The M7 now accounts for more than a third of the entire S&P 500 and Nvidia has a share price to earnings ratio of 54; investors would normally begin to twitch at a ratio of 25. Microsoft and Apple both passed $4tn valuation on Tuesday, joining Nvidia as the only companies to pass that threshold, though Apple later eased back just below.

Earlier this month, Carson Block, founder of the short seller Muddy Waters, told the Financial Times: “Cycles have become so long and the corrections so short, that the demand for traditional short selling is just not there.”

Block said investors were confident, and ballsy, rallying around battle cries such as BTFD, or “buy the fucking dip”.

On 3 April, while the S&P 500 dived by almost 5% the day after Trump announced his “liberation day” tariffs, retail investors pushed more than $3bn into US stocks, according to Vanda Research – the largest daily injection of cash since the market analyst began keeping a tally in 2014.

The phenomenon is leading to more interest in the “inelastic markets hypothesis”, proposed in 2021 by the economists Xavier Gabaix and Ralph Koijen, of the US thinktank the National Bureau of Economic Research, which argues that share prices can be pushed up by an increase in the amount of money available to invest.

The theory goes that prices are rising not because of the prospects and profitability of the M7 and other popular assets, but because of the wall of money being pushed into the markets by amateur speculators. The trend has been compounded by an increase in low-cost passive investments by pension schemes and fund managers, which channel savings into an ever-smaller group of the fastest growing stocks.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/28/amateur-investors-riding-out-dips-ai-bubble-stomach-steel

> 10/26/2025
Putin up to no good…
> Top Headlines
Flashback: Trump wants Venezuelan oil! (Red Text)
> https://x.com/davenewworld_2/status/1958241885128130831
Warships aren’t in Venezuela to fight drugs…
> https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/10/24/the-us-warships-off-venezuela-arent-there-to-fight-drugs

> Main Headlines
Putin tests the ‘Skyfall’ Nuke Missile…
> https://www.the-sun.com/news/15398217
A ‘Flying Chernobyl’!
> https://www.express.co.uk/news/2126103
Explosions rock Moscow!
> https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/explosions-shake-moscow-streets-as-drones-1761513740.html

> More News
Miley’s Party winning big in Argentina!
> https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/mileis-party-on-track-to-win-argentina-election-in-big-comeback.phtml
Republicans move to revoke Mamdani’s citizenship and I assume kick him out…
> https://nypost.com/2025/10/25/us-news/house-republicans-push-to-denaturalize-mamdani-over-citizenship-form/
Maduro warns Trump…
> https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c891gzx7xn4o
Repeat: Colombian president ‘will not kneel’ to Trump tariff threat.
> https://www.barrons.com/news/we-do-not-kneel-colombian-president-defiant-in-response-to-us-sanctions-2670d3e5
2 arrested over theft of stolen jewels at the Louvre.
> https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2em38pdv0do
UFO-like craft seen at secret US test base and shooting off full laser!
> https://www.the-sun.com/news/15390497
Joy woman Kamala Harris says she’s not done yet with being president…
> https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/kamala-harris-gives-strongest-indication-yet-she-may-run-again-for-president-i-am-not-done/

4 more tears.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/23/frustrations-boil-over-as-vance-delivers-firm-message-to-netanyahu-00621213

Trump says declaration of war not needed on drug cartels

https://youtu.be/Q__bSi5rBlw?si=UesBWG7mKiiudNF3

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-declaration-war-not-needed-drug-cartels-2025-10-23/

"Well, I don't think we're going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. OK? We're going to kill them,"

WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his administration plans to brief the U.S. Congress on operations against drug cartels and that even though he did not need a declaration of war, operations against cartels on land would be next.
The U.S. military has been increasing its presence in the Caribbean, including deployments of guided-missile destroyers, F-35 fighter jets, a nuclear submarine and thousands of troops.

The United States has carried out a number of strikes against suspected drug vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean since early September, killing nearly 40 people. While the Pentagon has provided little information, it has said some of those strikes have been against vessels near Venezuela.
"Now they (drugs) are coming in by land ... you know, the land is going to be next," Trump added, echoing comments he has made in recent weeks.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, speaking at a live event in Caracas on Thursday, warned that if the U.S. ever intervened in the country, "the working class would rise and a general insurrectional strike would be declared in the streets until power is regained," adding that "millions of men and women with rifles would march across the country."

Republicans are trying to feed the country during the Schumer Shutdown. Heartless Democrats are expected to vote against it and let the American public starve to death or force them into food riots
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5572105-snap-funding-government-shutdown/
Bill to fund SNAP in shutdown introduced in House

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) on Friday introduced a bill to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as the government shutdown threatens payments of the food aid in some states.

The Keep SNAP Funded Act of 2025 would keep the food aid program funded during the government lapse until the Department of Agriculture is funded through regular appropriations or stopgap measures.

The bill is the companion to a SNAP-funding bill in the Senate being led by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), which Senate Republicans are reportedly considering for a floor vote. Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) is a co-sponsor of the House bill.

SNAP benefits are funded by the federal government while states operate and share the cost of administering the program and distributing the benefits. Since funding is sent to states monthly, October benefits were not impacted — but November payments could be at risk. The Department of Agriculture has warned there will be insufficient funds to pay full SNAP benefits in November if the shutdown continues.

“More than 262,000 Iowans, including over 100,000 children rely on SNAP to put food on the table. They cannot afford to be ‘leverage’ in the Democrats’ political games. That’s why I’m introducing legislation to ensure SNAP remains funded throughout the shutdown. Access to food is not negotiable,” Miller-Meeks said in a statement.

Senate Democrats have repeatedly blocked a House-passed, GOP-crafted “clean” stopgap to fund the government through Nov. 21 as they demand that Republicans negotiate on health care issues like enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits.

Fresh off of a humiliating collapse of his much touted ceasefire in Gaza and in the third week of a government shutdown caused by his inability to negotiate with Senate Democrats, Donald Trump, self described master negotiator, can now add the implosion of talks with Russia to end the Ukraine war he had hyped last week to his list of recent diplomatic failures.
Were these not matters of national and international stability with millions of lives on the line, one could be excused for feeling a knee jerk desire to laugh at the embarrassing display of chronic incompetence presented by Donald Trump on a daily basis

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/21/trump-putin-summit-uncertain-00616500

President Donald Trump’s second summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin is off.

The White House said Tuesday that the planned meeting in Budapest, announced by Trump just last week after his two-hour phone call with Putin, was no longer in the works after Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke Monday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

“Secretary Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov had a productive call,” said a White House official granted anonymity to discuss the plans. “Therefore, an additional in-person meeting between the Secretary and Foreign Minister is not necessary, and there are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future.”

The rapid dissolution of plans for another summit between Trump and Putin just two months after they met in Alaska stemmed again from Russia’s refusal to budge from its maximalist positions on what it would take for it to halt its war in Ukraine.

In a press conference in Moscow Tuesday, Lavrov said he informed Rubio that Russia’s position — that a peace agreement must come before a ceasefire in its war with Ukraine — has not changed. And he said he was surprised by a CNN report about disagreement during the call over Russia’s “maximalist” demands.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m46lriuee42d

What a pack of retards

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/25/trump-2028-steve-bannon-comments/86897789007/

WASHINGTON – MAGA podcaster and former West Wing aide Steve Bannon suggested in a recent interview that a plan exists for President Donald Trump to attempt to defy the Constitution and seek a third term in office in 2028.

"Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people just ought to get accommodated with that," he told The Economist on Oct. 23.

Though Bannon, who served a four-month stint in prison last year and has pleaded guilty to separate fraud charges, isn't empowered in the White House like he was during Trump's first term, he indicated there are "many different alternatives" for keeping his former boss in the presidency.

"At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is," Bannon said. "But there is a plan."

Trump has toyed publicly with the idea on many occasions since he won reelection in 2024, despite the fact that the 22nd Amendment forbids a president from seeking office for more than two four-year terms, regardless of whether they were consecutive.

https://www.wect.com/2025/10/25/13-people-shot-2-dead-according-deputies-after-shooting-robeson-county/

ROBESON CO., N.C. (WECT) - Officials with the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office confirm 13 people have been shot and at least two people are dead following a shooting.

Officials posted the information in a Facebook post saying it happened during a large party just outside of Maxton.

Deputies say there is no current threat to the community and it appears to have been an isolated incident.

The post says more than 150 of people ran from the location before law enforcement arrived. They’re asking anyone with information or anyone who was at the scene when it happened, to make contact with Sheriff’s Investigators by calling 910-671-3100 or email [email protected].