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Nothing is going to turn the "neo-Nazi scumbags," and nobody thinks they watch PBS. It's no use bemoaning the fact they don't hear anything but far right propaganda.
There are Main Street-type conservatives and, probably more important, politicall…
@Old_Joe & @Crash: + 1. Frontline is so good at building a full, cohesive, well supported narrative of whatever they investigate. And that opening sequence of the losing candidates' concessions going back halfway to forever, followed by Dump's B…
Note the parallels to Bush v. Gore: (1) The crap about needing to protect Dump's "reputation" and the "unfair to Bush" rationale for stopping the vote count in 2000; (2) Both: It's not to be taken as a precedent for anything! (Especially for the oth…
There's an excellent longform Frontline (PBS) that first aired last night: "Lies, Politics, and Democracy" about the rise of Trump and the neo-fascists. As they usually do, the Frontline folks put together the story we've seen in bits and pieces ove…
Good D.R. interview, same basic stance as in the WealthTrack show. I didn't quite realize, as he mentioned, how extreme the swing between the low and the bear rally high in equities was.
If he's right about a Fed slowdown/pause after September, an…
Maybe the Palin effect is about to ramp up on Dump. The just-completed election to fill the AK House vacancy showed that a chunk of Republican voters are sick to death of her BS.
It's very exciting for all those who tried for decades to unseat Don Young. Here's the Anch Daily News story. It's the first ranked choice/instant runoff election since AK voters approved the change.
Former Alaskan here. Ms. Peltola is relatively w…
If one buy and hold treasuries until maturity, they will get decent yields.
Last I looked a few days ago, the most recent auctions had 26 week T bills yielding a bit more than 3% (annual). Not bad for a relatively short $ tieup.
With respect to anything "Google", just remember that everything that you say or do will be available forever to anyone that Google can make money from.
+1, @Old_Joe. I'm still happy with DuckDuckGo as a search engine, which I learned about from you…
And so, Auntie Janet Yellen is throwing money at the IRS. Will it do any good?
It's the Congress giving the IRS a shot of the $ they've lost from GOP obstruction, and yes, it will improve things, and yes, it will be good to see more audits bring in…
@Old_Joe: +1. Former IRS commish Koskinen (2013-17) warned us what the GOP cuts were doing to the agency at the time, and came back on a few interviews recently to hammer home the same message and describe what the new funding will do to improve the…
Good choice, Yogi. Amended returns seem to be low priority and being weirdly administered; I got a corrected 1099 from Fido of the ROC variety that made a difference in my refund in my favor, filed the X pretty much immediately in April, and it fina…
No question in my mind that lithium (LAC, in my case) may be supplanted by a more environmentally friendly product.
Here's one, for utility-scale storage, based on iron-flow technology, that will also be much cheaper than lithium.
@MikeM, thanks for the note. Right, there are battery options being researched, and hopefully some will be better options than lithium.
We do have a major lithium source in the U.S., apparently under development -- the Salton Sea in S. Cal., one of…
Someone on MFO brought up LIT (lithium and battery tech) a while back. I have it on watch but own only ICLN and TAN now.
Then there's a whole slew of other etf's that are somewhat in the ballpark but with their own specialty themes, not only renewa…
@Hank: Ha, your last sentence reminds me of a ditty the 10th grade English teacher repeated over and over about "the river of literature": "The scum rises to the top (in the short term, or words to that effect), but by the time it reaches the ocean,…
Hoo boy. I didn't realize D's also agreed to new offshore O&G leasing in the Gulf o' Mex and Alaska. From the WaPo article:
Democrats agreed to mandate new oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Alaska, while party leade…
Hmmmmmm...... Through thick and thicker for all these years, Robert Horrocks remains. Is something he's doing driving everyone away?
Good question. He is still the CIO.
Love hearing that call; Vin Scully had the gift of baseball gab for sure. I remember the news about the game (was totally into baseball in those days) but not this part of it, from Wiki:
"The game was also notable for the high quality of the perfor…
Beautiful. Written by another music legend, Gordon Lightfoot, and recorded by several besides ol' Gord, but it's like he wrote it for PP&M. Gord was still musically active as of a couple of years ago.
@BenWP: I hope they've got something on the maverick. She's a pharma bribe recipient, isn't she? Can't imagine she'd go for M'care negotiating down drug prices, given that the pharma industry is running ads against that provision.
Hey @catch22, there are quite a few options, but I stick mainly with steady high-ish volume etf's, secondarily a more equal mix of u.s.-foreign than many of them, third priority a little less volatility than average. ICLN works pretty well in those …
And he's ba-aa-aa-ack! Have to wonder how much new-ish election odds influenced his "change of heart," i.e., he thinks he needs to act more like a Democrat now. (538 gives D's a slight edge in the Senate, and a new Morning Consult poll has D's up 11…
That was great! Nice surprise. Loved watching that race.
There were so many great ones. The NBC clips are on YouTube, no commercials.
Another superlative: The U.S. men swept the medals in the 100m and 200m, first time a single nation has done that…
Ah, PP&M. When I was a wee lad, the first songs I ever learned to sing were theirs and the Kingston Trio's, from my older sister's albums. I doubt I'm alone there ...
Last two weeks: Been taking profits in managed futures, down to ~ 1/3 of the peak allocation. Bought starter or added to ICLN, TAN, MUB, EWT.
Hmm, Crash, Qatar. Maybe some attention & action from the upcoming World Cup (soccer-futbol, Nov.-Dec…
+1. I was just about to post Dr. Stokes's piece in Crash's SCOTUS-EPA thread. Manchin's doubletalk pretty much convinces me he's had a clear agenda all along ... run out the clock on an FY 22 reconcilation bill with anything about climate in it.
