How do you generate these analyses?

If there’s a sell off leading into November it won’t necessarily be “orchestrated” or a statement about who might win or lose the election, but a concern about a potentially unclear outcome. Not having a clear decision or controversy about the outcome in either direction is probably Wall Street’s biggest concern right now.

Not sure where you live but I can’t remember the last time I went out and didn’t see multiple people wearing them without specifically looking for them. Also, they’re a great product.

For me it’s more about not looking at my damn phone as much. Watch = less screen rabbit holes. I also like that it’ll call 911 if I take a bad fall off a ladder, etc. and don’t respond. This is an especially good feature for older active folks.

But a really old plane right? 26 years old or thereabouts from what I remember reading?

And you dispute what about that wiki page exactly? Please explain with verifiable facts.

Nah - it’s on you. I don’t give effort to following up vague and baseless but damaging comments which seem aimed at contributing to division. If you have something to say that you can back up with facts, say it. I don’t think you’ll get sanctioned for stating facts in the thread. (Vs Political opinions which will.) It’s often not possible to discuss economics without factual analysis of government policy.

I took a peek at that Reddit group. Maybe I’m not reading the correct stuff since I’ve never used Reddit but what I read was mostly a bunch of disorganized, foul mouthed garbage. No thanks. Doing fine without that.

Anybody else warming up the truck for a trip to the Apple store?

What’s your thesis for buying PCG?

Haven’t checked in with this thread for awhile. Quite the impressive cat fight. (Why do I always imagine iceman44 is yelling, even when he’s not blatantly arguing??)

I get it that politics influences the market - duh. What I don’t get is how fully some folks like Ice swallow a partisan pill so fully without choking. So much nonsense. Each political party has its own b.s. I just gotta point out that someone as red as Ice probably shouldn’t attack Biden for “mishandling” Covid. Has Biden done a great job changing the trajectory of Covid? You could make lots of arguments in both directions there. Ultimately, there’s too much viral momentum and genuine social division to effect much change in the pandemic with political tools. At least he hasn’t denied that Covid is real, pretended that it was a politically motivated “hoax”, recommended injecting bleach, discouraged wearing masks, flip flopped on vaccines, etc. WTF!?! The time to handle this was two years ago BEFORE the virus fully entrenched itself throughout our society.

Those of us with money can almost always make more than plenty of money. In unusual times when that’s not feasible, there’s plenty of cash in reserve. When you cross a certain cash threshold, it becomes a fairly simple self-sustaining growth engine. It’s nothing worth swinging your dick around about. No need for the political or economic landscape to conform to your personal preferences in order to be more than financially comfortable. Red or blue in any given office, there’s money to be made in the market somewhere.

You’re right - can’t flip a switch overnight on beef, but NicoVolta isn’t joking.

https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/making-cattle-more-sustainable

https://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow/the-greenhouse-hamburger/

Tried to find a couple simple examples from non-political sources.

Did anyone say that were vegan? What’s that got to do with anything anyway??

Crypto - I don’t know enough to know what to think of this article, but it’s a very disturbing thesis.

https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/cryptocurrency-scam-blockchain-bitcoin-economy-decentralization

Used a pile of cash for a VERY short term (less than three hours) bet on SQQQ this morning (as well as last Friday). Did very well for those stressful little windows. I hate day trades, continuously updating price bracket alerts so I don’t get caught with my pants down, but sometimes a crash is an opportunity if you’re nimble and can stomach some stress.

My understanding is that if you have a trust set up, you can also open an entity account for the trust and load up on an additional 10k.

50+ posts to read? What did I miss? Oh…the bluster bomber decided to check in again

I don’t understand what you’re saying. Could you elaborate on that concept?

My hunch is that Apple’s best days are behind them. The cult fever that used to result in people lining up for the newest iPhone is done. They aren’t bringing new widely desirable products to market. The watch is a flawed product with bugs that they cannot or will not fix (not to mention the successful heart monitor lawsuit). There have not been any notable innovations for the iPhone in quite some time. They just scrapped the car project. They don’t seem to be much of a player in the AI race. I could go on. I sold all of my APPL back around 189 (with an hefty gain over the past few years) and put it into NVDA and MSFT for now.

If APPL comes up with something truly compelling I’ll wade back in, but until then I’ll be content to capture with an index.

It seems to me that Tesla might be in real trouble due to the successful onslaught of affordable ev competition coming out of China. Couple that with the possibility that early adopter market share in the U.S. might be mostly tapped out/bought in and they might have a real problem. Tesla fanboys already have one. If they can’t reach a the larger, non-luxury, sub 30k market segment, I have a hard time seeing how vehicle sales numbers grow in the face of increasing global competition.