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"I grew up in the 50s and 60s. Both parents harbored vivid memories of the ‘29 stock market crash and Depression through which they lived. So stocks were somewhat of a dirty word among many (if not most) working class families in my childhood years.…
Interesting- for ASML, at the end of the trading day there was a "Buy" rush, rather than the "Sell" rush as of late. I guess that we'll see tomorrow if that means anything.
@catch22- following is the pertinent text from the NYT article. The SDS reference re Kudlow is interesting but not germane to the topic.
The F.A.A. also argues that it was excluded from decisions about 5G. In 2020, the F.A.A. administrator, Stephen …
Here's a current article from the Wall Street Journal which pretty well sums up the whole fiasco. The link is free to non-subscribers:
‘It Wasn’t Our Finest Hour’
@Catch22- The main problem with my "clock of time" is that the battery is nearing it's expiration date, and can't be replaced. :(
Take care back there!
Hi @catch22- yes sir, I'm not too concerned about that situation in Berlin. It wasn't catastrophic by any means, and they'll get it going again. I also believe that they are very well positioned, and virtually without competition in a specialty nich…
Following up on yogibearbull's post above, this video was referenced by that M*post:
It shows a zero visibility automated landing at the Milan International airport, and it's well worth a watch. At the beginning it seems as if there's no motion at …
This is hardly the first time that something like this has happened. From personal experience I can tell you that we had numerous conflicts in some geographical areas of San Francisco between the assigned Public Safety frequencies in the 800 mhz ban…
The FCC surely knows exactly what kinds of services are assigned to use every part of the radio frequency spectrum, from the lowest frequencies (just below the AM broadcast band) to the highest. (I'm not certain what that high limit is these days, a…
@BenWP- well, there's been a lot of that, for sure. Probably some buying early in the day as things start to struggle up, then taking any gains and cashing out later on. Arbitrage, I suppose.
@hank- When we were working we didn't watch all that much TV, and now we would like to look at some of the better TV series that were broadcast years ago. Would appreciate any suggestions you might have as to where that type of content might be foun…
Yes, I have no doubt that all (or certainly most) of that is accurate. But here's the thing: the result of all of that background is the US as it exists today. And, as it will exist tomorrow, because there is no political force in this country that …
"Cool!" (in the informal "groovy!" context) seems to be the one word which I can recall being used when I was a teenager and which has survived to this day in general and universal usage. Usually when a word used by the younger is adopted by the old…
"Why are those of us intelligent and caring enough to be vaccinated wearing masks in public to mostly protect an antagonistic minority who refuse to follow the medical advice and get vaccinated?"
@hank: Quite simply, because even with the three vac…
Concerning Amazon Prime programming, they do have some decent stuff for "free"... "free" meaning included in the Amazon Prime setup. However some of that "free" programming is very ephemeral... here today, gone tomorrow.
For example, I happen to li…
I share your opinion of Netflix. Years ago when they started my wife subscribed to the DVD rental setup, and the depth and variety of programming was truly remarkable. She stopped subscribing some years back, and I hadn't thought much about them in …
@MikeM- like you, I view all of our financial accounts through Schwab because it's easier to see everything together on one site. There is one institution though- JP Morgan bank accounts, that seems to need "reauthorization" every so often, presumab…
@PopTart, @The Shadow, @Baseball Fan, @Sven-
Thanks to all for your interest in this, and taking the time to keep me in the loop. The CNBC article is really a very thorough overview of ASML. I first heard about ASML about a year ago in a similar ar…
@WABAC said-
"We never borrowed money for anything but the house. And never took out anything but enough equity for a new roof. Simple stuff. But not easy."
Yes sir... exactly the same on this end. If we wanted something, we waited until we had save…
