Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Scrolling Through X At End Of The Day -- May 6, 2025

Locator: 48599ARCHIVES.

Noteworthy: even among war-time presidents, I can't think of any administration that has been more "amazing" than the current administration. Executive orders and judicial over-reach: SCOTUS has effectively put a stop to the craziness. 

US personal savings rates, link here:

Measles: number of measles in Texas now goes over 700 cases -- 702 cases 

  • 91 with history of hospitalization
  • two fatalities in children; neither had known underlying conditions

SCOTUS: with ruling on trans / military today, the US Supreme Court telegraphs how it plans to thread the needle. I don't follow the US judicial system to know the backstory, but I assume SCOTUS is taking a page from the playbook of bygone eras. Perhaps from the FDR era? 

NBA tonight -- it's going to be tough to "beat" last night's games. Tonight:

  • Pacers vs Cavaliers, early game;
  • Warriors vs Timberwolves, late game
    • Steph Curry vs Minnesota

AMD delivered: nice report. Link here. Certainly doesn't feel like a recession.
data center revenue has grown at a 56% CAGR over the past four years; link here

PLTR: down 11% -- as low as 13% down --  today after absolutely crushing earnings ...

Super Micro: lowers guidance.

CHORD out with results

DEVON out with results.

  • "stunning" drop of 5,000 bopd oil volumes quarter / quarter in their Delaware Basin as per today's earnings release;

BRK, 1Q25, link here. Has anyone really looked at this graphic?

Lucid: shares rise; "earnings were good enough."

Senator John Fetterman, trending. And not in a good way.

India and Pakistan: war breaking out? This never would have happened under a Biden presidency.
Canada / US: to see Indian-Pakistani conflict across the continent; many westerners will be shocked; the cost of mass immigration with zero assimilation.

China is in deep financial trouble and Trump knows it.So do "thinking" Democrats.

RFK, Jr.: I may be whistling past the graveyard, but my hunch is RFK, Jr, will cause no long-lasting damage to health care in the United States. I can imagine some good coming from his craziness. But again, I may be whistling past the graveyard.