Lion ponderings

 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dude-gen-x-is-totally-unprepared-for-retirement-survey-finds-180511077.html  Generation X isn't particularly screwed as much as later generations are doing so much better than them.  Generation X got crushed by 2 big stonk market crashes right after it entered the workforce & endured a down economy for 14 years.  They didn't have much motivation to put in the effort or invest their money. Lions remember when the headlines said generation X was doing better than baby boomers.  Later generations ended that party. They're predicting social security will be reduced to 77% of benefits by 2033, whatever that means.  The lion kingdom suspects social security is going to be alive & well in 2033 & the people are going to be taxed into the stone ages to pay for it.  There are those who want to end social security, cancel all the benefits for everyone who paid into it.  They tend to be teachers, who are already exc...

  Generation X is on tiktok. Eventually, we're going to the stars because it's the next evolution.  To get there, we're going to need many generations living out their lives in space colonies.  Maybe they'll tow asteroids for building materials.  Maybe they'll spend most of their lives in VR.  They'll recycle & expand their colonies.  They'll be self sufficient. Many centuries after leaving Earth, future generations will look to the stars from their planet & try to spot a planet many lightyears away which their ancestors left many centuries ago.  They'll know they can never go back.  They'll receive signals from that planet, from many years ago. The lion Liszt ended up 2 minutes longer than Sideburn but comparable to Browning & Watts.  Recording spanned 6 1 hour sessions from April 4 - April 24. Schumann sonata 3 was previously the lion kingdom's longest recording at 31 minutes.  That spanned over 4 months but only 4 sessions...

  Mall decorations kicked it up a notch this year. Still not as good as 7 years ago.

 The vengeance buying after the meltdown continues.  The pattern of vengeance selling followed by melt ups that dominated from 2009-2020 is now mirrored by a pattern of vengeance buying followed by melt downs.  It won't go all the way back to 10,000 before it ends.  Is it an unprecedented bear market?  The government needs to service its debt.  Interest rates have historically trended down when the government borrowed more.  Increased government borrowing used to be theorized as causing more instability, which causes investors to pay more for security.  This overpowers the higher demand for credit. Generation X vs. millennial