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Blood In The Streets: Tech Wrecks, Bonds Battered, & Crude Catapults In July Jolt 86%

By Tyler Durden80%

7/31/2026, 1:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Recency Bias, and Pessimism Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 77.4% saturation with 89 hits. Analysis detected 400 faulty-reasoning hits from 115 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 72.6% and a BS Rank of 86% (3,808 of 25,466 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 85.10% of the article peer group.

Tl;dr: July was defined by the sharp re-escalation of the US-Iran conflict and renewed disruption risks in the Strait of Hormuz. 
This drove extreme oil volatility, lifted inflation expectations and bond yields, and pressured equity markets - particularly tech/momo - as central banks held rates steady while raising uncertainty on the path forward. 
Despite a hopeful bounce to end the month (was Leopold the only one 4x levered balls-deep?), it was a bloodbath for most assets... 
Nasdaq's worst July in 22 years, bonds' biggest July yield-spike since 2005... oil's biggest July jump in over 30 years. 
Oil 
Rates 
Stocks 
Everything Else 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
17.4%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
30.4%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
32.2%
Negativity Bias
77.4%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
35.7%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
20%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
29.6%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
27.8%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
77.4%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

115 words analyzed.

Analysis

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