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LewisBraham
Hi Hank,
Your satire came across very well. Don't worry about the user name.
Best,
Lewis
I keep thinking about this in relation to the laws that exist and what has happened twice now in just a few weeks: https://npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141164708
I don't feel most people are particularly mature at age 18.
It's the "breakthroughs in AGI could a accelerate growth in GDP from 3-5% per year to 30-50% per year." that gets me. What sort of planet would we have to be living on for that to happen? What sort of carbon emissions would that level of GDP growth …
Messianism at its worst:
https://twitter.com/CathieDWood/status/1528179451070230530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4513814-one-tweet-ark-innovation-etf-has-become-uninvestable
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must shar…
@old_joe The most popular comments under the linked photos are:
"Masks conceal the identity of criminals. True since Highwaymen in the dark ages."
"This photo is useless."
I'm not really sure what exactly you wanted the Times to do. They provided …
You do see the link to the photos in the story, right? It's not exactly the most revealing photo by the way as the guy is wearing a mask:
https://twitter.com/NYPDPC/status/1528699680443355137?cxt=HHwWgsCi0dGQhLcqAAAA
So where is the political corre…
Again, Zerohedge is a Russian asset:
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-15/us-accuses-financial-website-of-spreading-russian-propaganda
https://newrepublic.com/amp/article/156788/zero-hedge-russian-trojan-horse
He's 18 and the death penalty has not proven to be a deterrent to crime. In fact, doing that would turn him into a martyr. The FBI needs to investigate what and who turned him into a killer. They need to profile him and the people who influenced him…
If you have a stock with a 20 P/E or a 5% earnings yield and 10-year bonds instead of yielding 2% are now yielding 6%, you have to seriously ask why one would buy the 20 P/E stock? So the higher rates go, the worse all stocks, but high valuation one…
It seems much depends on one's perspective on interest rates regarding valuations. The more rates go up, the less attractive growth stocks with high valuations seem.
To me, these seem more interesting to purchase after their fixed-rates have already gone up, which investors may have the opportunity to do very shortly.
Well, yes and no, but this story argues for an imminent recession in the next few months. This is interesting especially if you think, for instance, about the lengthy discussion here about I-Bonds. I don't think that the high and low tide analogy is…
It's a difficult question to answer regarding small-caps. There's a case to be made for small local companies if one considers that globalization may be coming to an end as trade wars, energy prices, and grotesque nationalism heat up. Multi-national…
It seems like it. What is interesting about this article is it shows how communication in rural areas could work better with an interesting environmental example in Arkansas:
Last September, Booth gave a brief speech that was streamed live on YouTub…
It is interesting how what I suggested is turned into giving me a lecture on climate denial and whataboutism.
That probably would not have happened and certainly would not have in my case if you hadn't taken a specific topic of Berkshire Hathaway an…
I am interested in companies' current actions on climate and not words. NYT, like most media these days, has devolved into selling outrage.
Since when? Climate science is not new:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_science
In 18…
I wonder how the SEC and regulators are viewing this as Musk has gotten into heated battles with the SEC in the past with his Tweets attacking them and for his Tweets revealing too much or misleading information. What will it be like if he owns the …
According to the proxy filing: "In contrast, the nominees nominated by Saba have limited (if any) experience with closed-end funds or global bond strategies." While it may be true regarding global bond strategies, Saba has invested in and been an ac…
Closed-end fund managers who don't like activists should try being more responsive to shareholders. That said, if Saba takes over, there's no guarantee it will do better by shareholders. It would be nice if traditional closed-end funds converted int…
Damodaran's notion that ESG investing is some monolith, all invested in one way, and therefore a "feel-good scam" is absurd. There are many varieties of ESG. Morningstar if you have access has done a number of pieces responding to his claims: https:…
Well, there is a difference between a management fee and a final expense ratio, so it is actually possible both statements are true. The manager can waive a portion of their management fee, but the total expense ratio generally incorporates more tha…
I don't believe Morningstar ever considered it a market neutral fund. In fact, Morningstar no longer even considers long-short equity funds like this alternative funds as most have too much beta exposure or correlation to the market.
According to the latest prospectus, the expense ratio remains 1.00%
https://sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1096344/000119312522086680/d437018d485bpos.htm#toc437018_3
Agreed, but it is the one stock issue I'm referring to here when there are literally thousands of potential stocks to research and invest in worldwide, not to mention many more bonds, preferred stock and other securities to consider. The notion that…
Seems more sensible to just buy St. Joe directly and avoid the potential tax hit of FAIRX selling some of its appreciated shares as well as FAIRX’s management fees. I sometimes wonder what it would feel like to be a manager getting paid millions of …
Sorry to see these two go. International Value still has a strong long-term record--3, 5 and 10 years. Key man risk I imagine. As for a pronounceable name, well, isn't that like an American saying at a shop overseas, "What's this in real money?"
