Can go either way

Yesterday I bought a small number of shares of Pfizer, Inc. Common Stock (PFE). The reason we continue to trade shares in (PFE) is that we strongly believe in the company in the long term.

However, we have chosen to wait with our investments in our company because President Trump will hold a press conference today on the occasion of his designation of April 2 as "Liberation Day", when several previously postponed tariffs will come into effect according to the Swedish news newspaper Dagens Nyheter. It will be exciting to see how the market will react.

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April fools day

For transparency and my own agenda, my husband and I own a 2023 Tesla Model Y.

Yesterday, a young Swedish man with a YouTube channel pulled one of the absolute best April Fool's jokes I've ever seen. Before performing the prank, he did everything by the book and obtained all the necessary permits. He even spoke to the security guards who were on site to eliminate the risk of third parties being exposed to any kind of danger.

In Sweden, there is a domestic hamburger chain called Max. This hamburger chain was recently rocked by a scandal. On February 18, 2025, it was revealed that the hamburger chain Max is seriously deficient in its hygiene routines.

Among other things, it was revealed that the toilet seat is washed in the dishwasher among household utensils, scrub buckets are used for both cleaning and storing milkshakes, old salads are relabeled and hamburgers that have been in a warming cabinet for far too long are served, according to Swedish Radio.

Yesterday morning, the young YouTuber had parked a Tesla outside a Max restaurant located in Sodermalm, a district in Stockholm. This particular district is notorious for being full of climate activists, people who follow the woke movement, and other like-minded people. The Tesla had a piece of cardboard over the license plate that read "Max ❤️ Tesla", reports the newspaper Aftonbladet. He had also displayed 2 roll-ups with the same text on the sidewalk on either side of the entrance to the restaurant.

The same article also states that Max's hamburger chain, in its eagerness to appear good, unlike Tesla which is evil..., chose to follow its belief system (BS) and reported the prank to the police as they do not want to be associated with Tesla. Thank God, Tesla, which has more to lose by being associated with a company with questionable hygiene routines and bad morals and ethics, could see the humor in it all.

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This money is earmarked for lower risk-taking

Tonight, Swedish time, we plan to start investing the money we received for your condominium premises. We opened an endowment insurance for the company some time ago. We will be significantly less risk-averse with the company's money than we are with our private money.

After both the world's most perfect husband and I have read a book written by Bombmattan, we have come to the mutual decision to adopt his strategy to some extent when investing this money. It will be exciting to compare the development of these investments against our private ones. Of course, we must take the exchange rate into account because our private investments were made at a time when the Swedish krona was stronger than today, even though it has strengthened significantly recently.

Even though we know which companies we will invest in, the actual timing of the purchase may change as a lot is happening in the world right now.

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I want a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in Sweden

Even though Sweden already has far too many departments, currently there are 367, there is one I really want, namely DOGE. I can only imagine how much tax money, that is, my money, is being wasted.

I cannot for the life of me understand the people in America who oppose this department and its actions. Not wanting to ensure that the money the state takes in from you through various forms of taxes does not disappear into various forms of fraud and the like is beyond my comprehension. In my world, you are either one of those who commits fraud or otherwise appropriates tax money that you are not actually entitled to.

Because it can't be about jealousy, can it?  That some people have succeeded better than them and they can therefore only think about "taxing the rich" regardless of where the tax money ends up?! I believe there are several variables that underlie these people's aversion to DOGE. In addition to the above, I also believe there is a huge lack of knowledge about how it really works among these people.

As a resident of one of the world's highest taxed countries, I'm really tired of seeing my hard-earned money wasted on things like a camel park, a cloned Christmas tree, a pink boulder, the list goes on and on.

Just the knowledge that even Iraq's former Defense Minister Najah al-Shammari collected child and housing allowances and income support in Sweden while he received a salary from the Iraqi government shows how easily the Swedish state is deceived.

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The Swedish krona is inexplicably strong given the current economic climate

A strong Swedish defense industry, together with increasingly high inflation, is slowing the prospects for future policy rate cuts. The less Sweden lowers its policy rate, the more the Swedish krona can strengthen against other currencies, says SVT's economic commentator Alexander Norén. The combination of Swedish inflation, together with the geopolitical situation and uncertainty about US tariffs, has caused the Swedish krona to move sharply.

For example, €1 cost 10.99 SEK on March 6, 2025. It was the first time in two years that the euro fell below 11 SEK. On the same day, $1 cost 10.19 SEK, which should be compared to 10.80 SEK the week before. The development can be partly explained by the fact that the chance of further policy rate cuts in the near future from Sweden's central bank AKA the Riksbank is now considered extremely unlikely.

In addition, the outside world believes that there will be more investments in Sweden and that more goods and services will be purchased from Sweden, not least because there will be major defense investments in Europe and Sweden has large defense companies that export. Sometimes a few signals that the Swedish krona is undervalued can be enough to start a positive spiral that Sweden seems to be in right now.

If you want to be a little conspiratorial, you can suspect that there is an underlying agenda between Sweden and the EU to strengthen the Swedish krona ahead of a rapid transition to the euro in Sweden. Who knows, maybe Sweden will replace the Swedish krona with the euro in the near future.😉

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