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Over the next twenty-four hours, there should be a couple of relatively important market-moving events. First, sometime today, I suspect there will be some kind of “trade talks are going well” pablum from the China/US delegation. As I mentioned, you can expect that vapid nonsense for years at this point. Second, tomorrow morning, an hour before the opening bell, the CPI inflation report comes out.
Children’s Place (PLCE) has been an occasional subject here on Slope. It sure took its sweet time, but it seems to have reached its long-predicted demise, since it has gone from about $150 to almost zilch.
Considering the literally trillions of dollars on the line in the AI Wars, it’s got to be at least a little interesting to see who is doing best, IQ-wise. At the moment, OpenAI is on top with a “genius” level of thinking. Personally, I’m rooting for Grok-3, which is down at 112 at the moment.
As time goes on, I’m starting to feel more and more like an ancient relic. The kinds of things I participated in as a child seem incredibly dated and impossible now.
For instance, before my illustrious career in Boy Scouts (Eagle at 13, thank you very much), and before Cub Scouts, I was in this thing called Indian Guides which, had it been allowed to exist until this day, would have been torched as a serious, serious case of unchecked cultural appropriation. I mean, honestly, it was a bunch of white guys wearing headdresses and feathers.
