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When you buy a loaf of bread at the store, there is just one price posted: what you will be charged. You realize that there is a certain amount of a profit markup included in that price, but you have no way of knowing exactly what that markup compon…
“Turkey is the canary in the coal mine,” Mr. Lee said on Friday.
I'm not sure that I understand all of this. Is he saying that they replaced the canaries in the coal mines with turkeys? I was under the impression that usually turkeys owned and ran …
Nonsense. The global financial markets will crash next Tuesday at exactly 9:03AM EST. If it happens, remember that I predicted it. If it doesn't, David Snowball must have predicted it.
It's my understanding that John tends to purchase bonds directly, as opposed to investing in bond funds. Needless to say, the anticipated exposure and behavior can vary dramatically between the two.
Anyone who has ever had a hummingbird feeder (we've had two for many years) knows that one male will try to claim ownership and spend most of the day driving away any interlopers. (Kind of like Ted you-know-who and his posts.)
@oletimer63-
On the left side of your screen you should see the "Discussions +" category. Choosing that will hide the comments with no response, and help you to sort through the clutter.
Welcome to MFO!
OJ
Perhaps one of the first things that you need to ask yourself is whether you are looking for income (do you need the income for current expenses?) or are you looking for appreciation? You seem to be concerned regarding the possible deterioration of …
An article in today's WSJ reports that the "67% increase" is largely due to revised accounting methodology which requires valuation to market prices of certain held securities.
"not making the product last as long as possible so you never have to buy another one"
@LewisBraham: That concept became "inoperative" when Bell Labs and Western Electric were broken up.
A question about dust. I've seen it said a number of places that blowing out electronic devices, for example the circuit boards in a large desktop computer, can cause damage due to a static charge on the air stream. (The air stream would have been g…
Well, back in the early 70s I held IBM and it took a real dive. Figuring that if IBM went under so would half the rest of the country I doubled down. IBM sorted itself out, I recovered my bet, and got the hell out. But of course that's only one inst…
The really neat thing about when they eventually do have to raise taxes is that so much of what we'll be paying then will be going to replace what Trump gave away to the fat cats.
Can't f'ing win!!
Well, just be patient, willya? It's just gonna take a few weeks for all of those tax reductions to speed up the economy like you won't believe, and then everything will be A-OK.
"I have no qualifications for making such a prognostication"
@BenWP: Yes, you certainly do.. as do all of us. Just read any decent newspaper, and you're qualified.
Well, maybe a little more evil...
Add: It's been my personal experience that the bigger the bank, the more prone to evil it is. And how did some of those big banks get to be so big? By buying out many of the smaller and better local and regional ba…
