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Remember when we were the ones to send aid to other countries? Good times.
Chinese businessman to donate 500,000 test kits and 1 million masks to the U.S.
Inside the administrations coronavirus response.
With apologies to clowns everywhere.
But wait, there's more. Remember how WHO offered to send test kits to the US and we didn’t take them? Then Jared Kushner was put in charge of the response?
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Good info OJ. Thanks for posting. However I do wish I wasn't in that most susceptible group. I feel healthy AF most of the time and I tend to self-isolate with my puppies most of the time anyhow.
@Bud - just what my loan officer alluded to but thank you for the report.
@david - that realtor was right, hopefully. It is a nice place.
@OJ - good advice/input all around. Thank you.
Everyone else, the seller is now paying for the critical items …
Correct Lewis but that presumes that investors are able to look long-term. However in many cases they just want the income and are unconcerned with the safety of same within reasonable limits. As for me, I only play with the heavy hitters who have l…
In case you were wondering this just in from Business Insider. No surprise here. Link below.
Trump's coronavirus travel ban excludes the countries where he has golf courses struggling for business
It could be tough finding that vaccine or treatment when the genius in charge spends his time disparaging and gutting the various agencies and professionals needed to find solutions and add calmness to the dissemination of credible information. I wi…
To me this looks like ASMIY provides/manufactures the equipment used by ASML in it's photolithography systems. Double-check to be sure.
From M* ASMIY - ASM International NV ADR
Company Profile
Based in the Netherlands, ASM International supplies s…
Dear Gary, I'm sure that many here are anxiously waiting for you to start initiating and posting discussions that meet your criteria. So far I see very few at all attempting to start new discussions of any sort, including me. My dad used to say that…
@JohnN - don't listen to me but I'm looking for the QQQ to hit 160 before I toss in a line. As for that list only 1 or 2 are of any interest whatsoever.
If the energy slaughter continues I would expect to see a number of companies filing for bankruptcy. I think Buffett is more likely to be a lender of cash, for future considerations of course, to either them or the takeover candidate. Those attempti…
For me the downside for day's like this (beside the painfully obvious) is that one only has a 50-50 chance on guessing what the next day(s) will bring. You will have no really reliable information on whether or not to add money to your conviction mu…
In John's defense there are a number of advisors and pundits still talking the sector up always figuring that it can't get any worse or go any lower. Someday they might be right.
I'm rewording this old saying about airline stocks to express my feelings about investing in oil companies today. The best way to make a million$$ in oil is to start with a billion$$.
All I can offer is that I have had excellent customer service and care, full bench of tools and a fairly large stable of investment options/funds at Fidelity for over 35 years and see no reason to change. My experience has been across a taxable brok…
My point and what I was trying to say is that if political bias, and by that I mean party affiliation, is a premise of management decisions then I want to know that upfront and center. Period. That to me is quite different from deficits and macroeco…
@msf - I don't argue with the paper. What I will say is that if the fund is managed that way then the shareholders should know that upfront. Although in real life it's probably unavoidable to escape political biases I'd prefer not to see them as a f…
Question - where is the author getting an 11% decline in the S&P 500 for the week? All the info I've been looking at shows that the S&P 500 was actually up 0.4% for the week and down YTD -7.6% ? Hard to gain mental traction with the rest of …
Is Your Mutual Fund Politically Biased? If so I would say they are not acting on the behalf of the shareholders. I would also hope that a smart, responsible fund manager would know enough not to make investment decisions based on politics or politic…
