Just about the only stocks in that didn’t roar higher on Wednesday are those that manufacturer mass-killing devices. It seems the military-industrial complex is hopping mad that we’re not heading into World War III.

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Just about the only stocks in that didn’t roar higher on Wednesday are those that manufacturer mass-killing devices. It seems the military-industrial complex is hopping mad that we’re not heading into World War III.

Early this year, when I was still despairing if a real bear market would EVER transpire (little did I realize it already had, just a few days prior), I actually considered, God forgive me, putting $10,000 each into a variety of electric car makers. I actually convinced myself that, yeah, maybe these ARE like little Teslas. I didn’t buy a single share of any other them, but I did, on that day, create a portfolio on my spreadsheet as if I did. Let’s just all agree that I dodged a bullet on this one.

Not that you need any other bad-performing stocks, after all that I showed with “The Wretched”, but is a bundle of seven from a specific sector – – electric vehicles – – that became crazy-popular after Tesla’s success. A bunch of Tesla-wanna-be‘s were already shown in the aforementioned Wretched posts, but here are some to round out the sector:

One of the beneficiaries of the mayhem in Russia has been aluminum companies. Here are a couple:
