Notes From All Over -- Early Saturday Morning Edition -- March 27, 2021

Humor: Power Line in pictures vs the Suez chip memes.

• Power Line here.
• the memes here.
• with one or two exceptions, the memes won this week. 

A reader replied: How one boat with one job in body of water can bugger up the entire shipping industry, boggles the mind. The memes are great though. 

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In Other News

The markets, Friday: wow, go back through the individual holdings, and yesterday, Friday, March 26, 2021, was an incredible day. And then there was ViacomCBS (VIAC) and Discovery.

Poorest timing ever? Contributor recommends buying UNP on pullbacks one day before UNP hits all-time high, surging over 3 percent, up almost $7.00 / share. 

MDU: dividend aristocrat.

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Jobless claims: reported a day earlier, March 25, 2021, US jobless claims reached the lowest level of the pandemic; claims fell to 684,000 last week, adding to evidence the economy is ramping up. Link here.

Beverly Cleary, Klickitat Street, Portland, OR, dead at age 104. Covid-19  apparently not the cause of death. 

Insurers: the Suez ship. This article said almost exactly nothing. Over at Bloomberg. 

Speaking of which: it is now being reported that a crane will be brought in to start off loading some of those containers. 

Tesla: "breach of contract" talk. 

Misery index: link here. I suspect less than 1 percent of the US population follows the misery index, but 99 percent of Americans know the price of gasoline.