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  • A& M Student Body President Impeached

    9/30/23 Negative mood is exclusionary, in politics that means throw the bums out.  Seems the Student Body President changed the rules so his brother could could attain a positiion he was not qualified to hold. The vote was 35-15.

  • Music and the DJIA

    9/29/23 1963-1966 end of wave five of bull market 1948-1966 maximum mood occurs at the end or near for a mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_and_Dean the beach boys, jan and dean,the ripcords https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rip_Chords https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Honda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Boys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Croce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Buffett        

  • Amateurs Pile Into Very Short Term Options

    Wed Sept 13, 2023 Lucas Sommer woke up around the time the stock market opened and, still bleary-eyed, opened his Robinhood app.  He had a hunch it would be a good day for stocks, so he scooped up some options contracts that would profit if the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index rose that day.  By the…

  • Teen Age Idol / Rick Nelsson / Beatles / Carl Perkins

    Monday Sept 11, 2023 Lots of bands and groups break up going back to the Everly Brothers, Beatles, Eagles, Simon and Garfunkel and the list goes on, Captain and Tenile, married broke up and got back together,six years seems to be about the limit for groups and that is also about the extreme for a…

  • Margaret Thatcher

    Weekend Sept 10 2023 Click here for Maraget Thatcher

  • Jimmy Buffet Tribute

    Weekend Sept 3 2023   Sadly Jimmy Buffet  passed this last week, may the Pirate rest in peace   Here is a link to Hey Good Lookin'at Texas Stadium I have numerous Jimmy vinyl albums as well as the four CD classic Boats, Beaches, Bars, and B allads   I miss him already

  • Speaking of Manias look at Nvidia

    Wed 6/28/23 NVDA is trading at a price earnings ratio of 219. Investors put up $219 to buy one dollar of NVDA earnings. BY the way those earnings are a mere $1.91 a share.The mania here is for artificial intelligence AI. The same sort of mood propelled investors to buy the dot.coms in  999 which…

  • Lordstown Takes Bankruptcy

    6/28/2023 Obama had Solyndra, Trump has Lordstown.  Lordstown was begun via an SPAC,money in search of an idea. It went public in  2020 trading as high as $400. Now just three years later it cannot comply with its agreement with Foxconn to buy the former GM plant. This is another example of social mood on…

  • Missing sub vessel

    June 20 2023   What could go wrong?    

  • Port SA To Build Record Setting Building

    Friday April 14 2023 Note to students The stock market is treading water at a wave two high after its fall in  2022.  It is fitting that confidence has returned  around DJIå 33 000- 34,000. Big projects occur at market mania tops. This has happened before. In  1929 the largest theater in Texas openned here,…