“Sad Hill”

caution sign with what looks like a frown

What I Just Heard About the Plot To Oust Trump

Pure fantasy (shared by Robert Reich), but one can hope.

Rusted but still a classic.

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“Mushroom Party”

six  mushrooms on a log

Banks seek to offload risk to avoid ‘choking’ on data centre debt

Groups including JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and SMBC are trying to find ways to distribute portions of data centre-related deals to a broader range of investors, according to people familiar with the matter.

Lenders are exploring private deals to sell stakes in the debt as well as so-called risk transfers to reduce exposure to big borrowers and free up capacity for more lending.

Didn’t we do this with home mortgages a couple of decades ago? And look how well THAT turned out!

“Landing”

a crow in black and white

“Layers”

tree-covered hills in Eugene

NYT provided a handy list of CEOs going along with Trump to China:

  • Tim Cook of Apple
  • Larry Fink of BlackRock
  • Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone
  • Kelly Ortberg of Boeing
  • Brian Sikes of Cargill
  • Jane Fraser of Citi
  • Jim Anderson of Coherent
  • Larry Culp of GE Aerospace
  • David Solomon of Goldman Sachs
  • Jacob Thaysen of Illumina
  • Michael Miebach of Mastercard
  • Dina Powell McCormick of Meta
  • Sanjay Mehrotra of Micron
  • Cristiano Amon of Qualcomm
  • Elon Musk of Tesla
  • Ryan McInerney of Visa

I’ll certainly be doing my best to avoid doing business with any of the companies run by these bootlickers.

“Heart of Green”

a backlit leaf

“Gate”