Headlines -- December 11, 2023

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Golden Globe nominations: link here.

Technology: Every day I'm more and more amazed what technology can do for me and I assume I'm only using 2% of what is available out there. 

There's a reason this is being called the industrial revolution #4. And I'm investing accordingly. I don't have any position in Oracle, but if I were looking for another ticker for my "tech bucket," I would look at ORCL, but I have my 20 stocks and that's it. These are my buckets and the 20 tickers. If I want to add another ticker, I have to delete one of the existing ones. These buckets are my "new-money" allotment buckets. In red is a new position.

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All my posts are done quickly: there will be content and typographical errors. If anything on any of my posts is important to you, go to the source. If/when I find typographical / content errors, I will correct them.

Again, all my posts are done quickly. There will be typographical and content errors in all my posts. If any of my posts are important to you, go to the source.

Cool: in less than 24 hours, we will know. It's amazing how financial analysts are "hanging" their reputations on this. Maybe more on this later but for now, just this:

Balmy: that describes north Texas weather right now. Shirt sleeve weather in the afternoons. What did Farmers Almanac predict?

Toys Aren't Us: Hasbro laying off 1,100 workers during Christmas season. Santa's elves are making Lego sets instead.

Buffett: continues to sell HP. 

Journaling: Apple likes it; thinks their users will also. I haven't used it, so cannot comment on whether this is something relatively "new" or if it's competing with some other product already out there. For me, the iPhone is too small on which to "journal." Even the iPad is not optimized for journaling. 

COP28: apparently the final statement will be something along the line, "hey guys, use less."

I can see clearly now: Lucid CFO resigns. LOL.

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Word Of The Day

Bacronym: the opposite of an acronym. Take an existing word and turn it into an acronym. For example, take “bison.”

“Bison” becomes “BISON” or “Biodiversity serving our nation.” Bacronyms are used all the time in politics to “name” bills, such as the CARES Act.

“Apgar”: a bacronym / mnemonic to remember five observations relating to the vitality of a newborn. But is / was “APGAR” a real word or name? Yup. It was named after famed pediatrician, Dr Virginia Apgar.