Sunday, September 21, 2025

Thoughts, Questions -- September 21, 2025

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September 22, 2025. Rambling:

  • I've never seen so much news; it's impossible to keep up; every day I wake up eager to see what's new;
  • this is the most transformative president in my adult lifetime -- perhaps since Ronald Reagan

September 21, 2025. Rambling: 

  • the year the music died: at least for the next four years, EVs are dead; 
    • anything else is "spring hopes eternal"
    • the final straw: Buffett gets out! 
  • I would never bet against Jensen Huang, but for investors, with regard to Intel, there are so many other bets just as good; 
    • if one has to think that much about an investment in this economy, it's time to pass;
  • I'm inappropriately exuberant about Apple, but what Apple Silicon is doing is simply amazing
    • ditto: Tim Cook's American Manufacturing Company
  • no one mentions it, but the biggest moat right now: trillion-dollar-market caps
  • why does everyone seem to be fighting the Fed? 
  • where is Vanderbilt ranked this week? Finally, it breaks through #20; now ranked #18 after beating Georgia State (unranked, not to be confused with #5 Georgia), 70 - 21; 

From September 19, 2025:

Data points this past week that really caught my attention: 

  • the strong performance of US equity markets in August / September, considering these two months are historically tough months for mom-and-pop retail investors; 
  • Apple's global laptop sales in the 2Q25; 
  • the staggering production in the Permian relative to the rest of the nation; 
  • what appears to be an incredible Apple iPhone 17 launch; 
  • the continued misreading of the Intel story; 
  • the strength of the AI/fourth/sixth industrial revolution; 
  •  the Fed is cutting despite a strong market; 
  • despite all the trash talk from the White House, JPow is looking pretty good; 
  • most important: he is independent of the White House and he's very, very trustworthy and credible.