Today's Tids Issue 5,862
Beyond the obvious:
Each morn I awake
To a poem in my head,
Lilting
Of flowers in breezes.
Until I think of those
Who awaken to dread.
Before the wide-open Internet we never saw, felt the daily tribulations of those in the dark corners of te world.
So, it seems that the Tids Punster Laureate took his grandson for a birthday trip to an apple orchard. After standing looking at trees for a half hour our Favorite punster determined that it was apparently not the Apple watch the grandson was expecting.
Yesterday the results from Meta and Microsoft helped AI pass the plausibility test. Is the soaring price for AI stocks too hot? The cloud is essential to the growth of AI and those two plus Google and maybe Oracle continue to show excellent income returns from Cloud investment. Be prepared for increased activity in AI related stocks today.
The Question:
A lot of people have trouble falling back to sleep after waking up in the middle of the night. What i considered the best way to get back to sleep?
The Headlines:
--Nasdaq Opens with Surge; WS Happy with Microsoft and Meta and Look ahead for Apple and Amazon Results Today; Indications of No Rate reduction for September dampens some Enthusiasm.
--Canada and France Join UK in Support of Palestinian State; US Stands with Israel.
--Countries Looking for Trade Deals before Tomorrow's Deadline; Brazil Tariffs to be 50%; India 25%; Bessent Says China Deal not 100% Done; Trump to Look at Details of Stockholm Meetings and Make Decision About Extending Truce or Not.
--Russia Continues to Pummel Kiev.
Let's see, tomorrow is the showdown day for tariff deals and baseball trades. Baseball may loom bigger for most Americans.
Did you know that there are over 130,000 missing Mexicans due to Cartel “activity”? Yes, for the past several years cartels have made anybody remotely appearing to be in their way, disappear. The Mexican government is investing in a complex Geospatial mapping program with hopes that scans of vast desert areas will locate bodies for grieving loved ones. And here I am worried about flowers being eaten by rabbits,
Everything in this new era is being labeled, from generations to hot days. Everything is put into cubbyholes. I don’t like cubbyholes. And I certainly don't like being in them. That is why it is fun being a contrarian.
I have a problem with the word, “Influencer”.
Why has chili become a fundamental ingredient in American cooking?
I lay awake at night listening to the screaming of flowers as they are nibbled away at by cute little bunnies. Pleasantries re in the eyes of beholders.
The RI blood bank in an effort to get more donors this summer is giving away a Pint of Beer for each pint of blood. I hope they are determining blood- alcohol content before lettering them drive away.
So, Trump has just announced a 15% tariff for South Korea. This will be interesting as SK companies are interwoven now throughout the USA – Familiar Samsung, LG, Kia, Hyundai are just the tip of the iceberg here when you consider that SK companies are also heavily into US construction equipment and factory automation among other things. Americans like SK Products and that 15% could loom large. And even more, SK is tightly involved with us on a geopolitical basis. Internally there, we are finding an aspect of SK with a growing dislike of US military “Occupation” as some there call it. Can they afford us to leave? Can we afford to leave? FYI, Pew Research says 62% pf South Koreans are favorable to the US and its tourists. And that favorability rating has declined. So, in addition to economic power what also really matters is the critical location of South Korea, a strategic partner, a buffer against potentially agrerssive anti American forces that abut it –North Korea, Russia and China. Wouldn't any one of those want to crush South Korea. So, in the light of tariff negotiations we must also looking at SK as a critical yet tenuous political entity. Somethings to think about the next time you put on your Life is Good T-Shirt.
(Note: Life is Good clothing items were started by Boston brother entrepreneurs John and Bert Jacobs. The name LG, the mammoth SK company, comes from its founding companies, – Lucky-Goldstar However, LG now refers to itself as “Life;sGood”.)
After two miserable NE Patriot’s season the news out of training camp is tending to pump up spirits. Let's hope there is more to the hype this year. You may be feeling the same about your teams too.
The Answer:
Read the Tids. Actually, if you have any good ideas, send them in and I’ll make it a feature tomorrow. That, btw, is not one of my problems.
Gotta run, but I will talk with you tomorrow.
