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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (32517)	12/28/2022 1:30:44 AM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

TL;DR version: If anyone reading this profits from any of this information or the links here, please consider donating to those less fortunate than yourself, or a worthy charity or cause. I do believe in paying it forward in life whenever possible. Thanks! ------------- Just thought I'd bump this moribund thread the week before we roll into 2023 in what is certain to be a wild end to the world's financial markets this Thursday and Friday, before New Year's Day on Sunday. Many reasons for that, of course. The main one as I see it: Many people in the U.S. who are well off enough to be on vacation this week and away from their computer screens and jobs requiring that work do that, regardless of any religious beliefs or ideologies. Those who plan well, save their money, and have the financial resources to do it also take vacations and time off during this week to enjoy their lives and have fun. So, thinly traded futures markets are even more thinly traded. Gyrations in small cap stocks are even more pronounced. Tech stocks with wildly out of whack valuations based on dreams and promises fall even harder or disappear completely. These observations are just simple facts when taken from a macro level and measured over time, like an aerial view from a drone. :-) As for me? I'm a very happy Apple'r about them scaling back their plans for the AppleCar, or whatever they might have called it. Brutal margins in that business. Those plans were far too ambitious given the realities of the auto industry. Even Elon Musk knows that now. All in my humble opinion, of course. As for all the nonsense about companies making cars that kill people... well, that's generally a bad business plan! While it's true that EV Li-ion battery fires are horrific, burn very hot and are hard to extinguish, statistically and proportionally, a far higher percentage of people are killed each year in the U.S. in crashes and fires in cars with internal combustion engines (ICE) cars. I'll leave those stats for the reader to look up though. Even the acronym "ICE" itself is ironic with those facts, eh?