Up in the air.

Today's Tids Issue 4,848

Hedging Everything:

 

How do you invite a dinosaur to lunch? Tea, Rex?

 

From this Political perch it seems to me that the only salvation for the Repubs in 2024 is a self-destruction by the Dems. Of course, a the moment I am more worried about 2022. Regardless of how a appealing a “center-right” Repub party may look now to a lot of Repubs, it would only serve to fracture the vote and hand elections to Dems and their growing left wings. GOP would become, Good-Bye Old Party. Unless of course, moderate to right leaning Dems would join “CRP”, Center-Right Party. Yay!

 

Is the renewed overbuying of speculative stocks lie GameStop and AMC supporting growing concerns of some that we are in a “bubble” economy? Yet talk of a bubble does not seem to extend to FANG. But, many are taking a closer look at the EV businesses and there sense of the new gold rush. So, it seems everybody is looking at a market that is trying find out what it is. One seeking maturity in cyclicals, another trying to spew cash from a distasteful overvalued market sell-off. And then there is the VIX (Market Volatility Index), which people play and is considered a market of opportunity, But not for your average retiree wondering what ever happened to GE.

 

A phobia of over-engineered buildings is a complex, complex, complex.

 

The Question:

Who Attended the first Cabinet Meeting Of new President George Washington?

 

The Headlines:

--Tech Stocks Under Pressure Again Powell Tries To Calm Inflation Nerves; Jan Pending House Sales Surprisingly Fall.

--Trump Tax Records Turned Over To New York Investigation Authorities; NYDA Office Receives Over One Million Documents Covering Jan 2011 to Aug 2019.

–Repubs Push Back On Pelosi “Bizarre” Plan For Capital Attack Investigation.

--China’s Xi Jinping Says His Country Has Achieved “The Miracle of Eradicating Extreme Poverty.”

--Reddit Traded Speculative Shares Have Strong Morning. GameStop Doubles.

--Leading Liberal Women Refuse To Comet On New Allegations Of Sexual Harassment Charges Against Gov Cuomo.

 

I, X, L, and V left the alphabet for a stroll one day. They became known as the roamin’ numerals.

 

8 States -- Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island and Montana -- have total population of 6,682,000. The 8 largest cities in the US have a total population of about 22,500,000. Isn’t great that the USA have systems in place that help to temper the potential domination of a nation by urban centers.

 

Now that China has essentially neutered Hong Kong, you have to wonder how long it will be util they make the big move on Taiwan. And how it could suck in The USA.

 

If you are calling Mr. Potatohead these days, he won’t be coming anymore. Yes, he has now been gender neutralized. He is now just Potatohead. Is Mother Goose still a mother?

 

I’m super friendly with 25 letters of the alphabet. I just don’t know why.

 

Normally notable Dems don’t feel the heat of accusations because media typically goes laissez faire on us. So, there must be something real about these Cuomo misdoings now that we see reporting on them across the ideological spectrum.  

 

The Answer:

The first cabinet meeting was held at Mount Vernon February 25, 1793, and in attendance were George, Thomas Jefferson (Secy of State), Alexander Hamilton (Secy Of Treasury), Henry Knox (Secy of War) and Edmond Randolph (Attorney General)

 

As I look around what’s happening on the major fronts, I think we in a state of indecision all over the place. Nobody being really sure of what will happen next, from the financial markets to the Government to Repubs to Kids in school, to variants on the horizon to my beloved Red Sox… a mystery team for sure. Yes, my beloveds. Who knows?

 

What did the Buffalo say to his son we he left for college? Bison.