"US stocks have underperformed the rest of the world this year by the widest margin in more than three decades as Donald Trump’s erratic policymaking sparks an investor exodus from American assets..."
www.ft.com/content/f3a7...
www.ft.com/content/f3a7...
US stocks underperform rest of world by widest margin since 1993
Investors fear Trump’s tariff blitz will lead to US stagflation while weak dollar adds to woes
www.ft.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"US stocks have underperformed the rest of the world this year by the widest margin in more than three decades as Donald Trump’s erratic policymaking sparks an investor exodus from American assets..."
www.ft.com/content/f3a7...
www.ft.com/content/f3a7...
EVERCORE: “.. This is not about stagflation: inflation break-evens have fallen. ..
“.. It reflects evaporating US growth exceptionalism and the reduced attraction at the margin of dollar assets for reserve purposes amid erratic US decision-making.
@nicktimiraos.bsky.social
“.. It reflects evaporating US growth exceptionalism and the reduced attraction at the margin of dollar assets for reserve purposes amid erratic US decision-making.
@nicktimiraos.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
EVERCORE: “.. This is not about stagflation: inflation break-evens have fallen. ..
“.. It reflects evaporating US growth exceptionalism and the reduced attraction at the margin of dollar assets for reserve purposes amid erratic US decision-making.
@nicktimiraos.bsky.social
“.. It reflects evaporating US growth exceptionalism and the reduced attraction at the margin of dollar assets for reserve purposes amid erratic US decision-making.
@nicktimiraos.bsky.social
These declines across uncorrelated assets strongly suggest forced liquidations hitting all classes regardless of fundamentals as margin calls accelerate.
April 7, 2025 at 3:40 AM
These declines across uncorrelated assets strongly suggest forced liquidations hitting all classes regardless of fundamentals as margin calls accelerate.
Margin calls happen when investors borrow to buy assets and the collateral value of those assets falls below required levels.
Brokers demand more cash immediately, and if you can’t pay that very moment, they forcibly sell your holdings.
This often at the worst possible time.
Brokers demand more cash immediately, and if you can’t pay that very moment, they forcibly sell your holdings.
This often at the worst possible time.
April 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Margin calls happen when investors borrow to buy assets and the collateral value of those assets falls below required levels.
Brokers demand more cash immediately, and if you can’t pay that very moment, they forcibly sell your holdings.
This often at the worst possible time.
Brokers demand more cash immediately, and if you can’t pay that very moment, they forcibly sell your holdings.
This often at the worst possible time.
Even gold, traditionally a safe haven, is down.
This is a good indication of margin-call selling.
Traders are liquidating even their safe assets to meet requirements.
This is a good indication of margin-call selling.
Traders are liquidating even their safe assets to meet requirements.
April 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Even gold, traditionally a safe haven, is down.
This is a good indication of margin-call selling.
Traders are liquidating even their safe assets to meet requirements.
This is a good indication of margin-call selling.
Traders are liquidating even their safe assets to meet requirements.
If you want Lone Skum to be "margin called" (force to sell stock to cover other assets), I want you to retweet this and follow me.
March 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If you want Lone Skum to be "margin called" (force to sell stock to cover other assets), I want you to retweet this and follow me.
Hollywood is about claiming ownership of and profit margin over your own assets before the internet does it for you
April 1, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Hollywood is about claiming ownership of and profit margin over your own assets before the internet does it for you
This is absolutely not true, his margin call level is way lower and very hard to estimate given how many different assets he can borrow against. Assume it's well below $100/sh
Forbes, and Business Insider, reported that Elon would be exposed to margin calls if the share price fell below $740. The shares were split 3 to one since then, so that makes the threshold $246 per share.
March 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This is absolutely not true, his margin call level is way lower and very hard to estimate given how many different assets he can borrow against. Assume it's well below $100/sh
Elon Musk financed Twitter’s purchase with borrowed money from Tesla stock as collateral. If Tesla stock crashes, banks could repossess Twitter. If Musk faces a margin call, he may need a private investor bailout or have his companies’ assets, including Tesla, SpaceX and X, liquidated. ♻️
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Elon Musk financed Twitter’s purchase with borrowed money from Tesla stock as collateral. If Tesla stock crashes, banks could repossess Twitter. If Musk faces a margin call, he may need a private investor bailout or have his companies’ assets, including Tesla, SpaceX and X, liquidated. ♻️
If the world (through boycotts & stock selling) can get Tesla stock under $100, every bank will initiate margin calls on all loans where Tesla is used as collateral. Musk will have to pledge additional assets, most likely more shares. As the price falls, he goes further into margin. Let's go world!
March 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If the world (through boycotts & stock selling) can get Tesla stock under $100, every bank will initiate margin calls on all loans where Tesla is used as collateral. Musk will have to pledge additional assets, most likely more shares. As the price falls, he goes further into margin. Let's go world!
one for the nerds -- Tesla resumed reporting Automotive Gross Margin / Automotive Gross Margin minus regulatory credits
all those quarters spent with @danahull.bsky.social learning from @liamdenning.bsky.social how to napkin math that figure for nothing!! 😂
assets-ir.tesla.com/tesla-conten...
all those quarters spent with @danahull.bsky.social learning from @liamdenning.bsky.social how to napkin math that figure for nothing!! 😂
assets-ir.tesla.com/tesla-conten...
July 22, 2026 at 8:58 PM
one for the nerds -- Tesla resumed reporting Automotive Gross Margin / Automotive Gross Margin minus regulatory credits
all those quarters spent with @danahull.bsky.social learning from @liamdenning.bsky.social how to napkin math that figure for nothing!! 😂
assets-ir.tesla.com/tesla-conten...
all those quarters spent with @danahull.bsky.social learning from @liamdenning.bsky.social how to napkin math that figure for nothing!! 😂
assets-ir.tesla.com/tesla-conten...
Part of it is that it's not in cash. It's based on assets they hold. You can't spend assets and selling them would tank the value since they own so much percentage of the assets, so they borrow against the assets on margin.
September 25, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Part of it is that it's not in cash. It's based on assets they hold. You can't spend assets and selling them would tank the value since they own so much percentage of the assets, so they borrow against the assets on margin.
Now, none of these sets of accounts have to declare revenue, so maybe I am a fool and he is just making £100mn on distressed assets, and, you know, maybe he's not lying, but if he isn't is his profit margin on rental investment only 1.2%? The average is 5-8%! Maybe he's just really bad at business?
September 22, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Now, none of these sets of accounts have to declare revenue, so maybe I am a fool and he is just making £100mn on distressed assets, and, you know, maybe he's not lying, but if he isn't is his profit margin on rental investment only 1.2%? The average is 5-8%! Maybe he's just really bad at business?
Watching Tesla drop another 13 points this morning warms my heart because I know Elon has to be freaking out as the words #MarginCall is likely being said to him by investors. Sooner or later, he’s gonna have to add additional assets to cover margin calls. Everyone please pray for a margin call
March 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Watching Tesla drop another 13 points this morning warms my heart because I know Elon has to be freaking out as the words #MarginCall is likely being said to him by investors. Sooner or later, he’s gonna have to add additional assets to cover margin calls. Everyone please pray for a margin call
SEC needs to freeze their assets and find it. Be a real shame if that meant the CEO couldn't meet margin calls because of it.
March 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
SEC needs to freeze their assets and find it. Be a real shame if that meant the CEO couldn't meet margin calls because of it.
Medicare for all and taxes on held assets over a certain threshold, margin loans? Highest tax bracket, bezos pays no taxes, margin loan for yachts and rents Venice for a wedding after cheating on his first wife who is a philanthropist now.
Hb tax private jet fuel at 100%?.
Hb tax private jet fuel at 100%?.
June 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Medicare for all and taxes on held assets over a certain threshold, margin loans? Highest tax bracket, bezos pays no taxes, margin loan for yachts and rents Venice for a wedding after cheating on his first wife who is a philanthropist now.
Hb tax private jet fuel at 100%?.
Hb tax private jet fuel at 100%?.
Good UK inflation data this morning, especially in services, adds risk to financial market attacks on UK assets based on a stagflation narrative…
It makes it easier for BoE to cut rates at the margin.
(Obviously, not much has changed but this is a vibes thing)
It makes it easier for BoE to cut rates at the margin.
(Obviously, not much has changed but this is a vibes thing)
January 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Good UK inflation data this morning, especially in services, adds risk to financial market attacks on UK assets based on a stagflation narrative…
It makes it easier for BoE to cut rates at the margin.
(Obviously, not much has changed but this is a vibes thing)
It makes it easier for BoE to cut rates at the margin.
(Obviously, not much has changed but this is a vibes thing)
Market history nerd here. I have questions:
Historically, margin loans are secured by the assets bought with the borrowed funds. What asset would secure these loans? Somebody's guess? Somebody else's hunch? Somebody's lunch money?
Maybe it's just an unsecured loan.
www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
Historically, margin loans are secured by the assets bought with the borrowed funds. What asset would secure these loans? Somebody's guess? Somebody else's hunch? Somebody's lunch money?
Maybe it's just an unsecured loan.
www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
Kalshi to allow trading on borrowed funds
Only some of the bets will allow margin trading, showing where the prediction-markets platform thinks its future lies.
www.semafor.com
September 23, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Market history nerd here. I have questions:
Historically, margin loans are secured by the assets bought with the borrowed funds. What asset would secure these loans? Somebody's guess? Somebody else's hunch? Somebody's lunch money?
Maybe it's just an unsecured loan.
www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
Historically, margin loans are secured by the assets bought with the borrowed funds. What asset would secure these loans? Somebody's guess? Somebody else's hunch? Somebody's lunch money?
Maybe it's just an unsecured loan.
www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
I agree with most if this (think slow, secular shedding of US assets; gradual regional displacement of $ centrality bla-bla) but it is also the case that prices are set at at the margin. Think, e.g., of how a possible 2% drop in global oil supply can routinely lead to a 10-15% jump in prices.
January 19, 2026 at 1:37 PM
I agree with most if this (think slow, secular shedding of US assets; gradual regional displacement of $ centrality bla-bla) but it is also the case that prices are set at at the margin. Think, e.g., of how a possible 2% drop in global oil supply can routinely lead to a 10-15% jump in prices.
We know what it is, Anything below 120 means a margin call, he cannot insure his loans at that point and will have to sell off assets to show actual physical assets to cover them. As it is we are seeing an emergency call for the shareholders. if by Friday we see it in the 200's he will be removed
March 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
We know what it is, Anything below 120 means a margin call, he cannot insure his loans at that point and will have to sell off assets to show actual physical assets to cover them. As it is we are seeing an emergency call for the shareholders. if by Friday we see it in the 200's he will be removed
Broadly speaking, the tax subsidies to clean energy lower the purchase cost because once those assets are operating, they are always marginally profitable. Tax subsidies to fossil fuel lower the operating cost because they can’t compete on the margin without government-funded socialism.
July 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Broadly speaking, the tax subsidies to clean energy lower the purchase cost because once those assets are operating, they are always marginally profitable. Tax subsidies to fossil fuel lower the operating cost because they can’t compete on the margin without government-funded socialism.
and that’s how a generation of young men learned about margin calls and attachment of assets
September 23, 2026 at 1:21 AM
and that’s how a generation of young men learned about margin calls and attachment of assets
Yep. Also, margin calls cause people to have to dump their speculative positions to preserve real assets, if they can.
April 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Yep. Also, margin calls cause people to have to dump their speculative positions to preserve real assets, if they can.