FEMALE LEADERS OF MAJOR COUNTRIES

Claudia Sheinbaum was elected Mexico's first female president.  When all is counted, she will get around 60% of the votes cast.  Sheinbaum was former mayor of Mexico City and will serve one six-year term beginning on October 1.  She is closely aligned with outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and will continue the favorable relationship with the U.S.

Sheinbaum:

• Is 61 years old, and was born in Mexico City.  
• Her paternal Ashkenazi grandparents emigrated from Lithuania in the 1920's, while her maternal Sephardic grandparents came from Sofia, Bulgaria in the early 140's to escape the Holocaust.  

• Her mother is a biologist, while her father is a chemical engineer, like me.  Her brother Julio is a physicist.
• Her husband, Carlos Imaz, was a tenured Stanford University professor, but they separated in 2016 with a daughter.
• She will soon marry Jesús Maria Tarriba Unger.
• Has a PhD in energy engineering, and, as an academic, has authored over 100 articles, publishing two books on energy, the environment and sustainable development.  Sounds like me.
• Contributed to the International Panel on Climate Change.
• Is Jewish, contributing to less than 1% of the Mexican population of 128 million.

• The U.S. never has had a Jewish president.  
• However, Doug Emhoff, husband of Veep Kamala Harris, is one.  There have been eight Jewish Supreme Court justices. 

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  Did you know that 37 candidates running for office in Mexico this year WERE ASSASSINATED???

There are only 13 female heads of states today of the 193 member United Nations countries.

Of course, the U.S. has never had a female President.  Also, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Egypt, and many more.

Some add China to this list, but way back from 624-705, Empress Wu Zetian is an exception.  Same for Japan, as Hojo Masako was a almost a female Shogun.  Actually, called the Nun Shogun, her infant great-grandson was the puppet shogun, but she only dominated the government and did not officially get the Shogun title.  She was the wife of Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first shogun, and her sons became the second and third shoguns.

If you happened to spot check the value of your stocks today, and your shares of Berkshire Hathaway Class A suddenly dropped to almost zero (down 99.97%), not to worry.  Warren Buffet, who will be all of 94 in August, is fine.  Sure, the stock sunk to $185.10, but is now back up to $631,110.

If you had an automated system to catch this drop-- for it only lasted for a minute, where there were a dozen trades--and bought a few shares, sorry, the New York Stock Exchange won't honor your good fortune.  A year ago (actually June 5, 2023, since June 3 was a Saturday) the price was 498,927, so the gain after a year just for one share is $132,183.  If you bought one share on 11April1980 when it was first made available, this $260/share price has jumped by a factor of 2427, and you would have made $630,850.  

There were 40 other symbols also affected, including Abbot Chipotle Mexican Grill and Gamestop. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped $115 to 38,571, still, $5008 higher than a year ago, of $33, 563.

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