The Million Dollar Way (The Bakken Oil Blog): Facts And Factoids, Notes From All Over, Part 1 -- January 1, 2020

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Roger Ailes died in 2017.

Equity:

the Dow's best stock in 2019: AAPL (Apple) -- Barron's
the best stock of the decade: Netflix -- CNBC; MDW called it on March 21, 2013;

US universities, 2019, rankings -- WSJ -- link here;

of all public and private universities in the US: Harvard ranked #1
of the top 24 public and private universities in the US: all are private institutions
of the top 50 public and private universities in the US, only ten are public
the #1 public university in the US is UCLA: ranks #25 among all US public and private universities
UC-Santa Cruz: once one of the highest ranking, is now ranked #251
USC, private, seldom, if ever, ranks ahead of UCLA, is now ranked #18 among all public and private universities; UCLA is #25
under Janet Napolitano, the University of California system has fallen further in rankings than ever before
the "UC" schools

States, winners and losers: wealthy millennials are --

leaving: New York, Illinois, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania (in that order); and,
heading to: California, Washington State, Texas, Colorado, and Florida (again, in that order)

TCM's "cocktail noir": the classic bourbon Manhattan cocktail.

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, 1738 - 1805 --

surrendered British forces in North America to a combined American and French force at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781
recruited as Governor General of India by the East India Company to stop the same from happening there
defeating Tipu Sultan in 1782, in the Third Anglo-Mysore War, essentially brought all of India under control of the EIC
that tea that was dumped into Boston Harbor, 1773

Unlucky #13: the number of Tesla crashes in the wild that have been recorded; most recent

Dennis Gartman: final 2019 prediction -- commodity stocks are so low, they can only go up in 2020