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All of the above makes sense to me. When it comes to single stocks, those are still a small portion of my total. Mutual funds are still the lion's share. For the extra risk taken to buy into single-stocks, I have pre-decided that I want the dividend…
I suspect that Trump is pushing many countries straight into China's arms.
You got that right. Of course, the Canadians will surely prefer to trade with Europe, instead. But while I was just up there, a news item showed that Canada's very first boa…
I read a photo grab of the official letter to Mark Carney, P.M. It's floating around the social media website, bluesky. It's full of gaslighting double-speak bullshit.
@Crash "The plan is to cancel Discover. "
Will this cancellation not cause credit rating to drop? Maybe you don't care?
How was your trip?
Howdy!
Her credit rating is already "exceptional." Over 800. I wonder how much damage it might do to cancel …
No words. Out of words. There ARE NO words to express the level of my disgust. More and more, we are a Mafia-ocracy, like Russia. The Congressional majority are enablers. As @Derf put it: ASS Kissers.
Oh, dear..... Scary. And my wife just acquired the Costco co-branded Citi VISA card to replace the Discover Card she had, because they are now under the Capital One umbrella. The plan is to cancel Discover.
ya, over on that "other" social media platform, "bluesky," it's been out in the open for months: ICE "agents" with huge paunches and obesity but wearing official vests can get them online with a credit card. They cannot possibly be actual ICE agents…
"...And very high dividends are bad (much could be just ROC)."
Quite right, I see what you mean, there. Isn't that the way MLPs operate all the time, though? ET seems to have been stuck in a range. A great deal of the nonsense is manipulation. It a…
"I doubt that our country's founders ever thought that someday we would come to this pass."
THAT'S a big 10-4. Policy differences have always been expected. But the prospect of a conscience-less, criminal President surely never entered their minds.…
I believe MAGA as a verb is subject to appropriate grammatical/syntactical usage and form, as in:
"The Orange Fake Criminal President MAGAd-up the country during his tenure in office."
There truly are still some ignorant doinks in the deep South, particularly in rural places. Running for Prez? Religion ought to have zero to do with it. We all know so-called "Christians" whose religion is just a hobby, whose prejudices win out all …
Ya, people don't want to come here, even completely apart from any economic considerations. They're staying away in droves both due to what they see from the Orange regime as unethical, and out of concern for their own personal safety.
Any number of demagogues could be pointed out, doing the thinking for the Orange Abomination. Miller is particularly disgusting, venal, petty, evil. The Orange One could not manage the Executive the first time around. He never expected to win, was u…
...And yet, Obama got elected. ANYONE would be better than the current Orange Destructor.
AOC would be awesome. Sadly, 99% of the country, Right and Left--- see her as unelectable, too radical. She only seems radical if the status quo is taken for …
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@Old_Joe
I'm headed for a week away, north of the border, where a SANE and HUMANE government is in charge. That will be refreshing. Refreshing? Here, have a Coke.
https://calgaryherald.com/news/g7-summit-underway-in-kananaskis-photos
We hardly need any sort of DEI here in Hawaii. Whites are the minority, which can be easily understood. People are here from places many folks on the Mainland never heard of. Things get done and people get along, day after day--- at least to an exte…
@Crash A falling interest rate(s) may be headed your way before 'the leaves of fall' are overcome by gravity.
I believe you. One of the dissatisfying items connected to WCPNX has been its repeated drop in share price, though mild--- when I see my…
WCPNX is "safe" core-plus bonds, but unsatisfying. I sold it and switched a small bit into TUHYX and the lion's share into PRCPX. I've owned them both, before. I bought into WCPNX when interest rates were expected to gradually fall. It has not happe…
@hank @larryB
You're correct. But I suppose I'm (still) in a rare situation, owing no 1040 federal tax, nor cap gains or tax on divs--- year after year. Collecting the divs gives me some freedom as to where to redeploy the "free money." Total retur…
At Crash. Curious about your fondness for investments with healthy yields. If you don’t mind sharing,,,,, do you reinvest the divs?
Hi! Oh, yes, I reinvest all the divs. Because I just don't need them for expenses yet. Our needs are simple, apart f…
You can see almost anything you want to see in the day-to-day numbers.
How about S&P Closes 3 Points Shy of All Time High?
No complaints, since I'm already invested. :)
Despite Panamanian turmoil lately, BLX is climbing back. A very good couple of days, though I think it stinks, the way that workers down there are getting screwed via Presidential decree. By coincidence, I also landed upon another LatAm bank: FBP. A…
(Not 92 here. Just warm and sunny and pleasant. Always a breeze here. I'll soon be flying into a Spokane heat wave, though. Then my partner in crime and I will drive to the BC/Alberta Rockies and will visit Calgary, too. Just a week.)
Thanks, man. Ya, I'm seeing "we're hiring" signs all over the place here. Notably, the (stinking, lousy, useless PRIVATELY run) bus company on the island. Don't tell me you're providing a service, when I must wait over an hour for a stinking bus. So…
