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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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100 most recent posts by WendyBG✶x2☼Shrewdness 6
  Author Board Recs Date
CFTC and crypto currencies
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks210/05/26
Re: Control Panel: Tweaking Inflation Stats
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks-10/05/26
Control Panel: Tweaking Inflation Stats
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks710/04/26
Autonomous AIs conspire together
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks709/28/26
Control Panel: Bond yields climb
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks709/27/26
Already discussing TBTF AI
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks409/26/26
Anthropic IPO and AI stock bubble
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks509/26/26
Re: The railroad / data center comparison
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks309/25/26
Control Panel: r* vs. Impulse at the Fed
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks809/20/26
What happens to SPX when 1973 X 2000?
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks409/11/26
Will this post?
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks-09/11/26
Control Panel: Labor Day weekend
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1009/06/26
Undermining the AI business case
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1309/05/26
Personalized cancer therapy
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks809/04/26
Blocking the Red Sea to oil shipments
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1309/01/26
Re: MCT inflation
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks308/30/26
Control Panel: Warsh, Bessent, interest rates
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks608/30/26
Hedge funds swing Treasury market
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1408/28/26
Bond yields, inflation and markets
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks708/28/26
Beware of AI debt
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks108/26/26
Re: Half
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks508/25/26
Totally OT: My new historical novel
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1408/25/26
Bond yields are returning to normal
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks708/19/26
Control Panel: Central banks add moral hazard
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks708/16/26
The REAL Northwest Passage
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1308/15/26
GSEs backing Shadow Bank mortgages
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks908/14/26
AI to automate administrative tasks in health care
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks208/12/26
How debt drove market multiples
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks608/11/26
Good news for LLY - Mounjaro
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks408/11/26
More AI debt binge - Private credit hat in the rin
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks508/11/26
Private credit clamping down on PIK loans
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks908/11/26
Private equity, private credit - problems
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1408/10/26
Control Panel: Blockbuster earnings, record SPX
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1008/09/26
Re: Enshittification of AI
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks108/07/26
Personal account security
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1408/07/26
AI distillation: a new career path?
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks708/05/26
Control Panel: The real economy without AI
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1208/02/26
The bond traders
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1208/01/26
Re: The fed funds rate
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks208/01/26
Re: The fed funds rate
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks208/01/26
Re: The fed funds rate
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks607/31/26
The fed funds rate
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks607/29/26
Ai fun with spreadsheets
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1307/29/26
Can markets play the ball not the fed
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks807/28/26
Re: Cheap AI for most
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks107/26/26
Control Panel: Bubble inflated by debt
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks707/26/26
Cheap AI for most
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks907/25/26
Tech stock wipeout
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks407/24/26
China targets world with open-source AI
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks607/23/26
Bubble Collapse leading indicators
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1107/21/26
A Thriftier Paradigm for AI
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1207/20/26
Bubble-popping jargon - don’t-cha love it?
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks407/17/26
What if AI was free?
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks307/17/26
How to exempt capital gains from tax
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks507/17/26
Re: Beware the “E” in the P/E ratio fine print
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks507/16/26
Beware the “E” in the P/E ratio fine print
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks507/13/26
Control Panel: Investing during global crises
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks607/12/26
OT? Protect from solar coronal mass ejection_QM
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks507/11/26
Re: Trend change: U.S. economic policy
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks307/08/26
Trend change: U.S. economic policy
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks407/07/26
Control Panel: Happy 250th U.S.!
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks307/05/26
Robotics conference - humanoid vs. not
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks507/05/26
Totally OT: Your ticket to Octopus Vaudeville
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks107/03/26
Re: Poster child=one of Wendy's concerns??
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks307/02/26
Market house of cards based on debt
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks706/29/26
Totally OT: More Octopus Vaudeville
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks206/28/26
Control Panel: Rest and digest
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1106/28/26
Re: Big data: shingles vaccine lowers dementia risk
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks806/26/26
PCE Inflation is rising along with CPI
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks106/25/26
Totally OT: Octopus Vaudeville
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks406/24/26
Re: 5 Core Principles from Treasury Secretary
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks-06/24/26
5 Core Principles from Treasury Secretary
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks806/24/26
Chinese supercomputer fasted with CPUs
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1106/23/26
End of the "Greenspan Put"?
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks506/22/26
Re: About that college degree
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks206/22/26
Re: Big data: shingles vaccine lowers dementia risk
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks306/22/26
Re: Big data: shingles vaccine lowers dementia risk
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks606/21/26
Control Panel: New FOMC Committees
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks806/21/26
Big data: shingles vaccine lowers dementia risk
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks906/20/26
America's economic anxiety
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks906/20/26
Is your home device a channel for cyberattacks?
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks106/15/26
Control Panel: SpaceX! and inflation
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks806/14/26
Re: Debt? When? --There's the rub
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks-06/11/26
Re: Debt? When? --There's the rub
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks506/11/26
"Tokenized" private companies
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks606/11/26
Re: Halloween & bijoux
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks206/09/26
Funding the AI Bonanza
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks506/09/26
Control Panel: Warm spring weather
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks506/07/26
Strong employment report May 2026
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks406/05/26
AI and electric power
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks506/03/26
Control Panel: Kevin Warsh & inflation
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1405/31/26
Car importing rules?
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks205/29/26
Corporate bonds and stocks - both priced for perfe
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks605/26/26
Re: Control Panel: Kevin Warsh, Defining Deviancy
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks405/26/26
Control Panel: Kevin Warsh, Defining Deviancy
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks705/24/26
Control Panel: Federal Debt > GDP
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1005/17/26
Control Panel: Inflation! & the natural rate
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1505/12/26
Control Panel: The bottom and the top
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1305/03/26
OT: New Passport, Big Surprise!
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks1304/30/26
Federal Reserve, Powell, Warsh
WendyBGMacroeconomic Trends & Risks804/30/26

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