As Mackenzy Bezos continues to divest most of her husband's fortune in charities, it shows the level of disagreement they had about the fate of his stonk.  It definitely wasn't an amicable divorce.  Instead of leaving it to their heirs or reinvesting it, she's choosing the least efficient use.  


Anyways, lions continue to develop the playbook for the next stonk sale.  The media had an interesting story about small cap stonks continuing to have a hangover from last year because the newly printed money all went to large companies.  When lions review their small cap mutual fund plays, they're all much higher than they were before 2020.  


The lion kingdom once had a theory that with more high frequency trading, stonk prices would oscillate more dramatically & frequently until the stonk market swung between 0 & 100% on a daily basis.  A lot of new rules were created since then to slow down the stonk market, but it's still prone to rapid swings which last about a month.  The headwinds of higher interest rates & capital gains taxes are out of the news, but the fed still wants to raise interest rates & the Bide wants to raise capital gains taxes.  


 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dspZZSeGbps



Watching generation X's next magnum opus is a good example of a looming disaster.  Amerikan woman meets a member of the british aristocracy in the forest while chasing a wild boar & he just happens to be single, so they hit it off.  She convinces the family to invest significant amounts of money in converting their mansion into a yoga retreat, adding new bathrooms, rebuilding all the plumbing.  What could possibly go wrong?  Does anyone besides Calif* millennial hipsters even go to yoga retreats?





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