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I believe that driving proficiency does decrease with lack of "practice". Every week I drive from SF to our weekend place up north and back, with a good mix of traffic conditions and other drivers. City streets, GG Bridge, Freeway, rural two-lane ro…
Well, they sort of adopted us as extended West-Coast "Michiganders". We had a great time with that bunch. We all left a wide trail of empty wine bottles across Europe and the Mediterranean. Some of the mornings were a little hazy.
Hi hank- yes, I think that you've nailed the situation pretty well. Your description of the type of people that we've met and traveled with is right on. Also, if I recall correctly, many of them were U of M alumni.
We've met a pretty fair number of Michiganders, and they have been universally very nice and decent folks. We did a lot of European traveling with a fairly large group of them for a number of years. Trump has unfortunately been a very sad eye-opene…
@Crash- it's OK, a very small amount appeared early today in my Schwab sweep account. I wondered where that came from, but now you've cleared that up. Thanks!!
And of course "weak bench" is a sports term, meaning that there are not many good back-up players. So if something happens to the most talented players, the team may be in for some trouble.
Probably because an immediate change would suggest that the Fed is really worried about the state of things, and would likely precipitate even more market panic. Easy does it...
In yogibearbull's chart DODBX seems to be running circles around a fair number of funds. According to the same chart @hank's -6.26% is pretty darned close.
Seriously, taking DaveP at his word, it would suggest that TRP has deliberately curtailed and downgraded customer support services for everyone except a "favored very few". It doesn't require much imagination to surmise that money is a key determina…
"I grew up in the 50s and 60s. Both parents harbored vivid memories of the ‘29 stock market crash and Depression through which they lived. So stocks were somewhat of a dirty word among many (if not most) working class families in my childhood years.…
Interesting- for ASML, at the end of the trading day there was a "Buy" rush, rather than the "Sell" rush as of late. I guess that we'll see tomorrow if that means anything.
@catch22- following is the pertinent text from the NYT article. The SDS reference re Kudlow is interesting but not germane to the topic.
The F.A.A. also argues that it was excluded from decisions about 5G. In 2020, the F.A.A. administrator, Stephen …
Here's a current article from the Wall Street Journal which pretty well sums up the whole fiasco. The link is free to non-subscribers:
‘It Wasn’t Our Finest Hour’
@Catch22- The main problem with my "clock of time" is that the battery is nearing it's expiration date, and can't be replaced. :(
Take care back there!
Hi @catch22- yes sir, I'm not too concerned about that situation in Berlin. It wasn't catastrophic by any means, and they'll get it going again. I also believe that they are very well positioned, and virtually without competition in a specialty nich…
Following up on yogibearbull's post above, this video was referenced by that M*post:
It shows a zero visibility automated landing at the Milan International airport, and it's well worth a watch. At the beginning it seems as if there's no motion at …
This is hardly the first time that something like this has happened. From personal experience I can tell you that we had numerous conflicts in some geographical areas of San Francisco between the assigned Public Safety frequencies in the 800 mhz ban…
The FCC surely knows exactly what kinds of services are assigned to use every part of the radio frequency spectrum, from the lowest frequencies (just below the AM broadcast band) to the highest. (I'm not certain what that high limit is these days, a…
@BenWP- well, there's been a lot of that, for sure. Probably some buying early in the day as things start to struggle up, then taking any gains and cashing out later on. Arbitrage, I suppose.
