There was an unexpected stock market correction yesterday, hoping it wasn't the beginning of a crash.  Wall Street suffered its worst loss since 2020, when COVID came.  Nasdaq was particularly crushed. Bet you don't know much about this index? Launched in 1971 as the world's first automated stock exchange. World, meaning 51 countries. Lists 5500 companies. The Nasdaq Composite Index has 3370 stocks. The Nasdaq-100 includes 100 corporate entities, but features 101 or more tickers because companies sometimes issue multiple class of common stock. Is worth between $31 trillion and $41.4 trillion, depending how free-float and constituent market caps are aggregated. To promote diversity, listed companies are required to have female directors on their board, and members from underrepresented groups....or explain their absence. Since the close yesterday of the Nasdaq-100 at 26,629.81, the index has dropped 6.36% from its all-time high on 6October2026. Thus, the market value of the...

I had several topics on my mind this morning when I sat down at my computer to create my daily post. Part 2 of my train series.  Maybe tomorrow. As Thursday is health day for me in this blog site, I have a couple of topics in my mind:  which supplement pills to take and why?; does one get less mentally stable with older age?; Part 5 on the science to stop and reverse aging; should you continue to get vaccinated?....and so on.  Well, they'll all come in the future. I decided, instead, to spend one more day meandering through that Blue America Tsunami. But first, I noticed that Donald Trump again appeared on the cover of Tim e magazine.  Last month he broke the record of Richard Nixon.  With this latest, Trump has now been on the cover 57 times.  Click here to see the first 56 covers. Why are Republic states given the color red , why are Democratic ones blue, swing states purple ?  From Wikipedia: Our flag is red, white and blue. During the Civil War, m...