Stay Vigilant

30 years as global prop & HF PM, current finance professor. Stay Vigilant Substack, CME's Excell with Options, Investment Exchange Forum podcast, daily LI chart

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

Update: $10k just to get in the door at MSG...

[The Long View @HayekAndKeynes]

20% inflation at the farmer’s market

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

Go ask a normal American student why school matters and you will hear something about college, career, or money.

Go ask a classically educated student the same question and you will hear words like wisdom, virtue, truth, beauty, or God.

That is the difference between education as workforce preparation and education as human formation.

America has spent generations funding the first vision while wondering why the second kind of person disappeared.

[Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune]

Hoteliers say they already see signs that Chicago will enjoy a healthy summer tourist season. https://t.co/M7APtgBiUd

[St. Louis Fed @stlouisfed]

St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem touched base with people and businesses today in Kentucky and Indiana and learned that inflation was top of mind and they saw the labor market as balanced and stable. He visited River Ridge Commerce Center, met business leaders, and toured @GoodwillKY’s West Louisville Opportunity Center.

[The Options Insider @Options]

500 episodes. Countless futures options trades. One amazing community.

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[Stay Vigilant @ExcellRichard]

The narrative is changing. The bond market is telling us this

Time for equity investors to head to AlphaSpace by @YahooFinance and anticipate what sector rotation looks like in a world of higher inflation and higher yields

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[Stay Vigilant @ExcellRichard]

My latest Excell with Options for @CMEGroup

Have a look and let me know your thoughts. Is a Christmas tree in your future?

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[Stay Vigilant @ExcellRichard]

Here's the story ..., by @ExcellRichard

Got some great help from the new AlphaSpace and Yahoo Scout AI over at Yahoo Finance. Definitely have a look! Easy to use and very powerful

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[Stay Vigilant @ExcellRichard]

Common Ground, by @ExcellRichard

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[Stay Vigilant @ExcellRichard]

@sonalibasak Headed there today too

[Stay Vigilant @ExcellRichard]

Harvest, by @ExcellRichard
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[Stay Vigilant @ExcellRichard]

On the one hand ..., by @ExcellRichard

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[Trad West @trad_west_]

Many think Communism is just a political theory. It is not.

Communism is a spiritual weapon of the devil, designed to enslave souls and erase God from the hearts of Men.

This is why saints stood up to it.

Why is communism demonic? Because communism begins with atheism. It denies God and His Church.

Man is reduced to a number in the collective.

The State becomes "god". The Church becomes the enemy. This is satanic.

Can a christian be a communist? No. The Church has made this absolutely clear. Pope Pius XII decreed in 1949: Catholics who professed atheistic communist doctrine to be excommunicated as apostates from the Christian faith.

To support Communism is to support a system that seeks to crucify Christ anew, in His Church, in His poor, in His priests.

Socialist and communist regimes have persecuted the Church and its faithful since their inception. From Venerable Cardinal József Mindszenty in Hungary; He was arrested, tortured, drugged, and forced into a show trial. But he never renounced the Faith.

To the Martyrs of Ukraine of 1946 when Stalin outlawed the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

To the modern day where Christians, and the Church, in China, North Korea and Venezuela are persecuted. Just last month Maduro's regime had arrested a Cardinal and confiscasted his passport.

But we know the way to fight it.

In 1917, at the height of WWI, three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal received a message from Heaven.

Our Lady warned: “Russia will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will suffer much…”

The “errors of Russia” were not just political. They were spiritual poisons:
>Atheistic materialism
>Class warfare
>Destruction of the family
>Rejection of the Church
>Deification of the State
>Persecution of the faithful

These are the seeds of Communism, and they spread globally.

We are still suffering from these to these day.

Our Lady gave us weapons to use:
>Daily Rosary
>Consecration to her Immaculate Heart
>First Saturdays devotion
>Penance and reparation for sins

She promised: “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Javier Milei: “I am a true libertarian. I see government as an oppressive machine which destroys rights, which destroys liberty. I see taxes as theft. I see the state as an organized criminal gang.”

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Bill Clinton: “The Palestinians were offered a state. They refused. A state wasn't their goal. Killing Jews was."

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Ayn Rand: "Study economics. A free economy will not break down. All depressions are caused by government interference, and the cure is always offered so far to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not a result of a free economy."

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: e.l.f Cosmetics co-founder is set to become a Catholic priest after abandoning his wealthy and luxurious life.

At the age of 42, Scott Vincent Borba gave up his fortune and entered the seminary.

Now at 52 years of age, Borba, a former actor, designer, model and singer, is set to be ordained on May 23 in Visalia by the Diocese of Fresno.

"We ran around with the likes of, Paris Hilton, and partying with Kardashians and just doing up the Hollywood life. I was a poster boy for luxury living. I was not in any which way humble. I was very prideful," he said during an interview.

"I asked our Lord to help me be the man that he created me to be."

"And upon that instance, I had this massive flood of love and mercy that came into my life. It was a very mystical experience."

What an amazing story.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Elon Musk: “Generally, whatever Milton Friedman said, people should do that thing.”

[Fox News @FoxNews]

VP VANCE: "So you're saying that we kicked off 800 fraudulent healthcare providers off of the Medicare system, and not a single one of them called the government and said, 'hey, you made a mistake?'"

DR. OZ: "We've had a handful of calls. We're not sure they're legitimate yet, but it's less than 20 out of 800 and we're auditing them."

VP VANCE:" Unbelievable... At least 780 are not even trying to claim that they're not fraudulent?"

"Those are businesses that we were giving hundreds of millions, in some cases billions of dollars to, not to provide services, but to make a fraudster rich. It's just completely insane."