Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been taking courses and workshops to learn how to express "gratitude" to the convicted senile old felon geezer in the Outhouse. Many people and institutions - "free" and brave" Americans included - continue to climb down from their golden or ivory towers in fear and terror to pay their coerced respects to the dozy dick-tator.
Have you done your duty? Have you managed to send a letter, a text, a tweet, a phone call to the Outhouse for Thanksgiving to express your eternal gratitude for all the bountiful love that Dozy Don has been giving all of us lately?
Love in so many words for doing your job, like "stupid person", "quiet! piggy", "ugly inside and out", "terrible person", "seriously retarded", etc.; love in targeted killings of Caribbean fishermen in the open Caribbean Sea; love for a crashing economy on the verge of a recession due to his Dumb Majesty's tariffs; love for deploying the army against us on our streets while cowering to his powerful foreign and billionaire friends; love for deporting a Babson College student who was flying to spend Thanksgiving with her family; love for all the uncertainties we're all living through; love for increasing his and his family's wealth while we continue to sink in the cesspool he has created... So much love.
I think His Dumb Majesty is scoring big points with the "man upstairs", and believe it or not, his plans to earn the Nobel Peace Prize will be hastened by our very own personal Savior Jesus-Christ who sees all the good that His Dumb Majesty is doing on earth. In his own modesty, His Majesty doesn't think he'll make it to Heaven after he leaves this earth, but I disagree. I think His Majesty is negotiating with God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost on a deal to build Him an exclusive copy of Mar-a-Lago up there - to be named "Golden Paradise Trump Cloud" - where he can surround Himself with the guys (Hegseth, Patel, Rubio, Vance...) and gals (Leavitt, Noem, Bondi, ...) and also with fluttering angels like Jeffrey Epstein and his coterie of underage grils ... for eternity.
So much to be thankful for.
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A CIO says consumer sentiment has 'collapsed,' and US households are flashing a major warning sign
Consumer sentiment is in the dumps and sources say it's a signal worth watching.
Market pros say the Fed won't be able to ignore the red flags being raised by US households.
"Sentiment isn't wobbling at the edges or drifting lazily lower. It has collapsed," one CIO said.
Worsening consumer sentiment might be among the biggest red flags in the economy right now, according to one CIO.
It's hard to open a newspaper or turn on a TV without seeing an expert making grim predictions for why the US economy is teetering on the brink of recession. Top economists such as Mark Zandi have repeatedly emphasized that the US is on the brink, with just a few things holding back a downturn.
Even as delayed economic data is finally released and the economy moves on from the recent government shutdown, other experts say the data tells a grim story, particularly when it comes to the health of the consumers.
After the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment survey dropped to one the lowest levels ever earlier this month, the Conference Board on Tuesday showed similar results from its survey. It's confidence gauge fell to the lowest level since April, on a mix of inflation and labor market anxieties.
While few companies are hiring, many have opted to lay off significant chunks of their staff, leaving large groups without an income as the holiday season approaches. And according to multiple experts, confidence in the economy is reaching dangerously low levels.
"Consumer sentiment is at its lowest level ever," stated Mark Malik, CIO of Siebert Financial. "Sentiment isn't wobbling at the edges or drifting lazily lower. It has collapsed. It has broken through historical floors."
Siebert added that the Federal Reserve needs to start paying attention to this trend before things worsen. He noted that, monetary policy, which is intended to stabilize prices, is not working as intended.
"When consumer sentiment across all cohorts is flashing deep red, that is not nothing. It means households feel squeezed. It means the labor market doesn't feel as strong from the inside as the headline numbers suggest," Malik added.
Tie Lasater, CEO of Lasater Capital, also sees waning sentiment as a warning sign that markets and economists should be paying attention.
"Historically, sentiment alone doesn't cause recessions, but sharp, sustained collapses in confidence often precede or accompany economic slowdowns," Lasater said. "When households lose confidence, they shift into defense."
He added that when consumers adopt a defensive mindset, they scale back spending, negatively impacting businesses, and potentially spurring layoffs. The negative feedback loop reinforces the initial pessimism, pushing consumer sentiment down even further.
Noah Yosif, chief economist at the American Staffing Association who previously served at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, echoed the sentiments. He highlighted the concerning trend of employees at all levels exhibiting clear caution.
"Consumer sentiment is often a noisy predictor because feelings about the state of the economy vary substantially across different income levels and generations; so uniform pessimism across multiple demographics suggests a rare alignment of multiple economic pressures that cannot be dismissed as a temporary mood or isolated hardship," he stated.
Read the original article on Business Insider.
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Moody's Chief Economist Mark Zandi Warns Stock Market Downturn Could 'Knock the Wind Out of' the Wealthy and Trigger Recession
Fahad Saleem
Fri, November 28, 2025
An increasing number of company executives and economists have recently pointed to a widening gap in the economy, where the wealthy drive most economic activity and low-income Americans continue to struggle financially.
A potential stock market downturn could affect wealthier households and trigger a broader economic slowdown, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, recently told Bloomberg.
Zandi said high-income households are the "last pillars" of strength in the economy, and a stock market downturn would "knock the wind out of" them, raising the risk of a recession, according to Bloomberg.
The top 20% of earners in the U.S account for almost two-thirds of all spending, a record, Bloomberg said, citing data from Moody's. Before the pandemic, the bottom 80% made up nearly 42% of spending, but that share has fallen to 37%.
The U.S. economy could face a "big problem" if wealthy Americans become cautious in spending, Zandi said in a September post on X.
"The 20% of households that make more have done much better, and those in the top 3.3% of the distribution have done much, much, much better," Zandi wrote. "The U.S. economy is being largely powered by the well-to-do. As long as they keep spending, the economy should avoid recession."
Growing worries about an AI bubble and high tech stock valuations are raising concerns about a potential stock market downturn, which could affect wealthy households in the U.S., who hold the bulk of market investments.
The richest 20% of U.S. households own nearly 93% of all stocks, CNBC reported, citing data from New York University economics professor Edward Wolff.
"It's hard to overstate the significance of the soaring stock prices of artificial intelligence companies to the economy," Zandi said in a post on X earlier this month. "Spending by well-off Americans, driven by their surging stock portfolios, is the single most significant driver of growth."
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