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Robert you may be hip to the economic cycles which adumbrate the market’s movement and to the notion that economic cycles are inevitable and are reflected in the market. (BTW you put in a stop/loss order so that you don’t even need to pay close attention)

But you are either oblivious or willful in failing to appreciate the risk of the market.…[Read more]

If i had to bet on where the US market would be in 40 or 50 years i would sell it short. The USA is in serious decline. The challenges of civilization are probably too great to overcome.

Were i to advise a youngster who has the disposable income i would tell em to allocate some of it to fun, some of it to cash, some of it to the market( tech,…[Read more]

Robert, you intended the pun. Did you also intend to alter the meaning of gambling i am conveying?

I am equating investing with gambling (think roulette or poker) I will reiterate-the mantra about long-term investing was at one point abandoned. Pundits said you have to pick stocks. Stick and move. It is no longer safe to buy and hold is what…[Read more]

Jody, i agree. I have read a few on investing. BORING!

Further, agreed your take on tobacco and vaping. But if you do become involved in investing you will learn that perception is often paramount.

Robert, buying ETF’s and the indices makes a lot of sense if you are investing. But it is fairly meaningless if an event occurs that shakes investors to the core and there is no respite in sight. It is also true that sell-offs and crashes are blips in the trajectory of a long-term investor. However what one ought to be cognizant of is that past…[Read more]

Jody, there are loads of books on investing for beginners. Brokerages also have information and brokers who can answer specific questions. Cannabis when it became apparent that legalization was going to become the rule was initially a big winner but has in general not done well recently. But that can change. It certainly is a compelling story. I…[Read more]

Reg, is that a coon cat?

That is nonsense. It is all gambling. I distinctly recall the (experts…ha!) saying you had to be a stock picker, make a profit and get out. Before that it was buy blue chips and hold. Everyone is a genius in a bull market. Tough to make a bad move. Under not unlikely conditions you will see a crash and fortunes will be lost overnight.

The…[Read more]

@ Unseen..Cats are subject to feline leukemia at an alarming rate. They also are subject to feline immunodeficiency virus, cancer and heartworm to name a few. The immune system is the organism’s biological defense network against infection and disease. So while cats seem pretty well adapted to exposure from their own waste they are not…[Read more]

Pope, do you have any evidence to substantiate your assertion that OCD and schizophrenia arose because of rapid changes in human evolution? Or is it your intuition? Seems to me mammals in general are subject to a host of mental illness. (I reject that label because anything real is physical.)

Not sure about that Unseen…it seems like i have read a number of instances in which ancient peoples are thought to have been wiped out by disease. There is a theory that may have occurred with Neanderthal lacking immunity to diseases carried by Homo Sapiens out of Africa which is i suppose analogous to Europeans giving native americans smallpox.…[Read more]