Dad. 4x failed entrepreneur.
Indianapolis, IN
Joined June 2010
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Jake Koeneman retweeted
This is truly incredible.
Here is an exchange with Senator James Lankford & Yellen.
He asks, "Will every community bank ... get the same treatment as SVB?"
Yellen: "Banks only get the treatment if ... the failure to protected uninsured depositors would create systemic risk."
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THREAD: Photos, videos, and news reports about the train derailment and toxic chemical release in East Palestine, Ohio.
This may be the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
🧵👇
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New month, new record 😵💫
Average APR for a car loan in January:
New Cars: 6.92%
Used Cars: 10.57% (!!!)
(via Edmunds)
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This is scary. 😬
KB Homes, a large home builder, just reported a 68% CANCEL RATE.
Meaning that over 2/3 of Homebuyers walked away from their contracts in the quarter. Leaving KB Homes with a massive pile-up of inventory.
Last year the Cancel Rate was only 13%.
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74% of the respondents had to adjust their grocery shopping habits in the previous year. This meant downgrading regular purchases or opting for alternatives to regular purchases.
Read more details:
unusualwhales.com/news/over-…
Jake Koeneman retweeted
The telephone, the internet, and crypto share one thing in common. Each technology improves on the next in terms of its ability to facilitate fraud. As such, I was initially a crypto skeptic, but after studying some of the more interesting crypto projects, I have come to
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1/ Earlier this year @kimanncurtin posited the idea that I take time off once a week or once every two weeks because I was getting so stressed but I couldn't fathom it. I felt like what made me who I am today was relentless participation in the markets.
I just couldn't.
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Here's an Alarming Statistic....
📉 Homebuyer Downpayments in 2021 were LOWER than 2006 during the Subprime Bubble.
Part of a long-term, 50-Year Decline in Mortgage Lending Standards in America.
Foreclosure Wave 2.0 is coming. ETA Late 2022.
Jake Koeneman retweeted
The search volume for the terms "credit card", "payday loan", and "personal loan" are all spiking.
People are at the end of their financial rope.
It's going to be ugly.
Jake Koeneman retweeted
Met with the CFO of a multi-billion dollar tech startup this weekend.
He told me every smart CFO he knows is cutting office space to reduce burn instead of firing employees.
Pretty simple choice IMO:
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Roughly 60,000 home deals fell through in June in the US, equal to 15% of homes that entered into contract.
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Had another DM question - “Brett, how do I get a job at a hedge fund?”
Well, there’s a FRONT DOOR and a BACK DOOR. The front door is relatively straightforward. Go to a top undergrad, work in I-banking, wait for the headhunter e-mail (these days will come shortly after u land…
Jake Koeneman retweeted
Talked with a pro-life guy who doesn’t want the government “forcing people to do things against their choice.”
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Meet the TX man who’s making customized caskets for each of the 19 young victims and two teachers from the school shooting in #Uvalde. Trey Ganem visited with the families last week so each casket is personalized to include each child's interests.
📷: SoulShine Industries
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So the school counselor just called me to ask if I was aware that my daughter planned & led a student protest today where 100+ students walked out of their 3rd period to hold a BLM rally on the yard bc they feel teachers treat the black students different & unfairly. She’s 12. 😭
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7/ During the last moments of the show, Georgieva, as last speaker, spoke a truth rarely spoken in an official live IMF setting; namely that IMFS institutions are often short sighted, and that monetary stimulus programs have the unintended consequence of inflation.
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Senator Lana Theis accused me by name of grooming and sexualizing children in an attempt to marginalize me for standing up against her marginalizing the LGBTQ community...in a fundraising email, for herself.
Hate wins when people like me stand by and let it happen. I won't.
