Degrees Of Difference.

Today's Tids Issue 3,804

For Minimizing:

A barber who is aware of every hair on your head and treats each one with respect, will probably never make as much money as the barber with the electric shears who races around your head robotically. The first is an eloquent sculptor, and thoroughly enjoys their job. The other is wondering when the day will end.

A guy asked me the other day how I come up with all of this stuff every day for the Tids. It’s actually therapy. If I kept all this minutia in my head, they’d be putting me on a strait jacket.

Secretary of State Tillerson certainly looks and sounds like a President.

I have always thought that it is pretty reasonable to believe that there are planets in this gigantic never ending universe that are good for life, just like our Earth. What would be really thought provoking is if we found that both populations all had the same basic DNA pattern.

The Question:

Who do you think are the Ten Companies with the best 401K plans?

The Headlines:

--Dow and S&P Up; Nasdaq Down.

--Rex Tillerson And John Kelley Have Open And Constructive Talks With Mexico’s’ Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray;

--Race for DNC Tightens: Leading The Pack Are Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Minn Congressman Keith Ellison.

--Indiana Resident Wins $435M Power Ball Prize.

--Swedish Leaders Say trump Spoke The Truth About refugee Problems In Sweden.

--US Air Support Helps Iraqi Troops Seize Mosul Airport runway.

--Fox News Liberal Advisor Alan Combs Dies Of Heart Attack At 66; Combs First Appeared Teamed With Right Winger Hannity And Then His Sister In Law.

--Pope Implies It’s Better To be Atheist Than Bad Christian.

If you can’t find a protest, we’ll find one for you. And there is definitely something for everybody. Among the latest are people protesting Peter Pan costumes; protesting forced marriages by sending pink frilly underwear to religious moralists; protesting US Weather balloon above Canadian Bordet by hundreds of Canadians simultaneously mooning the USA; protesting Potholes by posing old not so attractive men in the nude. Of course, there is Peta with all of their anything goes protesting like when they took on Obama for swatting fly on TV. Want something to do this weekend? Make a sign and walk down the street, Somebody will surely join you and before you know it, you’ll have a crowd.

One of the big news stories around here of exactly zero interest to me is the missing Tom Brady Super Bowl Jersey.

Yields on bonds are dropping indicting that growth may be slower than Stock markets believe. Factor in Yellen’s inevitable eagle eye upon exploding inflation and we could be entering a market environment as unpredictable as the new admin.

My hunch is that Trump economic policies will be designed to produce inflation which is one way of achieving an appearance of increased growth rates.

If you want to see apples and oranges at work, check out the discussions about refugees and illegal immigrants. Refugees are people in deep need while illegal aliens are basically law breakers. There is no this or that. Refugees are allowed in freely to the limits established by federal immigration guidelines. Illegals sneak in and disappear until they learn how to apply for benefits. We might get somewhere on this emotional issue if the two sides would sit down and listen.

How come most of the protestors at Town Hall meetings denouncing their congress people over the contrived potential loss ACA, look like they are all eligible for Medicare, which has nothing to do with Obamacare.

From what I see so far. The Cabinet Secretaries look pretty good overall. It’s now matter of who listens to whom.

The Answer:

This is kind of interesting: #1 is Delta Airlines followed by The NFL, Saudi Aramco, Southwest Airlines, Conoco Phillips. Amgen, Bayer, Chevron, Takeda Pharm and UPS. Now this may be indicative of well managed companies with great stocks or companies with too much money tied up in pension promises.

Full bodied Tids tomorrow. Thanks for your patience. The Management.