The Q - Daily Edition
Two Funerals or a Wedding?
"We are our choices."
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Yes, I know.
What the heck am I doing sending out a Quotedian - Daily Edition on a late Friday afternoon. Most of us are sitting somewhere in the sun already, or are drunk, or in the optimal case, both.
However, I did not want to send you off into the weekend with reminding you of (at least) two dilemas President Trump has this weekend…
Firstly, with his son’s (Donald Trump Jr.) wedding scheduled for this weekend, he will have to decide whether to double-down on Iran or attend his son’s nupitals. In that respect he said in an interview earlier today:
“This is not good timing for me,” the president said. “I have a thing called Iran.”
Secondly, with his son’s (Donald Trump Jr.) wedding scheduled for this weekend, he will have to decide whether to move into Cuba to remove Raoul Castro out of Cuba. As a reminder, the appearance of a US air strike carrier coincided with the criminal indicement, both conveniently this week. I am not sure where to place the air quotes on the following, but basically 94-year old Castro was charged by the Feds for the 1996 shoot-down of two civilian planes that killed four people, including three Americans.
So, what will it be Mr President? War or Wedding?
On a completely unrelated note, I have been telling my colleagues over the past weeks that in the past 40 years, whenever “Space” as an investment became a thing again, it was the end to the ongoing rally/bubble. However, I also insisted on using the four most expensive words in investing by repeatadly saying: “This time is different”.
Well, The Economist just came to jinx it all and throw a dozen of raw eggs on my face:
That’s all folks! May the Trend be With You, or, maybe more fittingly and in honour of the apparently franchise-damaging release of The Mandalorian and Grogu … THIS IS THE WAY!
André
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