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CBC: (Interesting, the way Canadians are able to name appointed US cabinet officials. How many Yanks know the names of those counterparts?)
Canada is already expecting Recession, big jump in unemployment, a hit to the Loonie. Featured here are: con…
...We are talking about tens of thousands of job losses and an economic shock likely to lead to a recession....
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/call-it-by-its-name-a-coup?r=y0bp&triedRedirect=true
Ya, there's the rub: if others depend upon you. Protesting and civil disobedience was much easier for me as a younger man. Add to that, age requires daily maintenance prescriptions.
But, who was it said this? "If you've not found something worth d…
With all the craziness happening these past two weeks, I had intended to move a significant percentage of equities to our mmkt acct on Friday, but chose to wait and see at the last moment. Sheesh! Foolish me!
I'm less than half now in stocks. A bit …
Just manage to get enough blithering doinks to vote you into office, and all legal trouble vanishes. The DOJ policy surely never anticipated such a childish, impulsive, amoral criminal who behaves like he has nothing to lose.
In my denomination's r…
I like the M* Portf. Manager because I can self-construct a list the way I want to see it. And you can create several lists, if you want that. I've taken to comparing what M* displays against my Schwab account, after log-in. The Schwab stuff is upda…
Recession will start this month in Canada and Mexico, causing USD to strengthen. Our neighbors will be buying fewer American goods with their weak currency.
Ya, a nutjob is in charge, but the US holds the stronger hand.
B.C. is removing U.S. Red State Liquor from shelves. All U.S. alcohol is not being sold in N.S. provincially-run stores. Also, I read that N.S. is doubling tolls on commercial vehicles entering from the USA. That makes no sense. It is N.B. which bor…
Ben Carlson on Bluesky:
If social media sentiment translated into market moves we would see a 1987-like crash on Monday
I hope everything is a giant overreaction but I can't wait to see how the markets digest the tariffs
It does feel like an airpo…
Late December, bought into Panamanian Exchange Bank. BLX. I'm waiting and seeing. I'm a little itchy. The Orange Fool is indeed dismantling the gov't. It is a coup d'etat. No one can tell me he's not following Project 2025 playbook. Monday will be a…
The fact that there is a 2nd Trump Administration is a testimony to the utter spineless stoopidity (sic) of too many US voters. Can't think for themselves. Willing to drink the Orange Kool-Aid which promises easy answers to complex issues. Not to me…
We all know the answer to that. Maybe I should be angrier than I am with all the illegals: my wife had to wait two years to be admitted to the US legally. But you have how many people desperate to escape shit-hole countries to the south (and in Afri…
31 Jan, 2025:
Uncertainty. Hedging bets, loathe to make predictions.
Lowest level of bond volatility in years.
Collin (sic) Martin, Schwab Fixed Income. Amaury D'Orsay, Amundi Fixed Income.
No cuts expected anytime soon. Stand pat at least for th…
Can't bring myself to retreat and pull most of my stuff from the Market. Today's swoon was predictable due to the unpredictable and petulant Orange Doink. Yet I now do own more in bonds than in stocks, by a bit. Adding to MM fund lately, not at risk…
@hondo, nope, the majority of American people did not vote for Trump. But, just as I understand that a trump supporter would blame the fires in LA on LGBTQ and the plane crash on DEI, I understand why a trump supporter would say that the majority of…
Project 2025....
Dismantle, destroy, destruct. It amounts to intentional SUBVERSION. Which is the Repugnant Party's raison d'etre. Anti-science. Anti-reason. Anti-fact. Anti-truth.
"Deep State?" Bullshit.
I gotta catch up with that one. I didn't cotton to it, back then. I recall one from the '80s with Bess Armstrong. "All Is Forgiven." Hysterical and SMART.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Is_Forgiven_(TV_series)
Bless Caroline!
https://en.wikipe…
No ethics, no spine. What's in it for me? Repugnant Party. Trump Cult. Sieg Heil. I've had a few conversations with Trumpers. They like his "straight talk" approach, and that he's a disruptor. Some years ago, it was reported that the same people wer…
Yup, same here. Looks to be correct. For now.
But WAIT. i've noticed such before, too:
My BLX shows the correct share price at M*. But the indicated percentage rise today does not jive with a different website. I go visit Stocktwits a lot. And Stoc…
I loved scrolling through! Memories. But the music gave us a sense of solidarity and power in numbers, too. Here's some more:
Joni Mitchell: "Woodstock."
T. Morelo, B. Springsteen: "Ghost of Tom Joad."
Warren Zevon: "Roland, The Headless Thomps…
