The Best One Yet
🏆 “Perfect Credit Score” — How to get one. Tesla’s new MAGA brand. Chili’s ate TGI Fridays.
30 Jan 2025
Does the perfect 850 credit score exist?... It does, one man just got it, and we’ll tell ya how.Tesla has become a $45K MAGA hat… so we’ll explain the biggest pivot in branding.Chili’s restaurant stock surged 300% in the last year… thanks to its Great White Shark strategy.Plus, it’s the Lunar New Year… so we found wild data on stocks during the Year of the Snake (spoiler: It’s bad).$TSLA $EAT $AMEXLA Tech Community Cares Fund: https://www.pledge.to/the-la-tech-community-cares-fund?tpcc=NL_MarketingWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… Red Bull ⚡Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks to listen.“The Best Idea Yet”: The untold origin stories of the products you’re obsessed with — From the McDonald’s Happy Meal to Birkenstock’s sandal to Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers to Sriracha. New 45-minute episodes drop weekly.—-----------------------------------------------------Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.GET ON THE POD: Submit a shoutout or fact: https://tboypod.com/shoutouts FOR MORE NICK & JACK: Newsletter: https://tboypod.com/newsletter Connect with Nick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-martell/ Connect with Jack: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-crivici-kramer/ SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tboypodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod Anything else: https://tboypod.com/ Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, January 30th, and today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Docs, they are dipping right now. Yesterday, it was because of the Fed. Our nation's central bank is worried about inflation again. So yesterday, they announced they're keeping interest rates high.
Investors would prefer if interest rates fell. We'd prefer if interest rates fell. The president would prefer if interest rates fell. But the Fed's job isn't politics or popularity. It's killing inflation. So they gave us tough love and are keeping interest rates high. But in the meantime, Jack and I whipped up three fantastic anti-inflation stories for you. Jack, what do we got on today's pot?
For our first story, Tesla just announced earnings. But the bigger story is Tesla's new brand. Because Tesla has become a $45,000 MAGA hat. For our second story, Chili's is the hottest restaurant in the country. It's up 300% in the past year. Because Chili's is known for its baby back ribs, but its strategy is great white shark.
And finally, for our third story, we all want a credit score over 750. Nice. Maybe even 800. Nice, sir. Who knows? Is an 850 possible? Not too shabby. But Jack, does a perfect credit score even exist? Yes, it does. One man got it, and we'll tell you how he did. Oh, we got the secret sauce. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Spin. Fantastic mix of stories.
Love the way things are kicking off, man. Did you hear those fireworks? Because the Chinese New Year began last night. The Lunar New Year, yes. Heard those fireworks. Largest celebration on planet Earth. Here's a wild stat. Get this. The two weeks before and after Chinese New Year, three billion trips are taken just in China. That's right.
Because people are leaving the city, visiting family, visiting other family, and then visiting more family. Apparently, every single person in China takes an average of two trips during the Chinese New Year. Last year was the year of the dragon. This year is the year of the snake. And this weekend, again, dim sum at Dragon Boat. Remember Dragon Boat, Jack? No. It's like China Live.
But Jack and I got curious. How do stocks perform during the year of the snake? Because the Chinese snake is a symbol of calculation, strategy, and thought. thought. So Jack, let's enlighten the besties. How do markets do during snake years? Really, really freaky. Let's kick it back to 2013. It was one of the best years in Wall Street history, and it was the year of the snake.
The S&P 500 jumped over 30% that year. But the year 2001 was also a year of the snake, and it was one of the worst years on the stock market. The dot-com bubble burst, 9-11 happened, and stocks dropped 13%. 1977, the year Apple was founded.
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