The lion kingdom is shrinking the size of its buy orders not because of a belief the decline is going to accelerate but a belief that we're nearing the bottom & the time between buy operations needs to get shorter.  The frequency of the buy orders is increasing & the mutual funds are more aggressive.  As bad as the news has been & as far as headline stonks have fallen, the most conservative index funds are still nearly at their highs.  The largest index funds may be supported by all the static retirement accounts.  The small caps are all back to 2020 levels when lions said they wished they put in more.  

Surprising we didn't get a 29 handle, after the reaction to Powell's last speech.  Cramer's call for a 32 handle obviously wasn't the bottom.  Generally, stonks are nowhere close to where they went in 2020.  They're not expected to ever go that low again.  There's a strange phenomenon of not wanting to reduce your net worth in order to make a wise investment, even though stonks are rarely ever this discounted.  You have to let go of having net worth above a certain number  to win in the end.

The church of Elon can't be swayed from believing whatever he says, no matter what he says.  Prices continue to rise rapidly in Calif*, but Elon has stuck to the idea that inflation has peaked since July.  It just peaked at higher level every week since July.  You have to bend the meaning.

Lions still suspect the fed won't really end inflation the way the media thinks.  They'll fudge the numbers, take a mulligan. The official numbers will come in at 0 again while reality is much higher.

Kind of a striking photo of Neptune in IR, in the context of its surrounding stars. We've never seen it in context before.  It just floats out there amongst the galaxies.

Sounds like a lot of relationships got started at burning man this year.  The traditional venues of the water cooler & the holiday party are no more when everyone works in a different state.  There is a company fishing trip this year, but only the male locals. 

 Lions currently live 15 miles from any kind of salt water fishing.  When the money runs out, they'll be 50 miles from fishing in the ocean.  There will be lakes of 1 sort or another, but lions will be land locked for the 1st time since 1997.  The lion kingdom has never been on the ocean in a boat.  It's good motivation to do it, but the early drive out, the parking, the bathroom are a buster.