November 23, 2019, Part 1 -- Nothing About The Bakken

I'm on vacation for the next few days. Blogging about the Bakken will not be my priority. I would recommend folks coming here to read about the Bakken wait until Tuesday, November 26, 2019, to come back to the blog.

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Note: in all posts there will be factual and typographical errors. If anything on the blog is important to you, go to the source. Opinions and facts are often hard to tell apart but I don't intentionally post fake news. I do have a hidden agenda: I am inappropriately exuberant about the Bakken.

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Intermittent blogging due to traveling.

Top stories for the week may be delayed.

Lots of moving parts in the last 24 hours:

• son-in-law flew out to his parents in Kentucky earlier in the to see sister's  new baby, his first niece
• Arianna and Sophia flew unaccompanied to Kentucky last night to meet up with father to see said new niece
• daughter and middle granddaughter Olivia on way to Miami, FL, to participate in soccer tournament; later in week, they fly cross-country to Las Vegas, NV, to participate in another soccer tournament
• my wife and I are headed out to the Permian for a couple of days

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Things On My Mind

Other Than Family

And The Blog

Biggest business story of the week: Schwab to buy TD Ameritrade. TD Ameritrade is huge in the DFW area; much new building in the last five years. Now, all that becomes Schwab. One wonders what this was all about. How long were the talks going on? But going forward this really is likely to shake up the banking and brokerage industry. One wonders about Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, how this affects Merrill Lynch? I am very, very familiar with both (ML and Schwab).

Compare: But look at this, from yesterday, yes, it's dated November 22, 2019, a comparison between Schwab and ML -- over at Stockbrokers. 

Longest US bull market in history
Energy
Apple

• that AirPod story from yesterday blew me away

YouTube music

• cat-and-mouse game to remove copyright material

My three books for the week:

• Lost To The West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization, Lars Brownworth, c. 2009. -- nearly completed.
• The Vikings: A History, Robert Ferguson, c. 2009. -- about a third of the way through.
• And I'm re-reading 1421: The Year China Discovered America, Gavin Menzies, c. 2008. -- halfway through, again.

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Back to the Blog

Barron's top stories:

• Pfizer's new strategy makes it worth another look
• Charles Schwab stock could surge after a TD Ameritrade deal
• The bull market could end in 2020. Or not. Be prepared. Shouldn't one always be prepared?

Now, notes from readers.

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Greta: Geta Grip

Anyone who doesn't understand what's going on with regard to anti-fracking movement in the US isn't paying attention.

GDP:



Take my breath away:

Berlin

National team soccer player; Ph.D, mother.

Certified SCUBA diver and open-water sailor; little sister.