You only needed to watch the first two minutes of the James Comey testimony to know the truth about Trump/Comey. Colbert did the best job of the week curating the testimony and everybody should watch it: Ellen and I are headed to Europe for the rest of the month. I am looking forward to binging …
From: June 2017
I’ll Be Buggered…
This 3 minute video is priceless: "Well I'll be buggered, there's a shark in my boat!" Terry Selwood tells us how a 200kg great white shark ended up in his fishing boat. pic.twitter.com/HabXaDezkt — ABC News (@abcnews) May 28, 2017 I’ll be buggered is correct! There are a lot of people – not just this …
The Airline Index and 9/11
Michael Batnick has this great investing post up called the ‘Satisfaction Yield‘. It would take twenty-five years before the Dow reclaimed its 1929 peak. Over that time the United States had four different Presidents and we built the Hoover Dam, the Empire State Building and the Golden Gate Bridge. The Hindenburg exploded, the F.B.I was …
Prime Movers
I love this post from Mike Maples on Alex Honnold the free-solo climber and ‘prime movers’: A free-solo climb is as extreme as you can get when it comes to mountain-climbing. -No ropes. -No nothing. -3,000 feet straight up. -You slip and fall… -You die. In my opinion, this is the greatest athletic achievement in …
Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Froth and How Can You NOT Love Fintech and Chyyyyyyna!
We are in the ‘pinch me’ phase of this stock market and Crypto boom. It is mostly sunny with an increasing chance of global warming and froth. My friend Charlie has an incredible piece on it today asking ‘Is this as good as it gets‘? Read it. He ends with: Is this as good as …
The Most Important Slide Missing from Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report
Mary Meeker released her yearly Internet Trends report last week. Here it is…all 355 slides. I guess India and China are going to be big. Who knew? The most important slide is one NOT in the deck which is about being hacked. We are all going to get hacked and so it might pay to …
Scams!
Look at this scam: And this one: I liked this interpretation of financial scams in defense of the crypto boom:
Nasdaq 10,000 …Again
Yesterday I had Nasdaq 10,000 on my mind. It was probably because I had a day trip to Palo Alto, land of the sweater vest and dockers (the pants). I brought a little style to the valley with my laceless converse: Today Amazon crossed $1,000 a share and $480 billion in market capitalization. I also …
Nasdaq 10,000 and What Could go Wrong?
The Nasdaq passed 6,200 today. Insert happy emoji or picture from my view last week at La Jolla Country Club: Here is a chart of the Nasdaq 100 which is now 30 percent above the 1999 bubble: $NDX perspective: now 30% higher than the Dot Com bubble. weeee $QQQ — Nic (@racernic) Jun. 1 at …