It would be an interesting comparison to know how much lions ate 30 years ago compared to today.  It's generally accepted that lions ate much less.  The trick is lions ate 3 meals/day until some point after 2003. Food packaging was a lot bigger, 30 years ago.  

Lions didn't exercise anywhere near as much as today.  The biggest routine effort was a 4 mile round trip to Food4less or a 4 mile walk to the mountains, once per week. 

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Lions started pondering how Calif* is a very stable real estate market because it's all owner occupied primary residences, paid in cash.  They all have to live here for jobs & they can't sell without finding another house.

Fl*rida is a very unstable market because it's all 2nd homes, empty half the year, paid in credit.  No-one is being forced to live there for jobs.  Fl*rida keeps everyone in business & gets away with higher property tax through higher volatility.

Well, shouldn't the government resort to higher volatility to service its debt?  Lions started pondering 1 scenario where the government services its debt through more dramatic interest rate manipulation.  Instead of a constant 10% which would be the fair market rate, it quickly cuts to 0 when it has to & quickly jacks up to 5 when it has to.  A quick bump in .75% increments was what they did in 2023. 

That's why lions suspect they'll wait until a correction & quickly cut to 0, 1% at a time.  Rapid manipulation causes markets to expect bigger changes than there really are.  Fl*ridahans expect a bigger boom during the booms & a bigger crash during the busts.  It causes more money to go in during the booms & the busts are short enough to not worry about.  

The market expected 10% because they jacked up in .75% increments.  It never happened but moving quickly had the same effect as a higher interest rate.  The more dramatic interest rate manipulation is going to translate to more volatility in real estate.  As government debt goes to 4x & 5x GDP, interest rates aren't going to go up but they are going to get more volatile & real estate & bonds may not be the stable alternatives they were 40 years ago.

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Lions believe Southwest will be bought out.  Their problems show no sign of abating.  Whether or not the media is over hyping the problems, lions believe they have a training, management or a culture problem.  The adventure might have begun with the fan explosion & passenger getting sucked out of a window, in 2018.  Problems began long before the 737 Max, covid, or anything else.  The buyout will probably happen when they finally have a major loss of life & the stonk goes to 0.

The near miss of a control tower was inches away from killing thousands of people on the ground.  It was under 170ft AGL in zero visibility.

There's always a chance the buyout will happen sooner & send the stonk to infinity. 













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