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I cannot speak for anyone else, but factoids like that make me feel like an idiot.
But --- thanks? lol
I remember standing in a backyard at a barbecue in Berkeley when some guy showed us this little device from Apple that stored music. "Oh. So.…
Any actor that can play a convincing mob lawyer or cowboy is doing a good bit of work.
I'm trying to remember the Twilight Zone episode he was in. Was it about people in a doll's house?
AI has nothing to do with this path of destruction.
I wonder what's happening with research into drug resistant bacteria and viruses that aren't commonly found on toilet seats.
Oh yeah!
K-Mart ruled their space at one time.
GE arguably collapsed as a conglomerate.
Montgomery Ward no longer exists in brick and mortar.
Interestingly, NCR transitioned into a software company. At one point AT&T bought them. The joke was…
“The No. 1 thing to do is make it very, very difficult for people to get high-cost services,” she said.
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/ai-medicare-prior-authorization-trump-pilot-program-wiser/
One might think that is generally true, but I …
The big tech companies are also bringing back vertical integration. This reporting from Yahoo is not behind a paywall.
The race to dominate the burgeoning AI market is pushing tech giants to adopt business models reminiscent of IBM's (IBM) in the 19…
Well, it's no secret that there are always a few bad actors out there who figure out a way to bull Medicare or Medicaid for exorbitant fees for doing not much of anything. I'd think that AI could be a powerful tool in detecting those guys.
Well. The…
I'm not sure what to make of this. Medicare has always had things that it didn't cover, at all.
I am most familiar with high-flow oxygen to treat cluster headaches. Medicare only ever "covered" oxygen for clusters during medical trials that have no…
i dont know anything about bond funds. all my bonds are in my mutual funds which are dodbx mtrix lcorx vgwlx pmaix. im looking to invest in a low risk bond fund with good returns. I have read good reviews of icumx on this site. going forward …
Seems like the usual drill is for state's and local governments to fall all over themselves giving tax breaks to attract "jobs." That could lead to interesting results at the ballot box.
This amounts to a “massive wealth transfer,” the watchdog tol…
The mind reels at the ways one can parse this headline. Does an engineer have an affair in test runs by trying out a couple of trysts? If they work out does the engineer put the affair into production? Otherwise does the engineer terminate the …
@WABAC, they don't now (check Vanguard OEF-ETF pairs), so won't in future. But for liquid ETFs, prices will be close to NAVs.
Thanks for the education yogi. I always appreciate it.
Why not? And somebody had to be first. That's F/M that is offering OEF TBMFX as a class of ETF TBIL. DFA may be next. LinkedIn LINK.
Would it mean that etf prices would equal the NAV?
Are there even other brands than Heinz ketchup or Skippy Super Chunk peanut butter? :)
No. Of course not. But I don't want to think too much about the company that makes Spam also makes Skippy. :-D
Per the OP:
Mr. Cahillane said that over the las…
I have always been technology-challenged, dating back to programming a VCR. The difficulty I have to make an app work as is should is so frustrating now I often by default decide to no longer even try. But now that I have read the entry above by @…
The oil companies are expected to pump oil, and invest in Venezuela, whether they make money or not.
Nvidia has to give Trump a 25% cut on sales of H200 chips to China.
I'm sure we can think of more examples of racketeering.
Maybe Moderna hasn't …
Good question... maybe check with Moderna, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline, or Pfizer on that?
Or Intel, or US Steel, or rare earth miners, or health insurers, or . . .
@WABAC: my sale of about 1/3 of my OSTIX, coupled with your sale of ( I think) your entire position will surely send ripples throughout the FI markets, Hah! I initiated a position in APFPX with the proceeds. The discussions on the « go-to » bond fun…
To be clear, my analogy about cars wasn't about any investment potential, rather my own failure of imagination. It taught me a lesson that just because I don't see the possibilities of technological advancement, that they may great and just over the…
@DrVenture. Cars have changed alot. But how much money has been made on their stock, or that of their suppliers? And think of all the repair chains that tried to sell you a new set of spark-plug wires every time you got a tuneup. Buggy whips.
Not a…
@DrVenture, are trucks on the road also infrastructure? Trains on tracks? Vessels on waterways?
Whatever you call it, I've got it covered in the taxable with GLFOX, GRID, SMH, PAVE, FIW, and AIRR. But I'm not adding to those positions at the prese…
Given the optimistic life span of chips, I find it hard to think of them as infrastructure.
I don't blame Huang for trying. But as we are learning, AI facilities are voracious users of infrastructure rather than contributors to it.
I have a little bit of PFF in the taxable for dividends if they are ever needed. At some point it would be a pleasant surprise if it got back to the price I paid for it in November 2021. ;-)
In the IRA, BBBIX and FGUSX are the foundation. Any oth…
There is nothing wrong with cheap int’l index funds. They provided over 30% total return that cost several basis points. We use broad based developed market index funds as the base. For EM, i prefer actively managed funds for their stock and region …
"Did bitcoin ever get that high?"
I couldn't find satisfactory data which showed the greatest cumulative returns for Bitcoin.
The all-time high for a single bitcoin appears to be within the $126.1K - $126.2K range.
That might get you the broom clos…
From Markets A.M. newsletter by Spencer Jakab.
On this day in 1637, “Tulipmania,” one of the first and strangest speculative bubbles,
hit its peak in the Netherlands, with the price of the rare Witte Croonen tulip bulb
up 2,506% in 33 days.
Commen…
In the taxable: Bought a chunk of FSCSX equal to 15% of this morning's market value. Looks like that percentage could drift a little higher by the end of the day. I am in a position to add more if the downdraft continues. When I looked yesterday the…
All of the biz-page ink I've seen this afternoon is going @yogibearbull's way. Worries about over-spending over-investing have receded from view.
The questions I ask myself are how many, and what kind of, companies want to rip out all the stuff th…
@WABAC: from the FAQ section at militiaetf.com
,, The management fee is 1.3%. This is the only part of the expense ratio that goes to Militia Investments. The rest is in a category called “Dividend Expense, Borrowing Costs and Brokerage Expenses on…
You mean like a cabaret show in a casino? Place your bets! Still waiting for the main act to show up, though.
Currently, US equity markets are only a few % off the index highs.
"...you just ain't seen n-n-n-nothing yet."
More like somethin…
