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I own a small piece of UNP (Union Pacific). Another solid, leading indicator of growth. Check out their past year. Good divvies as well. Boring, but solid. My type of stock. My personal opinion is the economy is primed. People aren’t really dying because of gas or food prices. What’s killing folks is insurance of all types (medical, auto, home, flood), utilities, and property taxes. These are what’s hitting people so hard. It just makes everyone notice the smaller items more, and that leads to a general sense of financial insecurity. The grocery and gas bills seem really outsized because the insurance, utilities, and property taxes are jumping astronomically, and affecting people’s ability to even stay in their homes. Just my opinion.

That’s a big part—yes. They are also a major play for equipment required for building any type of facility. Where Big Cat goes, engineers, electricians, welders, instrument techs, HVAC, plumbers/fitters, millwrights, scaffold builders, and just about every construction craft you can think of soon follow. Good paying jobs. Caterpillar is a leading indicator. Not a current snapshot. Similar to rail. This is also good news for the American steel industry. Good jobs in that industry. Important to note that many of the jobs necessary to build out will also be required to maintain the facilities. So, there will be more than just short to mid-term construction jobs. There will be long-term maintenance jobs in the crafts/skills/trades. Ironically, jobs that advanced AI has to have to exist. Jobs that many with a wasted 4 year degree will wish they had not looked down on as beneath them.

I was curious if you’re correct, and the article that I found shows them up 180% over 12 months, not as flashy, but still great. So I asked myself “why is Big Yellow doing so well when the rest of the economy isn’t?” Their generator business has exploded with the growth of AI and data centers. It’s a new segment, and it explains why cat stock price is doing better than Deere, Komatsu, etc. Those gen sets are primarily made in China, Germany, India, Brazil, and the UK. But there is a small facility in Georgia

It’s what Trump believes not Ivanka!

Got to give him some credit when he gets a win. 👏👏👏

Correct…sorry….didn’t mean from there but was at school there

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Me, too… it says that he hasn’t been online since November 7th, though.

I just sent him a message and it went through fine.....

One of the best indicators for growth that will help Main St.: Caterpillar The stock is on a tear, and is a construction/manufacturing/infrastructure bellwether.

Really......? Why are you concerned about Israel first? I could care less what their markets are doing. S&P 500 heads for it's best monthly gain in 5 years.... [Hidden Content] As of late April 2026, the NASDAQ Composite (^IXIC) has been trading near its 52-week highs, closing around 24,673.24 as of April 29, 2026, after experiencing strong performance over the past year. [Hidden Content]

Makes sense now, buddy ball - "Bourg led the Flour Bluff Hornets boys team to a District 29-5A title and three rounds deep in the Region 4-5A-D1 playoffs this season and is a familiar face to Barbers Hill Athletic Director Cody Simper. Bourg started his coaching career as an assistant basketball coach at Corpus Christi Ray in 2010 which was the same year that Simper took the helm of the football program."

Franklin 12 Buffalo 0 F/5 game moved up due to weather.

He wasn’t from California… he did go to school there a bit while living with his dad I believe

I chose 60k and 53k respectively because the line between lower class and middle class in Texas is 53k.. according to a quick google search. I figured the average income should be slightly higher (on average) in suburban/urban areas. Which is why I chose 60k for the 6A/5A/4A marker. Was I wrong in thinking that? Use a different number if you want. Use 70k.. or 80k.. or 100k. Do you think the percentage of schools that have a successful football season will go up or down with the increase of that household income? That was rhetorical. Of the schools in a district/town with an average household income of 100k or more, 100% of them had a winning football season. Every. Single. One.

Game 1 Final West Sabine - 1 Woden - 0 Game 2 tonight @ 7:00p @ Nacogdoches High School

Lost a good one. RIP & teach them angels the Perfect Country and Western Song!

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Lost another series, this time to the yankees. Monday L 2-4 Tuesday L 2-3 Wednesday W 3-0 Heading to detroit for a 3 gamer. Season record: 15-16

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I understand this thread is stupid.

I can be a little slow at times, so forgive me for not understanding why someone starts an honest question topic asking how some can defend something, when I haven’t seen anyone defending the subject matter. That’s just me though.🤔