Cutting Their Losses Quickly -- This Won't Be The Last -- February 13, 2026

Locator: 49979EPSTEIN. 

Link here. 

I find this incredible / "beyond the pale" that a lawyer with such stature would feel the need to be "chummy" with Epstein.

No matter how much they deny it, anyone who visited "the island" had to have know what was going on. People talk. The ultimate playground. A little something for everyone. 

Same with Germans during the Holocaust. 

Apple -- Analyst Upgrade -- February 13, 2026

Locator: 49978INVESTING. 

Tag: Apple AAPL 

Link here. Raises target price from $325 to $340.

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Meanwhile 

The rumor that started all of this -- never mind. Link here. It gets tedious.

But an incredible buying opportunity.

 

This is not an investment site. For my extended family only -- not for general readership -- I will be adding significantly to my AAPL and WMT positions later today. And possibly Broadcom. 

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Disclaimer
Briefly

Briefly: 

I am inappropriately exuberant about the Bakken and I am often well out front of my headlights. I am often appropriately accused of hyperbole when it comes to the Bakken.

I am inappropriately exuberant about the US economy and the US market.

I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Apple. 

See disclaimer. This is not an investment site. 

Disclaimer: this is not an investment site. Do not make any investment, financial, job, career, travel, or relationship decisions based on what you read here or think you may have read here. All my posts are done quickly: there will be content and typographical errors. If something appears wrong, it probably is. Feel free to fact check everything.

If anything on any of my posts is important to you, go to the source. If/when I find typographical / content errors, I will correct them. 

Reminder: I am inappropriately exuberant about the Bakken, US economy, and the US market.

I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Apple. 

And now, Nvidia, also. I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Nvidia. Nvidia is a metonym for AI and/or the sixth industrial revolution.

I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Broadcom.

Longer version here.   

Friday The Thirteenth -- February 13, 2026

Locator: 49977B. 

WTI: $63.01.

New wells reporting:

• Sunday, February 15, 2026: 22 for the month, 75 for the quarter, 75 for the year,
• 41333, conf, Hess, BW-Stoveland-LE-149-100-1003H-1, 
• Saturday, February 14, 2026: 21 for the month, 74 for the quarter, 74 for the year,
• 41816, conf, BR, Rolla 6C, 
• Friday, February 13, 2026: 20 for the month, 73 for the quarter, 73 for the year,
• 41353, conf, Hess, GO-Beck Living TR-156-98-2017H-2, 

RBN Energy: proposed refinery-tax law pits Utah against its neighbors. Link here. Not interested.