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November 3, 2025 49 mins
  • A look at social security in the US.
    • It will be insolvent within ten years in large part because deductions from payroll to pay for social security are consumed rather than invested.
  • Krispy Kreme is experiencing consumer demand that is softer than their donuts.
    • And a look back.
  • Sales for Gucci and Yves St. Laurent are less bad.
    • And they sign a new deal with L’Oreal.
  • L’Oreal continues to grow its like-for-like sales.
    • And has been a solid long-term investment.
  • Nestle announces thousands of layoffs.
    • And their coffee sales pale in comparison to Fed money printing.
  • Over the last five years Coca-Cola has increased prices over 50%.
    • Unsurprisingly, concentrate sales are falling.
  • Target also announced layoffs.
    • Sales of essentials are falling while their largest category, food, is just above water.
  • In Financial Ructions:
    • US business bankruptcy filings are now above pre-COVID levels.
    • Auto loans and mortgages moving into serious delinquency are rising.
      • While credit card delinquencies remain at an elevated level.
    • A look at the impact investors have on home prices in the US.
      • And the percentage of homes bought by first-time home buyers is at a historic low.
    • A quick look at how baby boomers have benefited from the system.
      • And who is being told to pay for it.
  • We start a new book in our book review section.
    • Where Keynes Went Wrong: And Why World Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles and Busts by Hunter Lewis: 2009
      • Keynes’s economic doctrine was highly influenced by his ideology.
        • That is, economics as he wanted it to be rather than what it actually is.
      • And economists are no longer “custodians of the future.”


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