Stories We'll Be Talking About This Next Week -- May 21, 2023

Locator: 44706NEWS.

Cava: Mediterranean restaurant; to go public; IPO announced.

Cash 'n Carry: willing to pause. Link to WSJ.

• out front, is Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari the most recognizable member on the Fed?
  

Debt ceiling:

• talks not going well;
• most concerning: 
• GOP leadership not able to frame “their” message;
• Do the GOP even have a message?
• do MAGA Republicans see blood in the water?
  
• 14th Amendment; section 4.
  
• wiki;
• op-ed: WAMC Northeast Public Radio; about WAMC.

Putin's War: indications things may not be going well for Ukraine. Has the tide changed?

PGA: USA championship. LIV players made it watchable.

NASCAR: 4:30 p.m. CT today. 

NBA: 

• might Denver sweep LAL and LeBron?
• tonight, Heat leads Boston Celtics in series, 2 - 0; third game tonight 
• later: at start of 4th quarter, 93 - 63, Miami up by 30 points; looks like a sweep
  

Travel:

• airlines will end paper tickets; link to WSJ. Just a matter of time.
  
• big story: Alaska Airlines will replace ticket-printing kiosks with iPad luggage-tag printing only;
• airlines looking to charge as much as $25 to print a paper ticket
• won't affect "print-at-home" travelers

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A Musical Interlude

Video. I think Google/YouTube will block this -- force you to go to YouTube and may not end up on the video, so here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNKrBQCzQOI. 

AAPL: the headset.

• the biggest challenge: to make sure folks understand the target audience for this new device
• spoiler: it’s not your or me!

A trifecta: 

• Amazon: AOC -- "I was right."
• Disney: Ron -- "Here, hold my beer."
• Bud: Mike -- "No, hold my Bud." [Link to The WSJ: "How Bud Lite Blew It."]
  

Southern Surge:

• not much being reported;
• hardly a national story; regional story at best;
• in fact, it's down to cities and counties
• all that talk about Title 42 -- just talk?

Trump goes woke? On Disney? Link to WSJ.

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We'll End With This 

Where I would rather be today.

Route 66. Oatman, AZ. 

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7VgR7cYVIQ. 

And finally, lunch while watching the PGA.