-911 fewer jobs created, even if they weren't destroyed, still suggests the economy isn't as robust as everyone seems to think. WFC said balances were lower than *pre-pandemic*, not covid. Smal but important distinction. I'm well aware that banks tend to front-run their statements, and I often trade against them when they say to be bullish something or bearish something else. > No it isn't. You are misinterpreting the data. Last month we had a massive 0.7% MoM print. When combining both July and August it implies an annualized producer inflation rate of 7.4%. Okay, conceded. > Do you have evidence corporations are inflating their numbers on a wide scale? Actual cash flows are increasing. Moreover the incomes I stated are individual incomes, not corporate. I don't have the evidence on hand but if you really want I can go try to dig it back up. NVDA is doing funny stuff with their books reports, iirc it's something like double-charging their expenditures to make their AI spend look even more exciting than it really is. TSLA is completely fraudulent. And literally just now overnight ORCL claimed [they would double their sales revenue annually for the next several years.](https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/800px-Itanium_Sales_Forecasts_edit-630x428.png) I don't think companies like WMT or TGT are inflating their numbers but they've been saying for awhile now that there's only so much they can do to soak the impact of tariffs. They're also a much smaller portion of the market compared to the wildly inflated bubble companies like mentioned in the previous paragraph. What possibly justifies the insane run STX is on? ANF looked similarly invincible in Summer 2024 before an over 50% correction.

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