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Matter and Anti-matter

Former FBI Director James Comey recently referred to the investigation of Hillary Clinton as a “matter.”  Now  suppose, some future Attorney General or FBI director drops an investigation of somebody.  Shall we call this an “anti-matter.”  Responses might be called “matter --- anti-matter” reactions.

Would nuclear physicists be totally offended?  Would Sci-Fi fans be confused?  What would Mr. Spock do?

Naturally, congressional leaders and news organizations would need a fresh page of talking points. So lost they would be.

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Have you noticed how many of the big name stocks, such as Boeing, Amazon, Apple, and Google plus many more are selling at really high prices per share.  .  Can you afford to buy a 100 shares, the normal minimum, of any stock selling at $1000/share?  This implies these companies are simply uninterested in the small investor.  This implies only institutional and rich investors are sought.  This means they are courting only a very select group  The meaning here is these companies don’t give a flip about regular personal investors, what they can analyze and afford, but only what the big spenders can think and buy.

In the olden days, like twenty years ago, there would be multiple stock splits to keep the share price manageable.  Not now.  Why?

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 How much debt is there and what does it mean??????


Are you ahead of the game?  There is currently $12.96 trillion in household debt, including credit cards, mortgages, and all here in the USA. The current national debt is $20.5 trillion. 

This means that if you had the national debt amount in your pocket, you could pay off every single credit card, mortgage, and loan of every single American.  You would still have seven trillion dollars left in your pocket, AND this paltry leftover  amount would make you the richest person on earth, indeed, the top ten richest combined. 
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