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Behold, then, two of Berkshire’s holdings-Visa and Occidental Petroleum-each a gilded mirage, each a potential trap for the unthinking admirer. Let us dissect them with the precision of a lepidopterist, noting not the wings but the fragile chitin beneath.

The urban air mobility mirage glitters with the allure of a $1.5 trillion market by 2040, as per Morgan Stanley’s optimistic ledger. Yet such figures are as slippery as mercury, contingent on batteries advancing at the pace of a Renaissance clockmaker and regulators loosening their gavels. Archer, an early mover with a strategy as layered as a sonnet, plans not merely to build eVTOLs but to operate its own air taxi service-a dual gambit that could either crown it a visionary or expose it as a jester in a lab coat.

This paradox anchors a grander debate: Could BTC’s reputation as a financial acrobat-forever flipping between euphoria and despair-be softening? One crypto baron recently declared the four-year halving crash cycle as obsolete as a Tsarist ruble. But let us not mistake a truce with gravity for immunity from it.

There’s a buzz-no, a hum-surrounding Archer’s Midnight aircraft. It promises to ease traffic congestion in the urban jungle, which, if we’re being honest, could use some help. Archer’s partnership with United Airlines only sweetens the deal, suggesting that these flying taxis might not be the stuff of vaporware. And let’s not forget the Olympics in Los Angeles, where these aircraft will take center stage in 2028. Imagine it: the world watching, as futuristic taxis zip overhead, while we-perhaps caught in the very traffic the taxis are supposed to solve-wave cynically.

Gold’s performance this year might be described as a sonnet-measured, elegant, and yielding a 60% return. Bitcoin, by contrast, offers us a pantomime: a 17% rise, impressive only when compared to the S&P 500’s modest 14%. One might marvel at this contest between substance and spectacle, between a king and a pretender clad in algorithmic finery.