Bubble warnings and a claimed $1 trillion selloff lead Markets chatter on X

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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 $1 trillion wiped out from the US stock market today. https://t.co/9nyz3s6VVr

Isn’t Bessent worth like hundreds of millions of dollars because of his work on Wall Street hedge funds and shit? Now that’s he’s left Wall Street after making infinity money he is saying the stock market is bad? When did he work on Main Street?

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Let me get this straight.. the S&P 500 just hit $69.7 trillion in market cap.. the entire US economy.. every job.. every factory.. every paycheck in America.. is worth $32.4 trillion.. so the stock market is worth more than TWICE the country that supposedly produces it.. let me say that again.. top 10 stocks alone are worth $29 trillion.. that's almost the entire GDP of the United States sitting in ten companies.. and the richest 10% of Americans own 87% of all that stock wealth.. your paycheck didn't grow 215% this year.. your rent didn't drop.. your job isn't worth more.. but the number on the screen just broke every record that's ever existed.. they call this "the best economy in history".. best for who. I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications right now.

New Numbers Show Just How Badly Trump Wrecked the Economy Inflation and gas prices are up — and they're not coming down anytime soon. https://t.co/bUqwnG5m54

Q: Are you concerned about the latest inflation number? Trump: No, I love it. The numbers were great. I love the inflation. https://t.co/7ELkdGjLuZ

I don't think you understand how truly fucked we are... Imagine 2008 but 10x the leverage, a housing bubble, a commercial real estate bubble, a private credit bubble and a stock market bubble. All at the same time... We are in 1929. https://t.co/eur5Inmwdh

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A fun game in times like these is to go to the S&P 500 Index and see how many profitable companies one can buy with the bubble private company valuation. The number that Anthropic’s valuation buys is 78, including Domino’s, Clorox, Smucker, Stanley Black & Decker, Deckers, lululemon, McCormick, Tractor Supply, NVR, Albemarle, FedEx Freight, News Corp, Alllian Energy, Kimco Realty, Hormel Foods, Clorox, Weyerhauser, DaVita, Zimmer Biomet, Lennox, Masco, A.O. Smith, MGM, Wynn, Brown-Forman, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Hungtington Ingalls, and many more. The largest inflation adjusted valuation at pre-IPO of 1990-2000 was UPS at $119 billion, 92 years old at the time. That was 26 times earnings at a net margin of about 8.6%, 2.4x sales.

This 1952 New York Stock Exchange cartoon explains how the stock market works. [full video, New York Stock Exchange, 1952] https://t.co/sZ8NOnHVDi

By early 2000, 70-80% of stocks were in bear markets, and the indices continued to move higher. I have a word for that. Denial.

Q: Did you discuss the inflation report today with Kevin Warsh? Trump: Yeah. We’re doing well. We inherited a terrible inflation from Biden. (Inflation was 3% when Biden left office. It's now 3.7%) https://t.co/HM9Hp1f6mv

S&P 500 now has the highest number of stocks with a negative beta in history 🚨 This means that individual stocks are doing the opposite of what the index is doing at the highest ever seen 👀 https://t.co/bFOR17ZcO0