Today's Tids Issue 5,357
2084?:
I’ve started investing in stocks: Chicken, Beef, Vegetable. Someday I hope to become a bouillonaire.
Have you seen the stock markets lately? Maybe there is a better way to go.
Today the jobs report shows an increase of 336,000. The analysts were expecting about170K. The market will say Oops, the Fed will continue to raise rates to slow this success. I say, isn't it great the US economy is so resilient. That business is so innovative and adaptable that it can forge ahead despite government interference.
Around here, the Montalk daisies are blooming. It doesn’t get any better than that.
The Question.
What was the Ferranti Mark 1?
The Headlines:
--Strong Jobs Reports Causing Treasury’s Selloff; Stocks Appear to be Wandering.
--Auto Workers Slow Strikes as Big Three Make Concession to Allow Unions in EV Battery Factories.
--Lawyers Say Mike Lindell is Out Of Money.
--$15 K Painting Turns Out to be Rembrandt now Worth $18 Million.
--Jailed Iranian Activist Nargis Mohammadi Hets Nobel Peace Prize; She Repeatedly Challenges Iran Theocracy.
--Repub Groups Looking to Push Virginia's Youngkin over Trump.
It is nice to see somebody who is doing something get the Nobel Peace Prize instead of somebody trying to pad their resume’.
One of the Tids more astute observers answered yesterday’s Tids query, What outsider as Speaker do you think would turn Congress upside down and get things done for the people?” The suggestion: Elon Musk. Interesting. Would he rename Cingress, “X”?
I saw a Lucid EV car a day or so ago. The front looks very cool, Flyng Saucerish, if you use your imagination. The company is losing $335,000 for every car sold. Oops.
A couple of factors that may affect the economic growth going forward are: The formerly Excess” savings are now just savings, and Pent-up demand is a thing of the past. When you think about it, a diseased induced anxiousness to buy coupled the free Government money change the flow charts of a normal business cycle.
“Never a Wall”! Biden is now saying let's build a wall for votes. Unlawful entry of non-US citizens is as become the exact chaotic problem that every sane, rational human being predicted it would become. The solution still remains sending paltry billions (WE already are) to Latin American countries and have armed US IRS agents standing in the various despotic dictators' offices approving every expenditure for the betterment of a downtrodden people.
I just spoke with Bill Withers and told him “Ain’t no Sunshine” is bad grammar. He said, “I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know. I know.”
1949 is the year that I thought I was becoming an adult, but was only another annoying goofy kid who thought he was funny, liked to shoot baskets and began to understand that there was something more to girls. And of course, 1949 was the year Mao declared China was the Communist People's Republic. A tense situation then that still simmers below world economic and military peace today. And even more scary that year, Russia developed the Nuke. It is also a year when a book was written by George Orwell instilled in Americans a fear of the future, “1984” and the rise of “Big Borther”. Now the book is called “Climate Change: It signals the rise of “Big Terribly Annoying Brother.” NATO was established and The De Havilland Comet became the first passenger jet airliner. There were now 10 million TV sets and the soap operas became pervasive transitioning over form radio and The Goldbergs (Remember Molly) became one of the first ever Sitcoms. Milton Berle was king of TV, followed by Ed Sullivan's show and Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts. The Geneva convention established Rules of War and initiatives to protect citizens, which BTW, Putin has totally ignored. Men in business wore Dobb's hats that cost $8.50. Bacon cost 59 cents a pound and coffee 85 cents for a two-pound bag. The top movies were “The Third Man", “Samson and Delilah”, “Kind Hearts and Cornets”, “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” and “Batman and Robin”. Frankie Laine was the up and comer and Vaughn Monroe was still the very popular crooner with “Ghost Riders in the Sky. Laine had two of the top five hits: “Mule Train" and “That Lucky old Sun”. A Christmas classic was launched by Cowboy Gene Autry, “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
The Answer:
The Ferrante Mark 1, also known as the Manchester Electronic Computer, was the first commercially delivered computer. It was installed at England’s Victoria University of Manchester. The Ferrante was the “Tidied Up’ version of the Manchester Mark 1.” The UNIVAC, the first US computer, came along in 1952.
Not what I would call super intriguing college games this weekend. But you may want to tune into the big rivalry game, Texas and Oklahoma. They are both pretty good. A couple of others are Texas A&M against Alabama, Kentucky and Georgia, and perhaps to see if Maryland can give OsU a tussle. And if course, whoever your alma mater is playing.
Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!
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