TheParanoidSheep

Macroeconomist

Following world events, doing research suggested by @JungleRockRes

[TheParanoidSheep @Machukan]

@saylordocs Own or have a mortgage?

[Owen @Owennfa]

My sister has been saving for a house down payment for 6 years.

$500 a month. Every month. No exceptions.

She skipped vacations. Drove the same car for a decade. Packed lunch every single day.

Last month she finally hit $60,000.

She called me excited. Ready to start looking.

Then her realtor sent her the numbers.

Average home in her area: $520,000.

She needs $104,000 for 20% down to avoid PMI.

She's $44,000 short. After 6 years of sacrifice.

She asked me what she did wrong.

Nothing. She did everything right.

The finish line just moved faster than she could run.

She's 34. Single. No kids. Good job. Perfect credit.

And she's still not enough for a system that keeps adjusting the rules mid-game.

[Trade With Congress @tradewithcong]

Top aura holders in the politician trading game

I. Nancy Pelosi
Other politicians pile into the same stocks she buys

II. Ro Khanna
Bought $SNDK (SanDisk) at $42. Now it's trading at $1,618

III. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Last year, she bought a small-cap stock called $ICHR (Ichor Holdings). She recently locked in a ~636% gain

IV. Byron Donalds
Bought the dip on a stock nobody wanted ($PYPL - PayPal). Like magic, it jumped ~24%

[Aisar @aisarcore]

A Detroit woman deposited $50 into BetMGM and turned it into $3.3 MILLION over six days. The casino paid her $100,000, congratulated her, then suspended her account and kept the rest. She spent four years fighting through every court in Michigan just to get her day in court. She still does not have the money.

– Jacqueline Davis deposited $50 into her BetMGM account on March 18 2021 and started playing a game called Luck O' the Roulette.

– Her first bet was $4.50. She lost it.

– She kept playing and over the next six days the Michigan Supreme Court later described what happened as "a heater of epic magnitude."

– As her winnings grew she pressed her bets higher.

– By March 23 she was wagering $5,000 per spin.

– Her account balance reached $3,289,500.75.

– She requested a $100,000 withdrawal.

– BetMGM approved it by email. A VIP host called to discuss transferring such a large amount off the platform. They congratulated her on her winnings.

– The next day her account was suspended for unusual activity.

– BetMGM's investigation found a software malfunction had started on her 28th play.

– Win amounts were being multiplied when transferred from the game screen to her wallet.

– They said her account should have read zero by play 368. They removed the game from Michigan entirely.

– Davis sued for fraud and breach of contract.

– The Wayne Circuit Court dismissed her case.

– The Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal. Both courts said Michigan gaming law gave the regulator exclusive jurisdiction over such disputes.

– The Michigan Gaming Control Board investigated.

– They found BetMGM had violated rules by failing to report the malfunction promptly and not cooperating fully with the investigation. Took no disciplinary action anyway.

– Davis appealed all the way to the Michigan Supreme Court.

– On July 22 2025 all seven justices ruled unanimously she has the right to take BetMGM to trial. The case was sent back to Wayne Circuit Court.

– That trial has not happened yet. It is now 2026 and she is still waiting.

– BetMGM has not commented.

A woman turned $50 into $3.3 MILLION, was congratulated by the casino's VIP team, had her account frozen the next day, lost in two courts, won at the Supreme Court, and is still waiting for a trial five years later.

[TheParanoidSheep @Machukan]

@VolatilityQ Our condolences during this hard time.

My wife told me that she saw the funeral on Instagram.

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

Rare chance to buy Google below Pelosi's entry 👀

3 politicians bought $GOOGL this year and haven't sold:

• Nancy Pelosi (D)
• Cleo Fields (D)
• Ro Khanna (D)

Pelosi alone put up to $1,000,000 in on Jan 16 at ~$330

And here's where it gets more interesting

Khanna is the Ranking Member of the Armed Services Cyber Subcommittee, which authorizes funding for active Pentagon contracts held by Google Cloud

[Trade With Congress @tradewithcong]

Remember the name ✍

Rep. Ro Khanna ...

He bought $SNDK 11.5 months ago

He's already up ~3,638%

And that's even after SanDisk crashed ~31% from its ATHs

[Just a Dude Who Invests @DudeWhoInvests]

Financial advisors putting your money in an index fund for you

[TheParanoidSheep @Machukan]

Piemirsu Jums atbildēt.

Uzrakstīju epastu 16.07. un atnāca automatiskā atbilde, ka saņemts un atbilde būs likumā noteiktajā termiņā.

Es ieteiktu atbildē norādīt dienas. Jo man nav ne jausmas kāda ir šī likumā noteiktā kārtība un bija jāmeklē atbilde. Atradu, ka laikam divas nedēļas.

[TheParanoidSheep @Machukan]

@LatvijasBanka @martinskazaks Cik ātri atzvana Jūsu uzziņu tālrunis?

Šodien 12:00-13:00 zvanīju divas reizes, nogaidot piecas minūtes. Atstāju balss ziņu, lūdzot atzvanīt.

Darba diena cauri, noskaidrot nepieciešamo par mantojumu lietām (nelaiķu kontiem bankās) nav izdevies.

[Insiderwave @insiderwave_]

🚨BREAKING

This might be the craziest congress trade we’ve ever seen.

Congressman Dan Crenshaw just disclosed up to $120k worth of new trades.

Selling his shares in U.S. companies like $GOOG , $AAPL , $FAS , $AMZN and $META

While also betting on oil to go up using a 3x leverage ETF.

The trades were made in June 1st during the war and ceasefire talks with Iran.

Crenshaw is a chairman on the Defense Intelligence Subcommittee.

He was betting on the U.S. stock market to go down and oil to go up while having one of the most classified positions in Congress.

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

Breaking: President Trump's longtime teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump's speeches, per ABC

Having final eyes on his scripts since 2016, Trump's prompter, Gabriel Perez, bailed on bets mid-speech whenever Trump went off-script

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

Breaking: Nvidia was banned from selling AI chips to China and President Trump was buying $NVDA before he reversed it

On January 6th, his account bought up to $1M of the stock

Just 7 days later, his administration lifted the H200 chip ban and approved Nvidia to sell to China

That wasn't the end of it

On February 10th, his account bought up to $5M more

Fast forward to May: Trump personally called Nvidia's CEO and flew him on Air Force One to Beijing

On that same trip, his administration approved 10 Chinese companies to start buying Nvidia chips

He held up to $5M of $NVDA the entire time

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

Despite bad earnings, pay attention to IBM 👀

4 politicians have bought IBM this year and didn't sell:

• Ro Khanna (D)
• Julia Letlow (R)
• Lloyd Doggett (D)
• Maria Elvira Salazar (R)

Khanna alone has bought it 8 times in 2026

And on May 21, the Trump administration announced a $1,000,000,000 CHIPS Act award to IBM for a quantum computing foundry

Salazar bought $IBM twice that same day

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

These 3 invested in the same stock, pay attention ✍️

3 of Congress's most active stock traders own $UNH right now

And none of them have sold this year:

• Josh Gottheimer (D)
• Gilbert Cisneros (D)
• John Boozman (R)

Cisneros is the #3 most active trader in Congress, Boozman is #5, and Gottheimer has disclosed $347M in trades since 2017

What's interesting is all three also bought Exxon $XOM together in January and February

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

Add another name to the list ✍️

On June 12th, Rep. John James (R) bought $SPCX

That brings the total to 4 politicians who have bought since IPO:

• Gil Cisneros (D)
• Dan Meuser (R)
• John McGuire (R)
• John James (R)

James sits on the Energy & Commerce Committee, more specifically its Communications & Technology Subcommittee

That same panel oversees the FCC, the same agency that licenses Starlink to operate

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

Breaking: A politician sitting on the House Armed Services Committee bought stock in a major defense contractor just weeks before it won hundreds of millions in fresh Pentagon contracts

That committee oversees the entire Department of War budget

His name is Rich McCormick & he's a Republican from Georgia

On June 12th, he bought L3Harris $LHX, which recently won:

• $106M Army counter-drone deal - June 10th
• $614M Special Operations contract - June 29th
• $500M Missile Defense contract - July 6th

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

Something worth watching

Rep. Maria Salazar (R) bought Voyager Technologies $VOYG on June 15th

Voyager builds defense systems and sells them to governments around the world

What makes it interesting is that Salazar sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee

That committee oversees the State Department, which approves every international arms deal a defense company like Voyager wants to make