It is now safe to calculate your net worth again.  Pretty dramatic split in the last month between the fed's action & the stonk market.  It's the 1st such split lions have seen.  It may be foreign central banks buying stonks.  It may be the Dave Ramsey movement buying index funds.  There's plenty of money on the sidelines during the dips.  The dips have been speculative selling by short term traders, not structural shifts.  We're now back to where lions started their last round of buying & 10% below the peak.


The latest Fort Worth power outage got lions searching for the Van Cliburn mansion again.  The current high res satellite view was not available years ago.  The latest view shows it being pretty extravagant for a museum.




https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/03/garden/at-home-with-van-cliburn-a-little-night-music.html

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7446406,-97.4051665,152m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-US

His home has flip flopped between being a former art museum & a purpose built house.  Now the goog says it was always a house. 



 


The goog found a photo dating back to the good old days.

He made most of his money through real estate exchanges, not playing.  
The house had 9 Steinway grands.

He was a chain smoker.  As late as 1994, "deftly holding a cigarette behind his back."  The biographers of the past, extremely reluctant to say anything negative, never mentioned that nugget.  The mansion must have smelled like cigarettes.  It undoubtedly contributed to his bone cancer at age 78.









https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/26/u-s-plans-upgraded-nukes-europe-00063675

It isn't a deployment as much as an accelerated replacement of existing nukes.  It would be a bad day if someone actually moved in 180 nukes.  


Starbase fizzled in a hurry last week, as Elon shifted to twitter.

The lion kingdom's automated twitter feed just spews out Elon simps, which is pretty brutal.  1 thing that stands out is when he was putting down the platform & calling it a cesspool of spammers, it was spewing out a completely different set of accounts than after he bought it & called it the only hope for civilization.


 It could be the lawyers forced him into a sale he didn't want & he decided to make lemonade out of lemons.  It could be he always intended to buy it & the drama going all the way to saying the deal was off was just to try to get the price reduced.  It could be just routine erraticness, since he was similarly erratic in supporting Ukraine.


The world always imitates whoever the top dog is, so is the next trend in management going to be erratic decision making?  Are we all going to get fired & rehired a dozen times as our bosses manage through iterative design?















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