@ChowDownDetroit Both you & Heather are the nicest people! I live in waterford & will visit here within the week. Thanks for promoting small businesses! 😍
Profits over People: 450,000 Michigan families are sitting in the dark tonight because a summer thunderstorm, in July, was enough to take down the grid. Again.
Let that sink in. Not a hurricane. Not an ice storm. A summer storm, and half a million people lose power heading into the Fourth of July.
Here is what makes it infuriating. DTE always seems to find the money and the urgency when it is time to cut sweetheart deals for data centers and big corporate customers. New infrastructure for them? Fast-tracked. Special rates for them? Done. But the basic grid that serves your home, the poles and lines that are supposed to keep your lights on and your food from spoiling and your medical equipment running, somehow that never gets the same attention.
Michigan families pay some of the highest rates in the region for some of the WORST reliability in the country. Rate hike after rate hike gets approved, the shareholders and executives do just fine, and the moment the wind blows, we are the ones lighting candles and throwing out a fridge full of groceries.
Politicians don’t care, as they take DTE’s money. DTE cannot keep charging people more and delivering them less. A utility that has a monopoly on your power has an obligation to the people first, not the corporate accounts and the data centers.
To every family in the dark tonight, stay safe, stay far away from downed lines, and remember this the next time DTE and their friends in Lansing ask you to trust them. Ask your politicians if they take DTE’s money - money that came from you.
Michigan deserves a grid that works for people, not one that works everyone except them. Let's make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸
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I spent over two decades as a full time futures trader and scalper, and I learned your edge isn’t just your strategy. It’s your focus.
It’s the amount of hyperfocus it takes every single day. Blocking everything out, slowing your heart rate down, staying calm, believing in your homework, executing at a high level. Trading has to be your number one focus each day. So if you’re learning to become a successful trader, here are three things you may be focusing on that are working against you.
First, other people’s money. Stop looking at how much everyone else is making. That’s the number one thing you have to look away from. I was around thousands of traders on the floor and I barely remember us talking about money. It was private. The goal was to build a life. It felt blue collar. Today everyone talks about what they make, trying to prove someone wrong about the market. It’s a different place, and a lot harder for a new trader to block the noise out.
Second, the access. Overnight used to just be overnight, where you managed a position if you had one. Set time to start, set time to break, set time to come back. We traded mornings, skipped midday, came back for the close. Now the access never stops, and it’s spread everyone’s focus too thin to stay locked in.
Third, understanding the market environment. We move between environments at a very rapid rate. We go from trending higher with no signs of a pullback, buy the dip and hold on, straight into sell off mode. Trying to guess what those days will be like going into them is very difficult. You have to stay open minded and understand how quickly the tape can change. Last Friday was the perfect example. A market runs higher a lot further than most thought, then unravels all at once. It’s the same psychology we see in traders. They stay in their own trend for only so long, then unravel all at once. If you’re not focused, or you’re clinging too hard to one market environment as you move into the next, you aren’t allowing things to be what they are. You’re fighting them for what they were.
So here’s the simple part. Slow everything down. Survive a game where you pay your bills and stay in long enough to make a living. There will be moments this business really pays you, and you won’t choose them. They choose you. The rest is grinding, surviving, enjoying the process. Arguing with people on social media is a time waster, and the people who do it are usually unhappy in their own lives. Spend your time wisely.
Focus is the whole game. Protect it like your account depends on it, because it does.
Enjoy your life. Have fun. This is the greatest business in the world if you let it be. And it’ll be the worst, and destroy your life, if you let it.
Cheers, DELI
1 CORINTHIANS 13: 4-5
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
How many of us “truly” have love in our hearts?
Some mobsters lived for the headlines and the body count. Others made their fortune in the shadows and died in their own beds. A few could do both – and they’re the ones you really had to worry about.
In this episode I take you inside that world and sort some of the most famous Cosa Nostra names into three buckets: gangster, racketeer, and the rare hybrid who could move from a war room to a restaurant table without changing his temperature. If you’ve ever wondered who was a real gangster, who was just a businessman in a bad suit, and who played both sides better than anyone, pull up a chair.
Coming up on Sunday, February 22, at 3 PM, is Pete Forcelli. Pete is a former ATF agent who worked on home invasion gangs in the Phoenix/Tucson area for 10 years.
Make sure to share with everyone - see you on Sunday!
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Join me live, Saturday, Feb. 21, at 3 PM EST. My good friend, Aaron Graham, a former DEA agent, had a half-million dollar bounty on his head placed by the cartel while living in Tucson. We’ll dive into the issues on the abduction, cartel business models, and a hypothesis about how someone could have learned intimate details about Nancy.
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Most people never get these labs checked… but you should. If you want the FULL blood test list in much more detail that your doctor should be ordering, check my Substack article. https://t.co/E6N7soJeBF