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Tesla: to stop production in Austin, Texas. Breaking. Details to follow. Headline exaggerated:
- will turn four-day weekend into one full week of no production
- second time in past two months to stop production for at least one week each month.
Questions, Observations
Trump's latest comments:
- tweets clearly suggest the US is involved and confirming "we" (Israel and US) have complete control of the air;
- tea leaves suggest only a few days left of Iran launching ballistic missiles into Tel Aviv
Israel:
- no worldwide calls for Israel to de-escalate unilaterally; truly amazing; never expected this;
- major headlines suggest Iran is the nuisance here, not Israel;
- G7: at best, a summary statement asking for both sides to de-escalate; surprisingly, the one man looking for a Nobel Peace Prize did not agree to sign this statement; did not want to "box-in" Israel.
- breaking: Trump calls for "unconditional surrender."
- Trump says he's neutral; says he wants diplomatic solution
- if accurate, "unconditional surrender," suggests Trump knows what is coming
Russia:
- has to be shocked that its air defense package was knocked out by the Israeli Air Force
- Israeli Air Force must be somewhat smaller than NATO's, US's air defense;
- on top of that, Ukraine is embarrassing Putin
Boeing:
- Dreamliner 787: despite Air India crash on take-off; 241 of 242 killed:
- no calls to ground Dreamliner
- officially: no explanations; no theories
- unofficially: two-engine flame-out;
- fuel contamination: doesn't make sense;
- it seems this would be really, really each to confirm one way or the other
- fuel contamination hits one plane out of the very many that would have taken on fuel at that Indian airport on that date
- emergency fuel cutoff switch turned off
- I find that amazingly remarkable; no idea what caused the crash and it was a catastrophic crash and yet no call to ground the Dreamline 787 until safety checks are accomplished.
Inflation:
- tame;
- housing prices, data released today: very, very mixed but overall, generally lower or trending lower year-over-year; at least that was my takeaway
- there are exceptions: in Cleveland, for example, home prices are surging.
