A terrorist/pariah state having a permanent seat in the United Nations that can veto UN decisions pretty much invalidates the UN's purpose. Yup...whether that's good or bad is a little more difficult question in my mind. I think it's a good thing to have international forums where countries can com...

It's incredibly sad on a human level as all wars are. However, other than 9/11 (from an American standpoint) I can't think of a more worthy war to support in recent times. Russian political culture is something else. I often wonder what it might become when A) Soviet era thugs and the populace dies ...

I'm of the opinion that Bitcoin is our only hope at taking power back from the elites in Washington. Control of the money is too much power. Bitcoin is an engineering solution to the political ills of our times. We need more engineers in politics. The world is too complex for the usual sorts of con...

I'm interested in revisiting the classic long-term Treasury/money market barbell. I don't mean to incur the wrath of any "stay the course no matter what" purists but I'm under the impression that many of us "fudge" these allocations to some degree anyway. Way back when the permi...

Here's a good article on taxation when bonds are bought at a discount or premium. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/tax/08/bond-tax.asp A bond bought at issue and held to maturity will have no tax effects other than the interest portion. Secondary market purchases are when the more complicated t...

No kidding...and kinda demonstrates the point! I normally use some form of averaging with segmented data to arrive upon potential allocations (or values for trading systems). Dual Momentum isn't talked about much anymore, but an application example is to not use a single 12 mo lookback but use 3-12 ...

It appears to me political polling is no longer that useful as it is pretty inaccurate. I'm not a conspiracy guy, but I like j's comment on the red wave was made up. The news cycle was getting stale, let's throw some excitement into the story. If your job is to sell news based advertising a blow out...

Thanks for the heads up on CLTL. Was not aware of it.

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...