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Nvidia set to make history as it nears $5 trillion in valuation

Nvidia is poised to etch its name in history on Wednesday, becoming the first company to hit a $5 trillion market valuation and prolonging a dominant surge fueled by its pivotal role in the worldwide AI explosion. The Santa Clara, California-based firm’s shares climbed 3.6% in premarket trading, bolstered by a series of recent announcements that solidified its dominance in the AI…

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AN ARRAY OF DISPOSITIONS

The last posting referred to certain points this blog has made through the years.  More specifically, those points describe the political/cultural landscape that the political scientist, Daniel Elazar, describes.[1]  Here is how this blog (with some editing) reported on Elazar’s contribution, back in 2011:

Daniel Elazar's study of American political dispositions identified these three subcultures. They are the individualistic, the moralistic, and the traditional. The origins of these distinctive cultural dispositions can almost be traced to the earliest colonial period. Highly affected by the economic diversity that sprang up from the colonies in the northern, New England region to the plantation-based economies of the southern colonies, the subcultures of each of the three regions [New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern] reflected the social realities emerging from these diverse economic conditions.

Robert Putnam found these diverse political ideas, ideals, and beliefs surviving in the nation’s more current times.[2] Elazar claims that the distinct cultural dispositions stretched westward in mostly three parallel layers of states. The trend is not perfect; for example, while the traditional subculture of the south moved westward, its expansion was limited to the former Confederate States [and ends at the western border of Texas].

Mostly stretching westward from first the mid-Atlantic colonies and then the resulting states, overall, the individualistic subculture is the most dominant today as it mirrors the marketplace perspective. [This blog has made the argument that that dominance was first exerted in the years just after World War II replacing a more moralistic bias that prevailed.]  Today, the nation’s political culture is well ensconced in the natural rights construct that is dominant in our nation's school curricula. Why? Because it best reflects the nation’s capitalist biases.[3]

This general description, as presented in this blog, was further supported by the thoughts of the Spanish-American philosopher, George Santayana.[4] He argued that American history saw a religious outlook among Americans that began with a strict Calvinist belief that evolved into a more genteel transcendental perspective. Those competing moral views helped develop or at least co-existed with the above described three distinct political subcultures.

To be clear, none of these perspectives held or hold total allegiance among the American population at any time.  That includes the thinking and feelings of Americans today.  For example, the Republican Party base today is described as holding a Christian nationalist perspective among its MAGA[5] advocates.  Readers can pass judgment as to the validity of that claim.  But to the extent it is true, one can classify such thinking as a form of parochial/traditionalist thought.

[1] Daniel J. Elazar, American Federalism:  A View from the States (New York, NY:  Thomas Y. Crowell, 1966).

[2] Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone:  The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000).

[3] Robert Gutierrez, “Individualistic Political Subculture,” Gravitas:  A Voice for Civics, July 18 or 19, 2011).  This posting is no longer found in the blog’s archive feature.

[4] George Santayana, “The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy,” in The Annals of America, vol. 13 (originally published in 1911) (Chicago, IL:  Encyclopaedia Britanica, 1968), The Annals of America, vol. 13, 277-288.

[5] Make America Great Again.

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Two years after Apple, Microsoft hits $3 trillion market value

Microsoft’s market value crossed the $3 trillion milestone for the first time on Wednesday, retaining its place as the world’s second most valuable company, just behind Mac-maker Apple which became the first company to hit $3 trillion market value on January 3, 2022. Reuters: ‎ Microsoft and Apple shares have been vying for the top spot as the most capitalized stock on Wall Street since the…

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Apple poised to retake title of world’s most valuable company from Microsoft

Apple is poised to retake the title of the world’s most valuable company from Apple after ceding the mantle to Microsoft last week. Emily Bary for MarketWatch: ‎ Now valued at $2.917 trillion, Apple is worth a scant $10 billion less than Microsoft, which is valued at $2.927 trillion. Microsoft has been worth slightly more than Apple since last Thursday, January 11th. Apple remains the only…

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Microsoft poised to overtake Apple as world's most valuable company

Microsoft is poised to retake the title of the world’s most valuable company from Apple after a bad start to the new year by the Mac-maker. Emily Bary for MarketWatch: ‎ Now valued at $2.73 trillion, Microsoft s worth about $100 billion less than Apple, which is valued at $2.83 trillion. Apple hasn’t been worth less than Microsoft since a 14-session stretch that ended Nov. 17, 2021, and the…

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Google parent company Alphabet hits $2 trillion market cap, joining Apple and Microsoft

Google parent company Alphabet hits $2 trillion market cap, joining Apple and Microsoft

Google parent company Alphabet briefly hit a market capitalization of $2 trillion on Monday, joining Apple and Microsoft at the $2+ billion mark, but its stock price retreated back below $2 trillion shortly after topping the number. Daniel Howley for Yahoo Finance: Alphabet joins the ranks of tech giants Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT), which are the only other publicly traded U.S. companies…

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Feed Additives Market is geographically segmented in to North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middles East and Africa

Feed Additives Market was worth USD 25.43 billion in 2019 and estimated to be growing at a CAGR of 4.5%, to reach 31.69 USD billion by 2024.