Place your bets! (I tried to embed it, but the damned thing didn’t work……..)
Government Shutdown Odds
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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H1-B Hives
The topic of H1-B visas is very much in the news, so I wanted to chime in.
The picture below is from the year 2000 or thereabouts. It is the entire staff of my little company Prophet, which I started in 1992 with a war chest of $3,000. Everyone picture here is ‘mericuhn with two exceptions: the chaps wearing eyeglasses (center of picture and extreme left).
Shut it Down. Leave it Down.
The S&P 500 was at its highest level in the history of the Milky Way galaxy only yesterday, but my 25 short positions closed yesterday all profitable. All 25 of them. Added to which, it looks like the prospect of a government shutdown isn’t exactly thrilling the markets. Or maybe that’s not it. I couldn’t care less. They’re all just charts to me, and they’re moving As God Intended ™.
D.C.=Two Mississippis
The “public servants” in Washington win again. Scumbags.
Doled to Death
Here’s a dismal map: the percentage of people in each state that is living on social security. It’s about one-fifth of everyone, suckling on a system which was bankrupt long ago but has been kept afloat by fearful politicians. Look out for yourself; no one else will.
