{"id":55193,"date":"2022-03-23T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T07:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=55193"},"modified":"2022-03-23T03:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T07:13:00","slug":"dhunplugged-599-spiking-ripping-and-raging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/23\/dhunplugged-599-spiking-ripping-and-raging\/","title":{"rendered":"DHUnplugged #599: Spiking, Ripping and Raging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best week&#8217;s since&#8230;.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dh_banner_599.jpg\" width=\"357\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Markets continue in rally\/rip mode as &#8220;hope&#8221; that Ukraine beats Russia.<\/p>\n<p>China stimulus hopes propel tech shares to the moon<\/p>\n<p>PLUS we are now on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/30bQIjH9Gw4es27XYrYKJL\">Spotify<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/79261e60-0492-43c0-b1a2-708ebeb4bd7e\/DH-Unplugged\">Amazon Music\/Podcasts<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span id=\"more-19324\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-fancy su-spoiler-icon-plus-circle su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\">\n<div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>Click HERE for Show Notes and Links<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DHUnplugged is now streaming live &#8211; with listener chat. Click on link on the right sidebar.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Love the Show?<\/h4>\n<p>Then how about a Donation?<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input title=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" alt=\"Donate\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/THErealDVORAK\"><strong>Follow John C. Dvorak on Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewhorowitz\"><strong>Follow Andrew Horowitz on Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"hgKElc\"><strong>Warm Up<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8211; Massive Rally &#8211; Just to Suck you back in to this Crapfest (defined last show)<br \/>\n&#8212; Big winners were the biggest losers over the latter part of last week<br \/>\n&#8212;- GS Short basket flew &#8211; 20%, Chinese Stocks &gt; 35% last week<br \/>\n&#8211; Usually see these kinds of moves &#8211; ONLY in Bear market &#8211; Need to be picky about positions&#8230;Opps!<br \/>\n&#8211; The nature of bear markets &#8211; big swings with VIX above 25!<br \/>\n&#8211; Russia &#8211; COUP???<br \/>\n&#8211; LIMIRICKS!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Market Update<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Get em&#8217; &#8211; Oversold, pent up, rally after Powell&#8217;s 0.25% hike<br \/>\n&#8211; Fast Forward and he is hawkish again &#8211; saying 0.50% at any meeting is possible<br \/>\n&#8211; Big moves for Boeing &#8211; Plane down in China<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT A WEEK!<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Market&#8217;s &#8220;V&#8221; again off of the hope that Jay Powell and Friends will take it easy on the\u00a0 rate hikes.<br \/>\n&#8211; 0.25% and every meeting this year is live.<br \/>\n&#8211; During press conference he seemed to put many at ease, but was still very hawkish.<br \/>\n&#8211; He said &#8211; He didn&#8217;t see an elevated chance of a recession next year (sparked markets instantly higher)<br \/>\n&#8211; Best week for over 2-years, markets in green for MTD (HUGE MOVE on individual names)<br \/>\n&#8211; China stocks rocket! KWEB up 35% for the week (index of Chinese tech names)<\/p>\n<p><strong>THREE NUMBERS TO RUIN YOUR DAY:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; $110 (oil)<br \/>\n&#8211; 2.30 (10 Yr)<br \/>\n&#8211; 0.38 (2\/10 spread)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2\/10 Spread<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"su-lightbox\" data-mfp-src=\"https:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/210spread-.jpg\" data-mfp-type=\"image\" data-mobile=\"yes\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#2D89EF;border-color:#246ec0;border-radius:5px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:0px 16px;font-size:13px;line-height:26px;border-color:#6cadf4;border-radius:5px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px;text-shadow:none;-moz-text-shadow:none;-webkit-text-shadow:none\"> Yield Curve Flattening<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>And Then &#8211;<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Rates &#8211; Spike &#8211; &#8211; current 10 yr &gt; 2.2%, Oil moving up again<br \/>\n&#8211; Inflation in Germany &#8211; PPI\u00a0 &gt; 25% YoY<br \/>\n&#8211; War still raging<br \/>\n&#8211; Food issues starting, more supply chain issues &#8230;..<br \/>\n&#8211; So what is next catalyst for markets (Earnings?)<br \/>\n&#8211; EU considering Russian Oil Embargo (Self &#8211; mutilation)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rates &#8211; More<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; St. Louis Fed&#8217;s Bullard says the central bank should raise rates above 3% this year<br \/>\n&#8211; As the lone dissenter at this week&#8217;s Fed meeting, Bullard said in a statement that he would like to see the central bank&#8217;s benchmark interest rate boosted above 3% from the near-0% level where it had stood.<br \/>\n&#8211; Bullard was the only FOMC member to vote against the move, stating that he would have preferred a rate hike of 0.5 percentage point, or 50 basis points. He added that the Fed also should have started the process of reducing the nearly $9 trillion in bond holdings it has accumulated over the past 14 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More to Ruin your Week<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8211; National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at press conference says President Biden and EU leaders will decide Thursday what they should do if Russia uses a nuclear, chemical, or biological weapon in Ukraine<br \/>\n&#8211; Good News: A Kremlin spokesperson apparently out stating Russia would only use nuclear weapons if its very existence were threatened<br \/>\n&#8211; 2 comments on Nukes that are not needed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russian Coup?<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; A group of Russian elites are allegedly conspiring to overthrow Russian President Vladimir Putin and \u201crestore economic ties\u201d with the West, <em><strong>according to Ukrainian intelligence<\/strong><\/em>.<br \/>\n&#8211; Who is Putin&#8217;s food taster?<br \/>\n&#8211; Crazy info-wars going on&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where to?<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; China says Taiwan, which it views as a breakaway province to be brought back to the fold, by force if necessary, is the most sensitive and important issue in its relations with the United States.<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Some individuals in the United States are sending the wrong signals to pro-independence forces in Taiwan, and that&#8217;s very dangerous,&#8221; Xi told Biden on a video call.<br \/>\n&#8211; If the Taiwan issue is not handled properly, it will have a subversive impact on the relationship between the two countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>China Plane &#8211; All Lost<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; China Eastern Airlines will ground all Boeing (BA) 737-800 jets as some wreckage from crash was found, according to Bloomberg<br \/>\n&#8211; A\u00a0Boeing Co.\u00a0737-800 NG plane operated by China Eastern Airlines Corp.\u00a0crashed\u00a0Monday in the southwestern Chinese region of Guangxi.<br \/>\n&#8211; There were 132 people on board &#8212; 123 passengers and 9 crew &#8212; and the plane went down in a mountainous area near the city of Wuzhou<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT?<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; The Biden administration on Friday said it would resume plans for oil and gas development on federal lands following a court ruling this week that temporarily restored a measure meant to factor the cost of global warming into federal decision-making.<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Responsible drilling&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nickle Update<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Nickel prices resumed their free-fall on Monday, with the benchmark three-month contract falling 15% to hit another new trading limit.<br \/>\n&#8211; The price hit $31,380 a metric ton as it opened for trade on the London Metal Exchange<br \/>\n&#8211; March 8 it show up to $100,000<br \/>\n&#8212; BTW &#8211; LME canceled many of the trades. So, losers get break, winners got screwed.<br \/>\n&#8211; Nickle now trading more normalized<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miami &#8211; AIRBnB<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Miami is one of the most expensive Airbnb markets in the world.<br \/>\n&#8211; The average monthly price of a short-term rental in the city is $8,024, according to a study by Compare the Market, making it the third most profitable Airbnb market globally for hosts, after Las Vegas and Honolulu.<br \/>\n&#8211; In 2021, Miami Airbnbs hosted 710,000 guests and earned a collective $200 million, Airbnb said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Travel Update &#8211; Shrugging Off<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; U.S. booking sites including Vrbo, Hopper and KAYAK are seeing higher demand for spring and summer leisure travel as COVID-19 restrictions ease<br \/>\n&#8211; Travelers appear to be shrugging off added costs to plane tickets and road trips from rising fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bits&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Firing Squad<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; South Carolina now has the means to facilitate executions by firing squad, officials said Friday, making it one of few states where it is lawful to carry out a death sentence in that manner.<br \/>\n&#8211; The state Department of Corrections said it alerted the Attorney General&#8217;s office that it has developed protocols and completed renovations at a correctional facility in Columbia, the capital city, making way for death row inmates to choose to be shot by a three-man squad among three possible methods of execution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HUH?<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; A new law bans the United States&#8217; former spies from hiring themselves out to foreign governments right after they stop working for Washington.<br \/>\n&#8211; The legislation, signed into law by President Joseph Biden on Tuesday as part of a $1.5 trillion spending bill, prohibits U.S. intelligence officials with knowledge of spycraft and national security secrets from selling their services to other countries for 30 months after retiring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NATO<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday he welcomed any interest shown by Finland in joining NATO, a question that has gained more urgency since Russia invaded Ukraine.<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;The wishes that Finland brings to us and the alliances that we are involved in are always very welcome,&#8221; said Scholz, adding nothing more concrete.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No Kidding &#8211; Trapped<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; EU members weiging embargo against Russian oil &#8211; Monday<br \/>\n&#8211; CNBC reporting that an EU embargo on Russian oil imports is &#8220;unlikely at this point&#8221; &#8211; Tuesday<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digital Breach<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Okta Inc, whose authentication services are used by companies including Fedex and Moody&#8217;s to provide access to their networks, is investigating a report of a digital breach after hackers posted screenshots of what they said was internal information.<br \/>\n&#8211; Okta does not know the extent, says mnaybe the same info from the january breach<br \/>\n&#8211; Stock down 5%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Headline<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; The NFL will now lets teams seek limited blockchain sponsorships<br \/>\n&#8211; BUT, cryptocurrency promotion is banned<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>420 Stocks &#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/DHPotStocks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK for list of &#8220;Pot Stocks&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Stocks to watch: CGC, STZ, TLRY, CRON, MJ, NBEV<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Love the Show?<br \/>\nThen how about a Donation?<\/h4>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input title=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" alt=\"Donate\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/dh_CTP.jpg\" alt=\"dh_CTP\" width=\"602\" height=\"122\" \/><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\/CTP\/global-x-uranium-etf\/\">ANNOUNCING &#8211; CLOSEST TO THE PIN<br \/>\n<span data-sheets-value=\"&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Global X Uranium ETF&quot;\" data-sheets-userformat=\"&quot;2&quot;:4224,&quot;10&quot;:2,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;arial,sans,sans-serif&quot;\" data-sheets-formula=\"=GOOGLEFINANCE(R&#091;0&#093;C&#091;-1&#093;, &quot;name&quot;)\">Global X Uranium ETF<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*** NEW INTERACTIVE CHARTS ***<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Winners will be getting great stuff like the new DHUnplugged Shirts (Designed by Jimbo) &#8211;<br \/>\nPLUS a one-of-a-kind DHUnplugged CTP Winner&#8217;s certificate..<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tradingview.go2cloud.org\/aff_c?offer_id=2&amp;aff_id=2430&amp;source=DHCTP\"><strong>CLICK HERE FOR MORE CHARTS ON TRADING VIEW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; NEW ETF &#8211; Global X Millennials Thematic ETF Challenge!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The top holdings of Global X Millennials Thematic ETF (MILN) include stocks many investors would expect, such as <strong>Facebook<\/strong>, <strong>LinkedIn<\/strong> and <strong>Amazon<\/strong>, which take advantage of the tech tendencies of millennials. But some names might be more surprising like real estate investment trusts <strong>AvalonBay Communities<\/strong> and Equity <strong>Residential<\/strong>, and <strong>Home Depot<\/strong>, which could benefit from millennials moving out of the home of their parents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We are creating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\/dhoci-index-tracking\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>DH Old Codger Index Portfolio<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to compete against this new ETF to see how &#8220;old school&#8221; stocks do in comparison. Companies in our index will include:<em> (updated names as of 8\/29\/16)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We have the performance summary running (daily and since inception of 5\/6\/16) &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\/dhoci-index-tracking\/\">DHOCI vs. Millennials ETF Battle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>LIMERICKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Taylor<\/strong><br \/>\nHey eff off, John, you limerick denier<br \/>\nThese poems are gold and get no deviner<br \/>\nLike Powell raising rate<br \/>\nYour grades, they deflate<br \/>\nCrushing markets and your subscribers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harry Pilgrim<\/strong><br \/>\nThey picked a Greenie to regulate banks<br \/>\nThe Republicans stood firm and closed ranks<br \/>\nJoe Biden kept askin&#8217;<br \/>\nConfirm Sarah Raskin!<br \/>\nBut then Joe Manchin simply said &#8220;No Thanks&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">See this week\u2019s stock picks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\/stock-page\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/THErealDVORAK\"><strong>Follow John C. Dvorak on Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewhorowitz\"><strong>Follow Andrew Horowitz on Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best week&#8217;s since&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Markets continue in rally\/rip mode as &#8220;hope&#8221; that Ukraine beats Russia.<\/p>\n<p>China stimulus hopes propel tech shares to the moon<\/p>\n<p>PLUS we are now on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/30bQIjH9Gw4es27XYrYKJL\">Spotify<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/79261e60-0492-43c0-b1a2-708ebeb4bd7e\/DH-Unplugged\">Amazon Music\/Podcasts<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Click HERE for Show Notes and Links<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>DHUnplugged is now streaming live &#8211; with listener chat. Click on link on the right sidebar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Love the Show?<\/h4>\n<p>Then how about a Donation?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/THErealDVORAK\"><strong>Follow John C. Dvorak on Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewhorowitz\"><strong>Follow Andrew Horowitz on Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Warm Up<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8211; Massive Rally &#8211; Just to Suck you back in to this Crapfest (defined last show)<br \/>\n&#8212; Big winners were the biggest losers over the latter part of last week<br \/>\n&#8212;- GS Short basket flew &#8211; 20%, Chinese Stocks &gt; 35% last week<br \/>\n&#8211; Usually see these kinds of moves &#8211; ONLY in Bear market &#8211; Need to be picky about positions&#8230;Opps!<br \/>\n&#8211; The nature of bear markets &#8211; big swings with VIX above 25!<br \/>\n&#8211; Russia &#8211; COUP???<br \/>\n&#8211; LIMIRICKS!\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Market Update<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Get em&#8217; &#8211; Oversold, pent up, rally after Powell&#8217;s 0.25% hike<br \/>\n&#8211; Fast Forward and he is hawkish again &#8211; saying 0.50% at any meeting is possible<br \/>\n&#8211; Big moves for Boeing &#8211; Plane down in China<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT A WEEK!<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Market&#8217;s &#8220;V&#8221; again off of the hope that Jay Powell and Friends will take it easy on the\u00a0 rate hikes.<br \/>\n&#8211; 0.25% and every meeting this year is live.<br \/>\n&#8211; During press conference he seemed to put many at ease, but was still very hawkish.<br \/>\n&#8211; He said &#8211; He didn&#8217;t see an elevated chance of a recession next year (sparked markets instantly higher)<br \/>\n&#8211; Best week for over 2-years, markets in green for MTD (HUGE MOVE on individual names)<br \/>\n&#8211; China stocks rocket! KWEB up 35% for the week (index of Chinese tech names)<\/p>\n<p><strong>THREE NUMBERS TO RUIN YOUR DAY:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; $110 (oil)<br \/>\n&#8211; 2.30 (10 Yr)<br \/>\n&#8211; 0.38 (2\/10 spread)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2\/10 Spread<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#2D89EF;border-color:#246ec0;border-radius:5px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"> Yield Curve Flattening<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>And Then &#8211;<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Rates &#8211; Spike &#8211; &#8211; current 10 yr &gt; 2.2%, Oil moving up again<br \/>\n&#8211; Inflation in Germany &#8211; PPI\u00a0 &gt; 25% YoY<br \/>\n&#8211; War still raging<br \/>\n&#8211; Food issues starting, more supply chain issues &#8230;..<br \/>\n&#8211; So what is next catalyst for markets (Earnings?)<br \/>\n&#8211; EU considering Russian Oil Embargo (Self &#8211; mutilation)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rates &#8211; More<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; St. Louis Fed&#8217;s Bullard says the central bank should raise rates above 3% this year<br \/>\n&#8211; As the lone dissenter at this week&#8217;s Fed meeting, Bullard said in a statement that he would like to see the central bank&#8217;s benchmark interest rate boosted above 3% from the near-0% level where it had stood.<br \/>\n&#8211; Bullard was the only FOMC member to vote against the move, stating that he would have preferred a rate hike of 0.5 percentage point, or 50 basis points. He added that the Fed also should have started the process of reducing the nearly $9 trillion in bond holdings it has accumulated over the past 14 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More to Ruin your Week<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8211; National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at press conference says President Biden and EU leaders will decide Thursday what they should do if Russia uses a nuclear, chemical, or biological weapon in Ukraine<br \/>\n&#8211; Good News: A Kremlin spokesperson apparently out stating Russia would only use nuclear weapons if its very existence were threatened<br \/>\n&#8211; 2 comments on Nukes that are not needed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russian Coup?<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; A group of Russian elites are allegedly conspiring to overthrow Russian President Vladimir Putin and \u201crestore economic ties\u201d with the West, <em><strong>according to Ukrainian intelligence<\/strong><\/em>.<br \/>\n&#8211; Who is Putin&#8217;s food taster?<br \/>\n&#8211; Crazy info-wars going on&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where to?<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; China says Taiwan, which it views as a breakaway province to be brought back to the fold, by force if necessary, is the most sensitive and important issue in its relations with the United States.<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Some individuals in the United States are sending the wrong signals to pro-independence forces in Taiwan, and that&#8217;s very dangerous,&#8221; Xi told Biden on a video call.<br \/>\n&#8211; If the Taiwan issue is not handled properly, it will have a subversive impact on the relationship between the two countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>China Plane &#8211; All Lost<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; China Eastern Airlines will ground all Boeing (BA) 737-800 jets as some wreckage from crash was found, according to Bloomberg<br \/>\n&#8211; A\u00a0Boeing Co.\u00a0737-800 NG plane operated by China Eastern Airlines Corp.\u00a0crashed\u00a0Monday in the southwestern Chinese region of Guangxi.<br \/>\n&#8211; There were 132 people on board &#8212; 123 passengers and 9 crew &#8212; and the plane went down in a mountainous area near the city of Wuzhou<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT?<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; The Biden administration on Friday said it would resume plans for oil and gas development on federal lands following a court ruling this week that temporarily restored a measure meant to factor the cost of global warming into federal decision-making.<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Responsible drilling&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nickle Update<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Nickel prices resumed their free-fall on Monday, with the benchmark three-month contract falling 15% to hit another new trading limit.<br \/>\n&#8211; The price hit $31,380 a metric ton as it opened for trade on the London Metal Exchange<br \/>\n&#8211; March 8 it show up to $100,000<br \/>\n&#8212; BTW &#8211; LME canceled many of the trades. So, losers get break, winners got screwed.<br \/>\n&#8211; Nickle now trading more normalized<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miami &#8211; AIRBnB<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Miami is one of the most expensive Airbnb markets in the world.<br \/>\n&#8211; The average monthly price of a short-term rental in the city is $8,024, according to a study by Compare the Market, making it the third most profitable Airbnb market globally for hosts, after Las Vegas and Honolulu.<br \/>\n&#8211; In 2021, Miami Airbnbs hosted 710,000 guests and earned a collective $200 million, Airbnb said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Travel Update &#8211; Shrugging Off<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; U.S. booking sites including Vrbo, Hopper and KAYAK are seeing higher demand for spring and summer leisure travel as COVID-19 restrictions ease<br \/>\n&#8211; Travelers appear to be shrugging off added costs to plane tickets and road trips from rising fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bits&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Firing Squad<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; South Carolina now has the means to facilitate executions by firing squad, officials said Friday, making it one of few states where it is lawful to carry out a death sentence in that manner.<br \/>\n&#8211; The state Department of Corrections said it alerted the Attorney General&#8217;s office that it has developed protocols and completed renovations at a correctional facility in Columbia, the capital city, making way for death row inmates to choose to be shot by a three-man squad among three possible methods of execution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HUH?<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; A new law bans the United States&#8217; former spies from hiring themselves out to foreign governments right after they stop working for Washington.<br \/>\n&#8211; The legislation, signed into law by President Joseph Biden on Tuesday as part of a $1.5 trillion spending bill, prohibits U.S. intelligence officials with knowledge of spycraft and national security secrets from selling their services to other countries for 30 months after retiring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NATO<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday he welcomed any interest shown by Finland in joining NATO, a question that has gained more urgency since Russia invaded Ukraine.<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;The wishes that Finland brings to us and the alliances that we are involved in are always very welcome,&#8221; said Scholz, adding nothing more concrete.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No Kidding &#8211; Trapped<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; EU members weiging embargo against Russian oil &#8211; Monday<br \/>\n&#8211; CNBC reporting that an EU embargo on Russian oil imports is &#8220;unlikely at this point&#8221; &#8211; Tuesday<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digital Breach<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Okta Inc, whose authentication services are used by companies including Fedex and Moody&#8217;s to provide access to their networks, is investigating a report of a digital breach after hackers posted screenshots of what they said was internal information.<br \/>\n&#8211; Okta does not know the extent, says mnaybe the same info from the january breach<br \/>\n&#8211; Stock down 5%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Headline<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; The NFL will now lets teams seek limited blockchain sponsorships<br \/>\n&#8211; BUT, cryptocurrency promotion is banned<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>420 Stocks &#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/DHPotStocks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK for list of &#8220;Pot Stocks&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Stocks to watch: CGC, STZ, TLRY, CRON, MJ, NBEV<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Love the Show?<br \/>\nThen how about a Donation?<\/h4>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\/CTP\/global-x-uranium-etf\/\">ANNOUNCING &#8211; CLOSEST TO THE PIN<br \/>\nGlobal X Uranium ETF<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*** NEW INTERACTIVE CHARTS ***<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Winners will be getting great stuff like the new DHUnplugged Shirts (Designed by Jimbo) &#8211;<br \/>\nPLUS a one-of-a-kind DHUnplugged CTP Winner&#8217;s certificate..<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tradingview.go2cloud.org\/aff_c?offer_id=2&amp;aff_id=2430&amp;source=DHCTP\"><strong>CLICK HERE FOR MORE CHARTS ON TRADING VIEW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>UPDATE<\/strong> &#8211; NEW ETF &#8211; Global X Millennials Thematic ETF Challenge!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The top holdings of Global X Millennials Thematic ETF (MILN) include stocks many investors would expect, such as <strong>Facebook<\/strong>, <strong>LinkedIn<\/strong> and <strong>Amazon<\/strong>, which take advantage of the tech tendencies of millennials. But some names might be more surprising like real estate investment trusts <strong>AvalonBay Communities<\/strong> and Equity <strong>Residential<\/strong>, and <strong>Home Depot<\/strong>, which could benefit from millennials moving out of the home of their parents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We are creating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\/dhoci-index-tracking\/\"><strong>DH Old Codger Index Portfolio<\/strong><\/a> to compete against this new ETF to see how &#8220;old school&#8221; stocks do in comparison. Companies in our index will include:<em> (updated names as of 8\/29\/16)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We have the performance summary running (daily and since inception of 5\/6\/16) &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\/dhoci-index-tracking\/\">DHOCI vs. Millennials ETF Battle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>LIMERICKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Taylor<\/strong><br \/>\nHey eff off, John, you limerick denier<br \/>\nThese poems are gold and get no deviner<br \/>\nLike Powell raising rate<br \/>\nYour grades, they deflate<br \/>\nCrushing markets and your subscribers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harry Pilgrim<\/strong><br \/>\nThey picked a Greenie to regulate banks<br \/>\nThe Republicans stood firm and closed ranks<br \/>\nJoe Biden kept askin&#8217;<br \/>\nConfirm Sarah Raskin!<br \/>\nBut then Joe Manchin simply said &#8220;No Thanks&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">See this week\u2019s stock picks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\/stock-page\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/THErealDVORAK\"><strong>Follow John C. 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