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Warm Up
- 1st Quarter scores gains
- Gold and Silver breaking out
- Never let a good crisis go to waste?
- More layoffs... Big names making news
- OPEC Surprise !

Market Update
- Tech BIG winner 1Q 2023
- Yields down -- even though inflation still high
- Reflex trades - all tied to rates
- More layoffs coming
- AI names making a run - with all chatter about AI doomsday
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Twitter Logo Update  = Dodgecoin Ramp

Happy Passover and Happy Easter (The Usual Holiday Price Drops for Political Purposes)
- Bought 5 dozen eggs from Walmart yesterday for $12.75
- Matzah prices coming down as well

AI Doomsday !
- They are coming for your job
-- The letter, issued by the non-profit Future of Life Institute and signed by more than 1,000 people including Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, called for a pause on advanced AI development until shared safety protocols for such designs were developed, implemented and audited by independent experts.
- Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in training of systems more powerful than GPT-4, they said in an open letter, citing potential risks to society and humanity.
- The letter also detailed potential risks to society and civilization by human-competitive AI systems in the form of economic and political disruptions, and called on developers to work with policymakers on governance and regulatory authorities.
---AI and Your JOB -
-- Goldman Sachs: The boost to global labor productivity could also be economically significant, and
nee estimate that AI could eventually increase an