Steve’s Barking; Question of the day.. Does the U.S. demand instant gratification in the battle with Iran

 Oh damn… What does this crazy blogger mean does the United States demand instant gratification with Iran?

 I’ll try to explain, though it will be hard to understand…..

 The United States along with most of the world is hurting economically because of the easy way the Iranians are making it very difficult for oil tankers to go through the Strait of Hormuz. The price of oil and its products are extremely expensive. Now it may be said that this is bringing hardship on the peoples of the world, especially US citizens. Ah, this is good for those who hold power, especially in the United States.

 So it seems that those in power are kind of panicking and to this goofy blogger they are giving 300 billion dollars and stopping any hostile action against Iran. The United States President is telling its partner in this adventure that it must not protect its citizens by attacking the hostile forces that are in Lebanon because the Iranians will not cease hostilities in the Strait of Hormuz, thus keeping the flow of oil coming to the rest of the world. 

 If what this crazy man has read, the oil producers of that region are building pipelines from their oil fields to other ports thus leaving Iran unable to hurt the supply of oil to the world in about six months. The United States doesn’t seem to have the patience thus surrounding in the battle of Iran and the United States.  

 

Steve’s Barking; Different takeaways from Knicks winning NBA championship 2026

 This blogger takes away from Jalen Brunson. 

 Never doubt yourself. 

 Trust yourself, even when the so-called experts call you too small, too slow. Believe in yourself.

 As a team (and an individual also), keep on pushing and never give up, you too can make a comeback from being down by what seems unsurmountable.

 Teamwork is more important than great individual talent.

Steve’s Barking; analytics don’t win basketball games

 Analytics don’t win, basketball games, scoring more points does. 

Steve’s a barking: What if we treated IPOs like the TV show the price is right ( huh)

 What is this crazy blogger writing about now? Comparing an IPO to a game show. 

 Well, that’s not exactly what I’m getting at. 

 The price that the owners of the stock before the IPO make a killing if (and it does) the price rises extremely high. My idea is just like the game show: the price is right (if you win something like a car), you are charged the full retail of the commodity in taxes (a car loses value as soon as you take it home). Well, the United States needs to help pay off its debt, so why not help pay off the debt by having the so-called gains of the person making the money the first day and possibly months later on the gains, so the rich slob should be treated like the poor slob, and we the people can help pay off our national debt.

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Steve’s Barking; Question …. what happen to gold as hedge against inflation? (6/11/26)

 In the United States, we are having extremely high inflation. At the same time, the holding of gold is going down. Now, how do I know that gold is going down? Well, if the price is going down, I make the presumption that people are selling gold. Now, I’m assuming that people are not holding it against inflation,  as it was in the olden days.

Steve’s Barking; Question of the day, Is America committing suicide ?

 This crazy blogger has it in his head that by the IPO of SpaceX and the other non-solvent companies, the stock market will be destroyed.  It will destroy life savings, retirement, and pensions. 

 Now you may ask how will it do that? These non-profitable companies will take money from profitable companies, thereby diluting the money saved.

 No one is saying where the money that is needed to use AI companies and to travel to Mars is coming from. 

 Now companies are asking people to pay to go Add free. At one time, there was only a limited amount of ads on these platforms; now there is more time taken up by ads than content.

 Almost 100 years ago, the stock market crashed, and along with it came the Great Depression. Do you, the reader, think like me, this not-too-smart blogger, because of the weakening of regulations, there is an excellent chance of another market crash and another Great Depression? 

 In conclusion, did America commit economic suicide by loosening regulations?

Steve’s Barking; Question of the day. Where is all this money coming from?

 This blogger, not being the smartest guy in the world, doesn’t understand where all the money is coming from to build these AI data centers. I keep reading that Alphabet, Meta, SpaceX, and several new companies are going to need billions and billions of dollars, equaling trillions of trillions of dollars. Now I know that assets and debt equal over 45 trillion dollars, maybe more, but what I don’t understand is how can you turn assets and debt into liquid assets? Are the banks suddenly printing money, or have they been hoarding the billions? Are those with retirement money suddenly going to have money to go crazy and help finance these billions of dollars the AI data centers need?

 Speaking of money, who has that kind of money to invest in SpaceX IPO that values it over a trillion dollars? 

 I’m just not smart enough to figure it out.