Rigged Ticker Review for Tuesday, November 30, 2021 -- $PPSI

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$PPSI was today’s rigged ticker, rotating the float (4.02MM) over 19 times on 207,000 trades.

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Movies Watched -- Cutter's Way (1981)

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109 minute running time … this is trash from the early 80s starring a shirtless Jeff Bridges and his six-pack abs … it didn’t help that audio on my disc was terrible and it had no subtitles, but it was just dumb and not even worthy of a TV show let alone a movie … no idea why it was in my queue, skip it.

Mild case of nipple-itis

Movies Watched -- Read My Lips (2001)

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In French. 119 minute running time so at least 20 or 30 minutes too long … story was kind of dumb, but this was a Jacques Audiard movie (I loved Un Prophete) so it wasn’t terrible, but just too long and ultimately no good … the girl isn’t plain, she’s attractive despite her fish mouth, and of course she isn’t fat because she’s French … they call it a “Hitchcockian thriller,” which is laughable (you know, Rear Window) … give it a miss unless you’re interested in early Audiard, which is why I watched it….

I was deaf. Now I'm kind of deaf.

Movies Watched - Written on the Wind (1956)

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99 minute running time … more Sirk, on a real Sirk kick following All That Heaven Allows (Which Ain’t Much) … this one starred Rock Hudson and Lauren Bacall with her sexy smoker’s voice, in Technicolor! Another love triangle involving a Texas oil heir/playboy, Loren and Rock … mostly interesting as a window into the culture of mid-1950s America, but I can’t recommend it, though Farr did. Movies that end with a courtroom scene are almost always lame….

You know, good ol' days, when a fellow knew nothing and cared less.

Movies Watched -- Summer Storm (1944)

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108 minute running time … early Sirk … love triangle based in post-Revolution Russia (1919), a Chekhov story, I guess… Linda Darnell was a great beauty (she had some Cherokee blood) ... George Sanders with his snotty British accent .. it’s not a terrible movie, but it doesn’t get a recommendation, unless you’re a Sirk completist.

Why is it you degrade everything you touch?

Movies Watched -- Tyrannosaur (2011)

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92 minute running time, so the right length, but my disc didn’t have subtitles and this was a British yob picture so subtitles are absolutely necessary because you can’t understand a word anyone says … it ended up being a gift since I could then 8x ffwd through and damn if this didn’t look depressing … angry, drunken, violent, bitter idiots, pitbulls, beaten wives, innocent stepchildren caught in the crossfire … just awful, terrible stuff … who the hell would voluntarily watch this? I’m sure Olivia Colman’s performance was excellent, but I couldn’t bear to watch it. Full red, avoid.

It’s not your fault, buddy.

Rigged Ticker Review for Friday, November 26, 2021 -- $BFRI

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Again, $BFRI was today’s rigged ticker, rotating the float (3.6MM) nearly 29 times on 238,000 trades.

Keep an eye out for the double tap minutes before the close.

(November 29, 2021 09:27 ET - Update surprise: Biofrontera Inc. Pricing of $15 Million Private Placement Priced At-the-Market Under Nasdaq Rules)

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Gambling Is a Tax on Ignorance

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Buffett at the 2007 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting:

“The desire of people to gamble ... and they gamble in stocks incidentally too ... day trading I would say very often came very close to gambling as defined … but people like to gamble … if the Super Bowl is on, better yet, if a terribly boring football game is on, but you don't have anything to do and you're sitting there with somebody else, you're probably going to enjoy the game more if you bet a few bucks on it one way or the other ... the human propensity to gamble is huge ... now when it was legalized only in Nevada, you had to go to some distance or break some laws to do any serious gambling, but as the states learned what a great source of revenue it was, they gradually made it easier and easier for people to gamble and believe me the easier it's made, the more people will gamble.

40 years ago I bought a slot machine and I put it up on our third floor and I could give my kids any allowance they wanted as long as it was in dimes, I mean I had it all back by nightfall ... I thought it would be a good lesson for them, they weren't going to Las Vegas to do it, but believe me when it was on the third floor they could find it ... my payout ratio was terrible too, but that's the kind of father I was.

But gambling, people are always going to want to do it and for that reason I particularly think that to quite an extent gambling is a tax on ignorance ... if you want to tax the ignorant, people who will do things with the odds against them, you just put it in and guys like me don't have to pay taxes, and I find that kind of socially revolting when a government preys on the weaknesses of the citizenry rather than acts to serve them....”