Emerging Market P/E is now the lowest in 13 years @yardeni 9.3x $EEM

FINAL: Stars 4, Blackhawks 0 Hawks shut out at home for the first time since Dec. 13 vs. Detroit last season — the day after Bedard got hurt. They did have some chances tonight, but Oettinger was excellent.

One of Brad Pitt’s Best Performances

Premise: Incentives drive all human behavior. The corollary: How to destroy a country: A vast social security and support system that serves as a magnet for those who would rather not work. An open immigration policy that does not screen immigrants to determine their ability and willingness to provide for themselves and their families. An open immigration policy that does not screen for political and/or religious ideologies that are a threat to the country. Economic incentives large enough to incentivize immigrants on the state dole to have large numbers of children, but insufficient for educated and economically productive mothers to be able to quit to raise a family. The declining fertility of the most educated and productive women due to their delay to begin a family as a result of their desire and/or need to advance their careers, among other reasons, to live a life they deem consistent with their educational achievements and/or to repay their student debts. Amnesty programs that give citizenship and voting power to illegal immigrants without consideration of their economic productivity or their threat to the country due to their religious or political ideologies. The changing demographics and increased population due to the above factors. The state responding to protests by increasing social support. The continued failure to punish and hold accountable violent and looting rioters. Government managed by a massive and growing unelected bureaucracy. Government fraud, waste, and abuse contributed to ballooning budgets. Anti-business legislation that makes it difficult for businesses to compete in a global marketplace being disrupted by AI, including restrictions on firing even poorly performing employees. Overly burdensome, globally uncompetitive, corporate taxation. Continuous increases in personal taxes to raise funds to provide for the rapidly growing welfare state. The substantial majority of the tax burden levied on a small percentage of the population. A growing percentage of the electorate paying no taxes and receiving welfare. The introduction or threat of a wealth tax including the taxation of unrealized gains, i.e., taxes on paper wealth. The flight of the most productive business builders and highest taxpayers to lower tax countries with lesser security concerns. A growing percentage of the electorate voting for candidates that support increased welfare and laws favorable to, and/or that match the cultural and ideological needs and desires of a growing unproductive immigrant population. The rapid rise in anti-semitism and inadequate efforts to address this hatred. Increased borrowing by the state to fund the growing social burden. Higher sovereign interest rates due to all of the above. The resulting need to reduce expenditures to make the math work. Increasingly violent protests that make life less livable for the productive and law abiding citizens leading to their accelerated departure. And so on…

The Blackhawks looked like a different team tonight with Connor Bedard back in the lineup. He ignited the first line, and the second line also delivered its best performance of the season at the right time. Postgame notebook: chicago.suntimes.com/blackha…

I have no clue what Rome has developed into. NONE.

Winner of the Academy Award for: Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Adapted Screenplay Best Editing

BREAKING: Eddie Olczyk is returning to the Blackhawks as a team ambassador and will join the CHSN studio for a select number of games ⤵️ nytimes.com/athletic/7675448…

"We're kind of right within a three week window now for Connor Bedard to return to the Hawks lineup." @PatBoyle__ gets an update from @frank_seravalli on Bedard's possible return to the ice:

Final: Utah 6, Chicago 0

The parallels between @JulianaStratton and Carol Moseley Braun are striking. Both are genuinely incompetent. However, if we had to pick which one was less accomplished and less prepared for the U.S. Senate, Stratton would win in a landslide. prairiestatewire.com/moseley…

I get it's just the preseason, but the Blackhawks haven't created many chances in any of these games so far. Their shots on goal per period through 10 regulation periods have been 4, 7, 3, 6,5, 8, 5, 7, 5 and 5.

1st intermission: Blackhawks 1, Blues 0 Byram looks good again, and I think Ryan Greene was sneaky good that period, too. Oliver Moore has committed at least 3 bad turnovers at the defensive blue line in the last two games. Need to clean that up.

I DONT CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS. CUT HIM TOMORROW CALEB NEVER GETS HURT IF THIS IS CAUGHT.

GS: S&P 500 earnings are running well above the trend of the last few decades

In a pointed rebuke of Chicago media, Jim Bosco explains the sorry state of media in Chicago. Bosco correctly states trust in Chicago media has hit rock bottom because of, well, media bias. chicagocontrarian.com/blog/b…

I support a mosque being built anywhere in the US. I think it should be the goal of every American to be tolerant regardless of their religious beliefs. To promote tolerance, I would also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, The Turban Cowboy and the other, a topless bar, would be called You Mecca Me Hot. Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork and across the street, an open-pit barbecue pork restaurant, called Iraq of Ribs. We could also have a lingerie store called Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret and a liquor store called Mohammered. All of this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us. Yes we should promote tolerance, and you can do your part by passing this on. 😎 I did my part 😉or we can just send them back to where ever they came from.....