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Update: 2025-05-09
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Standout this past week was Disney (0:20 ). Internet commerce earnings (2:30 ). Upcoming earnings from Walmart (5:50 ) Fed's strange communication (8:00 ). Bond market update (13:25 ).

Episode transcripts: seekingalpha.com/wsb

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AppLovin outlines Q2 2025 with strategic focus on AI and e-commerce advancements
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Trump suggests cutting China tariffs to 80%

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Bob

The fed through Powell and his predacessors have increasingly painted themselves into a corner of irrelevance as they have enabled irresponsible politicians to squander the national treasure at will in return for nothing and most recently perpetuating the myth that ZIRP was a real thing that the pols and public could count on. Good luck as the long end of the monster yield curve you have created turns on you to finally consume you. Oh yes, and this inflation you created is transitory...

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