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Jes' Yer Friendly Neighborhood Ol' Broked Down Retahr'd Union Pipefitter...... and his 401 Plan
Saturday, May 23, 2015, 07:30 PM
People will go to extraordinary lengths to rationalize market action and make it fit their narrative. This year wasn’t 1929, or 1987, or even 2007. It was in fact, 2014. -- Jon Boorman
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I'm all in in stocks because of what I read, what I've learned, and most especially, because I'm prepared to harvest gains and minimize losses when the time comes. YMMV.
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Jes' Yer Friendly Neighborhood Ol' Broked Down Retahr'd Union Pipefitter...... and his 401 Plan
Monday, May 4, 2015, 12:43 PM
Big data and other wonders of the high tech world didn’t make us any smarter — at least when it comes to markets. The 50% drop in oil prices has humbled us all. -- Nancy Miller
Kinda takes me back to the 60's. A buddy of mine was at SF State sitting on the lawn between classes while demonstrations were occurring on the other side of the area. The cops scattered the demonstrators and one cop chasing a handful of demonstrators, ran past my buddy, still sitting on the lawn, and at full speed, took a one handed swing at a short haired sitting spectator. Don slammed back against the ground and the baton whistled past his face. Coulda splattered his brains. I don't claim to be an oppressed minority, but I have at least some appreciation of the below... I do get a kick outta the other attendees at the financial conferences I attend talking about what the "old hippie" is doing there. There was a time (still is actually, I flew back to Chicago and bought a truck and drove it back. Got a lot of hard eye here and there onna way) that my appearance symbolized a threat to God and Country. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... re/391158/
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It's a complicated world, and I'm no longer a pipefitter, I'm a retiree investor hell bent on making my life savings work for me and my family. But I've never figured that made me one of the guys who will get bailed out the next time Wall Street craters itself. Most of the time, I'm on Betty Dub's side... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... et-tremble
Wednesss day...
Stockmarket stuff..... https://marketchess.com/2015/05/06/stock-market-recap-05-06-15-video-1
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Thursday... http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... e-autobahn
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Jes' Annuder Ol' Broked Down Retahrd Union Pipefitter And His 401 Defined Contribution Plan.... Easter Special
Thursday, April 2, 2015, 03:33 PM
Unsustainable things can last years, even decades, longer than people think. -- Morgan Housel
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http://www.theatlantic.com/internationa ... ts/388883/ Here's yer pichur, here's yer 1000 words... http://forward.com/articles/217842/how- ... ddle-east/
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One of my brothers is gay and I long since came to terms with it (30-40 years ago). Hatred and discrimination don't belong to be at Thanksgiving or Christmas.... or the other 363 days of the year either.... http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketb ... to-indiana Interesting demonstration in terms of the video participants on the link. Think tide of history and Penn's point on history moving on... http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/02/opinions/ ... index.html
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How the fundz inna 401 are doin'.....
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How my account is doin'.....
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Big Cap US stocks.... Which is to say international and dollar exposure...
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Smaller Cap Stocks.... Think domestic markets, cheap energy, earnings in dollars....
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Fundz inna 401 referenced to S&P 500. Note the AM Fundz Admiral button and red zero line... Big caps look toasted. Expect me to rebalance fundz over the next week...
Monday.... In the long run, we're ALL dead. http://peakoilbarrel.com/the-competitiv ... principle/
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![](images/150406three.jpg) So as a long hair liberal graduate of UC Berserkley, there are a lot of lefties who make my brain hurt to listen to them. But they are trying to go to where we can't go. At least not now. But what disturbs me is the righties who want to go back to where they imagine we used to be without realizing that we are not there any longer because it became untenable. Fires don't burn backwards and cement doesn't turn back into water and dry powder and then climb back inna bag no matter how much you may want it to. Neither do you speed up/reverse history for convenience...
Kinda peripheral 401 stuff. Your fund advisor's first obligation is to his wife and kids. That obligates him to earn. His obligation to you is to do well for you/not screw you up so badly that you no longer produce income. It's OK not to come first. It's not OK to come last... http://thereformedbroker.com/2015/04/06 ... lesperson/
Tues... Gotta have a crap filter if you run your 401... http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... c-analysis
Wed....
it's a SERIOUSLY convoluted world... http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-wh ... ran-2015-4
Thursday.... Gotta recognize the new reality, bummer or not... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... a-s-future
http://www.pragcap.com/why-rand-pauls-b ... cessionary
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Jes' Annuder Ol' Broked Down Retahrd Union Pipefitter And His 401 Defined Contribution Plan....
Saturday, March 7, 2015, 01:31 PM
There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there’s one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees. -- Benjamin Graham
http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2015spring/before-i-go.html
YOU ARE BEING PLAYED...AND THE WORST PART OF IT IS, WHAT'S BEING STOLEN FROM YOU, YOUR FUTURE, IS BEING PISSED AWAY, NOT EVEN BENEFITING THE THIEVES. BUT ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND THE EASY 1,2,3 LESSONS OF UNIVERSAL SUCCESS...
For the most part, clickbait (ten things they don't want you.. The One Secret... Once I learned the One Secret that they) drives me uppa wall. But, Hell THIS is Important...
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Jes' Annuder Ol' Broked Down Retahrd Union Pipefitter And His 401 Defined Contribution Plan....
Friday, January 30, 2015, 02:53 PM
Everyone–EVERY LAST ONE OF US–says they love, admire and respect deep-dive accountability reporting on complex capital markets issuers. When it comes time to contribute to it, however, you will rarely see rich white people do a better imitation of Deion Sanders (circa 1989) with respect to the speed in which they haul ass away from you. -- Roddy Boyd
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Candlestick Park and Vacaville Sports car races.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I8Z6LjLxqg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIu3zvDB68k
1950's redux..... http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-an ... rat-2015-1 As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls.... http://www.pragcap.com/whats-with-all-t ... indicators http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwfVarzG1js
http://time.com/3689645/wolfson-antivaccine-measles/
Workin' Man's Burden.... I've spent 40 years inna pipe trades, 20 years in heavy industrial and 20 years in high purity/high tech. I was a 100 MPH WFO Kinda guy for mos of my life. I used myself up. Now I'm retired. Just in time. Nowadays I'm a 25 MPH WFO kinda guy. On a good day. Pundits who celebrate working into their 70's and 80's drive me up a wall. Doing desk work, consulting and conferences for good money is great work if you can get it, but I think of it as a rich man's conceit, not a real job. Would you celebrate being shoveler at the shit works in your 70's? In an increasingly globalized, productive world, you have to figure out what you are going to do about this type of situation... http://www.theatlantic.com/features/arc ... ca/384718/
http://thereformedbroker.com/2015/02/01 ... alk-about/
Jeff: Laying it down so it stays there... http://dashofinsight.com/weighing-week- ... -weakness/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/opini ... 1&_r=2 http://www.cnbc.com/id/102380398
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Monday... http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d465f714-aad8 ... z3QcLjdXM8
Tuesday http://www.alternet.org/robert-reich-wh ... -nightmare http://www.businessinsider.com/yanis-va ... ing-2015-2 http://vimeo.com/118640391
Thursday... http://www.pragcap.com/is-the-declining ... -a-big-lie
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Friday, January 23, 2015, 12:52 PM
"If the world I leave behind is one of gated communities, growing inequality and misery among the have-nots, downward mobility for the middle class, a degraded environment and a rotting social and physical infrastructure, then (my children's) inheritance will be a shabby one — no matter how much money they get." -- Richard Rockefeller
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Squeeze.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuJ1AefhWzE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrgiQlUeutg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ7mGcQE1Mw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bTWF7eirJw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDTltRTVF7U
An Article About Republicans And Unions And Unionism Outa Left Field.... http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... ns-really- More Amazingness... http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2015 ... l-not-hoax http://www.vox.com/2015/1/21/7868677/se ... imate-vote
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Food fer thought.... http://www.businessinsider.com/america- ... bia-2015-1 http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz ... mist-group http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/red-al ... z3PlhRCkl3
![](images/150124.jpg) Obama is the anti Bush/anti neocon. Still... Is he screwing it up because of what he was left to work with, or was he the wrong answer to a very difficult question?
From my main man,DownTown Josh Brown.... http://thereformedbroker.com/2015/01/20 ... ts-that-d/
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/20/78529 ... y-a-camera
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CHESSNWINE.... http://vimeo.com/117732576
Volatility inn 401 and prolly some movement.... http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/01/ec ... est-rates/
Monday.... Darkness, Death And Despair..... Pulled off of Josh Brown's website...
Imagine you're a young kid, you grow up, go to college, get a degree in journalism, and then your editor assigns you to cover one of Donald Trump's make-believe presidential campaigns? That's the kind of thing that would make me question my whole life, my very purpose here on earth. (The Atlantic) http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... mp/384817/
This is why you should never look away..... http://sirf-online.org/2015/01/22/the-p ... ney-again/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/won ... recession/ http://www.pragcap.com/setting-realisti ... pectations ChessnWine http://vimeo.com/117846080
Tuesday...
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http://www.alternet.org/economy/robert- ... inequality
Whoa... http://www.pragcap.com/why-greece-wont-leave-the-euro http://vimeo.com/117957444
Wednesday... How did this happen? Music was everything. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/arc ... er/384790/ Listening harder .... http://vimeo.com/118065564
Thursday.... Interesting.... We saw what happened here... http://www.businessinsider.com/us-budge ... ble-2015-1
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Jes' Annuder Ol' Broked Down Retahrd Union Pipefitter And His 401 Defined Contribution Plan....
Friday, January 16, 2015, 02:31 PM
"To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate." ~Jesse Livermore
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Ran Across Linkin Park Onna Guitar Center Program The Other Night. It's been years, so I dug up the CD's. I grew up listenin' to Top 40 on a transistor radio and hung out at the 'mo, 'mo West, Winterland, Berkeley Community Theatre, etc. This whole music video stuff is really post Joe Facer. Hell, it might even be post now. But, What Eeevvveerr. (Like my daughter says) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsCD5XCu6CM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLHpvjrFpe0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTXPUF4Oz4 And Some Motorcycle Video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRWp9rhfS_0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzgkUfJ_HUE
We're all walking out from under a cloud.... http://jalopnik.com/5913416/cops-can-co ... g-citizens and Last Week Tonight... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks Today... http://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-att ... ice-2015-1
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http://www.businessinsider.com/the-euro ... tle-2015-1 http://pragcap.com/central-banks-dont-n ... al-capital http://www.businessinsider.com/the-impa ... ere-2015-1 http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... -louis-xiv
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Democracy means equality. Which means know nothing, faith (fantasy) based delusions have just as much standing as the scientific communities accepted beliefs. Until the numbers favor one position or the other... So check out what I found on that hippie dippy pinko left wing publication, Bloomberg... http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2014- ... on-record/ When I was at Berkeley, the religious scholars used to come out at lunch time and torment the holy roller saving souls at Sproul Plaza, pointing out mistranslations, errors, and misunderstandings in his version of the good book. Reality always trumps faith. The time element can be frustrating, though.
MLK Monday... Why I'm cautious... More about the financial environment than what I hold... http://www.businessinsider.com/the-swis ... end-2015-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese- ... ted-2015-1
Wed... Gear Head Stuff... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTAUV1Yj4NE
Thursday... http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2 ... /21812457/ http://welcometokindergarten.tumblr.com ... n-stimulus
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Jes' Annuder Ol' Broked Down Retahrd Union Pipefitter And His 401 Defined Contribution Plan....
Friday, January 9, 2015, 12:35 PM
Day-to-day, anecdotal impressions can matter in investing, like seeing all the Prius and hybrid cabs in Chicago and the alternative-fuel trucks in and around Chicago, and wondering, “how can this not impact crude oil demand at some point ?” Hence, we had zero weighting in Energy the last two years for clients. -- Brian Gilmartin
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Behind the curtain... http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... sian-heart
And aren’t we all tired of those who claim to know the answer to life, death and the creation being so fucking sensitive about their knowledge? If I knew the answer to it all, if I thought I understood the wishes of the author of the universe and was privileged to understand what happens to us after death, the last thing I would be is all prickly and defensive. ‘Mock me all you like,’ I’d cry. ‘Go on, laugh your socks off, paint crude daubs, make mocking films. They pass me by as the idle wind which I respect not.’ Stephen Fry
http://thereformedbroker.com/2015/01/11 ... dle-class/ http://www.project-syndicate.org/commen ... tz-2015-01 http://pragcap.com/public-payrolls-stil ... employment http://vimeo.com/116485717
http://dashofinsight.com/weighing-week- ... nd-market/
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Monday... http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... -price-war
Leaked From AlJazeera... http://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-a ... bdo-2015-1
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health- ... ots-92793/
Tuesday.... http://www.businessinsider.com/what-oba ... ris-2015-1
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![](images/150113four.jpg) This is the same chart, but referenced against the Lord Abbett fund. I'm out the LA Fund until further notice. I still believe that Europe will have to and eventually will enact a QE program and stocks will launch upward. But looking at the last 5 months, I'm leaning toward getting outa the way and waiting to actually see something. I'll give away already being there when it happens to avoid standing there in the cold rain and snow. waiting for it to happen. Stay tooned.
Wednesday... Fuck Congress... http://www.maliceforall.com/2015/01/the ... r-economy/
Thursday... http://vimeo.com/116909650
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Jes' Annuder Ol' Broked Down Retahrd Union Pipefitter And His 401 Defined Contribution Plan....
Thursday, January 1, 2015, 01:24 PM
“By far the biggest problem for professionals in investing is dealing with career and business risk: protecting your own job as an agent. The second curse of professional investing is over-management caused by the need to be seen to be busy, to be earning your keep. The individual is far better-positioned to wait patiently for the right pitch while paying no regard to what others are doing, which is almost impossible for professionals.” - Jeremy Grantham
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New Years morning and I'm about half way through my pitcher of Mimosas after breakfast. (Straight gin onna rocks last night, this is my way of getting vitamin C this morning. Being retired allows me to pursue my hobbies...) Reading about Walschaerts valve gear. I'm a gear head. Pretty much have been since 8 yrs old.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walschaerts_valve_gear This is what put the "Choo" in "Choo Choo"....
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Worth the time... If ya got the time.... http://www.businessweek.com/features/20 ... ousy-list/
I got no use for the Dead and their nonprofessional antics.... but when they were on, they were awesome.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9AQiF5fFFI&feature=em-subs_digest
I may do some gear changing and re-arranging of the 401. Based in part on this. (The thesis and the individual{Grundlatch} are recognized by the guys whom I pay to run my retirement money...) http://www.businessinsider.com/gundlach ... ast-2015-1
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As per above, this Sat, I'm outa the Lord Abbett Small Cap Fund and outa the Met Life Stable Value Fund Monday. The money will go into the American Bond Fund. The bond fund's return is well ahead of the Stable value fund and will continue to do better. The LRSYX fund will be under pressure from redemptions which will screw with investment strategy. Best to be clear while this works itself out. Staying put elsewhere.
http://www.businessinsider.com/polands- ... ack-2015-1
Sunday... http://theirrelevantinvestor.tumblr.com ... t-strategy
Your politicians and mine at work.... http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/artic ... om-reality
Wednesday... Pop the hood and see what underlies the paint and chrome... http://vimeo.com/116196983
Drive me UP THE FUCKIN" WALL!!!!! http://www.salon.com/2014/12/21/why_so_ ... s_partner/
Thursday... Ya don't get to choose the world you live in... I grew up when part of being a good citizen was being prepared for imminent thermonuclear war (food in the house, always keep the car at least half full of gas to evacuate to the mountains if necessary, CD {Civilian Defense} symbols on every AM radio in every car...) This is this era's version. http://www.businessinsider.com/europe-i ... ege-2015-1 Slow Motion Trainwreck.... Reagan is still dead and trickle down doesn't mean what they told you it did.... http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... ts-failing
More Unner Da Hood.... http://vimeo.com/116290225
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Jes' Annuder Ol' Broked Down Retahrd Union Pipefitter And His 401 Defined Contribution Plan....
Friday, December 26, 2014, 01:01 PM
“You can’t develop a portfolio strategy around endless possibilities. You wouldn’t even get out of bed if you considered everything that could possibly happen….. you can use history as one tool for shaping reasonable probabilities. Then, you look at the world of economic, sentiment and political drivers to determine what’s most likely to happen—while always knowing you can be and will be wrong a lot.” - Ken Fisher
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Friday... http://pragcap.com/three-things-i-think ... ed-in-2014
Saturday
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Coupla three four things here.... It's been a busy year for me for all the wrong reasons. There have been health issues in the family and this is in part why I've spun off the bulk of my retirement funds to some pro's; so I could look away if I had to or wanted to. I have mostly looked away from those accounts and that is all right... as long as I still keep an eye on them in some measure. I'm still an active trader and that account absorbs a fair amount of my time. The result has been less time spent on my 401 than usual since it is now a small portion of my retirement funds. But that has resulted in my being slow to move on two outstanding issues in the account; the American Funds EuroPac and Lord Abbot small cap funds.
Overseas has pretty much lagged domestic big time and the American Funds are huge funds that have a lot of money to place. It is hard for them to invest in small pockets of value in down markets. They have lagged the domestic funds and despite having lightened up there, I probably should have lighter there than I was. One of the three funds in the small/mid cap area has been awful. The other two have been fine. Again, I would have liked to have been lighter faster there than I was. It cost me some gains. I'd rather have been in the other stock funds, but even the bond mutual funds, which were supposed to be horrible this year but weren't, would have been a better place to be than the two poorly performing stock funds... The Stable Value fund has been a worse place to be than the bond funds. Not tracking reality vs expections cost me some performance here when I sought safety at various times this year. Lesson noted... This is a new year and time to change some things. This year, I'm going to keep a closer watch on the 401 funds.
At some point, there will be a serious market correction. It'll sting. But you can ride out corrections. What you don't want to ride out are bear markets. I expect the first but not the second. For now, I'm staying heavy in stocks. At some point in the future, Europe will have to do a QE like we did. It will get exceedingly ugly politically and that may make it ineffectual and delay the recovery and protract it way beyond the time it should have taken. But if it works like it did here, the stock market will lead big time whatever recovery they do have, so I'm staying equal weighted in the American EuroPac funds for now.
At some point the yelling that is undoubtedly taking place at Lord Abbett will have an effect and the fund will start to perform again. I can't hurt the fund's feelings by ignoring it, and they will not make up the losses out of their pocket, but performance is performance. So I got a small portion of my portfolio in a "tracking position". At some point I'll boost that up into a full position. Or not. I will keep a closer eye on this portfolio and work it harder...
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For now..... Stay Tooned....
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Fewer things to feel comfortable about... http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/end-cons ... z3MeJSHaqC http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-i ... it-2014-12
Think about the Olympics. There is no mystery in running, jumping, diving, gymnastics, etc. Everyone knows what perfection looks like. It's just basics. And the very best competitors in the world get the very best coaches in the world to work incessently with them on basics as long as they hope to excell..... http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/12/th ... investing/ http://thereformedbroker.com/2014/12/27 ... one-loves/
http://priceonomics.com/stepping-off-th ... te-bridge/
Sunday... Sounds like a union to me..... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/busin ... .html?_r=1 World War Two brought my mom to San Francisco from Colorado because there were jobs here. Four brothers, including my dad, chose California as the final destination when they were discharged from the armed forces post WW II and gravitated to the Bay Area instead of going back to Utah... That's how I came to be a San Franciscan. http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/ Long but worth the read.... If you've got 20 hours... http://www.businessweek.com/features/20 ... ousy-list/ http://www.businessinsider.com/illinois ... is-2014-12 http://vimeo.com/115525761 http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/ ... es_28.html
Monday... http://thereformedbroker.com/2014/12/29/buy-europe/
Tuesday... http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/12/oi ... bad-spain/
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Jes' Annuder Ol' Broked Down Retahrd Union Pipefitter And His 401 Defined Contribution Plan....
Friday, December 12, 2014, 04:36 PM
“The market does reflect the available information, as the professors tell us. But just as the funhouse mirrors don’t always accurately reflect your weight, the markets don’t always accurately reflect that information. Usually they are too pessimistic when it’s bad, and too optimistic when it’s good. - Bill Miller
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Suave, Smooth, Sophisticated Music In The Classic Friday Night Genre; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MCLPtTKKgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIifUAXDn4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ7raU-o7AE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ_hMe7LQ_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBP7jPFtmRk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ7raU-o7AE
It's important to read stuff like this. And to act on it. Or not. Because there is what may happen, what the reaction may be, what the right thing to do may be, whether or not the right thing to do is appropriate for me, and whether or not the opportunity arises to do the rightest thing or just a mostly right thing. Or not. Stay tooned. http://www.businessinsider.com/stock-ma ... sh-2014-12 http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... -of-growth That said, here's where I am this week....
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http://thereformedbroker.com/2014/12/12 ... is-period/
UPDATED http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/12/oil-as-a-weapon/ http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/ ... rices.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/oilp ... ashes.html How much do you really know and what is it worth?
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ve ... ns-2014-12
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/busine ... s-is-lost/ http://pragcap.com/answering-common-que ... ional-debt Bummer... http://www.businessinsider.com/the-demo ... pe-2014-12 Another view... http://www.businessinsider.com/energy-i ... dp-2014-12 More crazynesses... http://www.businessinsider.com/putins-p ... ct-2014-12 http://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz ... cs-2014-12
The key to happiness... http://oliveremberton.com/2014/the-prob ... -fairness/
http://vimeo.com/114490835 Chessnwine; I buy his caution call in that I'll not add outa cash into stock. But I'm not going outa stocks either. Caution is the word. Action to follow or not as calls are confirmed or undercut... Jeff is Always must read... http://dashofinsight.com/weighing-week- ... ds-course/
Monday... http://www.businessinsider.com/the-new- ... ed-2014-12 http://www.npr.org/2014/12/15/370844724 ... nt-in-2008
Tuesday... See UPDATED above... http://theirrelevantinvestor.tumblr.com ... g-we-often
Wednesdday... http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/ ... tion-china http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... opecs-neck
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The funds available in my 401 and how they've done year to date (YTD). This chart looks worse than the one from the weekend above. Rough three days. How much I got and where are shown in the table above from the weekend... Coupla thoughts... The S&P 500 looks better than our managed funds... It happens. Small Caps and EuroPacific showed nothing. That happens too. Bonds were amazing. I held none, wish I'd held more. Holding stocks from 1st quarter of 2009 to September of this years was easy money. Sometimes it's not easy. Like this year. I'm still long and strong. I've done well since 2004 and I think there's more to go here. There'll be volatility.... but in 2008, I ran for the hills because it made sense. Here, I think I'll hold on through the rough spots. I don't see a huge crash or bear market that'd make the timing easier. So I'll stick with what's working for now.... the long term trend...
I think about as much of Josh as I do of anybody... http://thereformedbroker.com/2014/12/17 ... ike-to-me/
That said, Ya gotchur Flash Crashes and Yer Bear Markets. The time scale is different. http://thereformedbroker.com/2014/12/17 ... ar-market/ I stuck w/ Bill Sams (Mutual Fund Investing @ www.joefacer.com) in Oct '87 and I bailed 3/2009 in my 401. Different animals/different reality. I'call '87, '98, Dec 2014 crashes and too hard/too late to time, I'm staying put. For now... 2009 was a bear market....
http://pragcap.com/chart-of-the-day-hello-deflation Chessnwine... http://vimeo.com/114815542
Thursday...
"Literally, we are in the realm of beyond stupid with this." http://motherboard.vice.com/read/reacti ... -of-stupid
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-1 ... -lose.html http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/viewing- ... z3MDWegJch
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Trust Me. I Posted It On The Internet Myself"..... Abraham Lincoln
Monday, December 8, 2014, 12:31 PM
Castles Made Of Sand Slips Into The Sea. Eventually. -- Jimi Hendrix
Saw Tower Of Power This Weekend @ The Grenada in Santa Barbara. Great venue and the TOP smoked, as always. They had an alumi sit in on the last two numbers. GAWD! He hit the ground running. There has been so much talent that has been through the band. Leaves a very high water mark. Then.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJk27vqIU0Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgvsPjL7128 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2fBFJJJIr8 Now... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L51OcULX1Zc The wife CANNOT BELIEVE the current singer was singing at weddings when the band picked him up. Rates him best she has heard. I don't have a favorite.
Monday... "It's A Republican Administration".... Fred Bird {Odd Bodkins} http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... -tap-water
I was with some buddies at the track... (Thunderhill) and Ricky Lynn sez,"So, the stock market is like a savings account..." It was a year and a half before the dotcom crash.... http://ibankcoin.com/flyblog/2014/12/06 ... at-ensued/ http://ibankcoin.com/flyblog/2014/12/08/dow-18000/ If this stock thing seems easy, it ain't.
Tuesday...
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Yee Haa! http://www.businessinsider.com/oil-pric ... ws-2014-12 Warriors... http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=400578597
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Big Time!!!! http://pragcap.com/economists-are-polit ... good-thing
http://dashofinsight.com/weighing-week- ... aus-rally/ http://thefatpitch.tumblr.com/post/1043 ... k-above-80
Wednesday....
This pretty much sez how bad it is.... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-1 ... taxes.html
More on this week's 60 Minutes... http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherp ... ncer-care/
Yee Hah! That is to say, I'll keep an eye out.... http://sl-50.tumblr.com/post/1048136504 ... redictions
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Thursday... http://www.businessinsider.com/oil-cash-costs-2014-12
Another view point. I don't agree, but it's a checks and balance thing. In 2008 the wife and I took a cruise and a nice lady from a recently shuttered mill town, finding out that I was working in High Tech, hoped that someone like me would create a high tech business in her town. Multiply that by 10,000. Not everyplace can be Emeryville or Santa Clara. But hopefully the Detroits of America are few and far between. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-1 ... death.html http://www.businessinsider.com/mike-row ... on-2014-12
http://pragcap.com/is-technology-making ... -investors http://pragcap.com/burton-malkiel-says- ... -forecasts
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Jes' Anudder Ol' Broked Down Retahrd Pipefitter....
Friday, November 21, 2014, 01:24 PM
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man.” -- Heraclitus
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Moby Grape did not survive survive the era.There were 100 chewed up and spit out for every success in the late 60's... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_FlNwQlBmU But ya can find remnants that will lift your soul when you least expect it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNqPwL2jbhU
I wuz drunk the day my Mom got outa prizen I wuz lookin' out da winnow at da raaaiin.... But before ah could get to da station in mah pickup truck, She got run over by a damned ol' traaaiinn. Nah, I'm sober, but my Mom is dead and it IS raining outside da winnow as I write this.... It was on my 21st birthday that I bought my first bike. That happened to be the start of the rainy season and the start of a particularly bitter Winter. That year we had snow and four straight days in the low 30's and below freezing early evening until mid morning in SF. I thought bike wear was a leather jacket and will power. It was not until April that I discovered that riding longer than 15 minutes was not an extreme test of endurance. The rainy day and the polar vortex of this Winter makes me think about riding. And about my plan to buy the fastest street legal BMW, Kawi or Aprilia Superbike (200 Hp) money could buy to celebrate my retirement and my new knees. But the surgery didn't go like I hoped. So, instead of buying runnin' shoes, I'm buying an old man's walker... Arranged shipping today. Bummer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shCQpp95uhw I still want a well set up Aprilia.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg9N6YVrzQI The hair on my eyeballs stands on end when I hear a very serious bike give that bad girl howl... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBIca9548Uw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFwS_CQHjqk http://www.sportrider.com/sportbikes/vi ... YHj3qP-DES
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The Kinda Things I Track For the 401... www.marketchess.com/2014/11/23/weekend-market-film-session-112314-video/ http://dashofinsight.com/weighing-week- ... mment-7712
Monday... I Always Said,"It's Not Like Ya Can Go Broke Selling Alcohol Or Sex"... This is scary.... http://www.businessinsider.com/many-mil ... er-2014-11 Holy Fuck!!!?!?!! http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-2 ... asino.html http://time.com/money/3600211/gao-repor ... tt-romney/
http://awealthofcommonsense.com/win-argument-market/
"But I'm too late to invest after the rise/What if right after I put my money in, it goes down?" Here's a list of reasons; http://www.rbadvisors.com/images/pdfs/t ... scared.pdf Here's the solution; There's always reasons. Do what you think is right and if it turns out to have been wrong, stop doing it. Protect your capital from both types of losses; Big All Of A Sudden Losses like being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and gradual persisent small losses like bing in cash or something that doesn't keep up with inflation. Both kinds of losses get you to the same place eventually.
Tuesday... http://marketchess.com/2014/11/25/late- ... tuesday-2/ Almost indescribably French... http://www.businessinsider.com/this-ves ... ks-2014-11
I've already had a month of
EARLY BLACK FRIDAY WEEK LIMITED TIME ONCE IN A LIFE TIME SUPER ULTRA LOW PRE-HOLIDAY HOLIDAY PRICES!!!!!!
It started in the middle of October....
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Happy Thanksgiving.... http://marketchess.com/2014/11/26/stock ... 614-video/
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Bloomfield/Butterfield... Didja hear about the time I saw the Butterfield show from about 10 feet eye to eye?
Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 08:26 PM
Free Your Mind...Your Ass Will Follow. -- George Clinton
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Onna counta cuz.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps3x-_JdIeg and w/o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNkNuVRhkks This week's Joe... https://s3.amazonaws.com/pickup-radio/audio/cream-rises-to-the-top.mp3 http://jbonamassa.com/features/2014/bon ... 20magazine
Some of the Bay Area unions locals have recently had a close encounter of the IRS kind... The locals structured their 401 plans as per consultations w/ the IRS and it was good. Until it wasn't. Whether the IRS felt that they needed to be working on something big during the duration of the financial crash, or there was a regime change and a new outlook, or it just happened, we had an extended period where allocation adjustments were not allowed while the IRS reviewed, ruminated, and reflected... So this week we finally started to emerge from that. We reorganized our 401a to the IRS's approval (again) and set in place the new mandatory contribution plus the allowable levels of voluntary contribution. Functionally, there is little difference; the changes as viewed from the participants point of view are minor. I spoke on the floor much as I speak here in my blog, mostly this time about the mandatory level of contribution... But... There's more to be said and I gotta think about what and how. You gotta click on "If yer a newcomer to the blog" to get started. But watch this space for what comes next...
It is work to do the blog, but I've been writing so long about High End Hi Fi and then Motorcycles and Money, that it is part of my nature. Then a friend and co-worker dropped by at the last union meeting and mentioned that because he was following me back in 2008 and because I'd gone to 95% cash in the 401, he wrestled with it a coupla weeks and then followed me into the GIC. And a month later, the bottom dropped out of the market and he saved himself big time. Made My Day.
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Monday... http://www.businessinsider.com/kotok-sp ... 20-2014-11 http://vimeo.com/112107487
Tuesday... Little by Little... http://www.businessinsider.com/john-thu ... ge-2014-11
Wecome To The World I Grew Up In... http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/bl ... GuqkfnF-So
WednesssDay.... Good Luck W/ That... http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... story.html http://marketchess.com/2014/11/19/stock ... 914-video/
Thursday...
It's A Middle Class Thing...http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... G4RlIvF-So
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