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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
Quite correlated as we would expect. I am mystified that robotics isn't doing better. You know, if you just ask Morningstar what they have as the top ten investments in these etfs, there is, again not surprisingly, a lot of overlap no matter what th…
From where is the value being sucked? I wish the investment could be in conversion to alternative energy sources rather than consumption of even more non-renewable (and dirty) natural resources. Can politics and tax policies, ala government, replace…
@catch22 Thanks, I'll give it a try. If you left a link, it was overwritten with a MFO fund popup for the Aberdeen Emg Mkt Telecom Infra Common CEF (ETF).
Found one at EFT.com. Just noticed all my uses of ETF got linked the same as yours.
I asked Google AI if there was a single ETF that offered coverage in these areas. It produced a short list which has some we saw before. Truth be told, they are broad and the WisdomTree is interesting, albeit boring. I think I prefer my original jus…
I just put the statement into GOOGLE search and this was the result. It was so close to a subset of ETFs I was considering (near the tops of my categories) that I realized that, whereas AI might be confirmatory to someone of experience, it might be …
After the floods here this year I hate to see my homeowner insurance bill. Too bad they couldn't capture all that wind and rain power into the electric grid to offset the cost.
It's like I never was taught about this war in school or forgot it. I went to Wikipedia for a quick read. What a bloody mess that was. Imperialism is ugly, isn't it?
Expanding - I see those on the upper part of the K have economies on a rising path over time. Those on the bottom have economies on a lowering path over time.
Well, yea, but ....
China buying gobs of US savings bonds supports our government spending, including R&D and purchase of lethal weapons, etc. And the interest they collect on US bonds and other stuff is American money supporting their form of g…
I've lived 77 years without being a member of the American Economic Association. Believe me, it doesn't hurt much. Psychologically, it probably hurts Summers a lot less than Epstein hurt those young girls.
Depending on your interest and background, you may enjoy this use of correlation matrices:
The Matrix Effective Rank: Measuring the Dimensionality of a Universe of Assets
Quantifying how diversified is a universe of assets is an open problem in quan…
I didn't realize it was an experiment. Does he believe if he can use his power to bring back the items of his childhood, he will be transformed to age 8 or so in a less regulated world with lots of that loving racist hate and exploitation and admira…
I am surprised that they are showing him in public when he not alert. With the reports that he stays up nights texting continuously, he would naturally be sleepy, His base would attribute it to that. But is it him or his proxies staying up all night…
This is just for all the old guys out there:
You have spent your lives amassing a good retirement income. I love you guys. Could you please spend some of that money to hire a service to clear your dangerous snow problems? Consider it an investment i…
