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I can't stay drunk EVERY day. There's to be a May Day demonstration nationwide, again. Meanwhile, people are being disappeared all over the place. People wearing badges and uniforms need to stand together against this shit. We all hate the gangs. An…
@Sven. good ideas. DCA-ing is a good time-tested method. :)
Dividends matter to me, too. Wondering how I might avoid the pre-emptive chunk taken for foreign taxes, when divvies are awarded. I was looking at maritime shippers today, doing a bit of…
.....So. Sunday, 27 April. Too late to buy into Europe? PRESX (for example) is up YTD already by +10.27%........ Reversion to the mean must be kept in mind.
Ya, can't bear to watch on tv anymore. And then, at the ballpark, there is constant noise and promos whenever there would formerly be a bit of quiet, so you could just enjoy being there. Maybe think-out the game-prospects, given the count, the pitch…
NOTHING surprises me from the Orange Reich anymore. It doesn't stop my natural inclination to be shocked at their casual trashing of the Rule Of Law, the bigotry, the way they conveniently dispense with due process...
I watch PBS Newshour religiously. It's real news coverage, unlike the Fixed Noise channel. Yet... The "necessity" to offer opposing viewpoints, ALWAYS, is hardly ever a good and necessary thing.
When you deliver the news, just do it. Job done. If…
Rescinding the revocations doesn't solve the problem, though. Some of the victims lost their standing in their schools or lost jobs, or felt they were forced to make arrangements to leave the US, and were in the middle of those plans. Their lives ha…
Yet, a large plurality voted him into office---AGAIN. Seems to me that holding any hope for the country entails an expectation that about half the country will grow a spine and a brain and a conscience, rather quickly. Chances? Nil.
Finally pulled the trigger: WBALX (Weitz) was down today; one too many days in the red, while other stuff was green. It's a "moderately conservative" balanced fund. Replacing it with BALFX. Also a balanced fund, American Funds family.
I just read that report re: the Time interview. No surprise. They called his bluff. He changed the subject and took credit for everything, when in fact, there's been zero success on the "tariff front." Such a childish, pathetic, narcissist. With pre…
....And mind you: A judicial warrant carries authority. The arresting ICE agents held an administrative warrant, which is crap.
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White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement to NBC, “The days of actively aiding and abetting …
Right on.
These girls sound like rich kids who surely could book a hotel upon arrival. Now they, and everyone they know, will never decide to visit the USA.
Trump is an evil, criminal, soul-less suck-hole.
The Beijing regime is flatly contradicting the Orange regime. "We're not currently talking to Washington's WH gang of criminals. Not at all."
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/24/china-says-no-talks-with-the-us-on-trade-calls-for-canceling-unilateral-t…
I hold one specific stock position which is foreign. Total Return after today is back up over 9%. BLX. Big commercial bank, plus it also works as the "go-to" bank for official gummint transactions; it was CREATED by a number of governments in Latam …
2025 starting total, including January's typical w/d, compared to today's market-close portfolio total, puts me just a hair above zero YTD. Of course, that will change tomorrow.
"....The Biden Administration’s HHS engaged in a multi-year campaign of delay, confusion, and non-responsiveness in an attempt to obstruct the Select Subcommittee’s investigation and hide evidence that could incriminate or embarrass senior public he…
Repugnants in Congress = spineless. There should be no need to wait and see IF we get the chance to vote. There are 50,000 things he could be impeached for.
Yes, Francis was a very good man, and a very good pope. It will be interesting to watch the succession politics- there's a very strong right-wing in the Catholic Church upper hierarchy, as well. The archbishop of San Francisco, for example, is a dri…
Krugman: "America as we know it may yet perish. But at this point we seem to have a chance..."
I am still aghast. So many voters are so utterly oblivious. Are we now in MAGA-land because the masses can be convinced of anything, if they just hear it…
I still don't own E & P. I am in midstream, with 6.44% of portfolio, currently. And ET just lately bought a huge office building in Houston. Are they outgrowing their current Dallas HQ? It certainly must be a BIG slug of money involved. But the …
