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[@profstonge](/creator/twitter/profstonge)
"The federal government could shut down tomorrow at midnight. If it happens it hands Trump a blank check to terminate every single federal program he doesn't like. And it instantly puts the Federal budget into surplus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1972624902378107214) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-09-29T11:30Z 274.5K followers, 2.4M engagements


"Shutdown crosses the XX days line -- now it's XXXX days. With XX% odds it goes past the magic XX days when RIF layoffs become permanent 🤗"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1977766668484174166) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-13T16:01Z 274.5K followers, 47.1K engagements


"The China trade war just blew up. China threatened a worldwide embargo of rare earth minerals. Trump responded with XXX% tariffs starting November X. Both sides wanted a deal. China just blinked and showed it needs one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1977698330450039177) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-13T11:30Z 274.5K followers, 334.3K engagements


"Furloughed federal workers turning to pet-sitting and driving for Lyft. In case youre curious what skills they have that justify the $147000 they take from taxpayers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1977754018785976382) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-13T15:11Z 274.5K followers, 36.5K engagements


"New York City was once the greatest city in the world. And X million New Yorkers voted for Trump but are now held hostage. Mamdani would empty the prisons ban blue-collar work and return New York to the 1970s dystopia of high-crime no jobs and crumbling infrastructure while activists feast on the ruins"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1977793390885371931) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-13T17:47Z 274.5K followers, 62.7K engagements


"Laid-off federal workers may not get back pay according to the OMB. Saving the American people $X billion per week. So now Democrats have a choice: Keep the shutdown going for their Antifa wing. Or save 750000 federal workers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1978060718936351083) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-14T11:30Z 274.5K followers, 249.1K engagements


"New bill from Mike Lee and Chip Roy would completely defund the United Nations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1979252359537541212) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-17T18:25Z 274.5K followers, 24K engagements


"Trump lays out his tax agenda: - No tax on Tips - No tax on Overtime pay - No tax on Social Security benefits These are huge for blue-collar workers. And they start disassembling the entire income tax"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1890393055376937471) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-02-14T13:30Z 274.5K followers, 286.9K engagements


"Lutnick: End income tax on everybody under $150000. That exempts XX% of Americans from income tax -- XXX million people. This would unleash American workers. But the trick is protecting small business so theyre not last man standing on taxes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1901974368013726163) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-03-18T12:30Z 274.5K followers, 368.6K engagements


"HHS - Dept of Welfare Education - Dept of Indoctrination DHS - Dept of Surveillance Labor/Commerce - Dept of Cryonism Treasury - Dept of Taxation Fed - Dept of Bailouts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1964328249548300474) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-09-06T14:02Z 274.5K followers, 21.9K engagements


"China's economy is "slowing sharply" in the trade war. Theyre surviving on trillions of stimulus and dumping exports to the third world selling jeans in Indonesia for XX cents. They're out of runway. China needs a deal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1972987288834777414) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-09-30T11:30Z 274.4K followers, 365.6K engagements


"Apparently useless -- er non-essential -- government workers may not get backpay after all 🙌"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1975622749386383674) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-07T18:02Z 274.4K followers, 14.9K engagements


""The layoffs have begun. and they are substantial" Past shutdowns furloughed with back-pay for days not worked. This time they're actually getting fired 🙌"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1976705277836902589) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-10T17:43Z 274.4K followers, 41.6K engagements


"Migrants rioting in. Switzerland. There is no way Swiss voters asked for this. Globalists have hijacked democracy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1977421852206370887) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-12T17:11Z 274.4K followers, 38.7K engagements


"Gold's up XX% this year -- knocking the socks off stocks. What's driving the rally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1978155341171900882) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-14T17:46Z 274.4K followers, 25.1K engagements


"Mamdani: "What purpose do prisons serve" Mainstream media lost their power nationwide. Unfortunately theyre still trying to get blue city voters to destroy themselves -- and their neighbors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1978155843888796084) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-14T17:48Z 274.4K followers, 27K engagements


"What happens in the first Stages of Dollar Collapse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1641427887847817218) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2023-03-30T13:11Z 274.4K followers, 1.4M engagements


"You'd go to jail for decades they just pay a fine. At some point it's licensed crime 🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1845051719962722701) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2024-10-12T10:39Z 274.4K followers, 5.8M engagements


"What happens if the Fed stops manipulating the economy The Fed was sold as ending recessions bank panics and protecting the dollar Instead it delivered XX recessions. X banking crises. And a dollar worth X cents"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1969001024959697085) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-09-19T11:30Z 274.4K followers, 277.7K engagements


"Congratulations America the federal government is shut down. That was easy. The key is how long: XX days is the magic number where Trump can permanently fire 740000 federal workers. Saving hundreds of billions of dollars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1973349676117118987) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-01T11:30Z 274.4K followers, 1.3M engagements


"The AI bubble is dwarfing the dot-com bubble. The trick is what stage we're at -- the bubble can get a lot bigger before it pops. As the line goes "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent""  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1975211935726801007) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-06T14:49Z 274.4K followers, 39.7K engagements


"Gold is nearing $4100"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1975916170047041945) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-08T13:28Z 274.4K followers, 32.4K engagements


"Japan just elected Margaret Thatcher with a katana who rejects both open borders and pixie farts. Socially shes a backlash to Woke ideology in Japan. Economically shes promising ice cream and puppies that given Japans debt could set off a financial crisis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1976248780904431712) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-09T11:30Z 274.4K followers, 210.2K engagements


"One of the most based guys in Congress 🫡"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1976275656981074114) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-09T13:16Z 274.4K followers, 30.3K engagements


"From the Free Newsletter: Americans Havent Gotten a Raise in XX Years Incomes are down since 2022. Which never happened outside a recession -- so much for the Biden miracle. "But zoom out and Americans haven't gotten a Raise in XX years.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1976603628711383285) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-10T11:00Z 274.4K followers, 48.5K engagements


"Best. Shutdown. Ever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1977065202870022413) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-11T17:34Z 274.4K followers, 67.3K engagements


"Dems already gerrymandered all their districts. Paybacks a b 😂😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1977957164464369896) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-14T04:38Z 274.4K followers, 29.7K engagements


"The out-party wins the midterms XX% of the time. This time is different. The shutdown's clobbering Dems -- they've lost X% in XX days 🤯"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1978837313074373031) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-16T14:55Z 274.4K followers, 21.2K engagements


"To celebrate Americas 250th birthday a new patriotic film tells the story of our founding through the eyes of George Washington. #YoungWashingtonPartner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1978852182654132666) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-16T15:55Z 274.4K followers, 20.6K engagements


"Canada enters recession as exports plunge XX% and business investment collapses 10%. More pain is coming as Canadas new PM picks political fights with Trump. Rather than protecting the X million Canadians whose jobs export to the US"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1963202815159075277) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-09-03T11:30Z 274.4K followers, 502.8K engagements


"Trump's odds double for the Nobel Prize. Trump ended half a dozen wars from Thailand to Pakistan. And he may yet end Ukraine and Gaza. Still odds are they'll give it to some left-wing NGO in Sudan or France. If so the Nobel's a joke"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1976295490074317196) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-09T14:35Z 274.4K followers, 20K engagements


"A key Democrat shutdown demand is hundreds of billions more for Obamacare. Healthcare lobbyists created this monster turning the ACA into a trillion-dollar money hole that wiped out almost half of independent doctors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1975524004850003993) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-07T11:30Z 274.5K followers, 282.3K engagements


"Americans havent gotten a raise in XX years. Incomes are down since 2022. Which never happened outside a recession. So much for the Biden miracle. But zoom out -- with real-world inflation -- and incomes haven't grown since the year 2000"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1976611167268163689) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-10T11:30Z 274.5K followers, 195.8K engagements


"New Jersey elects a new governor in just X weeks. Like Pennsylvania NJs been trending red Trump came within X points of Kamala. And a pair of recent polls have the Governors race in a dead heat. It all depends on New Jersey Republicans turning out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1978120104274514298) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-14T15:25Z 274.5K followers, 32.5K engagements


"Silver is on fire up XX% this year. Driven by government debts inflation fears and demand from AI data centers. All while stockpiles shrivel and mining flatlines. Last week silver hit the fabled backwardation something that used to happen once a century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1978423107695104342) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-15T11:30Z 274.5K followers, 231.7K engagements


"WSJ: Shutdown will continue because "Both parties think they have the upper hand" I think in reality Republicans have the upper hands while Dems are backed into a corner by their Antifa wing. Ultimately what breaks the deadlock is public polling. Because as much as Dems fear Antifa they fear even more being voted out of office"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1978855254004298053) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-16T16:07Z 274.5K followers, 31.5K engagements


"Gold and silver doing the jobs American dollars wont 🫡"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1978909313209946596) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-16T19:42Z 274.5K followers, 47.9K engagements


"The shutdown could lower the deficit. But what would it take to actually balance the budget We did it in the 1990s. It took a uniparty in civil war. And a President who doesnt blow it on new and interesting wars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1979147882218303760) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-17T11:30Z 274.5K followers, 156.7K engagements


"Read the rest on the free Newsletter: How the 90s Balanced the Budget Its possible to balance the budget. But it needs two things: A uniparty at war. And a president who doesnt blow it on new pet projects or wars. The jurys still out whether Washington can keep their checkbook in their pants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1979154243400450512) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-17T11:55Z 274.5K followers, 60.9K engagements


"Shutdown odds hit XX days 🥳 We could get this to XX. Then maybe keep going til 2028 🙌"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1979256576721506467) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-17T18:41Z 274.5K followers, 33.1K engagements


"It was an honor joining the second annual @GreenbergEnt retreat to talk about economics investing and what's coming next 🥳"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1979642288277270654) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-18T20:14Z 274.5K followers, 22.9K engagements


"My interview with @stacyherbert and @LinaSeiche is live 🥳 We talk about how President @nayibbukele transformed El Salvador from a failed state to an economic miracle and beacon of liberty. - What it took. - What it changed for regular people. - Lessons for other countries crushed by corrupt elites"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1979644182227468423) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-18T20:22Z 274.5K followers, 20.6K engagements


"Gold peaked at XX% of investable assets in 1980. Even after the big run this year it's still just 6%. The world is healing. And it's got a lot more to heal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1979920224074764403) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-19T14:39Z 274.5K followers, 36.5K engagements


"Republicans in Congress -- amazingly -- havent surrendered on the shutdown. Because voters are on their side: The NY Times found XX% of voters blame Dems. The reason for that is the collapse of legacy media. It no longer controls voters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1975886393206510078) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-08T11:30Z 274.5K followers, 363.6K engagements


"Hollywoods collapse is opening space for patriotic movies that celebrate the virtues and history that made America great. Young Washington tells the story of our first President from Indian skirmishes at age XX to defeating the most powerful military on earth. #YoungWashingtonPartner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1978459652506403131) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-15T13:55Z 274.5K followers, 42.1K engagements


"The homeless crisis is second only to global warming for paying NGO executives' second mortgages"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1979252045757419770) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-17T18:23Z 274.5K followers, 26.2K engagements


"30 years ago Washington actually balanced a budget. How they did it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1979666462060216446) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-18T21:50Z 274.5K followers, 42.1K engagements


""7 in XX Americans obese" The mainstream explanation is we got rich -- higher incomes higher calories. But growing up in the 70's people were not obese and we ate plenty 🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1979968135865225309) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-19T17:49Z 274.5K followers, 6392 engagements


"Permanent federal firings begin. Meanwhile Trump finds creative ways to pay the military. And defund Democrats trillion-dollar slush funds. Caesar seized senators estates to pay his legions. By shutting down Democrats are seizing their own estates for Trump"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1978785495757750694) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-16T11:30Z 274.5K followers, 206.2K engagements


""If Trump was a king the government would be open right now.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1979920679618105480) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-19T14:40Z 274.5K followers, 27.5K engagements


"CNN used to like kings. "Obama has openly asserted that he will utilize his pen and his phone to change policy through executive orders wielded like royal decrees." h/t @mmk_enterprises"  
[X Link](https://x.com/profstonge/status/1979977347030757575) [@profstonge](/creator/x/profstonge) 2025-10-19T18:26Z 274.5K followers, 5762 engagements