The Fed drama theater continues. President Trump just fired Fed Governor Lisa Cook with a letter citing mortgage fraud allegations—but Cook is still in office, and she says that Trump has no authority to fire her.

Cracker Barrel is on the damage control PR tour of its life. After making a logo change that sharply drove shares down, the company stated the painfully obvious: “We could’ve done a better job…”

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg today. Read on for robotics stocks, Roblox, and crypto trading cards, too.

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Equity markets pulled a U-turn Monday after Friday’s rate-cut euphoria, with the Dow dropping over 300 points.

President Trump has attempted to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook, but Cook has responded by saying that Trump has no authority to actually fire her. This back and forth marks the newest instance of historic Presidential pressure on the Fed:

Why is Trump pressuring the Fed so hard? One likely reason (besides hopes of economic stimulation) is that the government badly needs interest rates to go down to make its debt payments manageable. If rates stay high, interest payments will continue to eat through the government’s budget.

No one is happy with Cracker Barrel right now. The southern restaurant chain removed the iconic “Uncle Hershel” from its logo, and $CBRL dropped 7% amidst the public backlash that followed. A former Barrel employee is calling the move “brand suicide.” The company’s response so far has been to say that “If the last few days have shown us anything, it’s how deeply people care about Cracker Barrel.” Meanwhile, they aren’t reversing the logo change; the most they’ve done is to say that Uncle Hershel will still be featured on the menu, because “he’s family.” We’ll leave you with this: short interest on the stock currently sits at 31% of float, which is almost twice as high as GameStop’s short interest right now (16%). $CBRL is down about 12% over the past week.

Nvidia is shipping a new robotics-specific chip that will allow customers to make their own robots. CEO Jensen Huang has already stated that robotics is Nvidia’s greatest area for growth other than AI, and this $3,499 “robot brain” chip is the next step in that direction. These robotics chips are 7.5x faster than the previous generation. Here are AltIndex’s top 10 robotics stocks at the moment.

Investors Business Daily says that Roblox $RBLX is in a buy range now after it “bounced off its 50-day line in heavy volume”. AltIndex’s AI model agrees that Roblox has just barely reached “buy” territory—citing promising revenue growth, a positive long-term stock price trend, and growing web traffic and social media engagement. Note that the company’s net income is down YoY and that there’s been a large amount of insider selling this past month; still, the model views the stock’s technical indicators as quite compelling.

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Investors tend to turn toward gold in the midst of market uncertainty and as a hedge against inflation—and after Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech last week, the value of the dollar sank and gold prices rose significantly.

And an interesting chart: the S&P 500 priced in gold has stayed relatively even over the past 50 years since the US moved off of the gold standard, while $SPX’s price in USD has only skyrocketed:

We aren’t telling you to buy gold or that it’s a foolproof asset—but we are highlighting its track record as a stable, consistent store of value and a hedge against the massive inflation our country has seen in the past five decades.

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