More Teens Who Use Marijuana Are Suffering From Psychosis...
Thursday, January 11, 2024
So that's why we can't afford it
Wealthiest 10% own 93% of stock market...
The market capitalization of the S&P 500 on Dec 29, 2023 was about $42 trillion, each point of the index worth about $8.80535 billion.
8.80535 billion x 4,769.83 SPX 12/29/23 = 42,000 billion.
One share of VFIAX on 12/29 cost $439.99.
Price on 3/9/2009 was $62.66.
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Monday, January 8, 2024
Wow, just wow
Vitali Klitschko, the former heavyweight boxing champion and mayor of Kyiv since 2014, was a “core shareholder” and active participant in a Hunter Biden-chaired subsidiary of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, according to emails and an associate with direct knowledge who spoke with The Post. ...
Klitschko issued a blanket denial of involvement in a statement provided by a spokeswoman.
“I am surprised by such questions. Because: I have never been a partner in the project you are talking about and had nothing to do with it,” Klitschko told The Post.
“Accordingly, there is no question of any compensation. I had no ties to Hunter Biden. And I did not discuss the company you are asking about with Joe Biden.”
The mayor’s spokeswoman declined to provide answers to follow-up questions, writing in an email, “The answer I sent before is the most comprehensive one we can provide.”
More.
Saturday, January 6, 2024
Jan 6 wasn't an insurrection, except in some minds . . . and on both sides
Everything is so small and ridiculous, because we are.
When you asked for a window on your model but got the door anyway
Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 for checks after window blows out in midair
Reportedly a boy lost his shirt out the "window" and a bunch of cell phones got sucked out at 16,000 feet, and:
It later emerged that Boeing staff, in internal messages, were cavalier about FAA regulations and critical of the Max's design. One said it the aircraft was 'designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys.'
Look at this update to "section" lol:
Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 fleet after section blows out midair
Friday, January 5, 2024
Kim Strassel: Everyone remembers that Joe Biden invited all these illegals here who are pouring across our border unimpeded by his administration
Biden invited them all during his campaign:
Biden promised millions of them amnesty and citizenship during his debate with Trump:
Kim Strassel, here, on Biden now pretending there's no problem with the millions streaming across.
Kim's lookin' good:
Joe Biden eeks out another good year for jobs as 2023 ends with 50.2% employed full time as a percent of population on an average annual basis
December 2023 came in at 49.5%. Full time usually peaks in summer, and bottoms in winter. January and February 2023 had come in at 49.3% and 49.7% respectively.
Still not quite as good as Trump 2019, which itself wasn't close to what we are capable of as a country:
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
The media in India is as full of it as ours
Israeli News Anchor Wields Gun Live On Air Amid Fear Of Another Attack...
"appeared on air Tuesday with a gun tucked inside her pants".
This is wielding:
Off again on again Maersk is off again on Red Sea/Suez Canal transit, freight rates triple
From the story:
Uncertainty remains despite a U.S.-led military effort to curb the attacks. Maersk had resumed the Suez route, but suspended it again in recent days after one of its ships was targeted by missiles and small boats.
Asia-Europe is Maersk’s biggest trade lane, and freight rates on the route have roughly tripled from their early December levels, the Goldman Sachs analysts said, while “the impact on annual contract rates is likely to be positive, albeit dependent on how the security situation evolves.”
Maersk’s other major routes are seeing “positive second-order effects from the Suez disruption.” Global trade is also being stymied by drought in the Panama Canal.
However, analysts do not currently foresee the same level of global supply chain disruption and capacity constraint as experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic, which triggered a huge spike in freight rates and record profits for companies including Maersk.
Contact your utility commission and complain about natural gas and electricity prices not coming down
Utilities get to pass through fuel prices, which means customers have
been bearing the burden of higher natural-gas prices that surged
following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On average, monthly electricity
prices rose 13% in 2022 from a year earlier and 6% in the first 11
months of 2023, according to data from the Labor Department. ... Utility commissioners are either appointed by elected officials or
elected themselves, which means they are sensitive to the financial
pressures that ratepayers face. ... utilities were quick to ask for an increase on the allowed return on
equity when market measures of capital cost rose yet slow to adjust
rates when those measures declined.
Has the natural gas portion of your utility bill dropped 60% like the price of natural gas in 2023 from 2022? Mine sure as hell has not.
Here are the average prices per year for Henry Hub natural gas:
2015: 2.62
2016: 2.52
2017: 2.99
2018: 3.15
2019: 2.56
2020: 2.03
2021: 3.89 +91.6%
2022: 6.45 +65.8%
2023: 2.53 -60.7%
That 92% jump in 2021 had nothing to do with Ukraine.
We're being gouged for green energy tomfoolery.
COMPLAIN, not to the utility, but to the utility commission. It's the only way.
In Michigan, go to:
https://www.michigan.gov/mpsc
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Flying is safe, until it isn't
Japan Airlines flight JL516 burst into flames after colliding with another aircraft at landing in Tokyo. Somehow they all got out alive.
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