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As part of its historical revision to GDP, the BEA also had to adjust personal income and spending, with the full results released in today's July report. What it revealed was striking: over the revised period, disposable personal income for US household was slashed cumulatively by over $120 billion to just under $14.4 trillion, while spending was revised higher by $105 billion, to just above $13.8 trillion. There were two immediate consequences of this result.

Crude Oil is worth about a third (down 65%) of what it was worth back in 2008. It’s lost about half of it value from just three years ago (2014 highs). The declines in Crude over the past 9-years has created a series of lower highs, reflecting it still remains in a long-term down trend.

Below updates the pattern of Crude over the past decade-

Via Dana Lyons' Tumblr,

Amazon’s stock is threatening to break below a trendline that has supported it during its epic 2 and a half year run.

After hitting a 9-month low in June, Markit's US Manufacturing PMI bounced to 53.3 in July with new orders, output, and employment rebounding. In a China-esque moment, ISM disappointed, modestly dropping to 56.3 with prices paid surging and new orders tumbling. All of this uncertainty is happening as 'hard' data in the American economy is collapsing.

It was expected to be a bad quarter for General Motors. It ended up being abysmal.

GM reported that July auto sales crashed by a whopping 15%, nearly double Wall Street's already depressed expectations of a 8% drop, and with GM mothballing production across the country to catch up with lagging demand, it still sold only 226,107 vehicles as a result of double digits drops in Chevy, Build and Cadillac Sales of 15.3%, -30.5% and -21.7%, respectively. The only "good" performer was GMC, which dropped by "only" 7.3% Y/Y.