12-11-25 spal
| RKLB (Rocket Lab) lifting significantly ... Musk has ignited the space tech sector for now with the talk about an IPO for SpaceX. |
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12-11-25 savo
leo..rumors are that Maduro offered Trump a very simple and viable deal, "lift all sanctions and I leave in 3 years".
It was rejected upfront by DT.
I suspect Maduro made the same offer 6 years ago... Had DT accepted it in 2019... Venezuela would be free by now, producing 5 MM barrels of oil and our bonds would at 100...
I hope history does not repeat itself and in 2030, whoever is president in the US, does not have to regret DT making the same mistake twice.
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12-11-25 savo
| I wonder how did the S&P did relative to real estate in St Martin or St Moritz. |
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12-11-25 savo
carib..
on the 5th of Jan 2000 the S&P was 1,470
one once of gold was at 280 dollars.
It took 5.25 ounces of gold to buy 1 S&P
Today the S&P is at 6,901 and an ounce of gold is at 4,274.
It takes 1.61 ounces of gold to buy 1 S&P.
Despite several QEs and successive bailouts... the S&P has been in a bear market for over 25 years when measured in real money. |
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12-11-25 carib
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12-11-25 carib
Colombia not a credible long term solution, IMHO.. even if possibly Maduro is entitled to Colombia nationality.
Petro's time ends next year. |
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12-11-25 carib
| Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio, canciller de Colombia, dijo que si el presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, llegase a salir de su país para una transición en el poder, Colombia le ofrecería protección.(CNN) |
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12-11-25 leopardo
You are right Carib.
Let’s say probability percentuale-wise is good |
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12-11-25 carib
| "venezuela" and "reasonable" in the same sentence might be odd.. |
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12-11-25 leopardo
| It seems pretty reasonable but we never really know... |
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12-11-25 carib
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12-11-25 carib
Savo: my guess is the "trump platinum card", if appropriate enabling legislation is ever passed, could be a gadget for billionaires, as a sort of "just in case" insurance.
Does not make much sense for the ordinary millionaire, because it is expensive, price/quality of life is not that good in the USA, if one does not plan to move the center of interest in the USA it makes little sense, and if your family does not really like the obligation of traveling abroad at least 90 days a years it is not comfortable.
The "gold card" looks like an extortion. |
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12-11-25 leopardo
Carib I frankly don't know when, but this time, I think that the end of Maduro is reasonably certain.
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12-11-25 carib
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12-11-25 savo
| https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/10/politics/trump-gold-card-1-million-dollar-visa |
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12-11-25 savo
Trump admin previews ‘platinum card’
The website also previews that a “Trump Platinum Card” is coming soon and invites foreign nationals to add their names to a waiting list. For $5 million dollars, the administration promises that eligible applicants will be able to “spend up to 270 days in the United States without being subject to U.S. taxes on non-U.S. income.”
“Foreign nationals can sign up now and secure their places on the waiting list for the Trump Platinum Card. When launched, and upon receipt of a $15,000 DHS processing fee and $5 million contribution, they will have the ability to spend up to 270 days in the United States without being subject to U.S. taxes on non-U.S. income,” the website reads.
The site does not specify when the platinum option will be available. |
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12-11-25 savo
carib..
US pressure on Veni over the last 10 years, it started with OBAMA, (sanctions, default, financial isolation, and now gun boat diplomacy and outright caribbean piracy) has not produced the expected political change. Instead of revising the policy the cuban renegades doubled down at every turn making the life the people of venezuela more miserable than before
For me the discussion ends there... as they have not been able to produce the result in a relative short period of time without harming innocent bystanders.
I detest the Veni opposition because they support those actions form their luxurious flats in Madrid, Miami and NY financed by the money stolen from Citgo, USaid and Monomeros.
That does not make me pro-cuban or pro-Maduro. |
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12-11-25 carib
Savo: same person can be called "terrorist" or "freedom fighter", depending on which side one is on, and which opinions he holds.
Here the parameter should just be bond prices: they go up when there is an hint Trump ramps up military pressure.
If we go back to "cubanisation".. our money is lost.
I hope there is a regime change.. in Habana. |
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12-11-25 savo
QE is back.. as expected...
Fed says it will start technical buying of Treasury bills to manage market liquidity
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/fed-says-will-start-reserve-management-treasury-bill-buying-2025-12-10/
the "technical" reminds me of "transitory".. "Symmetrical" and other Fed BS |
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12-11-25 savo
The oil tanker seized by the US
should read...
The oil tanker ROBBED by the US... |
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12-10-25 carib
| The oil tanker seized by the US off the Venezuelan coast was reportedly heading to Cuba |
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12-10-25 carib
Según The New York Times, el petrolero, de nombre Skipper y que navegaba con falsa bandera, fue incautado por orden de un juez estadounidense por sus vínculos previos con el contrabando de petróleo iraní, sancionado por Washington, y no por alguna relación con el gobierno de Nicolás Maduro, aunque en esta ocasión transportaba crudo venezolano.
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12-10-25 carib
Panas: still waiting for details
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12-10-25 carib
Guyana ha firmado un acuerdo con Estados Unidos para ampliar la cooperación militar entre ambos países, coincidiendo con un aumento de la tensión en el Caribe entre Washington y Caracas.
El presidente de Guyana, país vecino a Venezuela, Irfaan Ali, anunció que el acuerdo busca «ampliar la cooperación militar conjunta con pleno respeto a la soberanía y las leyes de ambos países», según un comunicado publicado este miércoles.
Ali detalló que se prevé el «refuerzo» de la capacitación y la colaboración a largo plazo bajo regímenes existentes, como el Acuerdo Shiprider, que permite al personal de seguridad estadounidense perseguir, interceptar y abordar embarcaciones de narcotraficantes en aguas guyanesas.
La firma se dio tras reuniones con altos funcionarios estadounidenses, entre ellos el asesor principal del secretario de Guerra, Patrick Weaver, y el subsecretario adjunto de defensa para asuntos del hemisferio occidental, Joseph Humire. |
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12-10-25 panasonic
| Carib, one step further, what if next has Russian or Chinese flag? |
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12-10-25 carib
"Acabamos de incautar un petrolero en la costa de Venezuela, un gran petrolero, muy grande —el más grande jamás incautado, de hecho", dijo Trump a los periodistas.
"Y están pasando otras cosas, lo verán más adelante" añadió, al inicio de una mesa redonda con empresarios y altos funcionarios.
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12-10-25 carib
Savo: obviously I continue holding the opposite view.
on Sunday, I accidentally met a cuban doctor who fled slave labor in Veny. He says situation in Cuba is worst in many years.
Hates gringos, but hope Trump will take out communist cleptocracies. |
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12-10-25 carib
| CNN: trump says US has seized Veny oil tanker off the coast |
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12-10-25 savo
now they are saying MCM left veni but hit bad weather and could not arrive to Oslo on time!
Urrutia... on the other hand .... has been enjoying for some days 5* hotel luxury and gourmet food.... while his son in law is in jail for 30 years.
Hopefully this circus will end soon and the adults in the room can work out a solution to the mess created by the veni oppo and their Cuban sponsors in Florida.
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12-10-25 savo
victor...if dt doesnt do anything in vz, his and his gop allies' days are the ones numbered..
may be it is what DT is doing to the people of Venezuela... ICE raids, deportation flights to Bukele's prision...end of TPS, etc... what is turning the tide against GOP. |
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12-10-25 victor
María Corina Machado no irá a la ceremonia del Nobel de la Paz, pero "estará con nosotros en Oslo", dice el Instituto Nobel
CNN Español —
María Corina Machado no asistirá este miércoles en Oslo a la ceremonia de entrega del premio de la Paz de, confirmó a la televisión pública noruega NRK el director del Instituto Nobel, Kristian Berg Harpviken.
“Desgraciadamente todavía no está en Noruega y tampoco estará en el escenario del Ayuntamiento de Oslo a las 13.00 p.m., hora local, cuando comience la ceremonia”, declaró Harpviken, quien dijo que será la hija de Machado, Ana Corina Sosa, quien recoja el premio en su lugar y lea el discurso de aceptación del galardón.
Minutos más tarde, en la página web del Nobel publicaron un comunicado en el que dejaban abierta la posibilidad de que la líder de la oposición venezolana llegara a Oslo en algún momento. “La Premio Nobel de la Paz, María Corina Machado, ha hecho todo lo posible para asistir a la ceremonia de hoy. Un viaje en una situación de extremo peligro. Aunque no podrá asistir a la ceremonia ni a los eventos de hoy, nos complace profundamente confirmar que se encuentra a salvo y que estará con nosotros en Oslo”, dice el breve texto.
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12-10-25 victor
"Miami spent the last two decades building itself up from a beach town to top destination in the world only to throw it all away. Get ready for skid rows, tent cities, property owners losing their rights, extreme overdevelopment, exponential fee & property tax raises, fires & more"
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12-10-25 victor
if dt doesnt do anything in vz, his and his gop allies' days are the ones numbered..
first warning shot:
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Eileen Higgins will win Miami mayor’s race, CNN projects, breaking a nearly 30-year GOP hold
Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of the city of Miami, according to a projection from CNN’s Decision Desk, breaking a nearly 30-year Republican streak in holding the nonpartisan seat and giving Democrats another example of strong performance in elections during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term.
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12-10-25 savo
Los polémicos indultos de Trump: un centenar de narcotraficantes, corruptos y estafadores
https://efe.com/mundo/2025-12-09/polemicos-indultos-trump/ |
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12-10-25 savo
merlino... during Trump 1.0 it was Pompeo the one in charge of the "Maduro's days are numbered" Department, followed by parrots Rick Scott, Duque, Macri, Bolsonaro, Borges, Almagro... etc....
That phrase is cursed.
Note that Rubio has not joined in. He has presidential aspirations. |
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