You need a COVID booster shot for your TDS. Or a girlfriend.

It was a currency swap for $20bn USD for their currency as a lifeline for the government. No intent to swap it back, basically a lifeline to buy imports in USD. Nothing was given to a person. Trump didnt do anything, it was Bessent's idea.

No, they did not, $4/gallon gas is pretty common. Its a cash grab because Iran is all over the news.

You think $4 is alot? In 2007 during a real fuel crisis $5.50+ in 2007 dollars. You people are weak.

Poor diet/lifestyle is a culture that is past on from parents to children. What else do the children know in life? Breaking it can be done or the reverse, living young eating healthy and active, but going down hill as an adult. Everyone has to make their own choice.

You clearly don't know what a 401k vs a normal IRA or post tax account is. 401k is a company offering, its limited in what you can choose to invest in, they are all funds of some sort with different themes. You can't choose equities like a non-401k account, it's very limited. 90% of the people out there don't even change the default fund (normally a money market fund). You literally actually have to do work and think when you change from the default fund (assuming you contribute). This will have minimal impact to normal people because most don't know what the hell difference between the options they have in their 401k. The best advise to anyone is choose a passive fund option that mimics $QQQ and $SPY, every 401k I've seen offers it. 50% split between the 2 and be done with it until you have to roll-over when/if you change jobs.

RTX is a collection of many companies acquired over time. Raytheon the name didn't make sense anymore. They still keep the branding of many of the acquired companies, such as Pratt & Whitney. All these brands do their thing and maintain that brand recognition.

Quickly finding dumb waste on win-zip license and woke trans research on mice is one thing, auditing a multi-billion space program to find waste or fraud in a technical topic most people won't understand is another thing. DOGE was handed back to career federal employees, they are not engineers or scientists. DOGE is probably a dead arm of the government now, it hasn't had an update on their website since last August.

The Cuban regime lost its chance to partner with the most powerful military in history 90mi from its shores when it agreed hosting Soviet nuclear missiles. Now, it will be told what to do or someone disappears in the middle of the night and ends up in a NYC prison. No one gives a rats ass about its regime.

Apple will happily take your crap back and recycle it at their stores, they encourage it. If you want something repaired/replaced, they will happily do so, just give them your credit card. Aint no body using a laptop that is 10+ years old. I don't see any dumb windows laptop offering any of that.

Dell XPS line is all glued, soldered down, and not upgradable. And?

They don't have a technology advantage, they have the advantage of subsidies trying to kill each other with no goal to become profitable (because the CCP will prop them).

There were over 100 Chinese manufacturers subsidized in 2023, they thus went on a pricing war, which drove down cost to new buyers, but started putting many out of business. There are still quite a lot in their domestic, I don't know many to be exact, but I can assure you 100 still exist and there is still a price war to kill more out. This is an artificial market where true price discovery is broken.

All NA oil is traded on the free market, so prices will follow what ever trend globally. Only way to stop it if the government(s) step in and regulates exports/prices, which for now is unlikely.

No natural gas = no electricity ..... www.pjm.com , renewables are a joke in the % contribution. You would be sitting at home along with everyone else.