Notes From All Over -- Nothing About The Bakken -- The Friday Night Edition -- July 10, 2020

NASCAR XFINITY Kentucky race: Austin Cindric, 21 years old, just tied a Richard Petty record set back in 1971.

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Manhattan rental market implodes: median rent plunges most ever as vacancies hit record high. Too bad Amazon didn't move to Long Island.

It's going to be a mess: twenty-five percent of NYC renters have not paid since March. Link here.  It's one big snowball rolling downhill.

• large number of New Yorkers out-of-work due to lockdown
• direct payments to Americans now make up 25% of all personal income
• that assistance runs out in July -- that's this month -- unless US Congress acts now
• on top of that, last month New York state passed the Tenant Safe Harbor Act which makes it even harder for landlords to evict
• and, even if landlords are able to evict, demand for rentals has plunged
• plus people are fleeing cities due to virus pandemic and social unrest
• if colleges don't re-open (and I don't think they will) that will further exacerbate the rental market;
• a Redhead (that's her last name) said 40% of the tenants in her 50+ unit building skipped out on rent payments in June
• one thing I learned from my dad who rented a few apartments back in the day:
• whether apartments are rented or not, property taxes are due
• property taxes are based on appraisals, and appraisals are a year old when the market starts to crash
• if you don't live in NYC and don't think you won't be affected, think again: if you have a pension program, a pension investment, any kind of investment, 1,000-to-1 odds that investment has holdings in US banks -- they are in deep trouble.

The good news: NYC should have more than enough natural gas even without new pipelines. Thank goodness Amazon did not locate there. 

No wonder Tesla looks like such a better alternative. LOL.

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That Redhead? Reminds me of a story:

A blonde is walking down the street and a car pulled up next to her. The man in the car says to her, ''What do you have in the bag?'' The blonde replies: ''I have chickens!''

The man thinks for a moment and says, ''If I can guess how many chickens you have in the bag, can I have one?''

The blonde thinks that it sounds fair and replies, ''Okay, but I'll make the bet even better! If you can guess exactly how many chickens I have in the bag I will give you BOTH of them!" 

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A Charming Woman

Malagueña Salerosa, Once Upon A Time In Mexico
And, of course, from Mexico to Paris:

The Phantom of the Opera
It's hard to believe, but I think I've seen the stage play not less than three times in London. Okay, maybe only twice. I forget. While stationed with the USAF near London for three years, we saw a lot of London plays.