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[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Trump notified Congress that the US is in a new war with Iran, and is able to wager battle for 60 days without congressional approval, per POLITICO

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Women Over 40 Are Now Having More Babies Than American Teenagers https://t.co/cqUEaf60VG

[𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑥 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟 @linuxuser1996]

THE REAL EU PLAN

[The Middle East @A_M_R_M1]

Official: Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has been killed.

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

96 out of every 100 US companies never made their investors any money.

A new study from Arizona State tracked every stock listed on US markets from 1926 to 2025. That is 29,754 stocks over 100 years.

The market created $90.96 trillion in that time. All of it came from just 1,082 companies. The other 27,999 gave investors nothing. Most stocks lose money. Only 48% of stocks made any money at all. Only 41% beat a savings account. 59% of companies lost money for shareholders.

The median stock lost 6.87%.

But the average stock returned 30,621%. That gap is the whole story. A few enormous winners pull the average up while most stocks bleed.

So who were the winners?

• Apple: $5.02 trillion
• Nvidia: $4.58 trillion
• Microsoft: $4.03 trillion
• Alphabet: $3.57 trillion
• Amazon: $2.27 trillion

These are not market caps. This is total wealth created for shareholders since the company listed, measured against what that money would have earned sitting in Treasury bills.

Apple and Nvidia alone made 10.6% of all the wealth the US market has created since 1926.

The same researcher ran this study in 2018 with data through 2016. Back then it took 89 companies to make up half of all the wealth ever created. Nine years later, it takes only 46.

In the 90 years up to 2016, the top 30 companies made 31% of all the wealth. In the nine years since, the top 30 made 61%. Nvidia by itself made 9.32% of everything created since 2017.

Concentration doubled in nine years. And those nine years are exactly the years the AI trade took over the market.

The typical company got worse at the same time. In the first six decades of the study, the median stock returned 63.6% per decade. In the last four decades, it dropped to 5.8%. The market kept going up. Most companies stopped going up with it.

People keep saying the S&P is being carried by a handful of AI stocks, as if this is something new. It is not. The market has always run on a tiny number of winners. What changed is how few of them there are now.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Le vrai problème de notre monde

[Brew Markets @brewmarkets]

SpaceX stock hits its lowest level since going public.

[Stern Drew @SternDrewCrypto]

🚨 CIA just admitted Bitcoin is their surveillance tool!

CIA General Counsel: “Bitcoin isn’t truly anonymous… it’s a TOOL we use for intel gathering.”

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Capitalism solved discrimination.

In a free market rejecting people who would be paying customers for superficial reasons is a costly mistake.

[Brew Markets @brewmarkets]

Happy Monday.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

TERRIFYING: Islamic scholars in the U.S. reveal their plan:

“There are not enough Muslims in America right now to demand full Sharia law and replace its secular system. We have to gain political power first and implement it little by little.”

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is reportedly under house arrest after Iran uncovered his secret contacts with Israeli intelligence.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: 85% of all women murdered in Ireland this year were killed by foreign migrants

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Mamdani on why rape is up in NY: "A lot of it is from expanding what counts as rape"

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Oil price up over 10%

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: Elon Musk's SpaceX $SPCX hits post-IPO low, falling under $140

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

‘Radical’ Muslims have destroyed thousands of churches in the Middle East and forced 2 million indigenous Christians to flee their homes.

They consider Christians infidels who must convert, pay jizya, or be killed.

Zero outrage by leftists or ‘moderate’ Muslims!