Buttonwood Rules - Happy 234th Birthday NYSE!
LYRICS >>> https://maxine-log.blogspot.com/2026/05/buttonwood-rules-set-in-motion-234.html
In the bustling heart of Lower Manhattan on a spring day in 1792, twenty-four shrewd brokers and merchants gathered near a sturdy buttonwood tree — that iconic American sycamore standing sentinel at what would become the beating pulse of global finance. With a simple two-sentence pact scratched out on May 17, they forged the Buttonwood Agreement, laying the cornerstone for what the world now celebrates as the New York Stock Exchange on its rip-roaring 234th birthday.
Latest EDJE Music effort inspired from a FB/META posting about Indianapolis Motor Speedway's first year in 1909 - when six died during the August races over three days.
Before The Bricks
On August 19, 1909, the very first automobile races ever held at what would become the Indianapolis Motor Speedway claimed lives before the day was out. Roughly 12,000 spectators gathered to watch Austrian engineer Louis Schwitzer claim a five-mile dash at an average of 57.4 mph on the brand-new 2.5-mile oval. The surface - crushed rock packed with tar - began to disintegrate almost at once, flinging stones into the air and carving deep ruts that grew worse with every lap.
Story & Lyrics
https://theedje.blogspot.com/2026/10/ims-brickyard-before-bricks.html
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DEMOCRATS ... and the NYT are launching their first economy lie campaign to kick off the Midterms Season - positive economic news pokes their article in the eye both at home, and across the globe.
PULL QUOTE: "Foreigners [are] looking for “alternative destinations” to the United States [as per NYT]. Instead, what we see is the rest of the world following the Trump administration’s policy of reprivatizing the economy. In the 12 months through July 2024, foreigners sold a net $151.5 billion of American stocks while purchasing $540.7 billion of Treasury notes and bonds, $306 billion of corporate bonds, and $103.4 billion of agency bonds. Global investors were losing faith in equities issued by the U.S. private sector, and Biden policies were pushing foreigners to buy government debt instead."
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/09/17/breitbart-business-digest-the-dollar-is-still-king/
The urban boom built whole cities almost overnight. Roads went in before drawings were finished. Prefab towers rose in weeks. Places planned for nearly a million people — Lingang near Shanghai, Yujiapu billed as China’s Manhattan — stand looking complete: roads, malls, offices, apartments, schools. Yet they feel frozen mid-build.
The emptiness is not a mystery. Hundreds of millions still live on incomes that cannot buy the new stock. “Build it and they will come” did not hold. The result has been called the largest property bubble the world has seen. The same boom that moved Australian iron ore now carries a downside if it bursts.
Two stories sit side by side: frantic construction and deserted streets. This ballad sits in the space between them.
https://maxine-log.blogspot.com/2026/09/ghost-cities-rising-across-chinese.html
