"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
Have Some Squib Kakes And Knock Yerself Out...
“I’m always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don’t focus on making money; focus on protecting what you have.”
—Paul Tudor Jones
Ahm jes' anudder ol' broked down retahrd union pipefitter.
I retired in September of 2013 after 40 years in the trade, five years after this picture was taken. At the time, there was only one retired pig inna picture. Now there would be two...
I had started actively managing my 401 in 2004, after leaving it untended and with the minimum contribution since its inception in 1991. I was too busy raising a family, building America, and riding, racing and writing about motorcycles to pay any attention to saving for retirement. After all I had my Defined Benefit Plan and an IRA or two. What more could I need? Big mistake. I had contributed the minimum amount to the Defined Contribution Plan and left the funds in the default Balanced Pooled Fund. But between 2000 to 2003, I had to straighten out a coupla my IRA's after the dotcom-9/11 financial crash had crushed them, and as an afterthought, I then applied the same kind of evaluation to my 401 account and to my defined benefit pension fund. I found both to be in desperate straights. I was able to help turn both around. The story of both my IRA's and 401 are in part on my website.
Once I was able to get decent returns from my 401, I increased my contributions until I was maxed out and started to save some serious coin and to make serious returns for my retirement. It worked out really well... So far.
I have a nice income from my defined benefit pension plan and Social Security. Today. But my pension plan has no cost of living adjustment.
"What Is Hip Today Might Become Passe'"
-- Tower Of Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN8pWdZhVaM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vauqRuvzVgs
Only 30% of my pension income, the Social Security part, adjusts for inflation. The continued wellbeing of my wife and I is dependent on how I handle my retirement savings.
Since retirement, I've given almost all of my 401/IRA balance over to professionals. But not all. I've kept $10K in my Union 401 account to provide a benchmark for the professionals and to keep the 401 account open should I decide to take management of the funds back. Here's where I have the money allocated, how I've done this year and since I started managing my 401(table), and how I've done since I started managing my 401 post retirement in 2013 (chart).
Note that this is my personal 401 account, managed for and by me, as I see fit, for Where my head is at and my perceived needs. I have Social Security and a defined benefit pension for regular income and I am looking to generate serious returns on my retirement savings for future use when my fixed pension income falls seriously behind my cost of living inflated needs. I am aggressive in nature but with three generations (wife and I, kids, and grandkids) to think about, I gotta make the right moves. I can stand the volatility of this approach, the gains are proven, and it is a plan. It's my plan..
I've made a copy of the Excel spreadsheet I use to track and manage my 401 available to download on my website. If you are not in my Local, the spreadsheet can be adapted to other 401s and other mutual funds by someone with a modicum of Excel experience.
I post here what I read that I find of significance or interest. I allocate funds within the 401 between aggressive and conservative allocations as circumstance and inclination require based on what I read and some professional level subscription data. Running the blog keeps me honest with myself. Putting it in writing makes sure I really have a grip on the handle.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... 4ow0PmICm4
In Fucking Credible... Grrrr.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/nation ... -coverups/
Tuesday...
http://www.businessinsider.com/nra-stat ... ers-2014-6
Wednesday...
http://www.businessinsider.com/shake-sh ... ers-2014-6
http://www.businessinsider.com/when-the ... ded-2014-6
-- Tower Of Power
http://pragcap.com/should-you-use-an-au ... nt-service
Thursday...
http://www.businessinsider.com/preet-bh ... ent-2014-6
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opini ... .html?_r=0
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
...Suzettes, Please Make It Crepe.
Dylan 115th Dream
...Cakes, Please Make It Squibb.
Tower Of Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKoZeCH-TAk
Friday...
http://www.businessinsider.com/dudley-o ... rce-2014-5
http://www.businessinsider.com/mike-hud ... ant-2014-5
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topofthe ... story.html
http://www.priceactionlab.com/Blog/2014 ... ut-in-qqq/
Monday...
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/05/20 ... pai/199400
Tuesday...
http://pragcap.com/the-myth-of-the-omni ... ntral-bank
http://pragcap.com/three-signs-the-econ ... doing-okay
Wednesday...
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-con ... omy-2014-5
I've Owned And Run A High End Audio Company, Done Electromechanical Design And Packaging For Consumer Electronics, Project Managed Mechanical, High Purity And Biotech Projects, Helped Put Cold Spring In 14 Stories Of Main Steam Line At A Coal Fired Power Plant, Walked The Steel, Pushed A Broom, And Hung From A Man Basket To Tighten Bolts As Required. But Now I'm Retired.
“I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people”
- Dan Quayle
Back A'fore Yer Tahm...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYh5oMDlWwQ
The Rascals Did The First Set At The 'mo In Little Lord Fauntlaroy Outfits. They Looked At The Audience And Did The Rest Of The Engagement In Levi's. VERY Competent Musicians And A Great Show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA7CPmNqjek
Ahm jes' anudder ol' broked down retahrd union pipefitter.
I retired in September of 2013 after 40 years in the trade, five years after this picture was taken. At the time, there was only one retired pig inna picture. Now there would be two...
I had started actively managing my 401 in 2004, after leaving it untended and with the minimum contribution since its inception in 1991. I was too busy raising a family, building America, and riding, racing and writing about motorcycles to pay any attention to saving for retirement. After all I had my Defined Benefit Plan and an IRA or two. What more could I need? Big mistake. I had contributed the minimum amount to the Defined Contribution Plan and left the funds in the default Balanced Pooled Fund. But between 2000 to 2003, I had to straighten out a coupla my IRA's after the dotcom-9/11 financial crash had crushed them, and as an afterthought, I then applied the same kind of evaluation to my 401 account and to my defined benefit pension fund. I found both to be in desperate straights. I was able to help turn both around. The story of both my IRA's and 401 are in part on my website.
Once I was able to get decent returns from my 401, I increased my contributions until I was maxed out and started to save some serious coin and to make serious returns for my retirement. It worked out really well... So far.
I have a nice income from my defined benefit pension plan and Social Security. Today. But my pension plan has no cost of living adjustment.
"What Is Hip Today Might Become Passe'"
-- Tower Of Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN8pWdZhVaM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vauqRuvzVgs
Only 30% of my pension income, the Social Security part, adjusts for inflation. The continued wellbeing of my wife and I is dependent on how I handle my retirement savings.
Since retirement, I've given almost all of my 401/IRA balance over to professionals. But not all. I've kept $10K in my Union 401 account to provide a benchmark for the professionals and to keep the 401 account open should I decide to take management of the funds back. Here's where I have the money allocated, how I've done this year and since I started managing my 401(table), and how I've done since I started managing my 401 post retirement in 2013 (chart).
Note that this is my personal 401 account, managed for and by me, as I see fit, for Where my head is at and my perceived needs. I have Social Security and a defined benefit pension for regular income and I am looking to generate serious returns on my retirement savings for future use when my fixed pension income falls seriously behind my cost of living inflated needs. I am aggressive in nature but with three generations (wife and I, kids, and grandkids) to think about, I gotta make the right moves. I can stand the volatility of this approach, the gains are proven, and it is a plan. It's my plan..
I've made a copy of the Excel spreadsheet I use to track and manage my 401 available to download on my website. If you are not in my Local, the spreadsheet can be adapted to other 401s and other mutual funds by someone with a modicum of Excel experience.
I post here what I read that I find of significance or interest. I allocate funds within the 401 between aggressive and conservative allocations as circumstance and inclination require based on what I read and some professional level subscription data. Running the blog keeps me honest with myself. Putting it in writing makes sure I really have a grip on the handle.
-- Tower Of Power
I'm A Demon Tube Bender, Detailer, Layout Hand, Very Competent Heavy Rigger, Instrument Tech, Copper Hand, And Stick Welder. But Mostly, I'm Retired.
Is It Tommorow, Or Just The End Of Time....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvklBbYgnsk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3K8t6wKjdg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAWtuxhdUDE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8Fl771sBg
Knee Replacement Last Week. It Could Be Going Better....
http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
The Kids These Days.... They Gotta Put Up W/ A Lot More Shit Than I Did....
http://www.businessinsider.com/lower-ha ... er-2014-5#
Busy Week. May Post Some... May Not. Prolly Post Some.
I got two buddies. One thinks Obama personally stopped oil drilling and fracking in Colorado and cost him his retirement plans.The other buddy thinks that once pipeline capacity south was fully subscribed, no one drilled for oil that they couldn't move. Did you think that the Keystone oil pipeline Canadian oil would stay inna US at bargain prices? Hell, US oil doesn't stay here.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-2 ... aper-.html
Another buddy is of the steadily shrinking population of educated persons who conflates a political position with a scientific one. Global warming is happening and the consequences are serious and must be dealt with.
http://www.businessinsider.com/100-perc ... ght-2014-4
More Politics Position Masquerading As Reasoned Policy....
http://www.businessweek.com/printer/art ... prosperity
Money
http://www.businessinsider.com/where-do ... rom-2014-4
Houses
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/ ... eases.html
Data Point
http://www.businessinsider.com/earnings ... eak-2014-4
"Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money."
--Mark Twain
A Different Interpretation....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWnE8XzynNg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B19eX3UjqV8
But, Sometimes The Same Ol'Same Ol' Works Jes' Fine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuxHvlD1t-c
Ahm jes' anudder ol' broked down retahrd union pipefitter.
I retired in September of 2013 after 40 years in the trade, five years after this picture was taken. At the time, there was only one retired pig inna picture. Now there would be two...
I had started actively managing my 401 in 2004, after leaving it untended and with the minimum contribution since its inception in 1991. I was too busy raising a family, building America, and riding, racing and writing about motorcycles to pay any attention to saving for retirement. After all I had my Defined Contribution Plan and an IRA or two. What more could I need? Big mistake. I had contributed the minimum amount to the Defined Benefit Plan and left the funds in the default Balanced Pooled Fund. But between 2000 to 2003, I had to straighten out a coupla my IRA's after the dotcom-9/11 financial crash had crushed them, and as an afterthought, I then applied the same kind of evaluation to my 401 account and to my defined benefit pension fund. I found both to be in desperate straights. I was able to help turn both around. The story of both my IRA's and 401 are in part on my website.
Once I was able to get decent returns from my 401, I increased my contributions until I was maxed out and started to save some serious coin and to make serious returns for my retirement. It worked out really well... So far.
I have a nice income from my defined benefit pension plan and Social Security. Today. But my pension plan has no cost of living adjustment.
"What Is Hip Today Might Become Passe'"
-- Tower Of Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN8pWdZhVaM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vauqRuvzVgs
Only 30% of my pension income, the Social Security part, adjusts for inflation. The continued wellbeing of my wife and I is dependent on how I handle my retirement savings.
Since retirement, I've given almost all of my 401/IRA balance over to professionals. But not all. I've kept $10K in my Union 401 account to provide a benchmark for the professionals and to keep the 401 account open should I decide to take management of the funds back. Here's where I have the money allocated, how I've done this year and since I started managing my 401(table), and how I've done since I started managing my 401 post retirement in 2013 (chart).
Note that this is my personal 401 account, managed for and by me, as I see fit, for my headspace and my perceived needs. I have Social Security and a defined benefit pension for regular income and I am looking to generate serious returns on my retirement savings for future use when my fixed pension income falls seriously behind my cost of living inflated needs. I am aggressive in nature but with three generations (wife and I, kids, and grandkids) to think about, I gotta make the right moves. I can stand the volatility of this approach, the gains are proven, and it is a plan. It's my plan..
I've made a copy of the Excel spreadsheet I use to track and manage my 401 available to download on my website. If you are not in my Local, the spreadsheet can be adapted to other 401s and other mutual funds by someone with a modicum of Excel experience.
I post here what I read that I find of significance or interest. I allocate funds within the 401 between aggressive and conservative allocations as circumstance and inclination require based on what I read and some professional level subscription data. Running the blog keeps me honest with myself. Putting it in writing makes sure I really have a grip on the handle.
From A Guy Whose Work I Respect... Norm Conley Of JAG Advisors. CLICKONNIT!!
Note The Long Term Nature Of The Chart, The Amber Line, And Where We Are...
Hometown Stuff,
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-hous ... ate-2014-4
-- Tower Of Power
HUGE....
http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2014/0 ... ond-rings/
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/04/4t ... oil-spill/
I've been pretty much fully invested in stocks for the last year and a half. I've backed down to 75% recently on increased risk/reduced reward. We will eventually have a more serious correction and also a bear market. At those times I will look at buying the dip for the correction, ror reducing exposure to stocks further for a bear market. I'm staying put for now... Stay tooned....
Good Friday
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/ ... -year.html
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/ ... te-in.html
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 ... z-edition/
Sunday...
http://www.businessinsider.com/american ... ent-2014-4
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... story.html
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/e ... ld-me.html
Politics...
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014 ... fact_lizza
http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/14/0 ... lly/?p=all
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magaz ... ime-rates/
Tower Of Power Tuesday...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLSS1vq8c4o
Thursday
Gambler's Fallacy.... Yeah, But...
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-gamb ... and-2014-4
Friday
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-d ... ing-2014-4
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-downgrade-2014-4
Yep, Seen This Movie Before.....
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/25/opinion/b ... ?hpt=hp_c2
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
-- Bill Watterson
Low Down Dirty Bloos... Sloe Gin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1_6yCHnSI4
Ana Chaser...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbI19ttJqWI
Here's The Dessert...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnG7SR6kl2w
I retired in September of 2013. I had started managing my 401 in 2004, after leaving it untended and with the minimum contribution since its inception in 1993. I was too busy raising a family and building America to pay attention. I had contributed the minimum amount and left in the default Balanced Pooled Fund. But between 2000 to 2003, I had to straighten out a coupla my IRA's after the dotcom-9/11 financial crash crushed them and as an afterthought, I then applied the same kind of evaluation to my 401 and my defined benefit pension fund. I found both to be in desperate straights. I was able to help turn both around. The story in part is on my website.
Once I was able to get decent returns from my 401, I increased my contributions until I was maxed out and started to put away some serious coin and to make serious money for my retirement.
Since retirement, I've given almost all of my 401/IRA balance over to professionals. But not all. I've kept $10K in my Union 401 account to provide a benchmark for the professionals and to keep the 401 account open should I decide to take management of the funds back. Here's where I have the money allocated, how I've done this year, and how I've done since I started managing my 401 in 2003.
I've made a copy of the Excel spreadsheet I use to track and manage my 401 available to download on my website. If you are not in my Local, the spreadsheet can be adapted to other 401s and other mutual funds by someone with a modicum of Excel experience.
I post here what I read that I find of significance or interest. I allocate funds within the 401 between aggressive and conservative allocations as circumstance and inclination require based on what I read and some professional level subscription data. Running the blog keeps me honest with myself. Putting it in writing makes sure I really have a grip on the handle.
I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
-- Winston Churchill
It May Not Feel Like It, But It's Over....
I retired in September of 2013. I had started managing my 401 in 2004, after leaving it untended and with the minimum contribution since its inception in 1993. I was too busy raising a family and building America to pay attention. I had contributed the minimum amount and left in the default Balanced Pooled Fund. But between 2000 to 2003, I had to straighten out a coupla my IRA's after the dotcom-9/11 financial crash crushed them and as an afterthought, I then applied the same kind of evaluation to my 401 and my defined benefit pension fund. I found both to be in desperate straights. I was able to help turn both around. The story in part is on my website.
Once I was able to get decent returns from my 401, I increased my contributions until I was maxed out and started to put away some serious coin and to make serious money for my retirement.
Since retirement, I've given almost all of my 401/IRA balance over to professionals. But not all. I've kept $10K in my Union 401 account to provide a benchmark for the professionals and to keep the 401 account open should I decide to take management of the funds back. Here's where I have the money allocated, how I've done this year, and how I've done since I started managing my 401 in 2003.
I've made a copy of the Excel spreadsheet I use to track and manage my 401 available to download on my website. If you are not in my Local, the spreadsheet can be adapted to other 401s and other mutual funds by someone with a modicum of Excel experience.
I post here what I read that I find of significance or interest. I allocate funds within the 401 between aggressive and conservative allocations as circumstance and inclination require based on what I read and some professional level subscription data. Running the blog keeps me honest with myself. Putting it in writing makes sure I really have a grip on the handle.
All This New Age Shit.....
http://www.upsidetrader.com/2014/03/27/ ... ype-drive/
Thinking.....
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/estonia- ... er-ukraine
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/ ... e_fed.html
http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/ukrain ... ses-invade
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 ... que-album/
Saturday...
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/ukraines ... -challenge
http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/moldov ... tradiction
http://www.businessinsider.com/russias- ... eak-2014-3
Wu Tang...
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 ... que-album/
Big Time 401 Shit...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/busin ... 1-k-s.html
Nah, It Ain't A Bleedin' Heart, It's My Piles Bleedin' For De Pore Rich Folks...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/opini ... akers.html
Happened At Berkeley Too, Big Time Wrong...
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=10671809
http://www.sbnation.com/2014/3/30/55635 ... iclebottom
Make It Real...
That's A Republican Political Position, It Has Different Characteristics Than Science...
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-h ... z2xTUxB867
Tuesday
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-west-s ... cs-2014-01
The Issue Is With Inequality Creating A Political Tipping Point...
http://pragcap.com/thoughts-on-thomas-pikettys-capital
My old neighborhood....
http://www.businessinsider.com/noe-vall ... 014-4?op=1
Not my old place...
Wednesday
I'm A Union Guy....
http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonald ... pay-2014-4
Thursday
http://www.businessinsider.com/russias- ... ato-2014-4
A bubble is a bull market in which you don't have a position.
-- Eddy Elfenbein
More 'Fats. Hollywood Fats W/ Canned Heat '79, The First Woodstock Ten Year Reunion. Not The New Improved Marketing Event Version. Blues An' Boogie Like An Old Favorite Shirt. Tattered and Oh So Comfortable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Kq_qzdLbo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XezIHzwuF04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1LGBO4o9sk
I retired in September of 2013. I had started managing my 401 in 2004, after leaving it untended since its inception in 1993. I had contributed the minimum amount and left in the default Balanced Pooled Fund. But in 200 to 2003 I had straightened out a coupla IRA's after the dotcom-9/11 financial crash and as an afterthought, applied the same kind of evaluation to my 401 and my defined benefit pension fund. I found both to be in desperate straights. I was able to help turn both around. That story is on my website. Since retirement, I've given almost all of my 401/IRA balance over to professionals. But not all. I've kept and $10K in my Union 401 account to provide a benchmark for the professionals and to keep the 401 account open should I decide to take management of the funds back. Here's where I have the money allocated, how I've done this year, and how Ive done since I started managing my 401 in 2003.
I've made a copy of the Excel spreadsheet I use to track my 401 available to download on my website. If you are not in my Local, the spreadsheet can be adapted to other 401s and other mutual funds by someone with a modicum of Excel experience. I post here what I read that I find of significance or interest. I allocate funds within the 401 between aggressive and conservative allocations as circumstance and inclination compel based on what I read and some professional level subscription data.
I come from an era of a morning and evening paper and three and a half TV channels.There is so much more available now.... Some ludicrious, some of dubious value, some real actual news, some insightful, some more history than news, Some recycled so much that it is beyond homogenized; Take yer pick.
http://www.debka.com/article/23764/US-R ... t-attack-.
http://www.businessinsider.com/crimea-r ... sia-2014-3
Look At This And See That Not Much Has Changed Since Last Week....
Still...
I don't think that the Ukraine situation will effect the economy that much, but it will affect peoples' mindset. I may lighten up a little more come Monday afternoon. I'm up 11% since 9/1/13 and taking money of the table and getting some fresh air and a walk don't seem like such a bad thing... especially when there is uncertainty inn air.
Alternate View...
http://www.lakeviewasset.com/investment ... n-ukraine/
More Good Investment Advice....
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/03/ ... -know-now/
Tuesday
Very interesting....
http://www.businessinsider.com/malaysia ... ire-2014-3
http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-gal ... elf-2014-3
Off To De Record Cabinet For Sum R.L. Burnside. I Believe That Is His Grandkids On Drums And Bass...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9oAAyHrnIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf_nL5KWcWM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54PV_921LtU
From The Same Movie...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYY06G4R7zY
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 ... ssia-bond/
Humility, along with the ability of those who have been wrong to acknowledge their mistakes, are at all-time lows and, sadly, trending lower still. Ideology can apparently hold sway against reason, facts, and data for longer than I’d imagined.
-- Invictus
Miles to go. Tutu.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dq1dv6xY6w
'Masa RCFP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKnwgPdfeA4
Back Inna Day, We were All Cold Blooded...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLb6rUZlJ7A
http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-r ... urn-2014-3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHWLpJRlBYA#t=11 Tha'sjes 'na whayetizzzz..... Greezel.
I retired in September of 2013. I started managing my 401 in 2004, after leaving it untended since its inception in 1993. I had straightened out a coupla IRA's after the dotcom-9/11 financial crash and as an afterthought, applied the same evaluation to my 401 and found it and my defined benefit pension fund in desperate straights. I was able to help turn both around. In part, that story is on my website. Since retirement, I've given almost all of my 401/IRA balance over to professionals. But not all. I'm kept and am managing $10K in my Union 401 account to provide a benchmark for the professionals and to keep the 401 account open should I decide to take management of the funds back. Here's where I have the money allocated, how I've done this year, and how Ive done since I started managing my 401 in 2003.
Here's an Interactive Performance Chart of the funds I have available to me in the 401 and how they've done since 9/1/13.
I've made a copy of the Excel spreadsheet I use to track my 401 available to download on my website. If you are not in my Local, the spreadsheet can be adapted to other 401s and other mutual funds by someone with a modicum of Excel experience. I post here what I read that I find of significance or interest. I allocate funds within the 401 between aggressive and conservative allocations as circumstance and inclination compel based on what I read and some professional level subscription data.
Food fer thought...
http://schaefferstradingfloor.com/why-t ... r-15-years
If Could Only Read And Act On One Post A Week...
http://oldprof.typepad.com/
Major Seriousness About 401's
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... story.html
Monday
Ya Think????
http://www.businessinsider.com/ponzicoin-2014-3
Thursday.
Nothing is as it seems....
http://www.businessinsider.com/update-o ... ght-2014-3
http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-r ... urn-2014-3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHWLpJRlBYA#t=11 Tha'sjes 'na whayetizzzz..... Greezel.
I retired in September of 2013. I started managing my 401 in 2004, after leaving it untended since its inception in 1993. I had straightened out a coupla IRA's after the dotcom-9/11 financial crash and as an afterthought, applied the same evaluation to my 401 and found it and my defined benefit pension fund in desperate straights. I was able to help turn both around. In part, that story is on my website. Since retirement, I've given almost all of my 401/IRA balance over to professionals. But not all. I'm kept and am managing $10K in my Union 401 account to provide a benchmark for the professionals and to keep the 401 account open should I decide to take management of the funds back. Here's where I have the money allocated, how I've done this year, and how Ive done since I started managing my 401 in 2003.
Here's an Interactive Performance Chart of the funds I have available to me in the 401 and how they've done since 9/1/13.
I've made a copy of the Excel spreadsheet I use to track my 401 available to download on my website. If you are not in my Local, the spreadsheet can be adapted to other 401s and other mutual funds by someone with a modicum of Excel experience. I post here what I read that I find of significance or interest. I allocate funds within the 401 between aggressive and conservative allocations as circumstance and inclination compel based on what I read and some professional level subscription data.
Food fer thought...
http://schaefferstradingfloor.com/why-t ... r-15-years
If Could Only Read And Act On One Post A Week...
http://oldprof.typepad.com/
Major Seriousness About 401's
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... story.html
Monday
Ya Think????
http://www.businessinsider.com/ponzicoin-2014-3
Thursday.
Nothing is as it seems....
http://www.businessinsider.com/update-o ... ght-2014-3
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hollywood Fats Band
I first heard Fats (Michael Mann) at the The Boarding House in SF. He was backing up Jimmy Witherspoon and GAWD He Was Smokin' Hot!!!! Super tight band, kick ass backing for 'Spoon and when Fats stepped up, it was incendiary. Yeah, that is "The Mole",on bass. Check out the SRV and Albert King riffs in the text on these You Tube entries. I had a tape of the Blues Afternoon from the Monterey Jazz Festival where Fat's was on his own and later backed up Etta James and then Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson. I wore the tape out.Hollywood Fats died way too soon. He is missed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HquyEt8UXvY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6s8khM5wO4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pANbCHSd4Tc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlzk10Cq85o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST2-28u3mds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ivX5ECliEU
I just acquired Canned Heat at the Parr Meadows 10 year Woodstock celebration. It was recorded for the King Biscuit Flour Hour. Fats was Heat's guitarist at the time and it is one of the best examples of his talent available. Missing is the small club/theatre dynamics and interplay with a vocalist on serious blues, but in his genre and era, that ain't to be had, 'cepting cassete tapes and obscure TV footage.
I retired in September of 2013. I started managing my 401 in 2004, after leaving it untended since its inception in 1993. I had straightened out a coupla IRA's after the dotcom-9/11 financial crash and as an afterthought, applied the same evaluation to my 401 and found it and my defined benefit pension fund in desperate straights. I was able to help turn both around. In part, that story is on my website. Since retirement, I've given almost all of my 401/IRA balance over to professionals. But not all. I'm kept and am managing $10K in my Union 401 account to provide a benchmark for the professionals and to keep the 401 account open should I decide to take management of the funds back. Here's how I've done this year, and since I started managing my 401 in 2003.
I've made a copy of the Excel spreadsheet I use to track my 401 available to download on my website. If you are not in my Local, the spreadsheet can be adapted to other 401s and other mutual funds by someone with a modicum of Excel experience. I post here what I read that I find of significance or interest. I allocate funds within the 401 between aggressive and conservative allocations as circumstance and inclination compel based on what I read and some professional level subscription data.
http://buttcoin.org/extended-dormancy-mt-gox-erupts
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/03/truisms/
Monday...
Wed
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-0 ... -jobs.html
Josh is a guy I listen to and put money with. Stuff like this is in part why.
http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2014/0 ... explained/
Re-learned that sitting on my hands is the hardest thing a Trader can do and that I need to be better at it. MUCH better.
--Sean McLaughlin
GROOVIN'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5CgdTtGv8o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... GqoIPLhklQ
Sound like your job?
http://www.slate.com/articles/technolog ... _work.html
Wound me up so much, I got argumentative...
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/02/th ... til-death/
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik ... z2uGForo00
Tuesday...
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/02/ec ... shboard-2/
WEDNESDAY
HUGE
http://pragcap.com/chasing-our-own-tails
The importance of disconnecting and shutting off the computer — I still haven’t figured how to actually do it, but I learned that it’s important.
-- Joe Weisenthal
Young Joe;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpUP8PegEOQ#t=27
I was once a Young Joe, but my talents lay in another area...
Young Eric, Jack, and Ginger;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEWAEUTwSUA
At 12:30 in, hear the man who was there before everyone else; A King among guitarists...
At 20:20, My family code for the kids knowing a message delivered by a stranger was really from the parents was the "Outside Women Blues" riff.
30:30 Lovin' Spoonfull: Mississippi Blues/Top 40 Upstate New York jug band pop = Laughing Purple Fishes...
InFuckin' InCredible!!!!!
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/01/td ... e-machine/
http://rpseawright.wordpress.com/2014/0 ... f-charade/
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik ... z2rX0Q1d7R
Monday
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/busin ... .html?_r=1
Thursday
http://www.businessinsider.com/boehner- ... eri-2014-2
Young Eric, Jack, and Ginger;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEWAEUTwSUA
At 12:30 in, hear the man who was there before everyone else; A King among guitarists...
At 20:20, My family code for the kids knowing a message delivered by a stranger was really from the parents was the "Outside Women Blues" riff.
30:30 Lovin' Spoonfull: Mississippi Blues/Top 40 Upstate New York jug band pop = Laughing Purple Fishes...
InFuckin' InCredible!!!!!
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/01/td ... e-machine/
http://rpseawright.wordpress.com/2014/0 ... f-charade/
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik ... z2rX0Q1d7R
Monday
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/busin ... .html?_r=1
Thursday
http://www.businessinsider.com/boehner- ... eri-2014-2
Speaking Of The Bills That Used To Be Posted On Walls And Telephone Poles....
Kick Ass Concerts. They handed out free posters for the next week's show. I saw these shows, among others. Didn't get the posters for these. Got them for the upcoming show and gave them away. Oh Well....
The story goes that Albert King said he was playing in bowling alleys when Graham called him up on the basis of his "Born Under A Bad Sign" LP being played onna local radio. He showed up by himself and opened with Steve Miller's rhythm session IIRC, for Hendrix and Mayall. Next time we touch bases, buy the round and I'll tell you a story about that night.
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 ... omebuyers/
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ti ... 53020.html
http://wealthometer.org/US/calculator1.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-futu ... ave-2014-1
Money Games
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 ... r-edition/
Yet AGAIN!!!! Do They Stick Laura And Leslie With These Deliberately?
http://www.businessinsider.com/clean-te ... ead-2014-1
Smokin'
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/compani ... 2D11912418
As A Side Note, My Generations Influence Is And has Been Beyond Wide Spread And Pernicious. Years Ago I was Watching a Cable Financial Show And One Of The Guest Economists/Analysts On The Show Spoke Of The Economy "Being Down To Seeds And Stems". No One Blinked.....
More On BitCoin
http://buttcoin.org/easy
http://buttcoin.org/easy-like-sunday-morning
http://buttcoin.org/easy-come-easy-go
http://buttcoin.org/bitcoin-really-accepted
WEDNESDAY
Here We Go Again!!!!
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-ja ... war-2014-1
http://www.businessinsider.com/shinzo-a ... pan-2014-1
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/01/if ... they-lose/
Thursday
HUGE http://www.salon.com/2013/12/30/the_mid ... low_today/
The story goes that Albert King said he was playing in bowling alleys when Graham called him up on the basis of his "Born Under A Bad Sign" LP being played onna local radio. He showed up by himself and opened with Steve Miller's rhythm session IIRC, for Hendrix and Mayall. Next time we touch bases, buy the round and I'll tell you a story about that night.
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 ... omebuyers/
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ti ... 53020.html
http://wealthometer.org/US/calculator1.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-futu ... ave-2014-1
Money Games
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 ... r-edition/
Yet AGAIN!!!! Do They Stick Laura And Leslie With These Deliberately?
http://www.businessinsider.com/clean-te ... ead-2014-1
Smokin'
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/compani ... 2D11912418
As A Side Note, My Generations Influence Is And has Been Beyond Wide Spread And Pernicious. Years Ago I was Watching a Cable Financial Show And One Of The Guest Economists/Analysts On The Show Spoke Of The Economy "Being Down To Seeds And Stems". No One Blinked.....
More On BitCoin
http://buttcoin.org/easy
http://buttcoin.org/easy-like-sunday-morning
http://buttcoin.org/easy-come-easy-go
http://buttcoin.org/bitcoin-really-accepted
WEDNESDAY
Here We Go Again!!!!
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-ja ... war-2014-1
http://www.businessinsider.com/shinzo-a ... pan-2014-1
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/01/if ... they-lose/
Thursday
HUGE http://www.salon.com/2013/12/30/the_mid ... low_today/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iTwlfDuG2s
Dylan Song About An Anthony Quinn Movie...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liIQLIx2 ... iIQLIx2Onw
http://www.businessinsider.com/arthur-l ... iew-2014-1
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/ ... th-in.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-econo ... nch-2014-1
http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/strate ... iddle-east
There was this Electra sampler LP back inna day. Kinda rare. I bought it for the Butterfield Blues Band cuts. There were these cuts by an oufit called E C And The Powerhouse, had this guy named Winwood inna band I guess along with this Jack Bruce guy. The song, "Steppin' Out" by James Bracken, appeared here and on the Clapton/Mayall LP. Joe is smokin' here on his version, but the teenage Clapton version is really special and much more to my taste than the Bluesbreakers version... The What's Shakin' LP also had "Crossroads" on it... nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe767OgdOa0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkulcvRkd4I
http://grooveshark.com/#!/search?q=clapton+stepping+out
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/ ... ittle.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/dogecoin ... al-2013-12
http://dragonflycap.com/2013/12/27/tues-pm-35/
May You Have A Long And Healthy Retirement. And To Manage Your Retirement Funds Successfully Enough To Avoid This Kinda Crap...
http://pragcap.com/the-unintended-conse ... -abenomics
If You Plan To Save A Lot Of Money And Then Retire, This Is Important...
http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2013/1 ... -advisors/
Now That I'm Retahrd, Maybe I Got Time To Do Some Of These Things. Or Not...
http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com ... 90x742.jpg
There's this thing called Bitcoin....
http://buttcoin.org/easy
http://buttcoin.org/easy-like-sunday-morning
I'm Retired Now.... I've Got Time To Beat All My Wireless Devices and Entertainment Systems Into A Seamless State Of Operability With My Network. Fuckin' Right!!!
Monday
DAMN!!! I hate it when my suspicions are confirmed...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-3 ... -cope.html
Very Disquieting To A Guy Who Made His Living In The Capital Goods Industry...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-3 ... onomy.html
Reality sets in...
http://www.businessinsider.com/americas ... ss-2013-12
Ugly...
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2013 ... usalis.php
Cool...Evidence Keeps Piling Up...
http://www.businessinsider.com/homes-in ... 13-2013-12
Ah Have Sworn That There Will Never Be An End To Violins In Da Streets As Long As I Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDMr7IVg9A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bher3Nz2Qs
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 ... f-markets/
I make money following Jeff... Wonkish. You have to have followed along last year.
http://oldprof.typepad.com/a_dash_of_in ... -2013.html
True Confessions; My Second Eldest Child Was A Dot Commie....
http://qz.com/159983/relive-the-first-t ... m-edition/
Monday
This needs daylight and eyes on it...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-2 ... fight.html
Thursday
http://pragcap.com/2014-the-year-of-inflations-return
http://boingboing.net/2013/12/23/1byear ... etwor.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/busin ... wanted=all
Wonk Wonk....
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 ... all-banks/
De Light!!!? Don't Worry/Be Happy....
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 ... t-and-joy/
Idealogical derpiness...
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-rand ... rt-2013-12
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/12/fu ... ers-again/
I Hate Satire and Irony...
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/12/fu ... ers-again/
Making The Worst You Can From Whatcha Got....
http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2013/1 ... hreatened/
Jeff Makin' Sense...
http://oldprof.typepad.com/a_dash_of_in ... ssion.html
http://capitalgainsandgames.com/blog/st ... until-2019
Monday...
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-2014 ... my-2013-12
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-0 ... onomy.html
TUESDAY....
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/12/co ... -creation/
WEDNESDAY...
Lotta Info.... http://www.theatlantic.com/business/arc ... hs/282193/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-1 ... rgins.html
Thursday
Food For Thought...
http://pragcap.com/asymmetrical-bubbles
Cuz I'm Old...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlr8Krdpvuc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_K5b-JNc7E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Uht69h8Is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjq4wYuwgxs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PLq0_7k1jk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2XHYKWLGTg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABnnY8PSk8M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCsVXdxBWZM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEqRMVnZNU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIfuNPbBaaA
3 Million To 300 Million.....
http://www.businessinsider.com/inequali ... 11-29?op=1
Fuckin' "A", Tweetiebird.....
http://www.businessinsider.com/rich-peo ... bs-2013-11
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-the- ... st-2013-11
http://www.businessinsider.com/3-reason ... ma-2013-11
Crazy. Only Time Will Tell If It Is True. And Maybe Not Even Then .....
http://www.debka.com/article/23490/Paki ... Iran-drive
http://www.businessinsider.com/iran-cha ... ks-2013-11
THURSDAY
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/12/ec ... led-apart/
Goin' back cuz it makes my ears feel so good...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeOKj5XdVAE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4w4_2ZTWqM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLHzWis91Cw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kAwum6NuTI
And The Goodest Feelin' Goodest Of All...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNO1CZZo8p4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abYdYko99wo
Huge!!! http://prospect.org/article/40-year-slump
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-co ... sh-2013-11
Monday...
http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2013/11/hou ... es-at.html
Jeff is on my "Hafta" list. Made me a dollar.
http://oldprof.typepad.com/a_dash_of_in ... llets.html
Tuesday
http://pragcap.com/investors-love-obamacare
http://pragcap.com/the-kalecki-equation ... -follow-up
http://pragcap.com/shiller-we-cant-trus ... ing-market
Isle Of Man TT Is Certified Bat Shit Crazy. Here's Macau's Version...
http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/vid ... ier-grams/
Smokin'.....
http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-q ... on-2013-11
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/11/fu ... apitalism/
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news ... worse?lite
Huge
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-cha ... ue-2013-11
Think About It...
http://pragcap.com/james-galbraith-ther ... of-the-usa
All I Can Say Is DAMME!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10
GRRRRR.
http://www.businessinsider.com/magnus-c ... on-2013-11
His fingerprints are on a lot of bad decisions and policies. I have no problem with Yellen over him. That doesn't mean he is not brilliant and is not right on much of what he thinks.
http://pragcap.com/larry-summers-histor ... approve-qe
Mining For Bitcoins.
http://www.bitcoinminingrigs.com/catego ... -of-shame/
It makes me cringe to have 'experts' tell us not to fear the Fed. You don't fear the Fed but you do fear a market that fears the Fed. If the rest of the world is selling because they are afraid, justified or not, you respect the price action and move out of the way.
-- James “Reverend Shark” DePorre
I was channel surfing for some old Lawrence Welk music videos when I found these. They are not quite as old but still appeal to the senior citizen I've become.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rdmG0k8S8k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHbNU9WuVgw
SIGNIFICANT
She may or may not know that, but the editors of the Wall Street Journal certainly do, and for them to put her story out as if her insurance problems would disappear if only the Affordable Care Act ceased to exist is nothing short of malpractice.
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik ... z2kD0Uesyb
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-this ... an-2013-11
Debka... 30% Crazy Shit, 30% YOU'LL Never Be Connected Enough To Find Out If This Is True Or Not.... and 30% Seen There A Day Or A Month Before Major News Sources...
http://www.debka.com/article/23434/Iran ... d-is-bare-
http://www.businessinsider.com/details- ... or-2013-11
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/11/ab ... revisited/
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/990 ... al-history
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/magaz ... l&_r=0
Nest Of Snakes
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-hous ... al-2013-11
Wed
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magaz ... ;_r=1&
Do I Think Of My Self As One Of The Almost Gone Generation Where The Floor, When All Else Failed, Was To Show Up Every Day At A So So Job, Still Be Able To Buy A House, Raise Kids, And Retire With Dignity? Some Times...
http://www.npr.org/2013/11/12/242999770 ... revolution
http://www.businessinsider.com/actually ... an-2012-10
Fuckin' "A" Tweetie
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/12/elizabe ... ext_phase/
You will never know if someone is an asshole until he becomes rich.
Nassim Taleb
More Than The Mothers Of Invention And Yellow Snow...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q0nImsfMvE
Frank Does Allman Bros...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-dm1JU4no
http://pragcap.com/the-us-government-is ... n-the-hole
http://pragcap.com/the-not-so-great-rotation
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 ... ont-trade/
"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
--Joan Robinson
No New Chartz, No New Table Zup... I'm RE TAHRD!
http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-kru ... ts-2013-10
History Lesson..
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-2 ... ateur.html
Alternative Views To The Accepted Misunderstanding Of How Thing Work In This Country...
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/10/makers-and-takers/
http://oldprof.typepad.com/a_dash_of_in ... story.html
Lower Left To Upper Right.
All long/all in inna 401. (The remnant I still have there). This will end and I will reallocate. But for now it looks good.
Monday
http://pragcap.com/first-fall-in-us-man ... ulls-ahead
http://philosophicaleconomics.wordpress ... rgin-debt/
Found That Alternative Investment, That Collectable That'll Hold it Value Regardless. Like Say Mark MacGuire's Home Run Record Breaking Ball... Or Maybe A Painting?
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 ... rt-market/
Tues...
Girl Doing Crazy Stuff...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW1TBU9EoBM
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-2 ... le-go.html
Remember, “price” and its direction are ultimately the best indicator you have.
-- Brian Gilmartin
Scam? Or Con? Or Is The Con Game About A Non Existent Scam
http://pragcap.com/debunking-the-bigges ... of-mankind
Say Hallelujah.....
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/10/ ... -religion/
http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2013/10/abo ... thing.html
Mon
http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-maj ... se-2013-10
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/10/th ... an-center/
HUGE, Jeff is the man...
http://oldprof.typepad.com/a_dash_of_in ... l#comments
"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."
-John Maynard Keynes
Interesting... But I didn't read the last coupla paragraphs... Too long; Lost interest.
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/09/ ... ate_t.html
Sunday
http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2013/1 ... the-taper/
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial ... um=twitter
Twelve years ago, I asked the General Contractor at the Cell Genesis job for the MSDS on the epoxy floor coating being installed. The rep brought back a one page copy from what was supposed to be a multi page document, indicating that the product was benign. The page was from the MSDS for latex paint. The box holding the flooring epoxy components said "Do Not Open Product Unless You Are Wearing A Respirator Suitable To The Chemistry Of The Product." I can relate it to this NFL riff. There were dollars involved vs health and safety. I know what some people think takes precedence.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/10/league-of-denial/
Anybody else have a problem with this?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... story.html
Schedule for Armageddon...
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/10/0 ... -due-when/
Mon
Bill McBride is da man...
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/ ... o-see.html
Shutdown/Non Default Porn
http://www.businessinsider.com/debt-cei ... lt-2013-10
Something Pleasant Instead
http://www.businessinsider.com/marvin-g ... on-2013-10
No Shit
http://www.businessinsider.com/mike-row ... on-2013-10
http://pragcap.com/goldman-sachs-shutdo ... gdp-by-0-5
http://pragcap.com/demand-for-a-third-p ... -new-highs
http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2013/1 ... owth-rate/
Huge... http://www.pionline.com/article/2013101 ... etirement#
http://larrysummers.com/the-battle-over ... ong-fight/
Here's Grover Norquist on Ted Cruz:
"He pushed House Republicans into traffic and wandered away."
WONK WONK...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/won ... s-failing/
Fires don't reverse and burn backwards...
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 ... ady-begun/
"He pushed House Republicans into traffic and wandered away."
Wed....
Hmmmm....
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/20 ... think?lite
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/debt-cl ... 8C11390916
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-1 ... dgame.html
But sometimes, it’s been said, the greatest courage is displayed in standing before a crowd and affirming that two plus two equals four — now the main Republican challenge. Political morality is determined not simply, or even mostly, by intentions, but rather by results. There is a virtue in achieving what is achievable — in actually making things better than they are.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/analyst- ... z2hoSM3GLo
http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman- ... 17-2013-10
http://pragcap.com/can-we-stop-with-the ... se-already
I'm an ex Catholic. And there ain't no ex quite as ex as an ex Catholic. And I can't even imagine what kinda load the enslaved and molested Catholics are carrying. But I check out what's happening every so often... and I find that I like the new Pope's modus operandi.
Boston College theology professor Thomas Groome said, "I think it will be a real test for conservative Catholics," he said. "They have always pointed the finger, quoting the pope for the last 35 years. Suddenly, will they stop quoting the pope? It'll be a good test of whether or not they're really Catholics."
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-cong ... wn-2013-10
http://ibankcoin.com/mr_cain_thaler/201 ... ment-72109
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/analyst- ... z2hoSM3GLo