BREAKING: US margin debt surged +$11.3 billion in December, to a record $1.23 trillion.

This marks the 8th consecutive monthly increase.

Over this period, margin debt has risen +$375 billion, or +44%.

Meanwhile, margin debt growth is now outpacing S&P 500 gains by 20 percentage points YoY, the widest gap since the 2021 meme stock frenzy.

Excluding 2021, this marks the largest divergence since 2007, when this metric hit 50 percentage points.

Investors are using more leverage than ever.

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That sound you hear is Leftist Linux users, around the globe, having a simultaneous meltdown

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This is me trying to convince my n&ggas to ape $penguin at 200k

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The bugman is fundamentally incapable of understanding the penguin’s yearning to strive, conquer, and transcend. Waddling against the Antarctic winds of modernity it is he alone who reaches for impossible heights and he alone who trades safety and comfort for the thrill of the void

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Insane chart

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Find yourself a conviction play and ride it out. It could be wife changing

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The way he looked back before leaving it all

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“But penguins that wander off like that just die”

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The fact that only right wing men seem to understand and appreciate the penguin video says quite a lot about our political landscape and the validity of modern "Democracy"

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This is what the system fears

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NOW - Anti-ICE protesters assemble in Portland, Maine, waving a Palestinian flag and a cardboard guillotine

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