I'm not sure how much longer there will be journalists in the US. WaPo just gutted theirs. And in the same story I saw, it was talking about how the NYT's has become a site of cooking recipes and crossword puzzles. In the same article it talked about how Bezos tossed millions to get that fact based melania thriller to appease his lord majesty, and I guess WaPo journalists are paying for it. I don't think history is going to treat jeffy well, he could be keeping WaPo alive but instead is throwing money at appeasing a wanna be and keeping miss puffy lips happy on the yacht and shops.

I do think times have changed. I worked for a co that had H1B's. It was indentured servitude. They got paid less for a couple years, got the card, and now were free to move to another co. They'd get a raise to keep them at the co if they were good. Another benefit they received was the lawyer to help get them thru the process. That was a different time though. Hi talent wanted to come to the US. Now I'm not so sure. I'm guessing but I expect many more may prefer their own country now and avoid the goon squad events. It is a different time. And even Cal can't protect them when the federali's show up. Didn't many of the cal elite go see the melania screening of all things.

As everyone here knows, you can't throw up a fab overnight. The long term plans indicate the memory guys expect more demand long term. They are doing what they can now to capture the current frenzy. SK for example opens M15X next month and accelerated opening of the plant in Yongin by 3 months starting in 2/27 now. https://www.reuters.com/world/... Micron is accelerating where they can and the NY plant plans indicate a major expansion in memory production long term.

Supply/demand thing. Silver is relatively rare, and demand industrial is tepid, so it keeps price in check. Palladium and platinum are much rarer and are industrial small qty as well. They are much pricier due to rarity. And palladium like silver ends up in contacts too in some cases.

Copper on the other hand is not rare nor is oil. Demand for both is anything but tepid.

Micron is certainly ramping up. https://www.thestreet.com/tech... Both DRAM and NAND. It is a moderately long term expansion(2030).

Technically no, although since the amendments are part of the living constitution, it is there. https://www.au.org/separation-... One could easily argue that mandating the bible's ten commandments into schools is "establishing a religion" in a public school by the government. https://constitution.congress.... If you as a parent want to see religion in your kids school, there are private schools you can send your kid to.

Why do it secretly when you can do it openly? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne... And literally no blowback. Imagine the Biden's doing this and the tantrum the R's would have over it.

Silver has an intrinsic value beyond jewelry. This is a nerd site and I'd expect those here to understand just how much silver gets used in electronics. Gold for low level signals silver for higher as just one use. Imagine a world without it. https://www.te.com/en/products...

What in the world are you talking about. In the recent I'm buying greenland tantrum of orangey, gold/silver seemed to be the goto, not btc. And after warsh got the nod, gold/silver sort of deflated. btc never participated in this latest flight to hard assets.

Warsh is not the guy you'd expect trump to go with really. He is not drop rates now & print money guy. In fact, this https://finance.yahoo.com/news... says everything. If the fed doesn't print money, rates are going up not down. Without the fed buying T-Bills, you have to find someone who will, and that is done with higher rates, not lower ones. Especially it is almost a given our old friends which we have alienated will be reducing their purchases of US debt.

Apparently dipped in the red on Monday morning. I am seeing more "hype" stories which may bring it back a while longer. Although the slow trajectory downward is likely to continue. As I said somewhere else, AI is the new kid on the block where the frenzy is. crypto is so yesterday.

Yep in the South now it is all about getting the ten commandments into every classroom. Pretty crazy given the constitution of the country mandates separation of church & state. But in the south, the christians are all about the church becoming the state.

According to this, https://finance.yahoo.com/news..., microstrategy is still 5% above aggregate purchase price, so still ahead. Although any more than another 5% drop would put them in the red.

The summary claims they have 6 out there in the wild with early adopters. From the article, "Tim Lum, a Washington state resident, bought his BlackFly in 2023. He's since taken it on around 1,200 flights in 100 different locations across the U.S." So the thing works as a toy.

The crypto one looks to be deflating a bit. Under 80 and looking to go lower.

What I saw the past couple of weeks is btc has fallen while gold/silver rose as the dollar was getting questioned. Last I checked I think it was 85. Down from 100 a short while ago. Perhaps people are beginning to realize it is not money or an asset. AI is the new hot topic so I expect crypto will do a slow fade to stage right.