🇺🇸 Something strange keeps happening to America’s jobs data
U.S. job openings for June were revised down by 177,000, the largest monthly downward revision since November 2025 and the third straight month of downward revisions.
Hires: revised down 16,000. Quits: revised down 19,000. Layoffs: revised up 19,000.
Job openings have now been revised lower in 38 of the last 43 months.
One revision is statistics. Thirty-eight starts looking like a pattern.
₿itcoin is starting to trade more like gold than tech
$BTC and gold’s 90-day correlation has surged to +0.50, nearly matching its 2020 pandemic-era record and more than doubling since the start of the year.
The move accelerated after the US Treasury announced it would at least double buybacks of long-dated government debt.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s correlation with the Nasdaq 100 has fallen to around +0.30, a 1-year low.
For years, Bitcoin was called “digital gold” while often trading like leveraged tech.
That distinction is suddenly getting a lot more interesting.
🇺🇸 America is heading into Labor Day weekend facing record petrol prices, with GasBuddy forecasting $4.03 per gallon on Monday: above the previous Labor Day record of $3.83 set in 2012.
The national average was already around $4.13 on Thursday, nearly $1 higher than a year ago, as the U.S-Iran war continues to push up energy costs.
The last crypto bull market was the slowest and quietest. There was no real Altseason, no retail euphoria, but institutions were accumulating.
This is why the next bull market will be massive. Trillions will move into the crypto market. Alts will pump, retail euphoria will be back, and crypto will outperform everything.
And all of this will happen once the CLARITY ACT becomes law
🇺🇸 TRUMP THREATENS TO STOP TRADING WITH DEFICIT COUNTRIES IF THE FED WON’T CUT RATES
Trump says that unless the Fed cuts rates, he may “stop trading with countries with which we have a deficit.”
China. Mexico. Germany. Japan. South Korea. Canada. India. Taiwan. Just a modest chunk of the global economy.
There is, naturally, a small constitutional hangover.
Trump says the Supreme Court recognized his “absolute right” to do this. Its February ruling said IEEPA does not authorize presidential tariffs. Not quite the blank check he’s describing.
Then there’s Kevin Warsh.
Trump appointed him expecting lower rates. Warsh has since gone increasingly hawkish on inflation, and markets are now taking seriously the possibility that he raises rates on September 16 instead.
So Trump wants a cut.
His Fed chair may give him a hike.
And Trump’s response is essentially: nice global trading system you’ve got there. Shame if something happened to it.