Only eight years ago, the Chinese helped us rescue Matt Damon from Mars. Now we are in the Balloon War phase of the eventual, maybe, 2025 Indo-Pacific Conflict. Buy your next iPhone now, it says here. It may have been Lord Palmerston or Henry Kissisnger or Don Ameche who said nations have no permanent friends […]
There were 32,537 job postings for information technology jobs in North Carolina in November, according to NC TECH, an industry trade association. That is around 6,800 jobs less than the number of openings posted in October, a 17.4% drop in one month. Compared to November 2021, it is a 4.1% decline. According to NC TECH, there were
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There is an expression called “catching a falling knife.” Some folks look at this and say this is a once in a generation opportunity to get Tesla when it is cheap. But Tesla P/E is 34, which is a tech company/growth company P/E, and Toyota is 11, which is more like a car company P/E.
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Every Dec. 31, I think about that fictional moment on Dec. 31, 1958, when Michael Corleone told his brother, Fredo, that he knew that Fredo had betrayed him . We know that it happened on Dec. 31, 1958, because it was at the New Year’s Eve party when Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista announces he is
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21 years ago a Chinese miitary jet collided with a Navy signals intel plane in international waters. The Navy plane had to make an emegency landing on a Chinese island, and the crew was held for 10 days. It was shortly after George W. Bush became president, and this was kind of seen as China
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Smart people on Wall Street are now looking at Tesla and trying to decide what to do. It may be fairly valued, or there might be a once-in-a-generation buying opportunity. If you could get in your time machine, the one you got for Christmas, and go back to April 1997, Steve Jobs had just returned
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One of the interesting questions is whether Elon Musk’s decision to buy Twitter last April played a significant role in the decine of Tesla’s value. The question can be answered. You would need to ask major shareholders – like institutional investors – who have dumped Tesla stock over the past eight months. In a parallel
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Learning about my dad’s war March 13, 2015 | News & Observer, The: Blogs (Raleigh, NC) Author/Byline: Dan Barkin dbarkin@newsobserver.com | Section: The Editors’ Blog 1174 Words | Readability: Lexile: 1290, grade level(s): 11-12 Read News Document This year is the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. But on the days that the war ended in Europe and