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NBA draft:
- four of top five picks: Duke (2); Rutgers (2)
- three of top ten picks: Duke
- four of top twenty: France (think Ledger, crypto)
- #1 pick SF Cooper Flagg (Duke): Dallas Mavericks
- #2: San Antonio Spurs picked up the second overall pick; #2, PG Dylan Harper (Rutgers)
- #3: SG VJ Edgecombe (Baylor) -- Philadelphia 76ers
- #4: SF Kon Knueppel (Duke) -- Charlotte Hornets
- #5: SF Ace Bailey (Rutgers) -- Utah Jazz
Thread of the day: twenty-five most beautiful national parks in the world, link here.
Many parks not listed below are in India, Japan, New Zealand, China. In the big scheme of things, there are two locations for these parks: easily accessible in the US; incredibly inaccessible exotic locations where only the rich, elite can visit more than three times in their lifetimes. The US: what a great country.
- #1: Banff National Park, Canada
- #3: Glacier National Park, Montana
- #7: Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
- #10: Yosemite National Parks
- #13: Yellowstone National Park, USA
- #16: Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
- #20: Grand Teton National Park
- Notably absent:
- UK
- Europe (with two exceptions, and hardly even in Europe)
- Russia
- Iceland
- South American (most; all?)
- Malaysia
Headlines:
- Apple win: Trump administration scraps "made in the USA" tag for the Trump gold smartphone)
- why wind and solar can't meet rising energy needs: oilprice.
- Shell confirms it is not buying BP at this time: links everywhere.
- Cramer: remembers a list of billionaires that bailed on Nvidia. Was Nancy on that list? x.
- Nvidia: closes at record high yesterday and in pre-trading today, up another 1%
- One of my favorite / more incredible x contributors has lost his/her mojo: x
- JPow: is no longer data dependent; basing rate decisions on "what if's" in the future: x
- the tariff story is over, dead, inconsequential: CNBC
- Mideast making the Mideast great again; Iran is irrelevant and Israel will keep it that way; at least during the Netanyahu-Trump era: comment
- Trump getting closer to naming a "shadow" Federal Reserve chairman
Tech story of the day: Micron.
Micron makes two main types of memory chips: DRAM and Nand. DRAM chips act as the main memory in PCs, servers and other devices, working closely with central processing units. Nand flash provides longer-term data storage.
- June 22, 2025: Micron, #5 on list of 10 most undervalued stocks in analyst's portfolio
- December 23, 2024: tech jargon.
- October 14, 2024: Insider Monkey.
- September 25, 2024: Micron earnings released; after release, Micron jumped $14, trading at $109.
- September 19, 2024: Apple in talks with Micron.
