This week’s market news, signals, and platform updates you may have missed. MARKET & MACRO Government shutdown rattles sentimentLawmakers failed to pass a budget, triggering a shutdown. Glideslope’s Market Mood Index shows sentiment crashing toward fear-driven pessimism — even as the S&P 500 holds steady.📊 See the chart below Military recruitment risingNew training standards, highlighted
In just over a year, the U.S. has witnessed a string of high-profile incidents: Federal facilities, political figures, and even campus events are turning into flashpoints. Independent datasets (CSIS, ACLED) show politically motivated violence persists in the U.S., with the mix of ideologies shifting over time. In the full Fraywire+ Political Violence Brief: The Brief:
Most of Instagram is garbage. Scrolling through endless memes, ads, and random slop feels like is junk food for your brain. I wanted something different — something more informative, interactive, and straightforward. So with the help of some AI and coding, I built a new feature on Fraywire called… The Wire. What It Is The
U.S. consumption is fragmenting along political lines. Boycotts/buycotts are flowing into real sales, “values-aligned” channels are scaling, and more shoppers say they spend with their politics. The risk isn’t a full economic split—it’s thicker, semi-segregated niches that shift pricing power, margins, and valuations. Identity is showing up at the register. Expect brand-level winners/losers more than
A decade of frustration culminates in political violence, military tension and energy leverage — signaling a possible realignment of the world order. Currency debasement, rising costs of living, emergency powers, and culture-war policies have left many citizens feeling disenfranchised. Charlie Kirk’s assassination has become a flashpoint for a broader backlash just as Eastern Europe faces
See what’s new with Fraywire’s upgraded, premium features. Friends — I’ve been heads-down for weeks rebuilding Fraywire from the ground up. Today I’m finally ready to share the biggest update I’ve ever shipped. This is a total facelift and overhaul of the platform — cleaner, faster, smarter, and honestly… it looks fucking awesome. I’d never
If, like me, you’re still grieving the loss of Charlie Kirk, you’re probably asking yourself the same haunting question: how did a society once marked by basic decency become so coarse and cruel that gunning down a husband and father of two at a public event — simply for holding a different view — could
When most people hear stagflation, they think of the 1970s: gas lines, 15% mortgages, and stock markets that went nowhere for a decade. Today isn’t that — but the warning signs are flashing again. Economists are calling it stagflation lite: slow growth, sticky inflation, and policymakers running out of easy answers. The U.S. economy is
China’s latest data offered another red flag for the global economy. The country’s official manufacturing PMI came in at 49.4 for August, marking the fifth straight month of contraction. At the same time, U.S.–China trade tensions are dragging on, with tariff threats and stalled talks casting a shadow over markets. Together, these forces are reverberating
The Setup Coffee is one of the most volatile commodities, and Brazil is the epicenter. As the world’s largest arabica producer, its weather and harvest patterns ripple across global markets. This summer alone, markets saw both extremes: These swings show how commodities can shift sharply on a single data point: rainfall, temperature, or a harvest
