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Monday, May 31, 2021

Driving trip, Louisville to Thunderbird

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 In the summer of 1979, after living in Louisville for seven years and working as a teacher at an alternative school in Goshen just outside ...
Saturday, April 03, 2021

Covid testing, perilous investing

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 ---On Tuesday March 30th, my good friend Tracy had planned to visit on what was her 40th birthday.  In the early morning she texted urgentl...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

First trips to Manhattan

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---My first trip to Manhattan was to attend the Columbia University's high school journalism awards in the spring of 1967.  The group in...
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Driving trips, stock market tips?

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 ---A fascination with driving trips began at an early age, six years old to be specific. It was a family of three trip to Daytona Beach, Fl...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Arriving in Manhattan to live and work, 1980

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There could be more sidebars in this memory than quills on a porcupine.  For the sake of brevity, that will be avoided.  Having completed my...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Stock mania, big spending bill, is super that super

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---As these market times would have it, one of my brokerage accounts now keeps reminding me that I am a day trader.  They're right.  I t...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Volatile stock market, short selling, and unpredictable people

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---On volatile days in the stock market, the best advice, generally speaking, is "to do nothing".  Following that maxim is difficu...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Strange investments, hopeful spending, and two more days

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 ---"BTBT is a digital currency stock that has become popular among some individual investors.  Named Bit Digital Inc., formerly Golden...
Friday, January 08, 2021

Chaos, calm, and uncertainty

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---After yesterday's chaos, order has been restored but much remains unclear.  Obvious leading culprits for this attack on democracy are...
Tuesday, January 05, 2021

Engaging market and dismal politics

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 ---The equity market is trying to find new footing as 2021 begins.  Tax based buying and selling in the last months of 2020 is impossible t...
Friday, May 08, 2020

Job losses during a crisis, observations

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---Today, after a day or two of thought and looking at this unusual stock market, rising amid the crisis, there have been reductions in cert...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Where this goes, nobody knows...

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The global pandemic is still evolving.  So much is unknown.  It is a perfect time for conspiracy theories, and they are rife.  In India it i...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Beyond the coronavirus, aka Covid 19

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Covid 19 is not just in the news, it is the news.  It has affected everything about the way we live, and it is a global event.  "Say so...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

Dismantled Federal Departments now in chaos

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"The Fifth Risk" by Michael Lewis was published in 2018 after having major portions excerpted by Vanity Fair and The Guardian duri...
Wednesday, April 08, 2020

A short account from a Covid 19 area

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When my physical therapist arrived yesterday afternoon, he was dressed in his best clothes and not his usual outfit from the rehabilitation ...
Tuesday, April 07, 2020

Observations in virus time...

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---The HBO series "My Brilliant Friend" is now halfway through its second season.  This is exceptional film making.  The principle...
Friday, March 27, 2020

Places of virus

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--- New York City, Nassau County NY, and New Orleans are top hits of the week for Carona19 in the U.S., must be Glendale, Arizona next.  No ...
Monday, February 24, 2020

Back in banking days, a trip gone awry, 1990...

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As referenced in two prior posts, my job at Manufacturers Hanover Trust had become Director of Investor Relations in 1988.  Even at the begi...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

February 19th Democratic debate, short takes...

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Last night the two hour debate among six Democrats seeking the nomination for President was watched.  At the conclusion, there was purposely...
Thursday, February 13, 2020

College basketball professionals?

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College basketball is different from other college sports.  That's an opinion, viewed as a fact here.  The attention it attracts is phen...
Sunday, February 09, 2020

Another yarn of early banking years

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In 1988, when the position of head of Investor Relations at Manufacturers Hanover fell my way because no one else wanted it, I decided to ca...
Thursday, February 06, 2020

Investor's dilemma

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One of the more competent regular panelists on the CNBC program that airs on weekdays from noon to 1pm, said today that "you can only i...
Sunday, February 02, 2020

Short comments of the day...

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---After Ginni Romitty announced her retirement from IBM, the stock rose over 5% on a day when the overall U.S. averages were down 1.75%.  T...
Saturday, February 01, 2020

Ancient history participant in the banking world...

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In 1991, there was significant consolidation expected among the large banks in the U.S., particularly in New York and California.  Residual ...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

What can be said about this stock market?

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Simple, it keeps rising.  What goes up must at least take a breather, or a thoughtful plateau, or risk becoming overbought.  Action here is ...
Monday, January 13, 2020

Remembering recent events, following current ones...

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---Two articles this week raised the issue of memory in folks getting older.  The "getting older" category clearly now includes me...
Sunday, January 05, 2020

Current observations...

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---In looking at the candidacies of Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer for the Democratic nomination, with their extensive television advertis...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Christmas 2019

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We're still here. A friend visited yesterday. She brought Cardenal Mendoza as a gift.   I contemplate my good fortune. The Virginia trad...
Saturday, December 07, 2019

Market rising, no blarney?

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---This first week of December was one of stock picking, actively remixing and adding.  With trading commissions gone away, friction free tr...
Friday, November 29, 2019

Timely real world observations...

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An advertisement shown during yesterday's NFL game had Cardy B endorsing Pepsi.  Health food I guess, beverage for the masses.  She poin...