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Today’s show title may or may not include the summaries of our three main topics as song titles from the Troublemaker Swagger Playlist on Spotify. We’re talking about Toyota outpacing February production projections, Tesla’s plan to secure nickel supplies, and business students skipping Wall St for crypto. 

• Toyota Motor Group produced 11% (including Daihatsu and Hino Motors Ltd) more vehicles in February 2022 than in the same month one year earlier. The month exceeded even Toyota's expectations by nearly 41,000 vehicles. 
  • Toyota alone still below last Feb but exceeded projections by 41,000 vehicles
  • Honda, reported an 8.1% increase in the same month year over year

• Tesla is several steps ahead in mining Nickel
  • Has been securing long term nickel contrasts far before the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Two years ago Musk said, "Please mine more nickel," on an earnings call with producers. "Tesla will give you a giant contract for a long period of time if you mine nickel efficiently and in an environmentally sensitive way."
  • "People don't realize how far ahead Tesla is when it comes to securing the supply chain for raw materials and an integrated approach to battery materials," said Todd Malan, a spokesman for Talon Metals whom Tesla has a contract to buy 75,000 tons of Nickel from 
• Wall Street getting skipped by as business students lean into Web 3 as a career 
  • “The crypto sector has 12,000 open jobs right now, according to the aggregation platform TrueUp, including 3,000+ new listings opened last week.” many from non-banking sector companies like Spotify
  • Talent often walking past big banking bonuses in favor of the excitement of blazing a new trail
  • “Brandon Hoffman, a 2022 Columbia MBA candidate who’s interning at an NFT company, told us he’s excited because crypto “is like a new frontier. …I think that the infrastructure that is being uncovered every day that this platform provides, I think the applications are going to be very widespread.”
  • “The students interviewed found their passion for crypto outside of classrooms all together. They mentioned blockchain clubs and Discord channels as common experiences at their universities. But overwhelmingly, they said they learned about crypto online, on their own.”

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