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SLVR up 4.82% !
After rono posted a number of weeks ago I bought 30 shares just for the hell of it. It gets really boring with everything in CDs, Treasuries, and MMKTs.
So far ahead $326 on SLVR, and $272 on SILJ. Both have been up and down- fun …
@hank =+1 Unfortunately the all mighty dollar is turning sports into a piss pot.
Yep. If academic profs made that kind of money we wouldn't have the Professor here running the show. :)
Along another vein, that kind of money might go to your hea…
Good pick @Observant1 - Pretty sure that was near the end of the group's existence. Some great tunes in there. And an oddball, "Maxwell's Hammer", which I think caused some bickering within the group. My favorite is "Because". And what great co…
I was shocked to read they were paying the guy $5.5 Mil a year to coach football! Is that what universities are about today? Any literature, math or history profs making anything near that amount?
"Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowb…
UTUBE any help?
@Derf - I linked one from UTube and then pulled it down. Promotional in nature. Near worthless as a tutorial on how to use the system,
I usually choose to learn things the hard way - by trial and error. Fidelity's baskets are fai…
I always get amused about investing based on "statistical trends". Sounds like a marketing advertisement, by a stockbroker, for "buy and hold" investing!
"Buy and hold"? - Haven't heard that antiquated term in a long while. :)
I watch charts / t…
Trump says we get to keep the oil. Doe he mean him? The U.S. Treasury? Or who?
Might this be how he intends to fund the $2,000 check he plans to mail everybody?
It can be a little frustrating - "Not quite ready for Prime Time" sums it up. My IOS tracking app is so good at splicing, dicing & charting that I probably wouldn't even need Fido's basket. I have 3 baskets, each with 10 holdings. However…
Speaking of radio, residing in the Detroit metro area during the 70s-90s, I was blessed with the awesome AM "clear channel" WJR. Along with personalities like the late great JP McCarthy the station provided a rich diet of contemporary music. So ne…
" In the late 70s or early 80s while away during the summer, it got so hot inside the house
that most / or all of the library of 33 rpm albums partially melted and were warped beyond use."
What a terrible experience!
It hopefully wasn't too difficu…
"Google WILL steal the eyes out of your head if you let them"
Information is money. And Google gathers huge swaths of information through any means.
Google is damned "sticky". I'll get pop-up offers to "sign in to your Google account" when usin…
Rondstadt's "Louise" was included on a 1977 double vinyl album. I picked it up in the 80s after it had been transferred to cassette. Using a Sony cassette boombox I enjoyed this and other albums on long drives in a 80s era F100. Beautiful truc…
+1 @Mark. I'll never forget the first time I heard Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (1970). Absolutely gorgeous.
"Hitting number one in 1970, the song is one of the duo’s finest moments. A combination of hymnal hyperbole and th…
Thanks @Mr.Ruffles. Got it.
My only concern with Apple is as a long time user of their products. If their leadership's IQ is rising, I'm good with that. Recently upgraded to IOS 26 & like it so far.
I am curious about your use of the adjective “ambitious.” The dude isn’t a young guy right out of B school. What is the implication here?
LOL - "Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."
Hope it's OK to mention the current Barron's article h…
"When you got this message, had you purchased any shares recently?"
That's very likely and probably explains why the message doesn't always come up. I'll make a note to check the next time I make a sale out of a NTF fund. Those occassions have b…
Can't remember where it was said, but someone in the media speculated Summers had become the designated "whipping boy" to distract attention away from other more egregious offenders having better political connections. I haven't read the full (incr…
How to react? I dunno. A good book and the audio version is very well narrated by Sorkin himself. I see parallels in the wide public acceptance of risk taking then and today. Having grown up in the 50s, a mere decade after the Great Depression, I …
Amusing. Hard to argue here. But his "long term" time-horizon (as to what works) appears to be only 5-10 years. Who's he kidding there? The term alternative is pretty broad. Generally used to describe gimmicky funds. TMSRX had a favorable start b…
Fido has another quirk. Often if I begin to sell shares of a NTF fund held more than 60 days a message pops up: "If you believe you may be entitled to a fee wavier contact a representative." I did a couple times. They basically said to ignore the …
Nice summary @DrVenture. Thanks. As I noted elsewhere ... toss in $20+ a pound Starbucks coffee and a near $10 price to dry clean a shirt. These small things do add up over the course of a year. So glad we have this thread. Probably the best thing…
You can update each dividend manually, but hardly anyone would do that.
Understood. But that's how I've always done it. I use a couple apps for tracking. One seemed to go bonkers a week ago so replaced it with a new one .The new one claims to be a…
Doesn't bode well for future elections. There is no fix for stupid.
About 42% would vote him in a 3rd time. Let that sink in.
The lead story tonight on NBC News consisted of voice recordings of the 9-11 calls from drowning people at Camp Majesti…
For those who may be unaware donuts were to be bought as a treat for the other board participants by a poster who wondered why their MF fell by $XX.XX w/o checking first to see if a distribution had been declared and/or paid. This is why many here a…
Was there supposed to be a link with the OP?
From Bing's AI:
"A full portfolio correlation matrix is a square matrix that displays the correlation coefficients between every pair of assets within a portfolio, with values ranging from -1 to +1. Eac…
I think I have it figured out. They set him loose so Pete and Admiral Bradly can later blow him out of the water somewhere as part of the larger "narco-terrorism" war. Good thinking.
So we transition from "Thanksgiving Week Buy Signal" into "Santa Clause Rally"?
S&P is a world of its own as far as I'm concerned. Highly concentrated and buoyed by passive flows into retirement plans. Those flows have been known to slow marke…
Apparently, you and I are paying to have the Epstein files (which did not exist) cleansed before publication.
Not Houdini - but clever.
https://snopes.com/fact-check/fbi-overtime-redact-epstein-files/
