Hello fellow Rebel capitals, hope you're well.

So I have got a huge story from CNBC about what McDonald's is saying about not just the

U.S. economy, but the U.S. consumer. It's what we were talking about yesterday on the video,

about the 29% of people that are just barely, barely, barely above the poverty line.

And if the purchasing power of the United States and aggregate total is going down, well, do we really need to have unemployment creeping up in order

for there to be a recession?

But let's get right into this article from CNBC.

We've got something really cool from Zero Hedge.

Then the conference board.

You guys probably recognize that group

from a lot of the videos I did about two or three months ago, they're chiming in with their most recent

consumer confidence poll, which really dovetails perfectly on what McDonald's is saying.

But let's get right into this. The title, McDonald's is saying. Let's get right into this.

The title, McDonald's, and it's not just McDonald's,

like it says here, and other big brands

warn that low-income consumers are starting to crack. Executives. income consumers

some of the America's largest companies have said that consumers feel the

pinch of higher prices.

Their remarks come as sticky inflation. the talking point makes a lot of sense. The second one, you really, once you think about what they're

saying at the Fed, it's just total BS, PR, spin, just the normal stuff that you would expect from the Federal Reserve, and just trying to

manipulate the overall psychological narrative that you're hearing within the mainstream media

to get you to believe what they want you to believe. And more on that in just a

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