If there is something you really want to do, make your plan and do it. Otherwise, you’ll just regret it forever.

Richard Rocco (PostNet franchisee, Entrepreneur magazine 12/2006, b. 1946)

You know, you can just do things.

That’s one of the recent little internet theories that’s been going around lately.

I once heard a story from a long-distance mentor who was on an airplane flying out of Cleveland and into Phoenix. He was sitting next to someone and they asked, “So are you visiting Phoenix or going home?”

“Going home,” he said.

“Oh! I wish I could live in Phoenix... “ and then went on a long soliloquy about how much they’d love to move out to Phoenix and how they hate it where they live, blah blah blah.

All the time he’s thinking, “well, what’s stopping you, bub?”

Of course this is indicative of how a lot of people are.

They want to do this or that, but they’ve got their excuses lined up for why they can’t do this or that. I’m guilty too.

But the truth is, you can just do things.

You can pick up and move to Phoenix if you want to (I sure don’t, but other places are tempting).

You can take a trade if you want to. You can start that business if you want to. You can retire if you want to.

Maybe not immediately, but, like the quote above, if you decide to do a thing, you can make a plan and get on the path to doing it.

Again, I’m preaching as much to myself today as anyone else.

All right, let’s talk about today’s news...

Today’s Macro Headlines (Source: Yahoo Finance)

Yahoo Finance

Why it matters …

From the article:

“As part of the decision, Mehta ruled that Google can continue to make payments to "distribution partners for preloading or placement of Google Search, Chrome, or GenAI products." That allows for Google to continue to make its $20 billion per year payments to Apple (AAPL) in exchange for the iPhone maker using Google Search as the default search engine in its Safari browser and Siri.”

$20 billion from Google to Apple to make sure they use the Google search engine as the default. That is a lot of money. Google will, of course, recover all that money and much more through those annoying Google ads.  It’s an interesting game.

Index Snapshot

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Comments: The Google ruling has given the Nasdaq and S&P 500 a “B-12” shot this morning. Bitcoin is up a shade in its consolidation/trading range. The Dow is slightly red reflecting the “NOT-Google” stocks. The Russell 2000 is slightly green, waiting on some interest rate cuts.

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