{"id":57405,"date":"2022-03-03T11:26:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T16:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=57405"},"modified":"2022-03-03T13:25:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T18:25:21","slug":"why-does-putin-want-with-ukraine-what-might-it-look-like-when-hes-finished-amazon-quits-non-food-retail-enb-has-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=57405","title":{"rendered":"What does Putin want with Ukraine? What might it look like when he&#8217;s finished? Amazon quits non-food retail. ENB has charm."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Putin wants to re-create the Soviet Union, which fell apart in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Other than making himself the new Czar, there could be other reasons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s a more nuanced explanation that has to do with oil discoveries around Ukraine&#8217;s southern coast in the Black Sea and the Sea of Asov.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/If61baWF4GE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What can we expect in Ukraine from Putin?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is what the Russians did to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya after it tried to declare independence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57424\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/grosny-800x654.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/grosny.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/grosny-768x628.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is Homs, Syria&#8217;s main industrial center. Putin is one of\u00a0Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s few allies and he provided Assad with lots of implements of destruction. Another ally being Iran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/homs-1-800x455.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/homs-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/homs-1-768x437.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Amazon is closing its non-food retail stores<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Retail is hard. Yesterday I went shopping in Columbus Circle&#8217;s Time Warner Center. The shops were empty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I bought a nice sweater at J. Crew, but largely because it was on sale. The Amazon bookstore at Time Warner was already closed. Shucks. I actually went to check out some books, not to buy a sweater.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The bears are rampant in today&#8217;s market. It&#8217;s a very volatile market. Up one day. Down the next. Here&#8217;s the last month of the VIX:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Cash is king. Some friends are as high as 50% in cash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I like ENB because of its high 6.7% yield. It&#8217;s edging up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Here&#8217;s how you launder money in real estate<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You sell your $20 million apartment to a Russian oligarch for $30 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When he wires you the money, you immediately wire $10 million to his chosen bank in the Caribbean or Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I hear this technique accounts for lots of Russian buyers of apartments in the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, NYC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>This email is dangerous<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It came in this morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dangerous-email.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The sender&#8217;s address gives fishy a whole new meaning. Clicking on that link is not a good idea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>How much cash shou<\/strong><\/span><strong style=\"color: #0000ff;\">ld you keep at home?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m guessing that one day Putin will bring down Visa and MasterCard. Then you&#8217;ll need some cash for milk, eggs and gas. I figure $5,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Travel agents are great<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They know their way around the increasingly idiotic, cumbersome, time-wasting online airline sites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The other night I called Delta on the phone (remember that thing?).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I got a message that said the wait time was two hours and forty minutes &#8212; which was longer than the trip I was trying to book!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Go figure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>&#8220;How are you doing today?&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The nice Indian man who&#8217;s selling me a longer warranty on my old car, always asks &#8220;<em>How are you doing today?<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Telling him I&#8217;m in hospital with three of my legs amputated didn&#8217;t get rid of him. But I had fun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>More fun stuff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;The starting pay is $40,000. Later it can go up to $80,000.&#8221; &#8230;&#8221;Great. I&#8217;ll start later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Only in math problems can you buy 60 melons and no one asks, &#8220;What the Hell is wrong with you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Favorite Covid note: &#8220;When the pool re-opens, due to social distancing rules, there will be no water in lanes 1, 3, and 5.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tip: Save business cards of people you don&#8217;t like. If you ever hit a parked car accidentally, just write, &#8220;Sorry&#8221; and leave it on the windshield.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just once, I want the username and password prompt to say, &#8220;Close enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Does anyone else have a plastic bag full of plastic bags, or is it just me?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Doing something important today<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I wish I was as good at picking stocks to<strong> avoid<\/strong> than stocks to love.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I had sold at their irrational peaks last November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Heh, I kept away from Russian stocks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8212; See you tomorrow.\u00a0 &#8212; <em>Harry Newton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin wants to re-create the Soviet Union, which fell apart in the late 1990s. Other than making himself the new Czar, there could be other reasons. Here&#8217;s a more nuanced explanation that has to do with oil discoveries around Ukraine&#8217;s southern coast in the Black Sea and the Sea of Asov. 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