Hey y’all,
Yesterday I got a pretty cool experience.
I’m in D.C. for the weekend to attend a friend’s wedding. That friend is now the communications director for a U.S. Senator.
So he took me for a quick tour of the senate office buildings, meaning I got go inside the belly of the beast:
They’ve got a lot of cool stuff down there: a coffee shop, a gift shop, even a barbershop for the Senators and their staff!
It was a neat experience.
And it reminded me of something I think about a lot, actually. That at the end of the day, everybody is just a human being.
We might vilify politicians for the ways they behave and the things they do, and maybe we should (sometimes) — but they’re just people trying (in most cases) to make the best decisions possible day by day.
In any case, as I’ve been parading around D.C. I haven’t been as laser focused on the markets as I’d like to be.
I did close a nice little winner on F this morning from one of Lance Ippolito’s Options Pit plays:
Ended up being about a 15% gain. I might have held it longer but I’ll be out and about this week and didn’t want to miss anything.
I also saw the CPI print came in hotter than expected. Anyone else tired of talking about inflation?
Unfortunately, we’re not gonna stop anytime soon…
But oh well. I hope the week is treating you well and that your trading is going well!
I’ll keep you updated with the latest from my travels…
UPDATE: I visited the monuments Friday and, let’s just say I had some strong feelings about what I saw.
To your Prosperity,
— Stephen Ground
Editor in Chief, ProsperityPub
