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Optimism After Daylong Meeting On Efforts To Fix Boeing 737 Max
An NPR article is reporting that the FAA could recertify the 737 Max to fly passengers again by as soon as late June.
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration is sounding more o…
I can't say that I have any familiarity with Manhattan vs Brooklyn, but why would a Manhattanite take umbrage at Adam and Eve being evicted and banished to Brooklyn?
The "future" of oil will be whatever the master market manipulators decide it should be at any particular time, as modified by an ongoing series of unpredictable world political situations, as reshaped by occasional production disasters, as altered …
I plugged that into the MFO "Search" box, and there were no results other than your post. Congratulations (I guess)... you seem to fave found an animal that no one here has ever mentioned before!
"The madness and delusions of the zealots, on both sides of the political fence; sadly, is alive and well."
@catch22- While you might find a few examples of similar lies propagated by the left, I challenge ANYONE to compare the "offerings" of the l…
Thanks, Ted... a good article, and timely also. A few main points from the article:
In determining fake news, ask yourself the following questions:
What type of content is this? Many people rely on social media and aggregators as their main so…
@Sven- thanks for the info. Yes, the San Diego pandas and in fact the entire San Diego Zoo and associated wildlife park are well worth seeing. We've been through them at least two or three times.
@JoJo26- I'm under the impression that you might be a "millenial". If that's correct, it would be very interesting to hear your perspective on this article.
"According to industrial psychologist, Paul Babiak and criminal psychologist, Robert D. Hare, about one percent of men are bona fide psychopaths."
What a great example of English as a second language. Whoever wrote that should stay away from commas…
Hi Mark- Yes, I had picked that up yesterday from the WSJ. To maintain the peace I try to refrain from initiating really confrontational political articles here. But I sure as hell will respond to such, and am definitely not above an occasional shor…
Merely a figure of speech. I'm sure that you understood the underlying meaning. BTW, I totally agree with you on China, and I give credit (grudgingly, it's true) to Trump for finally trying to do something about those thieving bastards.
@hank- I knew that you were just kidding, but I wasn't sure that everyone recognized "disparate", since you don't see that word too often. It's funny with words... I certainly don't remember using "disparate" with any regularity, but sometimes as I'…
"market volatility does present, at times, some good buying opportunity. So, why be so concerned about it? After all, volatility is part of investing and has been, thus far, during my lifetime."
Yes, for sure. Especially for shorter-term traders.
Yes, I think that @Derf's point is a good one. If the idea is to consider market behavior over a longish period of time ("Average 401k soared 466% over past 10 yrs") why would you deliberately start from a cyclical low?
disparate |ˈdispərit; diˈsparit|
adjective
essentially different in kind; not allowing comparison : they inhabit disparate worlds of thought.
• containing elements very different from one another : a culturally disparate country.
noun ( disparates…
@Catch22- Well, he's been busy here, for one thing:
Trump declares national emergency over telecom threats
"The order, which has been under review for more than a year, is aimed at protecting the supply chain from “foreign adversaries to the natio…
@Lawlar: Yes sir, you make some astute observations and powerful arguments. I get the impression that David doesn't really disagree with most of what you're saying, but rather that he just doesn't think that a tariff contest is going to be very help…
@rforno- Yeah, I know. Seems to me that England has the right approach- confine the Huawei equipment to the non-critical RF transmission/reception and other peripheral stuff, and keep them well away from the data-processing side of things.
Of cours…
Pilots confronted Boeing with 737 Max fears after first fatal crash
The Guardian is reporting that:
American Airlines pilots angrily confronted a Boeing official about an anti-stall system suspected in two fatal crashes of the manufacturer’s 737 Ma…
Freedman's work seems pretty solid, although his mid-east predictions have sometimes missed the target. Then again, who has ever been able to predict the mid-east, other than the probability that there will be trouble there about almost anything at …
@johnN- I'm sorry, but I really can't qualify as any sort of expert in this area. We owned a 4-unit apartment house in SF for three or four years, and believe me, that was long enough. We were lucky in that we bought at a good time, the market then …
