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Dems and Reps are both screwed up, but it's certainly not so that they are equally screwed up. Repugnants sold their souls decades ago and are no longer a legitimate Party. They are acting in bad faith on The Hill and in the WH. Play-acting at gov't…
I've not kept my circumstances a secret. Doing a lot of investing for heirs, colored by a simultaneous streak of concern for preservation. The political scene these days is a dysfunctional and abominable cluster-flop. I'm about 53 stocks and 46 bond…
...Just reserved two of those I listed above at the public library: Kahneman's book and the first one linked, by Scott Galloway: "The Algebra of Wealth."
I've read Galloway's published essays and listened to him on YouTube. He also runs a podcast w…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150246211-the-algebra-of-wealth
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42872963-the-algebra-of-happiness
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230733473-notes-on-being-a-man
Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150246211-the-algebra-of-wealth
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42872963-the-algebra-of-happiness
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230733473-notes-on-being-a-man
Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman…
There's a theory that so long as this "each wronged person must sue individually" rule holds, Trump won't appeal losses.
That's because only the few people, or at most few states, that win in court will have their rights vindicated. So long as h…
SCOTUS is misshapen, spineless, misguided, abstruse nonsense. More here re: Orange unconstitutional tariff pap, from 02 Sept, 2025:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/what-trump-court-loss-means-for-billions-in-tariffs-paid-to-government.html
Since Da…
@larryB. @a2z. Previous allies are turning away, seeing the USA as unreliable. That song is already becoming dated. Half the country are spineless imbeciles. Truth.
"On The Turning Away."
LYRICS:
https://genius.com/Pink-floyd-on-the-turning-away-l…
Odds are leaning toward a cut, everywhere you look in the media. But they ought not to do it, in my humble opinion. Inflation is not at 2% yet. Maybe 2% under current circumstances is a pipedream, given the extraordinarily screwed up, Orange politic…
$4.59/gallon here. Don't try to tell me about low gas prices over Labor Day week-end, or any other time period. Buncha garbage.
It's your choice to live in a Dem state. This link (https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/) show only 2 stat…
That's pretty powerful. And certainly helps to understand their total supinity.
"They are concerned solely with grabbing and retaining power"
As demonstrated by McConnells' totally arbitrary refusal to allow Obama to appoint a Supreme Court Justic…
@msf. Surely some of the stuff shithead had pulled off already is not legal and he is just getting started . He is like a runaway train going downhill. Nothing and nobody to stop him. I hope you are right and I am wrong.
Grateful Dead: "Casey J…
I'll go along with what you both are saying. What I had in mind is the (non-) ability to get through to the Agent with whom I made initial contact at the local office, when Schwab first took my money..... A bit later on, he sent an email to me askin…
29 Aug, early Labor Day week-end this year, in 2025:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-08-29/real-yield-8-29-2025-video
Katie Griefeld hosts.
Priya Misra. George Bory. Winnie Cisar. Jeff Peskind.
Inflation is sticky, a bit short of the Fe…
@Crash- You're certainly talking to the wrong guy on that. As long as he's counting his money the United States can go completely to hell and nothing else even matters.
Yes, you're right. But I just knew that it needed to be said.
Schwab customer service sucks fetid, septic mud. That's been my experience. However, using their chat function often, but not always, produces results.
I expect this Supreme Court to drive a truck through the "imponderables."
I won't be surprised, either. The Orange Behemoth has packed that court. Nothing but a few particular deaths along with some actual leadership is going to fix this. (Is he de…
