AppleBank -- Really, Really Exciting -- January 11, 2023

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Themes: 2023. 

For investors:

• the best place to park your money now through at least the end of 2023, link here.
• cash is king? Dividends? 
• commodities: a generational opportunity?

Note: this was posted January 5, 2023.  

• Has market re-set?
• New trading range?
• New era of 5% overnight interest rates?
• Is that bad? Or just something new from which we can profit?
• How did it happen that we dropped to "free money" in the first place?
• Is cash now king? What does that mean for a company with billions in cash?
• High rates --> high monthly mortgages --> housing market crushed.
• Is auto market next? If so, the canary in the coal mine?
• EVs?

Is cash now king? What does that mean for a company with billions in cash? Apple, Inc.

That was posted on TMDW on January 5, 2023.

Today, on social media:

A few points to add:

• AAPL's biggest "outside" shareholder? Warren Buffett (BRK)?
• who does Tim Cook call when he needs investment advice? And who picks up the phone personally.
• if so, remember, if there's one thing Buffett knows and knows well, it's banks.

Really exciting. Even I have "Apple Wallet" -- linked with my non-Amazon credit card.

From CNBC, June 7, 2022:

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