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Sugar Glass

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Well, folks, it’s time to check the results of the latest election for Premiere of the Soviet Union major market indexes and see what’s what. I’d say at this point, the entire globe is covered with bear carcasses, and I see no logical reason left why the market should go do again. Ever. Because if you throw $120 billion of cash every month at this thing, why shouldn’t Dow 100,000 be just around the corner? Seriously.

So we start with the Dow Jones Composite which has blown past any boundary of its wedge and, like almost everything else, is simply celebrating each new weekday with a price level never witnessed in human history.

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Just One Coke

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If you, like, me, are of a certain age, you probably remember from your childhood how businesses would fantasize about the day when we could trade freely with China. “If we could sell just one Coke to every person in China…....” it would always begin. The notion being that with a billion people, what a terrific new consumer market that would be for all our junk.

Didn’t quite turn out that way, did it? And here is proof positive of how “Communist” China has changed:

Infographic: Beijing Displaces New York To Become The Billionaire Capital | Statista