Facts And Factoids, Notes From All Over, Part 1 -- 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
• UCLA: #25
• UC Berkeley: #34
• UC Davis: #36
• UC San Diego: #37
• UC Santa Barbara: #71
• UC Irvine: #73
• UC Riverside: #189
• UC Santa Cruz: #251
• UC Merced: unranked; 10th and newest of the UC system
• US San Francisco: unranked; only graduate programs

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
• Sons of Liberty, Boston, MA
• rags-to-riches merchants
• tea was owned by EIC
• 90,000 pounds of EIC tea
• at the time, worth £9,659; today, worth over £1 million

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

• most recent, #13:
• December 29, 2019 -- two days ago
• Gardena, Los Angeles, CA 
• exited 91 Freeway in Gardena, ran a red light, and stuck a 2006 Honda Civic
• Honda Civic's two occupants killed
• two occupants in the Tesla, minor injuries
• by the way, #12
• a Tesla Model 3 rear-ended a parked police car in Connecticut 

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

• admits he completely missed the "tech" surge in 2019
• short segment on Fox Business News yesterday (New Year's Eve)