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Southwest can't figure out yield management in the current travel market.
https://www.tts.com/blog/yield-management-in-the-airline-industry/
If that still sounds like gobbledygook: Southwest is having problems pricing its seats - it's either under…
Another non-surprise.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-26/boeing-faces-new-whistleblower-claims-of-lapses-on-some-787-jets?srnd=homepage-americas
Taxable accounts, OK.
Maybe consider High-Yield munis? Just throwing that out there. The AMT does not kick-in for a couple until that couple are millionaires:
https://www.municipalbonds.com/education/high-yield-muni-bonds-risk-with-plenty-of-tax-f…
My stuff might all be contrarian stuff????? Market goes up, my stuff treads water or sinks. Stinky-poopy. Regional Bank BHB was up today. My junk bonds are surprisingly NOT volatile. I've held them since early '22. I got in at just the wrong time. I…
I owned PSTL for perhaps 2 years and finally dumped it at a loss. It might be the most unloved REIT in the Market. It's gone nowhere. Actually, it's been a loser the whole time I owned shares. David Sherman does not like REITS, for a good reason. It…
Capital Group/American Funds is the class champion. It has up to 19 OEF classes - load, no-load (529, taxable, Retirement), and now has several ETFs. It has funds for many price points.
I have had some lowest ER R6 classes in 403b.
....Which is why…
The VESPER:
"...When James Bond orders his signature drink from the bartender, he provides strict instructions, which leaves little ambiguity in how to prepare the cocktail: “A dry martini. One. Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measu…
Charlie On The MTA. Yes, indeed. Apparently, the astronauts are safe for the time being inside the ISS.
To paraphrase "Crash" Davis in Bull Durham: "Boeing couldn't hit water if they fell out of a f*****g boat."
This is a dreadful state of affai…
CGBL: outstanding performance. Shrug. Dear me, I suppose there's no getting away from the mega-cap techs if you want to do well, investing. Poopies. ...But 30% of AUM is in their own core-plus income fund. Wow.
And he was already older, playing Nicole Kidman's Minister-father in "Cold Mountain." So difficult to watch. Southern society unraveling during the Civil War. People will do ANYTHING. The ones playing the local law enforcement guys were convincing: …
Let me add, best brush back I've seen, ball goes by batter on his backside !!!
Yes, that was happening to A-Rod after HIS scandal. Never saw the like before!
Thanks for the explanation. My own overweight positions are Financials, Energy and Yoots. BHB = 4.48% of total. ET = 5.38%. The time will come to switch junk FALN for core-plus WCPNX.
Bob Gibson is one who'd never let a batter dig-in. Too fast, too accurate with the brush-back pitch. I'd say there's room for the brush-back pitch, but intentional bean-balls are way out of bounds. Batters in more recent years have begun to show up …
OMG. Scotch again. Yes, soon. You've reignited my desire for it. I was just on a bunch of airplanes, myself: AA. Decent, no surprises. But it seemed to me the planes were all kept COLD, like 64 degrees or thereabouts. Not fun. Final leg was from LAX…
Just brilliant. Canadian, from Quebec. Oops, born in St. John. But if memory serves me, he lived for a number of years on the PQ side of that border.....Reading further: No, I'm just wrong. The family moved to NS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dona…
Overall portfolio is up 5% YTD about 40% in equities
"dividend' stocks are up 11% LT Growth US 9% "speculative" ( ie tech) 13% Energy 6%
International 14% Emerging Markets flat
The most surprising are individual stocks an advisor picks i…
I'm ticked off that BRAVE suddenly stopped cooperating with YouTube, or vice-versa. Or was the issue with one of my apps? I had a "sponsor block" for YouTube going. And an auto-play stopper. HATE auto-play stuff.
Ad Nauseam warns that my ad-blockers…
i suggest you make sure there is a text-enabled phone number in the profile.
it may be a freebie sweep, but more likely administrative and\or technical incompetence gets one locked out.
Yes, while my stuff was still at TRP, I changed my email and t…
Does this new policy apply to clients enrolled in a 401k at work? My daughter has a Vanguard retirement plan from her employer and she is being kicked out of Wellington and being automatically migrated to a JP Morgan age appropriate TDF unless she …
You've more ambition than myself. Pleasant here, no heat wave. Doctor's gonna work on me with a laser. Been through it before. Relax later. "What a wasted day, I didn't get nothing done!" LOL.
OJ said it!
One disagreement I have: The current war's roots are in the 60+ year military occupation by Israel of what is supposed to be a Palestinian State. The initial attack by Hamas on Oct. 7 is rooted in Israeli oppression. Facilitated by nuts…
Thanks, @hank. I'm back on Firefox. We'll see if the next update erases my bookmarks, as it has done in the past, more than once. Or I could just not apply the update. Apple's been bugging me for a year or more to take its updates. When I took an u…
DuckDuckGo says "to my way of thinking".
I would have guessed "too much worthless obscure talk", but I'd never let Crash know that I thought that. :)
Gotta have a sense of humor in this life. :)
I just clicked on link to Robinood above and my anti virus warned me about a data breach at Robinhood. Anybody affected?
Nope. Steering clear of that fly-by-night outfit. Forever.
BCE is at a Low-point not seen since April. Bought a few more. Ex-date on div. was this past Friday. One of the three Canadian legacy phone companies. It's also a Media company these days, too. If it never does much in terms of share price, it's sti…
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2024/06/16/fareeds-take-europe-america-pace-gps-digvid.cnn
Insightful, but does the current US/Euro gap indicate future trend or represent a possible turning point? One thing for sure, the US will not stay this far a…
Crash, technology isn't perfect, but the old ways isn't either. Technology has presented us with a lot more choices. Choices = a lot more development and interactions between systems.
I used to pay $1.5 per minute calling abroad, I have used WhatsA…
