Vanguard Total Market Index

25bps rate cut with more on the way! https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/fede...

President Donald Trump floated the idea Monday of companies no longer providing earnings report on a quarterly basis and switching to semiannual instead. Logistically, the move would not require support from Congress but rather just a majority vote on the SEC, where Republicans currently hold a 3-1 voting majority, with one open seat. If this goes through it will be the end of any semblance of trust in public companies. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/15/trump-advoc...

CBO predicts unemployment, inflation, and GDP growth will be worse this year than expected. Mostly comes down to - Trumps wild tariff policies - Immigration crackdowns - Increased government spending https://apnews.com/article/cbo-outlook-trad...

I have been seeing more and more headlines about the economy slowing down, stuff like people spending less and companies reporting weaker earnings. Really starting to feel like the air is coming out of the balloon, and I'm wondering how investors are playing this change in sentiment. Are you getting out of the risky high flying tech stocks? Or are you moving into something safer like broad market ETFs. Or just holding on for the ride? I'm thinking about WMT, since people will keep buying groceries no matter what happens with the rest of the economy. Seems like a pretty safe bet.

Core PCE (excluding energy and food) rose 2.9% YoY in July meeting expectations, and rose 0.5% MoM also meeting expectations. https://www.bea.gov/news/2025/personal-inco... As for food and energy? Well just don't worry about that ...

Commerce Secretary Lutnick suggests U.S. will take equity stakes in defense companies after Intel deal - Lockheed Martin, Boeing, etc. Completely absurd timeline - even socialists in America wouldn't be proposing this because it's so corrupt. Capitalism is being thrown out the window right before our eyes, and literally nobody is doing anything to stop it. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202...

Consumer prices rise less than expected in July, at "just" 2.7% This is with the impact of tariffs just now getting started, with most companies still trying to "absorb the impact" instead of passing the increase in prices along to consumers. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/12/cpi-inflati...

Figma files for IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, under ticker symbol FIG This comes after a $20 billion dollar acquisition by Adobe that failed due to regulatory pressure in the United Kingdom https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/figma-fig-f...

Trade talks with Canada are dead! :^) Must be time for some more market manipulation, before Taco Trump caves in sometime next week. The Taco is also alluding to doing the same thing with the European Union. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/powell-tells... Powell tells Congress Fed can wait on rate cuts - coming at a time when Trump continues to increase pressure to cut rates. Obviously the increases in tariffs are likely to continue pushing prices up higher and higher throughout the year, as companies can no longer "shield" customers from the higher cost of goods and lower margins due to the increased taxes.

Could we maybe not start World War 3 this weekend? Or is that too much to ask for.

U.S. & China deal is "done", according to DJT, "subject to final approval with president Xi and me". Let's see how long this one lasts.

Pour one out for 23 & Me, finally being delisted from the Nasdaq

Maybe we should just leave the market closed until January 21st, 2029.

Just announced 50% tariffs on the EU starting June 1st. Awesome.

GOP passes a House bill that torches clean energy subsidies years ahead of schedule, tanking solar stocks and flipping the bird to the planet on their way out. All to appease the usual band of fiscal arsonists who think saving money means killing any future that isn’t powered by coal and nostalgia.