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A beautiful Sunday Michigan morning to you @hank
Travel the TIP ETF route or equivalent from whichever provider to fulfill the I-bond space.
E.R. = .19%, the majority of holdings are 1-5 year duration, no limitation for when to buy or sell, no $ li…
@Crash
i get mad at it, then create a truly obscene pw. i suppose that works, though not intended.
Web sites are placing a rules sign of: "No shirt, no shoes, No service ! They're not trying to make you angry, they're not your enemy.
But, they ar…
@Observant1
Absolutely. Use MFA and VPN. I do turn off VPN at times when online wi-fi/secure at home, as some sites are not happy with VPN and will prevent access.
@BaluBalu
@catch22 Did you mean to say banks defaulting on [bank] loans?
Was it Giroux’s or your characterization to call Technology equities as providing a barbell approach to defensive equities?
This is from someone else. My only note in this thre…
OTOH:
--- Appeared in the 1994 film Forrest Gump, the lead character Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks) said
“My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.”
I'd be a very much poorer investor or pe…
As an early member of the Ebay community (May, 1997), mostly as a seller; I still feel the quality and monitoring of sellers has a high standard, and also has a high standard for dispute resolution. Yes, there will always be those sellers who try a …
But FIDO hopes you've at least thought about an exit strategy. I consider this thoughtful of them.
One may imagine the message you would have received from a RobinHood account.
"Don't you want to buy some more?" "You call yourself an investor?" …
I'm not an accredited scholar of global history, but I've logged many hours in my lifetime studying via books and film; and consider the U.S. influence in rebuilding of Europe and Japan to be very positive (See below links). We must keep in mind wha…
As I recall, JR was granted membership by his request, using his current name; at 3:20 pm on August 27. Not that this in and of itself, is of consequence.
Is not most investing connected to "other peoples money" in one fashion or another? Over many years we have profited from "OPM" whether it be from the FED., large fund and pension houses and numerous individual investors, both foreign and domestic. …
Thank you, Mark; and good question PopTart.
. A very busy area indeed. 'Course, IMHO; battery tech. will be a key, along with more efficient motors. Can't be driv'in from lower Michigan to the western Upper Peninsula wondering where you're gonna be…
Hi @PopTart
Medical Tech. continues to be a yes at this house, too; and is 19% of our equity holdings.
Hope all is well with you and yours.
Regards,
Catch
I recall the "dot.com" unwind clearly. The "psuedo" tech. wanna-be's of that period were seriously overpriced and hoping to provide a profit. Bon Jovi, Wing and a Prayer, flyers. Many were not the mature tech. organizations of today.
Anyway, I pla…
Hi @msf
Are you performing an investment experiment?
You write reads like the Hotel California Syndrome:
"Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
"Relax, " said the night man,
"We …
Hi @davidrmoran
Regardless of the beginning post topic; you've been here long enough to understand that a great deal of knowledge may be learned and digested from from the follow-up posts by members, yes?
@Sven et al
I peek at this active global markets page (mostly the very top country list). Last night (Sunday) at 11pm EST, pretty much all of the markets were fully "red".
Hi @bee
Yes, FRIFX was replaced a number of years ago; when we moved more towards growth equity holdings. The fund remains quite unique for it's holdings in the real estate area and continues to be well managed in this sometimes erratic sector. The …
Hi @Sven et al
Investment grade bonds have been clawing and scratching their way to positive returns over the past month or so; and have a big bump up (lower yields/higher pricing) so far today (July 19). The below link is for the etf AGG, and si…
And, IMHO............Covid and a complacent*** sector of the U.S. population that may put a "boot" to what could be more normal growth.
*** “a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the lik…
Roth IRA article at Bloomberg........hopefully, y'all may have access.
ProPublica reported that in 1999, Thiel, the co-founder of Paypal Holdings Inc., placed 1.7 million shares of then-private PayPal into his Roth Ira. They were valued at $0.001 p…
@Derf et al
Roth IRA article at Bloomberg........hopefully, y'all may have access.
ProPublica reported that in 1999, Thiel, the co-founder of Paypal Holdings Inc., placed 1.7 million shares of then-private PayPal into his Roth Ira. They were val…
Hi @Simon
While the tilt of Mr. Snowball's monthly commentary (over the years) and Mr. Bolin's current articles may be directed more towards capital preservation; one has the full discussion forum available here to seek any and all investment opinio…
I can't write about other vendors, but those having Fidelity accounts have a decent format for sorting etf's.
The below link has been placed previously, but remains another view for filtering etf's by category type. The site page is not set to any p…
@Sven et al
Reads like a good old fashioned communist or fascist state manifesto, eh?
Different to a point, but with the same required results of control.
Nothing like the feeling of power, when one is a zealot.
Florida and their boss
Hi hank and @Old_Joe
The below link will provide 129 aircraft photos by Scott McGeachy at CYVR. A few photos contain the previously discussed runway numbers. Many of the pictures provide an excellent view of the surrounding forest/trees and mountain…
Hi @Old_Joe
Read my post again, just previous, starting with the word Okay. The next sentence contains my link to Google Earth and my thoughts about the "trees".
@Derf Thought about that, too. Hope not. Some of the time, photo-shopping is either pure artist or altering a photo for monetary value. I don't know if there is monetary value from the photo; although WSJ likely had to pay someone to use the photo…
Okay, my last hoorah; I do believe, with this research.
This Google Earth mapping suggests a possible location for the photographer in this post (allow a bit of time for the image to load, dependent upon your equipment and download speed connection…
