The Market, Energy, And Political Page, T+67 -- October 19, 2018

Updates

October 20, 2018: Honduran update. Looks like Mexico got the message. If they continue to allow "this," Mexico will lose control of their southern border and their northern border.

Original Post

Nikki Haley: a Native American with 100% Indian blood. LOL. 

Honduran update: See the poll at this post. I suggested that a couple of well-placed phone calls would stop this. It is now being reported, but not confirmed, and has not been reported widely in the mainstream media yet, but apparently the mass of Hondurans -- which just reached the southern border of Mexico this past week -- is now disbanding and turning back. More to follow. My hunch: the "Trump resistance" was paying for this hoping to make this an issue for the midterm elections. Internal polling showed that the optics were actually working against the anti-Trumpers. Once they had that internal polling, the "project" was shut down. Hundreds of Honduran families are simply pawns in American politics. I will be taking down the poll at the sidebar at the right by tomorrow morning; vote if you have not.

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Fireworks: for those who were "lucky" enough to catch this on CNBC a few minutes ago, it's quite a story.  Note that one could have bought this $10/share company for $1.60/share three years ago. The new CEO discontinued dividends about that time, and has now "promised" that he is about ready to start paying dividends again.

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The Great Gatsby and Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Part 2

Earlier this month I posted a note connecting The Great Gatsby and Einstein's theory of relativity.

I about fell off my chair when I came across this on page 394, The God Problem, Howard Bloom:

The confirmation of Einstein's theory made headlines. Worldwide. For example, on November 7, 1919, the London Times ran one of the most impressive headlines in the history of science: "Revolution in Science -- New Theory of the Universe -- Newtonian Ideas Overthrown." And the confirmation of the eclipse of 1919 made Einstein what Time magazine on December 31, 1999, called "the Man of the Century."

The question of "going back in time" was one everybody's mind in the 1920s.

It's interesting that Woody Allen even stumbled upon that -- among the many characters / personalities in Midnight in Paris one can argue that Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald were the equals among equals in that movie. [Ernest Hemingway certainly made up the triumvirate.]

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Extraterrestrial Aliens And Jews: A Twofer

There are three things that consistently amaze when I read about the advances in the STEM disciplines, the over-representation of:

• Harvard University alumni
• Jewish ethnicity
• Hungarian background

The Jewish ethnicity and the connection with STEM has been mentioned by many.

The Harvard University connection -- perhaps another story for another day.

The Hungarian background: I forget who it was -- perhaps Edward Teller -- but one of the physicists associated with the modern theories of particle physics suggested that extraterrestrial aliens landed in Hungary around the 20'th century millenium (1899 - 1902) bringing with them their knowledge of science.

So, I again about fell off my chair when I read that David Bohm was of Jewish Hungarian heritage. I can now add David Bohm to that list of possible Hungarian extraterrestrials. I assume this has been a subject discussed on middle-of-the-night "Red Eye Radio." [If you click on that link, be sure you have your volume turned off or down.]

A twofer. Had he not been self-exiled from the United States he very likely might have ended up at Harvard.

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Cocktail Trivia

In addition to the Jewish association with STEM after 1900, prior to that year, the Jewish population was associated with the clothing industry.

An example: Benoît Mandelbrot of fractal fame was "born in 1924. Benoît's father was a mere clothing merchant." -- p. 455, The God Problem, Howard Bloom.

This bit of cocktail trivia: why were the European Jews so associated with the clothing industry?

Hint: 1555.