I like divided government. Reigns in the crazies on both sides. Effectively adding more reams of paper to existing state and federal code and regulations isn't necessarily a good thing.

Not a great night for the R party.

Thoughts on my thoughts?

- If you want to win a competitive Republican primary in a deep red state, go for the Trump endorsement

- If you want to win a competitive general election, having his endorsement is close to political suicide

You left out the most probable outcome as a choice of the Rs don't sweep it.

House = R

Senate remains D

Hence a non-vote from me

My state is highly red. Multiple local offices had a single candidate that was from the R party...not the same I know, but seemed very communist like.

I wish there was more competition. I think there should always be at least two candidates, even if they are from the same party.

A very interesting proposal in your second to the last paragraph. I find it amazing how often I get exposed to an idea that completely never occurred to me. A definite benefit of being exposed and open to many ideas.

dualstow wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 08, 2022 10:06 am

Wow, when did gold creep up into the 1700s

On the downside...bonds, stocks and gold are all moving in lock step. As of late we are getting zilch diversification.

Had to bring in some shade on the little ray of light I introduced. :-)

So your return will be whatever your broker states it will be for the ask price but there may be tax implications in terms of interest vs. cap gains.

See last line of previous post. :-)

Depends. Municipal, USG or commercial? Your post slightly points to USG bonds. Assuming that is a yes (or no), there may be some tax implications. Let's assume you bought a bond during ZIRP days which was yielding .25%. It is most definitely selling at a discount to par now. https://msrb.org/sites/d...

The whole Twitter thing is bizarre. I started using it for info on the UKR/RUS war. It just does not seem as important as people make it out to be though. I’m not understanding the uproar. I will however say that in a short time the advertisements have gone WAY down in quality. Rather than getting a...

Breakfast, all three meals were comped! Must admit we were Whataburgered out by dinner. LOL

I think they saw the writing on the wall legally and are probably deciding they don’t need the hassle of the potential law suits.

You don’t get to be a shareholder and defacto board member without taking on liability for your decisions/actions.

Regardless, it is a good trend.

How many times do we get to say gold is up nicely today!?

There, it was said.

And of course the other Texas institution of tastiness…Whataburger! True story, the Mrs. and I had joked for 4-5 years about flying to a city that had a Whataburger. Last fall about this time I noticed some round trip tickets for $99 and bought them. Short flight, got there for breakfast and also at...

I miss HEB, that's a good chain of stores. They really are very good at what they do. During the various crises lately (mainly I'm thinking of the snowstorm), they were able to quickly redirect a lot of their capacity to the basics and never ran short. Here are some articles: https://www.nytimes.co...

Interesting fund, good fee for what it's offering.

Last time I checked the volume was pretty minimal...so it might not survive. (It has been a while since I checked volume, so perhaps it gaining traction IDK.)

Ok folks...convince me that (on Amazon) a $28.55 16oz jar of Teddie peanut butter is THAT good.

I can get 12 16.3 oz jars of Skippy Super Chunk for $31.44 (on Amazon)

12x better???

'Anger on their minds': NBC News poll finds sky-high interest and polarization ahead of midterms 80% of Democrats and Republicans believe the political opposition poses a threat that, if not stopped, will destroy America as we know it. https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read/anger-minds-nb...

But you said that Trump’s Deep State team (with nobody on it, apparently) was now 0-2. Based on your link, that would refer to the Durham investigation. Were you referring to something else? Because I’m not sure Durham or Barr were on Trump’s team at all. It’s possible that they were more concerned...

The deeper issue is that BlackRock uses their voting rights (as extremely large holders of any company's stock) to actively pressure the board of every major company to adopt ESG values. That's not about choice. It's about direct political coercion. Tyler's got it. I was blissfully unaware that Van...

From what I've read (not deeply), Bernstein has it correct. They are mainly a Wall Street sales tool that enables charging more for something that is barely different from a vanilla index fund.

I don't think these make much sense for an individual investor unless they are doing so as a speculative venture. Given they can be called, you know they will be as soon as circumstances are such that would become more advantageous to you than the company issuing them for the risk being taken. A the...

Small rant, feel free to ignore. On ESG funds...I don't invest in them, but if someone wants to that's what free markets are all about. Being anti-ESG is not conservative or libertarian. It's you telling someone else how they should invest their money which is anti-conservative and libertarian. No o...

Today from one of yesterday's shows I heard Karl Rove (must have been the Fox News Show) say that the Democrats in 2024 would not be having an 82 year old candidate while the Republicans would not be having a 78 year old candidate. One could only hope. However, never underestimate either party's ab...

It indeed is now. There's some discussion over at BH on implementation details if you want to dig deeper.

dopplerdave wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 24, 2022 5:52 pm

What is interesting is that in every case, the expense ratio was significantly lower than I was paying with BlackRock. So it was well worth the exercise of looking for alternatives even if you are not concerned about their ESG motivations.

Yep, more money in your pocket less in the managers.