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Stories I'll be interested in this week, or stories that simply caught my eye over the weekend.
The usual disclaimer applies and I can't guarantee the links all work; often for any number of reasons, links are wrong and/or are broken.
The Fed:
- the Fed may have reduced inflation even more than it intended; we've talked about this before. Link here.
- Morgan Stanley saying the same thing, link here.
US gasoline prices:
- EIA says, adjusted for inflation, US gasoline prices are about $1.70 lower today vs twelve years ago!!! Link here.Thank you Harold Hamm and Joe Biden.
Intel (INTC):
- the plan to save the company; comments are very, very helpful. Link here.
- the plan, Reuters; exclusive. Link here.
- over at twitter, link here.
- crash and burn! Badly designed chips or are they defective? Link here.
- Intel says nothing to see here? LOL. Link here.
Portfoil Parrot: investing; twitter; new. Link here.
Nvidia (NVDA):
AI:
- Apple, Johnny Evans. Link here.
- Open AI user count soars as Apple and Nvidia want to invest. Link here.
- Facebook's (META) Llama models are approaching 350 million downloads to date. Link here. IIRC, Mark Zuckerberg is the number 1 buyer of Nvidia's GPUs. Needs to be fact-checked.
- Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp. Link here.
- Barron's -- Apple, Nvidia may join Microsfot in funding Open AI, link here.
MSFT: its "recall uninstall option is just a bug. LOL. Link here.
Germany can't compete:
- VW weighs first-ever Germany plant closure to cut costs, link here.
- Dan Tsubouchi, link here.
Lucid:
Dollar General: consumers are "strapped," feeling the pain. Link here. But they can afford $100,000 EVs.
HEVs:
- the fake EVs. Simply ICE with a bit of a kick. Nothing more, nothing less. Link here.
- sales. EIA. Link here.
ERCOT: Texas -- huge natural gas demand. LOL. Predicted.
Beth:
BRK: sells more BofA; has now cut state by nearly 15%. Link here.
NBC: with the Summer Olympics, "hit it out of the bullpark." Link here.
Investing: stock market returns after rate cuts; link here.
Caitlin Clark: WNBA Rookie of the Year; link here.
Taylor Swift: concert tickets, start at $2,220. Can go as high as $100,000. Link here.
World Heritage Sites: Frank Lloyd Wright, six across the US, including Taliesen E and Taliesen W. Link here.
Dinosaurs:
- a new species? NY Times. Link here. Why it's important? Montana.
- for Sophia: Gorgonopsia. Link here. Gorgons.
Debunked science: from The WSJ. And folks think Trump was wrong with regard to Covid. LOL.
Tax law: companies are reaping millions. Link here. Congress put the wrong date in the tax law and haven't been able to fix it for several years, but to a dysfunctional Congress.
Parody: link here.
Three college football games over the weekend:
- Colorado vs NDSU
- Notre Dame vs Texas A&M
- USC over LSU!!!
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Katie Ledecky In Williston, North Dakota
Book tour. Signing. At the old Williston library. The line stretched for quite some distance out the front door. That library: one of my favorite spots when growing up in Williston. When I first saw it, I was amazed. I never knew there was anything like a public library and all those books.
The other woman in the picture is my sister, Karla.
#3 among the Carl and Ruth Oksol siblings.
Going down the Katie Ledecky rabbit hole, I ran across this:
It's hard to believe, but our middle granddaughter will be starting her freshman year at the same university Katie Ledecky attends: Stanford University. School for Olivia starts in less than two weeks.
