Deloitte published their assessment of Rome's 2000 year-old Colosseum, which could well cost from $250 million to $1 billion to build today.  You can  read the details here , but, ta-da, it is worth $79 billion.  It would rank   #14 in the current list of world billionaires . There are moments and experiences, says Mastercard, that are priceless, but many famous historical artifacts are also in that category, especially those of Leonardo da Vinci. Some of his works do have known values.  A prominent one, and most expensive art piece ever sold, is  Salvator Mundi,  which was bought by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman in 2017 for $450 million, some say as a gift to the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and today has a value closer to $500 million, or half a billion dollars. To the right is how the Leonardo pictured Jesus Christ, but it is still not clear if he finished it in the 1490s while working in Milan on  The Last Supper , or in Florence after 1500 while painting the  Mona

President Joe Biden today signed into law the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.  He hired former New Orleans Mayor  Mitch Landrieu  to oversee the implementation.  He played a key role in helping the city rebound from Hurricane Katrina in 2005.  Republicans participated in the White House press conference. Two years ago I almost went weekly to movie theaters, usually on Sundays, saw two films, with maybe a  Buca di Beppo meal  between them if at the Ward theaters, and was in a nice rut.  Then in December of 2019 I went on a  Diamond Princess  cruise from and to Yokohama.  A short while after I returned to port, COVID-19  patient zero  boarded, spreading the virus to the rest of the world. But was I concerned?  Nope, I took another trip from Honolulu to Thailand in February of last year when it was #2 to China in COVID-19 cases.  This was before this virus gained its name.  Further, this outbreak only became a pandemic in March of 2020. What I'm leading to is that I have