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Creatix Economist / September 23, 2025 Curious about how the top 5 European economies would rank if they were U.S. states?  Here are three comparisons: nominal GDP; per capita; and purchasing power parity (PPP). As you will see, Europe’s biggest economies look enormous on total GDP when compared to individual US states because they have lots of people in comparison (tens of millions more than any U.S. state.) Therefore, their aggregates can rival California or Texas.  However, when we switch to per-capita, the picture flips: fewer hours worked on average (shorter weeks, longer holidays, earlier retirement), an industry mix with fewer hyper-scalable tech/finance giants, and older demographics all pull GDP per person below most U.S. states.  Nominal dollar comparisons also penalize Europe when the U.S. dollar is strong. Adjusting for cost of living (purchasing power parity, PPP) narrows the gap, yet doesn’t erase it because underlying productivity and incomes remain hi...

Creatix Satire / September 22, 2025 The Trump Bunny Alliance:  Conspiracy theories are total fake and real fun. We ran a silly one "explaining" that Donald J. Trump, Bad Bunny, and Taylor Swift were the same "person" (an alien projection from outer space.  Our "evidence included that they have never seen on stage together ever. Rarely there's a concert or rally at the same time. Of course, it was just BS for entertainment .  Now we bring a more realistic conspiracy theory: a secrete strategic alliance between Trumpworld and Bad Bunnyland to keep Puerto Ricans at home arrest (i.e. in the island, away from the mainland). Why? The island’s economy runs on people buying overpriced stuff and paying for reggaetón concert parking fees like a luxury tax that keeps the island's economy afloat so that bondholders are paid.  Follow the Money (and the spirits) Let’s be honest about the main motive for keeping Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico: money Banco Popular (Ti...

Creatix Markets / September 21, 2025 Tesla's AI-bubble “meme valuation.” TL;DR: Tesla trades at a venture-style multiple on promises of robotaxis, humanoids, and “AI everywhere,” despite slowing EV growth and margin pressure. That’s eerily similar to AOL at the peak of the dot-com euphoria when narrative outran cash-flow reality, and the eventual comedown was brutal. Valuation snapshot (as of Sept 20, 2025) Market cap: ≈ $1.4 trillion . ( Macrotrends ) P/E (TTM): roughly ~225–250× (sources vary by EPS basis/date). ( Companies Market Cap ) Context: Toyota ~9×; BYD ~17–20×; NVIDIA ~ 50x. ( Macrotrends ) Tesla's P/E ratio is 5 times NVIDIA's, the poster child of the AI "bubble".  Stock market information for Tesla Inc (TSLA) Tesla Inc is a equity in the USA market. The price is 426.07 USD currently with a change of 9.05 USD (0.02%) from the previous close. The latest open price was 422.5 USD and the intraday volume is 93131034. The intraday high is...

Creatix / September 19, 2025 Trivia: Do all insects like sugar? [Find answer at the end.] From the outside, insects seem utterly alien—many legs, compound eyes, armor-like exoskeletons, tiny bodies, etc. But look closer and the overlaps with humans are striking: we run on the same genetic code, build cells with the same molecular machinery, wire bodies with comparable signaling pathways and circadian clocks, and even age via related biochemical routes. And behaviorally, the echoes continue: cooperation, division of labor, communication, teaching, navigation, hygiene, agriculture, architecture, conflict management, and more. In general, it seems to be part of the same ideas under different hardware.  In this post, we list  Top 20 Biological commonalities and the Top 20 Behavioral commonalities between humans and insects. This should show you just how much we share with the tiny neighbors under our feet. Maybe we should be more compassionate with them to the extent feasible an...

Creatix / September 19, 2025 The AI Future May Be Dumber Than We Think I. The Paradox of Knowing Call it a paradox: the smarter we become, the more ignorance we discover. Knowledge expands the map of the known while enlarging the frontier of the unknown; the bubble grows, and so does its circumference. By contrast, ignorance shrinks our world and flatters us with the illusion of mastery. Intelligence isn’t a vaccine against error—it’s a more powerful tool for making sophisticated mistakes, especially when we wield it in service of cynicism rather than curiosity. That dynamic already governs our politics and economics; we should expect it to shape our AI future too. II. Immigration as a Case Study Consider immigration, a perennial test of civic wisdom. Every dominant group in any place is downstream of a migration wave. Modern humans originated in Africa; nearly everyone’s lineage came from somewhere else. In the United States, today’s ruling “tribe” arrived long after the peoples we c...

Creatix Economist / September 17, 2025 The Federal Reserve has begun cutting rates again. This is the first reduction since December of last year. This much anticipated rate cut was already priced in several weeks ago. Now that the cut is official, it changes the narrative on Wall Street. Historically, rate cuts are bullish when the economy avoids a downturn. But this cut arrived alongside a weakening labor market and heightened policy/geopolitical uncertainty. These conditions that can push investors to price in recession risk and take profits, potentially setting off a meaningful correction. ( Reuters ) A cooling jobs engine The latest jobs report showed payrolls barely grew (+22,000 in August) and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3% , near a four-year high. Participation has slipped over the past year and long-term unemployment has risen. This looks less like a soft patch and more like a frozen hiring landscape in several cyclicals. This backdrop motivated the Fed to ease ra...