Futures showing green as the Monday, Bloody Monday is over. Lots of folks selling yesterday. I sold nothing and will look to do some buying this morning. Bitcoin back in the news as it continues a "record run" and nobody knows why. What? It appears that nobody know why Bitcoin has climbed so high, so fast. Best wishes to all of you who own and mine for Bitcoin. Thanks for the information, but no thanks. Below: GBTC is up 25%. Stock up after article written four days ago. $GBTC, GRAYSCALE BITCOIN TRUST / H1 Amazon needs folks to start delivery firms. Seems like a no-brainer to me: Tesla uses its robotaxis to deliver packages for Amazon. Problem solved. Amazon gets its packages to customers and Tesla sells cars. Win-win and that is called Problem Solving. Add in Amazon is testing "Carton Wrap" packaging technology, a robotic system which packs 600+ boxes per hour compared to 200 boxes packed per hour by humans. Amazing technology, IMO. I read the news on Monsanto (Bayer) and the Roundup damages award last night. It appeared on Yahoo too, but not on Trending News. I would have thought that this warranted a mention on Seeking Alpha before WSB. Maybe next time? Apple "slipped" 5.8% yesterday and it appears that this had nothing to do with the Trade War, but rather the ruling that a lawsuit could move forward by the SCOTUS. Got it. $AAPL seems to be entering a price range where I will add some shares. Tesla confirmed today that it has increased the prices of all Model 3 variants by $400 and it has also made changes to its ‘off-the-menu’ Model 3 variants. Surprise, surprise. The base version of the Model 3 at $35,000 was also put off-the-menu and can only be ordered by calling Tesla or going at the store. When first releasing the Model 3 at $35,000, Tesla said that it would close most of its stores to achieve the price point. It later ended up reversing the move, increasing prices again, and removing the base version of the vehicle from its website. Wow. Does anyone have a plan at Tesla or do they just wing it every day? Notes from deercreek vols"Another round of aid for U.S. farmers" Oh, I thought the trade war was supposed to benefit the farmers. Let's be realistic (And this post is NOT political. It concerns the effects of protectionism on the economy and eventually on the stock market itself, and I would write the same no matter which administration were in power. Protectionism is counter-productive, whether practised by elephants or donkeys): U.S. farmers are getting killed, with silos already overfilled from last year’s unsold harvests: www.cnbc.com/... And this has led to ludicrous claims: ““I love the position we’re in,” Mr. Trump said, adding that the United States was “taking in billions of dollars in tariffs.” www.nytimes.com/... The U.S. is not “taking in” billions of dollars. It is “taxing U.S. consumers and citizens” billions of dollars. Tariff revenues are not revenues from abroad. They are taxes on the domestic economy. This will spur inflation, discourage spending, damage growth and possibly trigger a recession. Trump also claimed GDP rose 3.2 % “because of tariffs”, failing to mention that 1.7 % of that 3.2 % was inventory build-up by wholesalers protecting themselves from a possible tariff Armageddon! Meanwhile, rail traffic is down sharply, jobless claims are up and the yield curve has inverted. The economy is nowhere nearly as strong as some would make believe, based solely on the top-line GDP figure. Trump must reverse course to prevent mass suffering among farmers, the working class and the rapidly disappearing middle class.via strike.