Clearing Off The Desktop -- January 15, 2025

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Clearing off the desktop. Some of this interested me last night and some of this interested me earlier today but now none of this interests me, but I need to keep the links for the archives.

If you came here for the Bakken, I highly recommend you skip this page.

Banks: surging profits:

• The WSJ, link here;
• Axios, link here;
• BRK-B: finished up $8.48 / share today; up 1.88% today; closed at $458.51.
• Warren Buffett loves banks

Semaphore business:

• welcome;
• "The Messenger" board weighed shutting down, one year ago, link here;
• "The Messenger," wiki.

Tech:

• first iPhone chips made in America soon to start mass production; MacRumors;
• two years ago, so many said it couldn't be done.
• Nvidia: to establish a "second" headquarters;
• Asian headquarters: Taipei, Taiwan

Linkhorns:

• Abraham Linkhorn (Lincoln); Kentucky History;
• Linkhorns, A Walk on the Wild Side, Literature Network Forums;
• A Walk on the Wild Side, wiki;
• white trash, David Reynolds, Essays, JSTOR;

Biden:

• now we can speak the truth, The New York Times;
• the BBC;

STEO:

• quite incredible when you think about it;

XOM: 

• natural gas discovery off Egypt;

Venture Global:

• Barron's;

Books:

• the best books to read in 2025; yes, 2025; BBC.

Batteries:

• Bjorn Lomborg.

EV:

• California buckles. Reuters.