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"Early morning like 3AM, contractor decided to remove about 1 " of snow at the nursing home across the street!
I can handle the snowplowing at 6 AM , but not 3 AM."
There outa be a law against this!
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has been eviscerated under the Trump administration.
Consequently, we will be more vulnerable to the many risks associated with cyber attacks.
"The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agenc…
Walz said to Kristen Welker: “Here we got a guy on Thanksgiving, where we spent time with our families,
we ate, we played Yahtzee, we cheered for football or whatever.
This guy is apparently in a room, ranting about everything else.
This is not norm…
It can be challenging to manufacture products in America nowadays.
A rocket scientist asked "Is it possible to make something in America and be competitive in the marketplace?"
He conducted an experiment to manufacture a product with every single pa…
Yogibearbull posted the following comment on Nov. 29:
"There is a note at M* website and may be these problems will go away naturally,
'Morningstar Investor's Portfolio tool may not work as expected.
We're working quickly to resolve the issue, and w…
"More and more of his sycophantic "tools" may begin to suspect that they will end up like so many others:
Giuliani, Powell, Lindell, etc.
They may try and escape his orbit before the gravity makes that impossible."
I think I've mentioned this on th…
I get the feeling the tide is turning against Trump based on several recent events:
election losses, MTG resignation, Epstein files and Venezuelan boat strikes.
Donald you've had your "fun" — it's time to pay the piper! :-)
From Markets A.M. newsletter by Spencer Jakab.
On this day in 1853, the Panic of 1853 was in full-swing.
Leading blue-chip stocks like the Delaware & Hudson Canal, the Panama Railway
and the Sixth Avenue Railroad had dropped as far as 31% below…
"I decided all of my cases based on the facts and the law, without regard to politics, popularity,
or my personal preferences.
That is how justice is supposed to be administered—equally for everyone, without fear or favor.
This is the opposite of wh…
According to the article, Schwab will apply fees similar to those that Fidelity uses —
15% of what etf issuers get or a $100 transaction fee.
Assume an investor made a $10,000 etf purchase and the etf's expense ratio was 1.00%.
The investor would …
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/09/09/presidency-boosts-trumps-net-worth-by-3-billion-in-a-year/
Donald Trump just had the most lucrative year of his life.
His net worth is now estimated at $7.3 billion, up from $4.3 billion in 2024,…
"Yesterday, the Washington Post and CNN reported that the Secretary of Defense
personally issued orders to 'kill everybody' aboard a civilian vessel suspected of narcotrafficking.
The attack on 2 September 2025 targeted a vessel carrying 11 civilian…
"More than 1,000 people submitted statements attesting to their losses,
according to prosecutors, who characterized the victims as “hardworking, everyday people,”
including small business owners, farmers, veterans, teachers and nurses."
These peopl…
"To understand the story behind the administration’s Russia negotiations,
The Wall Street Journal spoke to dozens of officials, diplomats,
and former and current intelligence officers from the U.S., Russia and Europe,
and American lobbyists and inv…
"President Trump said he would pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández,
who is serving a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking, just as Hondurans prepare to head to the polls
to elect a new president on Sunday.
Trump said on Truth So…
The "Trinity Revisted" sessions were recorded at Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity in 2006.
The group's second album, "The Trinity Session," was also recorded there in 1987.
The Dufus will pardon his entire cabinet etc... saying Biden pardoned a bunch of people.
Congress really needs to rein in that power.
Convicted criminals need not be pardoned.
There were pardons granted in prior administrations that I disgreed with…
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Eric Jacobson did mention small-medium shops as good opportunities.
You previously stated: "Consider funds from small to medium-sized shops;
they often have more flexibility and can uncover opportunities larger firms can’t."
Mr. Jacobson nev…
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If your goal is to earn more with lower volatility, which is where I am since retirement,
then a few principles stand out:
Consider funds from small to medium-sized shops; they often have more flexibility
and can uncover opportunities larger…
@yogibearbull,
Thanks for the additional info regarding Jeffrey Gundlach.
Mr. Jacobson mentioned that several bond managers attempted to get him fired over the years.
I imagine Gundlach was one of them.
From Markets A.M. newsletter by Spencer Jakab.
On this day in 1990, the Shanghai Securities Exchange was re-established in China,
41 years after it was closed by the new Communist regime.
Ben Carlson included the following table in a blog post.
"There are companies that can stay in the top 10 for a very long time.
IBM was in there until 1990.
They were at the top of the heap all the way back in the 1960s.
Exxon was in the top 10 f…
"For roughly 40 years, PRIMECAP was paid a simple, asset-based fee: a set percentage of each fund’s assets, billed quarterly. In the six months ending in March 2025—the most recent data available—
Vanguard paid PRIMECAP Management nearly $113 millio…
Dividends and capital gains are automatically reinvested for most of my mutual funds and ETFs.
Distributions for one mutual fund and an individual stock (only individual stock owned)
are directed to a MMF since my goal is to decrease their allocatio…
And just where the hell are all of the rest of the Democratic Representatives and Senators on this?
They should be out there making loud supporting statements signed by every damned one of them,
and massively telling Hegseth where to put it.
And the…
From Markets A.M. newsletter by Spencer Jakab.
On this day in 1835, Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland.
Carnegie came to the U.S. when he was 13 and went on to forge the steel industry
that made America’s railroads, bridges and cars possible.
By …
This was recently noted in the thread:
A real bank also makes it easier to wire in/out vs. the convoluted nonsense at Fidelity.
While Fidelity doesn't have a 'traditional bank' attached to its organization;
we prefer to maintain our local CU for tr…
