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Make America Great Again? Not if Trump and ClownCom can help it! – The FME Q4 2026 Forecast, Part 1

Make America Great Again? Not if Trump and ClownCom can help it! – The FME Q4 2026 Forecast, Part 1

Greetings my fellow Flea Marketeers. My what a last few months! So much drama, so much noise, and the impossibility of knowing which way the current events and winds of war are blowing. It seems that there is nothing like a fresh war to spook consumer sentiment, whether that be at your favorite, local Main Street small business, Southern California vintage flea markets or investor sentiment on the stock/futures markets as demonstrated by it’s mid level volatility, most notably since…

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The Q3/Q4 Forecast, Pt. 3 – The Fed Interest Rate Wealth Effect, Housing Un-Affordability, Using A.I. to Manage MAGA Mutiny/Society

The Q3/Q4 Forecast, Pt. 3 – The Fed Interest Rate Wealth Effect, Housing Un-Affordability, Using A.I. to Manage MAGA Mutiny/Society

Welcome ladies, gents and fellow flea marketeers to the final Part 3 of my Q3 2025 Flea Market Forecast. Today’s hot topics – Trump’s attempt to fk the Main Street’s Certificate of Deposit Wealth Effect by bullying the Federal Reserve, Trump’s Operation Warp Speed enabled adventure into all things Thiel’d A.I., the impending Single Family Home/Real Estate reset now underway, and SOOOO Much More!! But first, a quick recap of recent media fear inducing events that didn’t quite happen –…

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Pushing Back on the War On Cash

Pushing Back on the War On Cash

I’ll admit, I’m often fond of impatiently shouting out from the back of a slow moving line to a store cashier who is patiently trying to help a customer with a problem credit card… “hey, do you still take cash?” Heh heh heh. Head’s turn. The person holding up the line gets embarrassed. Yes, sometimes ya gotta be the smart ass to make the point. And despite PayPal’s CEO, Dan Schulman insisting, “the real war is the war on cash”,…

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