Great short vid – Elite Schools; effortless superiority
Also look for the term “Scholastic Disposition” in the video. This is an excerpt of a two part series by this guy Kolton Kuhn.
Investing and business
SC Justice Kagan says the Court is not a rubber stamp for Trump
This is a blow to my liberal/left wing friends.
Democratic Socialists of America Platform – here it is.
Here it is – link below the picture and then a brief commentary from CatholicVote. Highly recommend you hit the link and at least scroll through. They are certainly straightforward about their goals. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST OF AMERICA. OUR PROGRAM. This from Kelsey Reinhardt – an excerpt emailed from CatholicVote. The Democratic Socialists of America’s newly … Read more
Soros: 1 Picture worth 1,000 Words
From the reliable NY Post. Link to the article below the picture and it contains more than just the excerpts below the link. Billionaire Democratic kingmaker George Soros and his son Alex spent a staggering $102.8 million in the midterm election cycle — making the family chief architects of the party’s seismic shift toward the … Read more
CNBC interview with investor Phillippe Laffont
Very bright guy with many winning long term investments. This is an excerpt of a longer interview.
Investor Ron Baron – Elon Musk’s biggest fanboy – on the future and SpaceX.
Baron is 83 years old and one of the most successful investors in the last 40+ years. Worth listening to – this is less than 8 minutes long, and is from the past Monday’s interview on CNBC.
Great video – What SpaceX means for the future.
UPDATE: SpaceX is at 202 at the close today – Tuesday. It IPO’d Friday at 135. This is the first part of last Friday’s interview on CNBC with Brad Gerstner (black t shirt) on the SpaceX IPO. Gerstner is an extraordinarily astute investor – I’ve been following his career for several years. I wish they’d … Read more
WSJ: The SpaceX IPO
Appearing in yesterday’s Journal. I agree. The IPO (Initial Public Offering) went live a bit before noontime Friday. Everyone is happy – SpaceX got their $75 billion, the consortium of Investment Banks got $1 billion dollars in fees to split amongst themselves, many thousands of the 22,000 SpaceX employees became instant millionaires – a few … Read more
Why the stock market had a mini-melt down today
Two reasons – First Wednesday evening Broadcom (symbol AVGO) which has had great performance for 18 months issued their quarterly report regarding earnings, revenue, etc. Excellent numbers but they did not outperform the “whisper numbers” and since these stocks are priced for perfection it dropped 13% Thursday and another 8% today. However the stock is … Read more
Jane Street – everyone is wondering how they do it (make oodles of $$$)
The first I’d heard of Jane Street was reading the book Going Infinite and how Sam Bankman-Fried got his start. Bottom line is they are better than everyone else at what they do.