The Market -- Another Incredible Day Ahead Of Us -- September 2, 2021

Trolling:  

Letter from Harvard: natural immunity exponentially better than vaccine; puts "vaccine passports" in limbo. Link here. If this is from Harvard, it must be true.

Printer watch, local Target, total: twelve

• Canon, high-end color: increased from six to nine
• Epson, nice price point: down two, now none on shelf
• HP, unchanged, at one. A low-end Envy model
  

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US equity indices: all four in the green in pre-market trading

• S&P 500, NASDAQ could hit new all-time records again
• AAPL: up $1.43, up almost 1% in pre-market trading
• AMZN: should change ticker symbol to CRZY 
• Bitcoin: big sure overnight; flirting with 50,000 again
• ARKK: holy mackerel, a $115 stock now trading at $125
  

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SCOTUS: Texas fetal protection act -- 5-4 declined to issue emergency injunction; warning -- trolling follows --

• would have been a lopsided 6 - 3 had the "conservative" chief justice joined the majority
• I didn't understand my wife trying to explain the law (she gets her news from Rachel Maddow)
• in fact, very, very clever law: individuals deputize to report violations; $10,000 bounty
• historically, cattle-rustlers faced greater penalties than those performing third-trimester / post-delivery feticide
• unless I'm missing something, this stops "all" abortions as of today in Texas; US Congress would have to pass a federal civil rights law to push back the most recent ruling
• will lead to more calls to pack the court
• to conserve odd-number of justices, Biden would have to appoint even number of new justices: two or four -- two more is hardly packing the court; four is a bridge too far?
• a one-term president could pack the court following most successful evacuation in history
• a reader pointed out: this is not a setback for women -- the SCOTUS ruling on abortion; it's now agreed that this is no longer a binary world, and, even more remarkable, XX individuals can not become pregnant

NYC transportation: apparently got hit worse than Louisiana. Wow.