Ok guys.. I gotta knock off early, my nephew graduated high school today and is having a party, so you're on your own to the bell. Gonna be another hot one. But should be a great weekend. Enjoy!

The Gov has done more for, and allocated more resources to Florida's Environmental causes than all his predecessors combined.
The left blowing a gasket because he won't play their word games makes this an even bigger win.

This is one of the coolest parts of Florida.. When we have invasive species like Lionfish, Iguanas, and Pythons..
They encourage people to go hunt them.
Go kill a snake, lionfish, or iguana this weekend.
I love this place.🤣

We already pay for broward hospitals..
Broward County Board of County Commissioners commissioner Bogen wants to add $10 Million of our money for his middle aged male heart test..
Our county is supposed to worry about buildings and stop signs..
Remember the last time they tried to impose medical care?

Another week, another billion dollars gone. Now $169 Billion. It's a good thing we don't charge jerome interest on the money he owes us huh?
Try going to your bank and asking them for $170 Billion interest free loan..

Walmart also sells ozempic..

Walmart is already in fiscal 2025.. They are trying pretty hard (and succeeding) to compete with amazon.
Online, and higher income households driving most of their gains..

Walmart posted earnings yesterday.. They traditionally do better as the economy becomes more difficult. They're seeing more affluent shoppers.
The consumer is not happy.

In the old days,
companies would do well, it would show in their earnings, and the stock price would go up.
If this happened to enough companies, markets would rise.
Now, markets favor economic weakness because this means more government support (printed money)
See the problem?

There are lots of charts on inflation adjusted market prices.. Of course you have to buy stocks when they pump this much money into the system.. The problem is not everyone can afford to buy stocks, and the collapse when the music stops is usually epic.

The stock market is generally a lousy gauge of the economy, but when you increase the money supply by 35% guess what happens?

Stocks are priced in nominal dollars and have always been an inflation hedge.

Lots of tech companies moving to South Florida for just this reason.

California has yet to surpass 2019 tourism levels.
They're hoping to do that next year.
Florida just broke the Q1 record from a record breaking 2023, which broke the record from 2022.

'What is being celebrated with the red white and blue display?'
This person actually gets paid to write...🤦‍♂️

The Dow Jones just hit 40,000.
Your reminder that we turned over the economy to the biggest companies in the world in 2020, and never helped the smaller ones catch up...

What an awesome piece of legislation signed by the Gov yesterday.
Joe is big on closing power plants long before their service life. Not here.
It also prohibits offshore bird macerators.. Thank God.
This is the way.

Prior to covid, used car prices were actually slightly lower than they were 20 years ago, with stable prices.
Today, they're still 36% above the 20-year pre-covid average..
we lost cars in 2020.

The 'soft' inflation report was driven by a drop in used car prices. This would lead you to believe used car prices are cheap.. sorry.

Once inflation becomes entrenched, like now. It moves around.
Transportation Services is a relatively small part of the inflation equation, but really driving prices.
Anything associated with cars rapidly becoming unaffordable. Especially insurance and parking.