Monday, October 24, 2022

Twitter And Web3 -- October 24, 2022

Apple's Siri is "web3."

Web3.


Web 3.0. 

Web3: wiki.

Schlumberger And The Red Sea -- October 24, 2022

Wow, we talked about this in 2013 -- more than ten years ago! From Sunday, April 7, 2013.

From twitter overnight:

 

The link to the blog site above was just one of many back then. For more, search Red Sea on the blog.

Seed Oil --More Dangerous Than The Vaccine? October 24, 2022

Somehow I missed this: seed oil.

I first became aware of it just a few days ago, October 16, 2022. See #5 at this post.  

To understand, see this excellent and very long tweet. If this is accurate, this is simply amazing!

Pretty Much Says It All -- October 24, 2022

Came to Texas as fast as they could. Bought in California; moved to Texas. Photos from a Ford in our apartment complex yesterday. New arrival from California. The sticker was on the driver-side window -- Folks who are familiar with California Prop 65 will know what this is all about. 


Monday -- October 24, 2022

Buffett divs: link here.


Copper: from Michael Fitzsimmons over at SeekingAlpha --

Copper, from Bloomberg today (opinion):

China’s imports of oil, coal and iron ore all peaked back in 2020 and show few signs of revival despite Monday’s better-than-expected GDP print (copper, a key new-economy metal, is an exception). [GDP: 3.9 vs 3.3 - 3.5 expected.]
If the weekend’s changes can move China to a more economically and environmentally sustainable growth path, that’s good news for the country — and the world. A resources industry that’s grown fat for decades on its insatiable appetite for raw materials, however, should watch out

Copper, warehouses all but empty, also Bloomberg today:

China’s billion-dollar cash-for-copper trade, whereby local companies would use metal as collateral for cheap financing, is grinding to a halt as bonded warehouses are all but empty. That’s primarily because the two dominant financiers — JPMorgan Chase & Co. and ICBC Standard Bank Plc — have halted new business there.

Stagflation not: definition includes high unemployment. Link here.

Dividends: link here. From SeekingAlpha: