Bonus
Why doesn't the US Navy end the Houthi threat to shipping?
That involves picking a side in a Sunni/Shiite Arab civil war and the potential for civilian casualties.
Very tricky politically.
What about getting more involved in "defensively" protecting ships.
This means an open-ended commitment to using weapons that cost millions to stop Houthi weapons that cost thousands.
The US tried to get other countries to sign up to help (Operation Prosperity Guardian), but that effort has yet to be successful.
“You can learn investing by reading books.”
— Bill Ackman
Here is a list of 11 investing books recommended by Bill Ackman.
1. Margin of Safety
2. Security Analysis
3. Confidence Game
4. Beating The Street
5. Quality of Earnings
6. One Up on Wall Street
7. The Intelligent Investor
8. The Warren Buffett Way
9. The Essays of Warren Buffett
10. You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
11. Fooling Some of the People All of the Time
All of this is why I think @elonmusk is starting his own @truthgpt, or whatever he will call it. He gets to take the entire @twitter firehose to train or feed any open source model and have a competitor to the big 3. He can weight his own tweets and those of the sources he likes and end up with a consumer facing AI that can be a virtual Elon. Pretty cool. Pretty scary.
The S&P 500 fell 2.5% today, its 60th decline of 1% or more this year.
Since 1950, the only years with more 1+% declines than 2022: 1974, 2002, and 2008.
$SPX
Current market expectations for path of the Fed Funds Rate...
-Tomorrow: 50 bps hike to 4.25%-4.50%
-Feb 2023: 25 bps hike to 4.50%-4.75%
-Mar 2023: 25 bps hike to 4.75%-5.00%
-Pause
-Rate cuts start in Nov 2023, continue in 2024...
Bonds might not be so boring after all: MarketWatch - The bond market has crashed. Why one strategist says embrace the pain and get back in.
https://t.co/piIPdtJodz