Opus Vida – An Individual Life
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Free Fall
The trigger: Trump’s tariffs, or anything really. It’s perception.
The result: $2.4 trillion market loss and falling
The dirty little secret [well, duh]: A stock price cannot move unless someone buys. For the price to go up, someone is willing to sell at a higher price and someone is willing to buy at that higher price. For the price to go down, someone is willing to sell at a lower price and someone is willing to buy at that lower price.
With the proper trigger [which is a perception of loss or gain], a market mover can institute a major sell of millions if not billions of dollars in shares; auto trading immediately kicks in and likewise other major funds sell. But who is buying these plummeting shares? Someone is. All the way down to $2.4 trillion.
When the time is right the initiators start buying back the shares, but gradually. Everyone feels the crisis is over and starts buying back the depressed shares now at a steal and the market rises, perhaps to an all-time high as the $2.4 trillion is fed back into the system at a percentage gain equal to the market loss, AND someones add in new money from those with spare cash to scoop up the deals or sellers that got out before the bottom and might make a percent or two on the float.
Welcome to My Life – 72 Years and Counting
An individual is born, lives a life accumulating things, ideas, experiences, and then dies. Where go the artefacts generated through that life? Family is first on the scene, going through the remains, but family have only so much space so the pickings are small. The individual's life is forgotten except for photos kept and reminiscences among themselves. How many generations of photos are kept? How many stories remain? The experiences and ideas. Who gets my stuff when I'm gone? Who really cares? My guitars, songs, writings, stories, essays, drawings – the stuff of my life – furniture I've made, wood that I've worked, things fabricated.
We chronicle the lives of "important" figures throughout history. Very few of us warrant a gander: the hopes, loves, dreams, ideas of the rest of us. What's your story? What's your song? What have you done? We can be Tom Hanks when he made fire in "Castaway" - "look what I have done!" Lest we forget ourselves, let us say "look what we have done!
– Thom and Willy