Notes From All Over -- Part 3 -- October 10, 2021

 UNP possibly posted earlier; can't remember. JPMorgan upgrades Union Pacific. Link here. 

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Ticker symbols, EVs, re-posting. I posted these a long time ago. I don't know if all are still "real":

• RIDE: Lordstown Motors Corp

• FSR: Fisker, Inc
• FIII: Forum Merger III

• GIK: Ligtning eMotors

• HYLN: Hyliion Holdings Corp
• CIIC: CIIG Merger Corp

• NGA: Northern Genesis Acquisition Corp

• XL: XL Fleet Corp
• WKHS: Workhorse Group Inc

• GOEV: Canoo
• NKLA: Nikola Coproration 

• ACTC: ArcLight Clean Transition Corp
• TSLA: Tesla


Revenge of fossil fuel: in a world fighting climate change, demand for coal is hitting new records. Bloomberg Green. Later: about two hours after posting this, a reader sent me an interesting article over at ZeroHedge suggesting that atmospheric CO2 is about to soar. I'll comment on this later.

Halloween, Fauci: apparently after seeing tens of thousands of unmasked folks packed in football stadiums for the past month and no surge in Covid-19 cases -- in fact, the numbers are plummeting -- Dr Fauci has green-lighted "trick-or-treat" events for the youngsters. "Go out and have fun." Or something to that effect. They're all wearing masks, anyway. 

Bond, the movie: opening in the US not as good as hoped. Link here. And, here.

Comment: they blame some of the poor turnout to movie patrons' fear of Covid. That may or may not be true, and it may be comparing apples to oranges, but it's hard for me to reconcile empty movie theaters due to fear of Covid-19 and packed football stadiums. 

Which leads to another comment: whether vaccines work or don't work, if we didn't have the vaccines (think you Mr Trump and Operation Warpspeed) we would not be back to packed football stadiums. And, oh by the way, Dr Fauci greenlights trick-or-treating this Halloween.

Which leads to another comment: the surges are a fact of life, and the vaccines are not as effective as hoped (or as advertised). But I've seen no arguments that things would be much worse without the vaccines -- surges that were higher, longer lasting, and more frequent. I don't know, no one knows, but it's always interesting what questions aren't asked.