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SAM356 USAF G5 KAF AC of interdast finally updated on ground at Panama Pacifico Airport
Guardian drones flown outta here-but not visible for some time
82-8000 USAF 747 departed Norfolk Int'l after such a long hard day for Not AF1 Joe and Flauxtus
Two US Coast Guard Jayhawks C6204 and C6040 also visible
and dat's it for Not AF1 Joe today...nuffin else on the published schedule othen than arriving at JBA and WH
https://factba.se/biden/calendar
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SAM372 G5 departed Langley, AFB and arrived at Eglin AFB 'bout 20 minutes ago or so
This AC was at Langley the same time that Not AF1 Joe up da road at Newport News Int'l and then down to Norfolk Int'l
RCH595T C-17 Globey departed Travis AFB, CA east after an arrival of 0430 heading to DOVER
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SAM258 on the ground at Peterson AFB
U.S. Treasury increases Q2 borrowing estimate due to COVID-19 response
The U.S. Treasury said on Monday it plans to borrow $463 billion in the second quarter, more than the February estimate of $95 billion, as it increases spending in response to COVID-19. The second-quarter estimate assumes an end-June cash balance of $800 billion, the Treasury said in a statement. It comes after the Treasury in February slashed its borrowing projections for the first and second quarters as part of a plan to reduce its cash balance.
The Treasury said it issued $401 billion in net debt in the first quarter, ending the three-month period with a cash balance of $1.122 trillion. It expects to borrow $821 billion in the July to September quarter, assuming an end-of-September cash balance of $750 billion
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-treasury-borrowing/u-s-treasury-increases-q2-borrowing-estimate-due-to-covid-19-response-idUSL1N2MQ1PA
a few minutes later this...
NY Fed's Williams not concerned about inflation getting too high
Fiscal support, along with vaccinations, is helping the U.S. economy to recover, but it is unlikely that the boom will lead to inflation that is unsustainably high, New York Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams said on Monday.
The Fed’s goal is to anchor inflation expectations at 2%, and the Fed has the tools needed to respond if inflation does get too high as the economy comes back from the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Williams said during a virtual discussion as part of the Women in Housing and Finance 2021 Annual Symposium.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-fed-williams-inflation/ny-feds-williams-not-concerned-about-inflation-getting-too-high-idUSN9N2JM001
dey want to tokenize eberything
If that habbens it's ober for any sort of sound money standard.
War Of Words Erupts Between Buffett & Robinhood, Which Just Reported Soaring Revenues From Selling Client Orders To Citadel
It's not just this website that has slammed Robinhood over the past 3 years for misrepresenting its business model which it has claimed is "to democratize finance for all," and instead of catering to the gambling instincts of millennial and GenZ traders, while quietly selling their orderflow (a practice it was forced to disclose not too long ago) to the highest bidders such as billionaire Ken Griffin's Citadel, who then trade ahead of this mountain of bulk trading data to virtually risk-free profits: over the weekend Warren Buffett also slammed the "free" brokerage, which nearly imploded during the February short squeeze mania, accusing the company of “taking advantage of the gambling instincts of society."
Speaking at Berkshire's virtual shareholder meeting on Saturday, Buffett said that Robinhood has become "a very significant part of the casino group that has joined into the stock market in the last year or year and a half."
The billionaire continued, saying that "it creates its own reality for a while, and nobody tells you when the clock is going to strike 12 and it all turns to pumpkins and mice," he said. He added there is "nothing illegal to it, there's nothing immoral, but I don't think you build a society around people doing it" and said he looks forward to reading the S-1 filing of Robinhood, which has filed confidentially for an initial public offering.
Buffett's faithful 97-year-old sidekick Charlie Munger disagreed, and unloaded on Robinhood saying it is "deeply wrong" and "god awful that something like that brought investments from civilized men and decent citizens." But in a surprising twist, instead of taking the insults from the geriatric duo silently and stoically - as so many other corporations tend to do - on Monday morning Robinhood hit back against the billionaire duo, saying criticisms of the no-fee trading app by Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger were insults against younger investors, blasting the billionaires as out-of-touch elites who are "acting like they are the only oracles of investing." Robinhood, which has a habit of taking from the poor and giving to Ken Griffin (so he can buy yet another 9 digit mansion somewhere in the world) but which nobody seems to mind as long as everything keeps rising, issued a statement saying that "if the last year has taught us anything, it is that people are tired of the Warren Buffetts and Charlie Mungers of the world acting like they are the only oracles of investing."
While we applaud Robinhood's Herculean effort at misdirection, the only thing the company is "celebrating" is that the SEC and DOJ still find selling client orders as a legal activity, when in reality it is merely profiting from enabling frontrunning. But because this activity (which Citadel's former GC once railed against before Citadel realized it would make much more money from encouraging it) has become the cornerstone of modern equity markets, since everyone is literally doing it, there is no way it can be banned, at not until there is a major market crash. And speaking of selling client orders, Robinhood picked the worst possible timing to publish its latest Rule 606 filing, which reveals just how much money it made from selling Millennials' orderflow. The filing showed that when it comes to hypocrisy, and taking pennies from the poor to give to the rich, it truly has no equal because in the first quarter, Robinhood's revenue from “payment for order flow” - a system where market makers like Citadel pay brokers like Robinhood for not only routing orders to them but giving them an exclusive look at total retail orderflow, hit a record $331 million in the first quarter, up more than 3x from $91 million a year ago.
As shown in the chart , revenue from payments for order flow peaked in February at about $121 million, before dropping 20% to $96.7 million in March. Much of the decline was due to reduced trading of non-S&P 500 stocks and options, the filing shows. As a reminder, non-S&P stock and option trading remain the only somewhat valuable aspects of market dataflow currently, as traditional S&P500 stock trading has been commoditized to death by other brokers and exchanges. In 2020, Robinhood made a total of $687 million from selling orderflow, primarily to Citadel; it has almost hit the halfway point just one quarter into 2021.
And speaking of Citadel, it is quite clear that Robinhood continues to effectively act a subsidiary of the world's largest retail order exchange: in Q1, Citadel accounts for a whopping 43% of all Robinhood revenues.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/war-words-breaks-out-between-buffett-and-robinhood-which-just-reported-soaring-revenues
Intruder stopped by armed guards from driving through CIA main entrance
One official said no shots had been fired, and another source said CIA security officers were negotiating with the person, who remained inside a vehicle.
A police spokesman tells NBC News there is an ongoing security incident outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia that is being handled by the spy agency's guard force.
The Fairfax County Police spokesman said his police department was helping manage traffic outside the heavily guarded main CIA entrance, off a busy thoroughfare in a Virginia suburb near Washington, D.C.
Two law enforcement officials said an intruder tried to drive into the CIA facility without access and was stopped by armed guards, who operate a series of gates. One official familiar with the matter said no shots had been fired, and another law enforcement source said CIA security officers were negotiating with the person, who remained in his or her vehicle. A reporter on the scene from the NBC News station in Washington, D.C., WRC-TV, observed a significant amount of police activity around the security gates to the headquarters complex. The buildings themselves are set far back from the gates.
Security around the CIA is taken especially seriously because in 1993, a Pakistani national killed two CIA employees in their cars and wounded three others as they were waiting at a stoplight near that main entrance. He fled and was at large for four years before being arrested, returned to the U.S., tried and convicted. He was executed in 2002.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/intruder-stopped-armed-guards-driving-through-cia-main-entrance-n1266169
SAM372 wuz at Langley earlier
Breaking: The former Democrat House Speaker for the state of Oregon was arrested and charged over human sex trafficking. https://t.co/PDuifiLwS0
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1389310661423812608?s=19
SAM372 USAF G5 departed Tyndall AFB moar likely than Eglin ne and on descent for JBA
FORGE94 US Army G5 departed Frank Gabreski/Stanley Airport east Long Island after a ground stop-prior stop at Burlington, VT
Mr. Gabreski has a berry interdasting past.
On July 5th, 1944 Francis Gabreski shot down his 28th German plane. With the victory, Gabreski became America’s leading ace in Europe and the country’s newest celebrity. The War Department, eager to take advantage of his newfound notoriety, immediately made arrangements to have the pilot shipped home so he could help sell war bonds. Just as Gabreski was about to leave, however, he decided to fly one more mission. The final flight turned disastrous when his plane crashed near Koblenz, Germany and the Nazis captured him. Gabreski soon realized that the Americans weren’t the only ones anticipating his arrival. “We’ve been expecting you for a long time,” a Nazi interrogator told him, as he handed Gabreski a copy of a military newspaper that documented the pilot’s historic 28th kill.
https://www.nationalaviation.org/our-enshrinees/gabreski-francis/
about 30 minutes
Bill and Melinda Gates announce divorce
The Microsoft founder has said he and his wife are splitting up after 27 years of marriage.
https://www.dw.com/en/bill-and-melinda-gates-announce-divorce/a-57418034
so nao a leetle more context for Billy 's AC with the three short ground stops at Indio, (Thermal) Ca on 0424,
Flagstaff, AZ the very next day 0425 and
Phoenix, AZ Der Valley on 0427
All back to Seattle Boeing Field
SAM258 USAF G5 departed Peterson AFB se after a ground stop
Doin' the Bezos so he thinks he can keep half
they'll make it even and "amicable" cause they don't want too much attention on them.
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Apollo Lines Up $2 Billion Debt Sale for Verizon Media
Apollo Global Management Inc. plans to fund its acquisition of Verizon Communications Inc.’s media division with about $2 billion of debt.
The financing package is expected to include a $1.5 billion leveraged loan, led by Royal Bank of Canada, and about $500 million of bonds, with equity making up the rest, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified discussing a private transaction. The total cash portion of the transaction is $4.25 billion, according to a news release. Verizon will also receive $750 million in preferred interests and retain a 10% stake in the company.
The acquisition is due to close in the second half of the year. RBC, Barclays Plc, Bank of Montreal, Deutsche Bank AG and Mizuho Financial Group Inc. provided financing, according to the release. Representatives for Apollo, Mizuho and RBC declined to comment. Representatives for the other banks didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. With the sale, Verizon is unloading the remnants of an ambitious but distracting foray into online advertising. The phone company’s priority is its wireless business and the construction of a multibillion-dollar network for advanced 5G services.
Apollo’s acquisition comes amid an increase in buyout activity as private equity firms look to take advantage of cheap financing in the junk-debt markets to fund deals. Almost $63 billion of leveraged loans were launched in April, driven in large part by buyout financings.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/apollo-lines-up-2-billion-debt-sale-for-verizon-media-1.1598721
How about an eben dozen USAF DC-10 extenders
6 over SD/ND border heading ne and the other 6 over eastern ND heading west
Don't see this every day
They have been starting to retire the DC-10's as of July of 2020 and replace them with the Pegasus KC-46 (767)-those have had some issues let's say
Quite possibruh this is a staged event for retirement as some of these AC's are up to 40 years old.
The Air Force Should Refrain from Retiring These 5 'Old' Aircraft
KC-10 Extender
Current Fleet: 59 KC-10s
Projected Savings: $2.0 billion if retired by 2022
Role: The KC-10 is a DC-10 airliner converted into an aerial refueling tanker and cargo plane with nearly twice the capacity of older KC-135 tankers in Air Force service. The KC-10 is already set to be replaced entirely by new KC-46s in 2024.
Does it leave a gap? No, as the KC-135 and KC-46 Pegasus do the same job. However, it could cause a short-term shortfall in aerial-refueling capacity, and the KC-46 has suffered infamous setbacks and delays.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/air-force-should-refrain-retiring-these-5-old-aircraft-182057
HURA21 USAF E-4B Nightwatch departed Dyess AFB, Abilene east and going around some weather at present
bake it