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Updates
The stories continue to come.
- Trump’s trip to the Middle East
- deals worth a trillion dollars in two days
- Saudi Arabia surges in global influence;
- Trump removes sanctions on Syria
- huge deals with Qatar: Qatar to buy more Boeing jets. Says relationship with US reaches new highs.
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Probably nothing to see here.
- the US has a new pope: Bessent the Benevolent.
- meanwhile, the Vatican conclave elects first-time-ever an American Bishop of Rome, aka the Pope;
- Sinéad O'Connor doesn't issue a press release (as far as I know)
- Trump to slash drug costs by 30 - 80%: Americans to pay no more than least expensive price worldwide
- insulin down to 3 cents / dose; EpiPen, $15;
- Democrats will protest -- the Qatar argument -- they will want the government to pay full price
- US-China trade war is over for now -- 90-day cooling-roff period
- historic trade agreement between UK - US -- first such agreement to be announced in decades
- all the EU can offer: a lawsuit within the auspices of the WTO
- Mexico to sue google over "Gulf of Mexico" on its maps
- is today the first day ever in years that no one is at war with anyone?
- last American hostage held by Hamas to be released today
- the Houthis have said they have had enough; won't attack any more ships in the Red Sea;
- only cost the US two F/A-18s and the entire stockpile of USS Truman's armaments
- Iranian nuke talks more productive than ever
- Putin - Zelenskyy to hold face-to-face meeting; shooting to stop for at least awhile, maybe
- India-Pakistan call for cease-fire after US intervention
- Trump tells new Canadian PM never say "never"
- Qatar -- huge friend of the US -- wants to "gift" the US a $400-million state-of-the-art Boeing 747-8i at no cost
- Democrats demand the US government pay full price; don't even want to negotiate
- AOC says she may run for president; could stop California governor Newsom's plans
- southern border secure; like 1000% secure
- when one positively, absolutely needs a secure border overnight, hire Trump-Homan-Noem
- friends of MS-13, Tren de Aragua (TdA): democratic leadership, Judge Boasberg, and The NY Times; [note: Judge Boasberg is now a meme and a poster child for appellate and circuit judges]
- polls show more than 50% of Americans agree that deportation of illegal
immigrants--criminal-terrorists is un-American and should be stopped
- speed limit on interstate highways in North Dakota now match those of Montana, South Dakota: 80 mph
- politics
- Bill Maher is singing the praises of Donald Trump
- everyone -- with two notable exceptions -- now admits Biden was senile
- exceptions:
- the threesome: Whoopi, Joy, and Ecstasy on "The View"
- the threesome: Joe Scarborough, wife Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist
- everyone -- with same notable exceptions -- now admit Biden was crooked
- everyone -- with same notable exceptions -- now admit Biden weaponized the entire US government against Trump
- irony
- had it not been for the southern surge, Biden would have been re-elected by a landslide
- when all the numbers finally come in, we'll see positive GDP in 1Q25; no recession
- sports
- the NFL deal of the year: Dallas Cowboys sign wide receiver George Pickens who is actually happy to play in Dallas; doesn't even care about the contract; refreshing
- Rory McIlroy sixth golfer in history to "achieve" the Grand Slam by winning the Masters; only the second golfer in the "modern age" to have achieved this feat; it's taken 25 years; something not one golfer on the LIV tour has done
- coffee shops
- the US now has a new coffee shop chain to take on Starbucks; The Black Sheep -- 100 locations, mostly in London, northern England; only three in the US: two in Dallas; one in Grapevine, TX (suburb of Dallas where we live); "coming": Miami.
- not to be outdone, the White Bison is even more select and more American; a Nashville, TN-based operation about to go nationwide
- 21 locations: Newbern, TN; Athens, TN; throughout Nashville, TN-area; several in Huntsville, AL-area; and that's it
- the world's two largest supercomputers to be built in the US: Dallas and Houston
- unprecedented amounts of money flowing into US from corporations around the world
- biggest exception: Ford will still manufacture its highly successful Mustang Mach-e in Mexico.
- and, then, of course,
How high will the NASDAQ jump today? Moments before the open. I don't ever recall an 800-point jump in the NASDAQ at the open. Never. Ever.
MAGA.
And my favorite. Go to ChatGPT and type in "Bakken-based blogs?"
ChatGPT:
- is freei
- download on a laptop or a mobile device takes less than 15 seconds
- can use your google or Apple password (including touch- or face-ID
- once in your app library can be immediately opened by pressing "option-space bar" in sequence, almost simultaneously (maybe simultaneously, too)
- it simply works
Apple is ex-dividend today.
Investing: today is already history. What are you doing now?
I have no cash today. I remain fully invested at all times. I do believe it's possible to find opportunities every day in the US equity market. It's just that some days are better than others.
Nvidia, this is just the lede of a very long "essay":
Fossil fuel: oil is dead! Long live oil!
