Michael McCarty

Gallerista, Sailor, Cyclist, Privateer, Wall Street Vet, Math Geek, Bon Vivant

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Dems Warn ICE Crackdowns Will Make Illegal Immigrants Afraid To Vote https://t.co/kjWLIzN8rW

[Michael McCarty @michael_mccarty]

@wbmosler Krugman is the Jim Cramer of economists.

[Michael McCarty @michael_mccarty]

@JeremyTate41 These are young kids who knew what they could do, not told what they couldn’t do.

[Michael McCarty @michael_mccarty]

@PhidiasPropfirm But the profit is only a $24k pool to be divided between 50k entrants?

[Kate 🐘🇺🇸👠 @KateKcollins1]

I have never had more people who are not Catholic tell me what it means to be Catholic than since I started openly talking about my faith.

It is honestly wild.

People who do not go to Mass telling me what the Mass means.

People who reject the Church telling me what the Church teaches.

People who have not opened the Catechism telling me I am practicing Catholicism wrong.

People who mock the Pope telling me what Catholics are supposed to believe about the Pope.

People who do not believe in confession, the Eucharist, apostolic succession, sacred tradition, or the authority of the Church suddenly becoming experts on Catholicism the second a practicing Catholic speaks.

No.

You are allowed to disagree with me.

You are allowed to dislike the Catholic Church.

You are allowed to think I am wrong.

But you do not get to redefine my faith for me because the real version makes you uncomfortable.

Catholicism is not whatever opinion happens to fit your politics, your worldview, or your personal grievances with the Church.

It is a faith with doctrine.

With authority.

With sacraments.

With 2,000 years of history.

With saints who died rather than deny it.

And no, being Catholic does not mean I think every priest is perfect, every bishop is wise, every Pope is beyond criticism, or every decision made inside the Vatican is good.

Catholics know better than anyone that the Church is made of sinners.

That does not make the faith false.

It makes the need for Christ painfully obvious.

So if you are not Catholic and want to ask me questions, ask.

If you genuinely want to understand, I will talk to you all day.

But if you are going to lecture me about my own faith while rejecting the very Church you are explaining to me, save it.

I am not Catholic because it is fashionable.

I am not Catholic because it is easy.

I am Catholic because I believe it is true.

And the more seriously I take that, the less interested I become in letting people who do not practice it tell me how I should.

[Michael McCarty @michael_mccarty]

@JoeConchaTV @greggutfeld @RickSantelli @andrewrsorkin I think I quit watching CNBC when they hired ARS

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

This is Ray Dalio’s Empire Cycle depicting a 500-year pattern of the rise and decline of great powers/empires.

According to this, the US is at step 14.

Checkout step 18.

[Jackie Chea ⚖️ @Fair_and_Biased]

.@marcorubio realizing that he’s about to be drafted for the @WNBA:

[Michael McCarty @michael_mccarty]

@carney 1,2.1

[Michael McCarty @michael_mccarty]

Worth watching

[Ben Kizemchuk @BenKizemchuk]

Equities passive inflow cooling

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

For anyone who likes their food thoroughly doused, the EPA approved three new ones on 1 July 2026, and there are four more in the queue.

The three are epyrifenacil, diflufenican and trifludimoxazin. Two of them had never been used in the United States before. All three are now cleared for corn, soybeans, wheat, canola, citrus and peanuts, which is over 70 million hectares of farmland and very nearly the entire foundation of the plant-based aisle, signed off in a single afternoon.

The agency's own review of trifludimoxazin recorded suggestive evidence of carcinogenic potential.

It approved it anyway.

Two of the three break down into trifluoroacetic acid, currently among the most widespread and least removable contaminants in the world's water supply. The EPA's technical work found that trifludimoxazin degrades into twelve separate PFAS compounds, which is generous. Most products manage only the one.

The official position is that none of these are forever chemicals, because the definition the agency itself wrote in 2023 requires a molecule to carry two or more fully fluorinated carbons. All three carry precisely one. The chemistry is identical, the persistence is identical, and the paperwork is immaculate.

Fifth approval of its kind under the current administration, against one in the whole of the previous four years. It landed a fortnight before the comment deadline on relaxing drinking water limits for other PFAS compounds, which is either very poor scheduling or very good scheduling.

No press release.

Posted quietly in the Federal Register on a Tuesday, the way you announce a car park closure.

[Thierry from arvy 🇨🇭 @ThierryBorgeat]

You were up more than 70% by June.

You had done nothing clever. You bought what was going up because it kept going up, and for six months that was the smartest thing anyone in America could have done. Friends started asking what you owned. You told them.

Goldman tracks a basket of the most crowded, fastest-moving stocks in the market. It topped above 850 in June. It sits at 503 today.

Six weeks erased six months. You are back where you stood in early December.

Here is the part that stings. There was no crash. On some of the worst days the S&P barely moved. No bank failed. No recession arrived. Nothing in the news was big enough to explain it. You just woke up one morning and the year was gone.

That is what a crowded trade is. Not a bad idea. An idea so many people already had that when a few of them left, there was nobody left to sell to.

Very few people rode the escalator.

Almost everyone was in the elevator.

[Michael McCarty @michael_mccarty]

@TradersParadise In the hill country they say “if you put sauce on BBQ you’re hiding something “

[Michael McCarty @michael_mccarty]

@deltagammavault as they say in the islands "soon come"

[Michael McCarty @michael_mccarty]

My Series EE bond redemption request has been sitting with @TreasuryDirect for more than 350 days and still hasn't been assigned. The bond is approaching the end of its interest-earning life. Why are Americans waiting nearly a year to redeem U.S. Savings Bonds? @USTreasury @SecScottBessent @TreasuryDirect

[Kelly McCarty @KellyLMcCarty]

A reminder….

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

Why couldn't God just forgive sin?

Why did Jesus have to die?

Couldn't an all-powerful God simply declare everyone forgiven and move on?

This is the most important question in all of theology.

And the answer reveals something about God's nature that most Christians have never fully grasped.

A thread on why the cross was the only way. 🧵

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[Michael McCarty @michael_mccarty]

@PollackHunter Congrats