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Third day of the shutdown.
Another day I won't be going to the Grand Canyon National Park or Cape Cod National Seashore or The Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Unit.
And so, we move on.
Vanderbilt University, football team: earned a story in The WSJ. Link here.
England, part of Great Britain / the United Kingdom: maybe two great universities -- Oxford and Cambridge. The US? Too many to count. Even in one state. We are so fortunate in this country. Much could be said. Trump wants to cap foreign students at 15%. Holy mackerel! I had no idea.
Google, Arkansas, $4 billion, large data center in West Memphis. Quick, where is Elon Musk building his super computers. Yeah, Memphis, Tennessee. Link here to The Wall Street Journal.
Shutdown: one-two punch -- okay -- one-two-three punch -- Trump -- Christopher Wright -- Doug Burgum. That trio will have a major impact on the government, on energy policy. There will be a vote tomorrow, then everyone heads home, back sometime next week. It's clear that Trump has no reason to negotiate. I sure hope he doesn't go wobbly. Hopefully Susie Wiles keeps Schumer / Jeffries off the president's calendar.
Shutdown: Energy Dept axes billions for green projects in blue states.
Investing: I'm not been listening to as much CNBC as usual the last two days. Most of the CNBC folks seem not to realize what's going in -- I've yet to hear anyone refer to this as the Fourth Industrial Revolution on CNBC.
Investing: all week long -- actually for weeks / months now -- CNBC talking heads ask "how do we value these tech companies"? So, now Buffett' says he plans to acquire Occidental's petrochemicals unit and no one asked how it was valued. Simply a price on which Warren Buffett and Vicki Hollub agreed. Investors for neither BRK nor OXY were happy about this proposed deal. OXY closed down 7.3% today after the announcement was made. It's a pretty scary chart.
Investing: futures tonight -- all major indices --- green! And not by a trivial amount.
Lots of music tonight.
Federal troops to Portland: I was listening to NPR tonight on the way from soccer practice for Sophia. The far liberal interviewer was interviewing a criminologist with regard to federal troops in Portland. The interview was not going the way the interviewer had hoped. Shortest NPR interview ever.
Another bizarre story: link here.
Vaccinations: I guess I'll be getting my Covid-19 and seasonal influenza vaccinations this weekend. I can't remember but I think I get them simultaneously now, one in each arm. I don't recommend that; if one has a systemic reaction you won't know which vaccine is the culprit. But I've kind lost any interest in discussing the issue.
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Focus On Investing
I completely missed this until I saw cash in my investment account which took me by surprise. Link here.
Two or three days ago. Wow.
A Musical Interlude
A gazillion songs from which to choose. I chose this one. My wife would not understand. LOL.
