Thank you Mario Gabelli for recommending the purchase of BATRA the Atlanta Braves Holdings company

 

They Have a Losing Record—and Everyone in Baseball Is Trying to Copy Them

The Braves have been a disappointment on the field, but their Battery Atlanta home has made them the envy of the rest of the sport

When will the market figure out that everything Elon Musk pushes will blow up like a SpaceX rocket failure

 

Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users’ ‘Extremist Views’ in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said its Grok chatbot had also undergone a code update that caused it to share antisemitic messages this week.

By Kate Conger

Reporting from San Francisco

World War Two showed Battleships to be useless as the F-35 and F-47 will be in the future

 Drones are Key Toward Wining Wars Today. The U.S. Hardly Makes Any 

By Farah Stockman

Farah Stockman observed a military training exercise outside Fairbanks, Alaska, involving drone prototypes developed by U.S. companies.

A Melt-up is much more pleasant than a Melt-down but one like Warren Buffet is staying on the sideline waiting for bargain prices

 

The Danger of a Market Melt-Up

Traders have repeatedly shrugged off President Trump’s disruptive tariff wars and fiscal policy, pushing U.S. stock prices back into expensive territory, our columnist says.

By Jeff Sommer

Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets, finance and the economy.

Marco Rubio is correct in streamlining the State Department best known during my lifetime as "foggy bottom"

 

Rubio’s Cuts at State Department Demote Longtime U.S. Values

Secretary of State Marco Rubio insists he is streamlining a bloated department, but critics warn the cost to America’s standing and influence could be high.

By Michael Crowley

The U.S. Transportation Department shows sanity by recommending the funding cutoff of California's Bullet Train Project after it said a compliance review of its grants found that the state had incurred costly change orders on its contracts, sharply reduced ridership forecasts and failed to meet deadlines. It said there was no “viable path” to completing an initial segment by the 2033 deadline set as a condition of funding.

 

California Offers Spirited Defense of Bullet Train Project

In a blistering response to the Trump administration’s proposal to pull $4 billion in federal funding, state officials said the move was illegal, predetermined and based on flawed analysis 

By starting a new political party Elon Musk appears to be intent on diminishing Tesla's market cap to that of today's Ford motor.

 

Could Musk Really Create a Viable Third Party?

By Reid J. Epstein and Theodore Schleifer

Reporting from Washington

July 7, 2025