TSLA crosses $1T mark

 as crude hits 7 year high - $85

kalakand ... a new addition to TheVIP's kitchen

                                                     Kala ka li-jiye Anand - soft aur dane-daar Kalakand se

Inflation worries ...

now that JP's chances are diminishing, he came to realization that inflation might have gone over the wall in last 6 month ... & now he got to rush to fix it or maybe the next guy will ...!

but it simply hard to imagine that history is repeating, & we are going back to Carter days, the era of 40 years of low inflation is about to end .. & then you would need a Reagan & Volcker combo to tame it ... but its way far in future ..!

crude $83 as SPX crosses 4500 again ..!

human behavior ...

“you can’t set expectations and observe one's behavior at the same time; IF you wanna stay objective, simply observe, w/o setting expectations“ ……………………………….…….. TheVIP

similar to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle; IF you really wanna see something in absolute sense, which you think & believe is truly random; i.e. unpredictable like MB, close your eyes, & possibly your mind [as well] ..!

garlici-cilantro-baked-fries - a new addition to TheVIP's kitchen

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RS came solid amidst supply chain concerns

with CPI & PPI out, market jumps 2.5% from ON low

 IJC below 300K

crude hits $82 .. still don't believe in inflation ..?

kadhi pakora - a new addition to TheVIP's kitchen

 

IF you are Indian food enthusiast & may be wondering, why the color is on the lighter side?  ... well, it is fully cooked, actually for about 40 Min; but i like to keep the flavor of besan a bit mild & to do that i used the water leftover from my chhena, which i got for making my kalakand ... & the reason i make chhena is because my second bottle of milk is reaching its expiry date .. long answer but one of the beauty of Indian cooking is nothing goes to waste  ..!  

NFP didn't meet expectations ...

 business facing labor shortage & supply chain challenges

debt ceiling crisis averted

Plus solid IJC helped the market TA north

Frances Haugen testimony against FB

like most things in human behavior, i find it funny .. no, in this case, its actually strange & funny ..!

the good looking blonde claims that FB uses engagement marketing to make the product addictive, just like cigarettes companies did, until they placed the warning on the box .. & i fully agree with her claim .. full disclosure, I am not even on FB, forget about insta, et al.

but here is how i find her testimony, funny & strange .. as she disclosed that she has an MBA from Harvard; so the blonde does have a brain, & she studied engagement marketing at Harvard .. aha ...!

okay, let's play this story in reverse ... IF you have an MBA in Product Marketing with specialization in engagement marketing & join a company like FB .. what are you supposed to do ..?  NOT make a product addictive (or more addictive, since it was addictive 4 years ago ..!)   Not sure what they taught her at Harvard ..?   why would someone hire you to pay big bucks ..? ..or where does she think, her salary come from, If not from the profits of the company ? did they not teach her that in Harvard..?

but she chose to work at FB .. did she not do any research before joining the company, or do they not teach that in Harvard ..!

she made the decision to study product marketing at Harvard say 4 years ago, then chose to specialize in engage marketing 3 years ago, then chose to work with FB, 2 years ago, accepted all the salary and benefits in those two years .. not sure how much time was she working, as she collected some 10,000 pages of documentation without getting noticed or caught ... maybe she was caught which triggered the whole thing .. & now comes the realization or as they call it  "enlightenment" to her that "engagement marketing is injurious to people's health" .. really, now only she got it ... IF so, that's hell of a delayed response even for a blonde ... & no one questioned this Harvard graduated beauty with delayed response brain that what has changed in last 4 years ..?

IF she was smart enough, then she would know this before even entering a college, as she claimed that she, like other millennials have grown up using these products (looking at the Senator, which he found funny, as he thought of his youth and FB .. like what !) .. especially, someone going to Harvard; Yes, that's public information now ..!

so i find the story funny, but doesn't surprise me .. because its Human Behavior, playing with convenience, & most people don't know much about their own ..!

inflation worries from EU spooked the markets ...

 but US is not at all worried ... Thanks to JP!

crude enjoying near 80!    TNX above 1.5

ADP came solid 500K+