Fast And Furious -- Fifteen Minutes -- October 28, 2020

First things first, red: Trump gets fifth Nobel Peace Prize nomination. Link here.

First things first, black: MLB's crushing debt -- and it will be worse in 2021 if things don't change; https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/mlbs-debt-8-3-billion-2020-season-coronavirus. 

Pusillanimous: word for the day.

Music: great day for Mahler's Symphony #9.

US auto sales: sales soar; up 3% as demand soars;

Trucking:

• McKinsey: why most eTrucks will choose overnight charging; link here;
• Bloomberg: eCommerce boom provides lifeline for oil; link here; yet another article on the boom in trucking;
  

Dodgers win World Series: WSJ's big story regarding same -- Covid-19 and masks. 

Apple:

• making movies with iPhone 12; has Dolby Vision recording;
• more original content: orders comedy series "Platonic" starring Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen;
• Apple will air Peanuts for free during holiday season; viewers complain; up in arms; LOL;
• after mocking Apple, Samsung will remove power adapter from Galaxy S21 Box;

Grand Solar Minimum:

• see this blog post re: Valentina Zharkova;
• Zharkoa admits she was wrong; retracts article;
• for more blog notes on Zharkova, link here;

Arctic ice melting:

• global warming or undersea volcanoes?

From Yahoo!Finance daily note:

• U.S. economic data continues to impress. ‌ 
• On Tuesday, durable goods orders for September, and Richmond Federal Reserve data for October, showed the manufacturing sector continues to top expectations. ‌ 
• Durable goods orders rose 1.9% while core orders rose 0.4%. 
• Economists noted the headline figure was flattered (sic -- flattened?) by orders in the airline industry. ‌ 
• Meanwhile, the Richmond Fed’s manufacturing index hit a record high in October 29. 
• This report marked the fourth-straight month of positive readings. 
• The figure is a diffusion index, which captures the difference between the number of respondents saying conditions are getting better minus those saying things are getting worse. ‌ Meanwhile, the report also showed a notable pre-pandemic trend of employers unable to find skilled labor.
  

And that's why I stay fully invested. 

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