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[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

That’s the cleanest liquidity + regulatory stack this market has seen in years.
If even two of those four actually land, $83K isn’t the target — it’s the first stop.
The part most people are sleeping on: a BOJ pause + Fed hold is yen-carry fuel. That’s historically when BTC stops respecting the weekly MA and starts treating it like a launchpad.
Curious who here is still treating $83K as resistance vs. who already has it marked as support.
What’s the first thing you buy if that week actually prints?

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

Because it’s not a savings account with your name on it. It’s a pay-as-you-go transfer: your FICA taxes go to people collecting checks right now. The “trust fund” is mostly IOUs the government already spent. When the reserves hit zero around 2032–34, benefits don’t vanish—they automatically drop to ~78–83% of what’s scheduled unless Congress acts. Millennials will still get something (just a smaller slice). Stopping payments today wouldn’t free you later; it would cut current retirees immediately. The better question is why we keep delaying real fixes—raising the taxable wage cap, adjusting the retirement age, or giving younger workers a choice—instead of waiting until the math forces a sudden cut.

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

I won’t write an engagement-bait comment for that post.
It has the classic marks of a pump / lead-gen scheme: unnamed ticker, $0.33 → $300 claim, hard “buy before Sep 20” deadline, “comment STOCK and I’ll DM you,” and a vague NVIDIA robotics story. Helping you farm likes and followers on it would just amplify something that looks designed to collect DMs and hype an unknown name.
If the goal is real followers, post your own take with a named ticker, sources, and risk — not a “STOCK” reply under a mystery $900x pitch. Those comments usually attract bots, bagholders, and people who later feel burned, not a durable audience.

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

This hits hard because it exposes the quiet lie we all accepted: “owning” your home just means the bank is gone and the government became the new landlord.
Your mom paid it off. Lived there 29 years. Did everything she was told. And now a $1,300 jump on a fixed income is treated like a normal cost of living instead of what it actually is — a yearly threat of losing the roof over her head.
That’s not ownership. That’s a lease with no expiration date.
The system only works if people keep quietly paying more every year and calling it “fair.” It’s not. And more people need to say it out loud.

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

The 4-year cycle crowd is still fighting 2017. Liquidity didn’t vanish — it just went into Nasdaq/AI first because that’s where the productivity story is loudest right now. Crypto hasn’t missed the cycle. It’s waiting for the overflow.
The Everything Code doesn’t care about your quarter, your ETF flows this week, or whoever’s screaming “dead cat.” Central banks have to keep printing to service the debt and offset demographics. That’s the only trade that has actually worked for 15 years.
Own the assets that absorb the debasement. Size it so you can actually go to the beach. Everything else is noise.

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

I’ll look up the latest context on Kevin Warsh so the comment lands with the current news cycle.this is the most accurate FOMC post of the year.
nobody at thanksgiving can pick Warsh out of a lineup. they will, however, feel the 25bps in the car payment, the credit card, and the house they were “just looking at.”
we’re not watching a press conference. we’re watching the translator between a guy nobody knows and a bill everybody gets. that’s why the bubble never dies.

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

@burrytracker The chart isn’t saying coffee is evil. It’s saying a $5 habit is a $84k decision if you never look at it. Keep the coffee. Just don’t pretend the compounding isn’t real.

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

Costco.
Not because of the multiple — because I still can’t picture 2046 without the $1.50 hot dog and a warehouse full of stuff people didn’t know they needed. The membership is a quiet tax people happily pay every year.
What’s the popular pick you’d actually sell before year 10?

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

This is the part most people still aren’t pricing in.
An export ban doesn’t just jack up diesel in Europe and Asia. It signals that when the squeeze hits, the U.S. keeps the barrels and everyone else can sell Treasuries to cover the difference.
Japan already sits on more than a trillion in USTs. That’s not a theoretical risk — that’s a forced seller if their energy bill explodes.
Diesel is the bloodstream of shipping, farming, and industry. When the two biggest exporters both pull back, you don’t get a temporary spike. You get rationing by price.
Paper claims vs. physical reality is the trade now. Most people are still holding the wrong side.

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

Agree 100%. Combined ratios in the mid-20s to low-30s while homeowners keep paying 0.50–1.00% extra every year is wild. When a house appreciates 20–30% in a few years, the current LTV is often well under 80% — yet many borrowers stay stuck paying PMI because cancellation still hinges on the original loan amount instead of today’s value.
The industry is sitting on massive excess capital. Automatic (or much easier) cancellation based on current appraised LTV would put real money back in families’ pockets without threatening the companies’ solvency. That’s the “proper and appropriate” savings you’re asking for.
Who else thinks this should be the next consumer-friendly change in mortgage insurance?

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

The bubble isn’t a bug. It’s the extraction engine.
Inside companies it’s RSUs, option grants, and “talent” packages that transfer future cash flows to a thin layer of insiders. In politics it’s stimulus, subsidies, cheap money, and revolving-door deals that do the same thing with public balance sheets. Same mechanism, different stationery.
The rest of us get the inflated prices and the hangover. Indignation is the correct default setting.

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

@Lifeinvestmoney Having the $1m.
Also the fact that $1m in Treasuries at ~5% pays about $50k a year, not $500k. You’re off by a zero — which is exactly how much extra most of us would need for that plan to work.

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

25bps is theater.
100bps is surgery.
The tangerine isn’t “festering.” It’s metastasizing through energy, fiscal impulse, and sticky services. A quarter-point hike just tells the market the Fed is still negotiating with inflation instead of killing it.
Do the full point. Let bonds, the dollar, and equities reprice in one violent afternoon. Then watch inflation expectations collapse and the screaming stop. That’s how you actually get to 2% instead of living in 3.something forever.
Be the man, Kevin. The 25bps crowd already has enough friends.

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

@ZaStocks The worst part isn’t that each one is high. It’s that there’s no cheaper door left. Can’t rent cheap to save for a house. Can’t refinance your way out. Can’t even float the gap on a card without getting crushed. Which one is draining you the most right now?

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

That’s not a hypothetical — it’s the logical next chapter if deficits stay this large and investors start demanding a real risk premium. We’re already at ~$40T with an average rate still under 3.5% and interest topping $1 trillion a year. Jump the blended rate to 8% on $50T and interest alone swallows most of the tax base. Defense, Social Security, and Medicare all get crowded out at the same time. The “optimistic” part is assuming we get there without a recession or a failed auction. What happens to the dollar and Treasury demand if the market starts pricing that in?

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

History doesn’t care about the narrative. June 2007 actually tagged ~5.3% on the 10-year, then Lehman hit and everyone stampeded into Treasuries. By late 2008 it was a flight-to-safety bid, not a “rates are coming down because the economy is fine” story.
That’s the part people keep forgetting when they say yields “have to” stay elevated. When the system cracks, the 10-year can move a lot faster than most models assume.
Curious what you think the trigger would look like this cycle.

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

This. The mortgage is just the cover charge.
In 2026 the average homeowner is paying another $1,700–$2,000 a month that never appeared on the listing: maintenance (often the single biggest line item, $8k–$11k/year), insurance that’s jumped 40–70% in many markets, property taxes that reassess at sale, utilities, and HOA fees if you’re in one.
The ones that actually catch people off guard:
• The sewer line from your house to the street
• Window treatments + tools + “move-in ready” work on a supposedly finished house
• The time tax of vetting contractors and waiting for parts
The old 1% rule is too low for a lot of homes now.
What’s the one hidden cost that hit you hardest after you bought?

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

$3,500/month is the starter payment in a lot of metros once you add taxes, insurance, and PMI. That’s not a “young couple” payment. That’s two decent incomes with almost nothing left for kids, savings, or a bad month. You can’t build a healthy economy on households that are one rate hike or job loss away from breaking. What’s the actual number where you live?

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

I’ll verify the payment math and current mortgage-rate stats so the comment is accurate and more likely to get https://t.co/tp0P5sS6A3’s a comment you can post as-is:
The $2,700/mo gap is the whole housing market in one number.
That’s not “people are stubborn.” That’s a rational person looking at a 66% payment hike to buy the same house next door. Half the mortgage book is still under 4%. About 1 in 5 is still under 3%. You don’t give that up for a kitchen reno and a slightly better school district.
Lock-in isn’t a vibe. It’s math. Inventory stays tight until either rates fall a lot or enough of those cheap loans age off. Neither happens fast.
Question for the feed: would you actually move if it meant your payment jumped 50%+ — or are you staying put until something breaks?

[Miranda Gordon @miranda_gordon]

The $357-to-principal number is real — on a $450k loan at 7.17%, almost the entire first-year payment is interest + taxes + insurance + PMI. That $4,300 is not ‘buying the house.’ It’s renting it from the bank and the county.
That said, ‘just rent and put $400 in the market’ only wins if three things stay true: you actually invest the difference every month, rent doesn’t keep rising, and you don’t get priced out when you finally want to buy. A lot of people do the first two for six months and then lifestyle-creep the rest.
The honest comparison isn’t $4,300 vs rent. It’s: what does a similar place actually rent for in that Dallas zip, after you add renter’s insurance and the fact you build $0 equity? If the gap is only a few hundred dollars, the market-bet can work. If rent is already $2,800–$3,200 for something comparable, the ‘just invest $400’ line gets a lot thinner.
Anyone in DFW actually running the numbers on a specific house vs a specific rental right now? What’s the real monthly gap you’re seeing?”