and you can act with clarity, not fear.
⚡️ Tesla Shareholders Approve $1 Trillion Plan for Musk
Shareholders have voted in favor of Elon Musk’s record compensation package tied to Tesla’s next decade of growth.
🟡 Musk now has 12 goals ahead, the biggest - reaching an $8.5 trillion market cap from today’s $1.5T
🟡 For each milestone he hits, he’ll receive Tesla shares worth up to $1 trillion in total
🟡 Tesla spent two months convincing investors, even launching a rare TV campaign
🟡 Musk warned he could step away without stronger control over Tesla’s future projects
If the plan succeeds, his stake will rise from 15% to 25%, locking in both influence and vision.
The message from shareholders is clear — keep building, and make it happen.
JUST IN: Job postings on Indeed declined 6.4% year-over-year in the week ending October 31, hitting the lowest level since February 2021.
• Postings have fallen 36.9% from the April 2022 peak.
• Available vacancies now stand just 1.7% above pre-pandemic levels.
This softening in job postings suggests a cooling labor market, which could bolster expectations for interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve and temper optimistic market sentiment toward economic growth.
📉 Equities Take a Hit as Shutdown Drags On
Markets had a rough session with weak jobs data, negative shutdown headlines, no AI capex boost, and more hawkish Fed talk weighing on sentiment.
🟡 Challenger job cuts came in ugly, signaling labor weakness
🟡 Shutdown odds remain the key driver — prediction markets see a 43% chance of resolution by Nov 15 and 91% by month-end
🟡 Fed rhetoric stayed firm, keeping pressure on risk assets
Analysts expect the government shutdown to end by late next week, but until that happens, volatility will stay high and equities will struggle to find direction.