Jes' Yer Friendly Neighborhood Ol' Broked Down Retahr'd Union Pipefitter...... and his 401 Plan 

Nothing is private. Nothing. By this time next year your Avi will all be a naked selfie or your salary, whichever is more embarrassing.
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Saw him @ the 'mo and Keystone Korner. Blew my mind....
http://jazztimes.com/articles/17992-rah ... lt-of-kirk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cI8BQIvwQg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiI2ZHmxPPo




Investing your 401 is easy.... after you know how. Which is hard to learn...

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... azy-we-are











Monday...
https://vimeo.com/129483305


Tuesday....
http://marketchess.com/2015/06/02/stock ... 15-video-1
http://dashofinsight.com/weighing-the-w ... c-rebound/

Still way long stocks...Work it until it breaks.


Wednesday....
I'm reasonably polite to a fair number of people. Few really impress me. Here...
http://dashofinsight.com/how-to-think-about-risk/

https://vimeo.com/129713663


Thursday...
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... noah-smith






















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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.













Gawd, I love campaign season....
http://www.businessinsider.com/mike-huc ... fox-2015-5




















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Sure, money’s something we only need if we don’t die tomorrow, but most of us live a long ass time.
-- John LeFevre









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RIP

Long Live The King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqUhdBAJfsk












Tuesday...
https://vimeo.com/128306792


HUGE!!!!!

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/05/bi ... ople-make/

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... -fast-food




Thursday...
Real data...
http://www.vox.com/2015/5/21/8631863/ob ... rmedbroker
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/05/ho ... -dynamics/

What I used to do, what my son is learning to do...











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Reagan is still dead. 1980s nostalgia bands are fine, but trying to revive 1980s economic policies in today’s context gets more wrong every year.
-- Mark Dow










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Geetahr Player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUDWJhdw5MM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKE3itL4ApY



























Far Fuckin' Out...
http://www.businessinsider.com/were-wit ... ion-2015-5



Monday...
http://marketchess.com/2015/05/10/weeke ... s-05-10-15
http://www.businessinsider.com/it-doesn ... ers-2015-5
JEEZUSS!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=49&v=YQbPewOXukw


Tuesday...
https://vimeo.com/127532800

























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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









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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/








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








Thursday...
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... e-autobahn















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The market is the final word, no matter what everyone on Twitter retweets and favorites
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The Market On Monday...
https://vimeo.com/126058139


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A heavily-analyzed, globally-traded commodity can go down fifty percent in response to relatively modest changes in fundamentals.
Therefore, you might want to take the predictions you hear and the models you rely upon with a truckload of salt.
-- Tom Brakke







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My idea of some serious Saturday AM recreation...
http://www.superbikeplanet.com/image/ar ... ve/nash15/


Tuesday,,,
This whole water thing...
http://graphics.latimes.com/food-water-footprint/
Market Stuff...
https://vimeo.com/125619485


Thurday...
http://marketchess.com/2015/04/22/stock ... p-04-22-15


















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GRRRRRRR!!! 

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Jes' Annuder Ol' Broked Down Retahrd Union Pipefitter And His 401 Defined Contribution Plan.... Post Easter Special... 

Everyone forgets the lessons of the financial crisis. Even those who survived it cannot recall the emotional feelings of how hard it is not to sell (what you think is cheap and worth holding onto) or buy (what you think is a great bargain) when the entire news and investment industry is bearish.
-- Jacob Wolinsky







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Auld And Neu....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=99&v=ALiszWbLu2U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN-kU6fHPiI






Bummer....

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... -you-think








Da Fundz an' How Der Doin'.....




My Account, What I Got An' Where...





Theatre Of The Absurd



Sunday...

Trader shit. WAY beyond what I need to run my 401. But I LIKe the idea of trimming my nails like I'm a brain surgeon...
https://vimeo.com/124758301


Monday...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... heir-lawns



























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Unsustainable things can last years, even decades, longer than people think.
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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/









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





How the fundz inna 401 are doin'.....







How my account is doin'.....








Big Cap US stocks.... Which is to say international and dollar exposure...







Smaller Cap Stocks.... Think domestic markets, cheap energy, earnings in dollars....






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/








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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It turns out that charts from 1929 don’t matter in 2015. They might be good for page views, but not so much at determining what will happen.
-- Ryan Detrick









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Rory...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMOyrSgas3k
Rory Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RVZ15JeBSM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Jaodra7AY








It's a California Thing....
http://www.pragcap.com/the-usa-is-addic ... ter-prices








How the Fundz are doin'



How my account is doin'....
















Tuesday...
Trash Talkin' Banker....
http://www.businessinsider.com/jamie-di ... nes-2015-3
Part II...
http://www.businessinsider.com/jp-morga ... ies-2015-3

Not out front like a liquor store robbery...
http://www.businessinsider.com/columbus ... ose-2015-3
More like, "Here. Let me hold that for you..."


























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I learned from David Kay, ex-CEO of Nick Schorsch’s American Realty Capital Properties Inc. that “one plus one equals three” in certain related party transactions. That is, until it doesn’t.
-- Bruce Kelly








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Play Yer Guitar, Robben!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsvSVtXRu7A





Learning about TV....
http://stratechery.com/2015/changing-un ... ucture-tv/


http://www.outsideonline.com/adventure- ... ravel.html
http://www.thenation.com/article/201321 ... austerity#

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... ls-america





How some of the fundz are doin'...




How much I got where.....






















Important!!! Pass it on to a capitalist you know....

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-f ... ity-2015-3

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-f ... ity-2015-3

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-f ... ity-2015-3




Home Town News...
http://www.businessinsider.com/californ ... gun-2015-3


Tuesday...

The battle goes on...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... er-for-uaw























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“The theory of scattering one’s investments over as many fields as possible might be the wisest plan on the assumption of comprehensive ignorance. Very likely that would be the safer assumption to make.”
— J.M. Keynes









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Larry Coryell and Eleventh House....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM_MX5gFDPg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ3f5_UqJpc









How Some Of The Fundz Did Last Week......





How I Did Last Week....



If you think this is not overhanging the market, you're maybe a bit oblivious....
http://www.businessinsider.com/whats-ha ... sia-2015-3
Stay tooned....





Here's A Graphic That Goes Well With The "If Your A First Timer" Link Above








ChessNWine....
view from 10k feet. 401 info...
https://vimeo.com/122244643


Tuesday....
ChessNWine
https://vimeo.com/122470808






Wednesday...
Post FED Meeting....
ChessNWine
https://vimeo.com/122576378





First Quarter YTD Looks Pretty Good....







http://www.pragcap.com/three-things-i-t ... ed-edition
















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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






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Old man kickin' the kids inta line. Saw him in the 80's every time he came into town. The band drove like a steam locomotive...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcEKAWZ1Nbk
This is the original....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8q6sR6yZCE


Back to the 50's and 60's... Not the good part.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-worl ... war-2015-3


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...


http://www.slate.com/articles/business/ ... table.html
































Sunday...
WineNChessNWine....
https://vimeo.com/121606384

Monday...
ChessNWine
https://vimeo.com/121714343





Tuesday...
So much out there onna internet beside cat pichers and videos, you face sites and porn....
http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2015/03/dea ... me-to.html

It's All Great Fun.... until he's your lawyer or in the back seat when you get stopped...
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-does ... son-2015-3

CHESSNWINE...
https://vimeo.com/121826480

Wed ....
ChessNWine
https://vimeo.com/121933132


Thursday....
https://vimeo.com/122039909




















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Avoiding folly is easier than trying to be brilliant.
-- Shane Parrish








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WFO Last Week...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Aud7AwGGb4

Groove This Week....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Vp4XnKWDM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7E3Q8SmzTE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4f6UpEcmCI


Ana' low down dirty blooze.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZB57b3lPQE





In fucking credible.....
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/5/7981461/neg ... tes-europe
http://www.maliceforall.com/2015/02/obama-vs-savers/


Another one bites the dust...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPF-Tx1QmVY





Been there, suffered that. One of Ronnie Rayguns buddys on realizing that the University of California owned a lot of rare and historical books suggested selling them to private collectors with borrowing privileges and using the money to cut taxes. Arthur Hoppe said, "Draw the line at the dictionary. We need one of those..." All the while, Republicans make their own argument for increased spending on education...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense ... src=fol_tw





How the fundz are doin'....




What I'm doin'....


Politics a usual. And I see that as the best of a bad situation...
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-stunni ... ess-2015-2


Kinda the ULTIMATE self regulation, kinda like the "We don't need no unconstitutional restaurant hygene regulations" from last week.
http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavio ... al-company

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/magaz ... trust.html



http://fundamentalis.com/?p=4575









INFO.....
Winenchessnwine....
https://vimeo.com/120886823
http://marketchess.com/2015/03/01/weeke ... 1-15-video
Jeff.....
http://dashofinsight.com/weighing-the-w ... ed-policy/


http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/03/ki ... -movement/

Monday...
Money and the ability to prosper from someone else's pile of it. Empire building and advice with cost and without responsibility.
http://www.financial-planning.com/news/ ... gination=1
http://scholarfp.blogspot.com/2015/02/w ... ppose.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/tilson-r ... ors-2015-3

Food for thought...
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-c ... war-2015-3

Tuesday...
Meanwhile, back at the ranch....
http://www.businessinsider.com/jimmy-ki ... ion-2015-3
It's someplace inna future.... the timing is a bitch...


Wednesday...
Focus on the shiny dangly things.... Ya gotta admire the magnitude of the ambition that blows through every limit of sliminess.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... mself-down





Thursday...
Buy me a beer next time we meet and allow me to tell you tales of the internet days. I worked inna Valley 92 to 2000 and Valley North 2000 to 2013.
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-this ... 000-2015-3
I worked with a guy who made a ton of money working at EXODUS Communications and lost it all when the stock went from the $60s to $0.


winenChessNwine
https://vimeo.com/121402902






















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The conspiracy theorists fail to understand the basics of econometric modeling and how these numbers are calculated. Consider the rise in unemployment in the January nonfarm payrolls report. More than a million people returned to the job market last month, raising the unemployment rate from 5.6 percent to 5.7. Hence, we have a deep dark secret. It has been craftily hidden by the illuminati, Freemasons and Trilateral Commission, unless you know the secret handshake, or are familiar with a small, esoteric company called "Google.”
-- Barry Ritholtz







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WFO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Aud7AwGGb4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbUCUjsZm9E







Money....
http://www.pragcap.com/glenn-beck-and-r ... ss-the-fed
Facinating History...
http://www.businessinsider.com/john-may ... ium-2015-2
Wheels within wheels...
http://www.businessinsider.com/deflatio ... ous-2015-2




How Some Of The Funds Are Doin' YTD...





Not Paying Attention Cost Me Some Bucks Last Year. I'm keeping a closer Eye This Year. I'm Expecting To Do More Like I Used To vs The Balanced/Pooled Fund....

Saturday....
While I was coffeeing up inna AM....

http://www.businessinsider.com/greece-h ... -it-2015-2

http://www.businessinsider.com/tech-bubble-chart-2015-2
http://www.businessinsider.com/opec-may ... nds-2015-2

Disclosure; I'm invested in AMRN....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-hXmANIcfg
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/02/su ... ng-dollar/
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2015/ ... reece.html


Sunday....

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/0 ... oore/?_r=0


My Thinking For The Week.... So Far...
http://dashofinsight.com/weighing-the-w ... m-housing/
https://vimeo.com/120299631










Monday...
http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/on ... -arguments
https://vimeo.com/120411773




Still cautiously way long; Been talkin' to Jeff and Listening to Chessnwine...

Tuesday...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/sunda ... .html?_r=0
I'm a long hair lefty UC Berserkleyite at heart, but I'm an intelligent and pragmatic one
http://www.businessinsider.com/merkel-h ... ion-2015-2
https://vimeo.com/120523284

Wednesday...
Things are different elsewhere....
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is- ... lem-2015-2













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Whether bull market or bear market, fear mongering sells.
-- Ari Wald






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Onna Counta 'Cuz....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20i7ycToA9g











How Some Of The Fund Have Done YTD.....




Where I Have My Money And How I'm Doing YTD....









It always mattered. It it is not always recognized...
Warriors coach Steve Kerr had nutrition and sleep as key parts of his plan for the Golden State Warriors lined out prior to his job interview. And that's just a game...
http://www.nbcnews.com/pages/weathermen

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best ... cks-2015-2
http://www.pragcap.com/defending-the-indefensible
http://www.pragcap.com/the-big-lesson-f ... en-buffett


Serious good analysis and trading concepts....
http://marketchess.com/2015/02/15/weeke ... 5-15-video













http://www.businessinsider.com/german-e ... elf-2015-2

Monday....
Stop me if you've heard this one before....
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... in-trouble

Tuesday...
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-i ... ote-2015-2
https://vimeo.com/119894591

Wednesday....
http://blogs.einstein.yu.edu/how-to-cau ... asy-steps/
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/arc ... ts/384980/

Thursday...

Jeezus!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opini ... .html?_r=1

[/h24]


and back to money inna 401
https://vimeo.com/120096834















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If anything ever goes wrong, it’s always easiest to just blame Obama. If things go right, blame Obama anyway.
-- Kid Dynamite





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Nils Lofgren of Crazy Horse and E Street Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcTcPzZoXB4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQjExmkCKF4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT0j-UIGe9k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNBLOx7X7zk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iAZPH1dVzc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tvtq8lZbT0


http://dashofinsight.com/weighing-week-ahead-time-risk/
http://thereformedbroker.com/2015/02/08 ... the-facts/
http://vimeo.com/119058604







http://theweek.com/articles/537464/gop- ... party-math
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/won ... years-ago/
http://www.pragcap.com/debt-more-than-s ... -ourselves







This Monday I'm moving $500 (x2) out of bonds and into midcaps... the Principal and the Perkins Funds. Internationally, things look messy. Politically, things look messy. Jeff Miller and Josh Brown look past that. I'll throw a coupla dollars that way too.




http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/02/tds-mr-unclean/
















http://www.businessinsider.com/greece-h ... eel-2015-2
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-m ... rus-2015-2
http://thereformedbroker.com/2015/02/08 ... the-facts/
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front ... i=15942483
http://www.pragcap.com/the-federal-rese ... of-dollars


Tuesday...

What keeps most of California from being a desert are the winter rains... While the Northeast looks like this, We've one two day rainy patch in the 1st 45 days of the year. Back one winter inna late 60's I lived through 14 days of rain without a break...




Laffed out loud....
http://fortune.com/2015/02/09/shark-tan ... t-pitches/
http://vimeo.com/119284048



Wednesday...
Gotta face reality.. Days of plant whistles, brass shacks, and company stores are in the past. I came out of UC Berkeley and made a pretty fair pipefighter...


Thursday...
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-new- ... oto-2015-2
http://www.businessinsider.com/adam-sav ... ers-2015-2








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Jes' Annuder Ol' Broked Down Retahrd Union Pipefitter And His 401 Defined Contribution Plan....  

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









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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Deflategate? Really? 

"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















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



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











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...


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....  

"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



















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





The 2014-15 Performance Of Some Of The Funds Inna 401...




2015 Broken Out....










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.... 

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/














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


First Ya Gotta Get A Buncha People To Agree...






This is a chart of many of the funds available to my 401...







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.... 

“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"....








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



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.... 

“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



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...





For now..... Stay Tooned....










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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“The average long-term experience in investing is never surprising, but the short term experience is always surprising. We now know to focus not on rate of return, but on the informed management of risk”
- Charles Ellis



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http://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-b ... ss-2014-12
http://www.businessinsider.com/howard-m ... il-2014-12
http://www.vox.com/2014/12/18/7413229/n ... -hack-sony
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/ ... 35-in.html
















The S&P 500 are large caps. Solid large conservative co's. Somewhat unexciting... Stocks in the S&P 500 won't double in 2 years unless it's out of a crash like 2008.





The IWM is mid and small caps. Money goes to play there when things are good. And runs for the hills rather than get caught there if there is a rumor of the possibility of things going bad. But they can double every two years after a good year, or in a day on a buyout.




My 401 has mutual funds, which are diverified. It mutes the successes AND the failures. And mostly follows the big trends. EuroPacific and Small Cap fund is down this year. No surprize. But Midcaps is up... Why the different directions? Gotta think about this...




SunDay...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... p;hpid=z14

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-the ... ng-2014-12


http://vimeo.com/115120657

Monday...


http://25iq.com/2014/12/19/a-dozen-thin ... s-of-life/
http://csen.tumblr.com/post/10570009038 ... nk-about-a



http://pragcap.com/what-do-passive-inve ... -investing



Tuesday.... Been There, Grew Up During That....
http://www.businessinsider.com/john-sch ... 15-2014-12
















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“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....








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





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 

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...





Yee Haa!
http://www.businessinsider.com/oil-pric ... ws-2014-12
Warriors...
http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=400578597







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








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' Annuder Ol' Broked Down Retahrd Union Pipefitter And His 401 Defined Contribution Plan.... 

“In economics, crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought.”
-- Rudiger Dornbusch
"Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes."
-- Nikita Khrushchev



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Not What You'd Expect...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF-YkqAbIh8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsEsSB5390I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_77ZYudLOw4





BIG Changes Inna World...
http://www.businessinsider.com/oil-comp ... 28-2014-11
http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-ha ... ty-2014-11
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/obama-an ... z3KOjkUsD6
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-inside ... il-2014-11
http://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-ar ... te-2014-11
http://www.businessinsider.com/putins-p ... ng-2014-11
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-low- ... my-2014-11
Not That I Haven't Seen Big Changes Before...
Thing is, Like it or not, ya gotta live in this world today. Kennedy to Nixon to Carter to Reagan to Clinton to Bush To Obama to whoever, Change is the order of the day. Hang on, it's always an interesting if not always comfortable ride...

Ana Hits Keep On Comin'....
http://www.businessinsider.com/crude-oi ... 67-2014-11





Long And Strong In Stocks...
The collapse of oil will work wonders for the near term...




The market is definitely WAY over extended. Can it get even more over extended? That's how I'm thinkin'...














It ain't money or retirement (or maybe it is) but it is important...
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the ... detection/
Yeah, Ferguson....
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... eason.html

Monday...
Think about it...
http://dashofinsight.com/weighing-week- ... me-digest/
http://www.businessinsider.com/david-ko ... es-2014-12






Tuesday....
Geopolitics
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... s-a-defeat
Far Fuckin' Out...
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-puti ... in-2014-12
Could is not will...
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... weak-ruble
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/opec-i ... 2014-12-02
Bloombergs is a capitilist oriented outlet. Doesn't mean that they're not right on...
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... e-ferguson
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... nfl-wanted
The Conundrum Of Information That Informs You Of How Little Use More Information Is. I Pay Money For This Information... i Find It Useful...
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/taking-s ... z3KmbMvC00

I'm a long time union guy. Heaven help those who are not. Those who rely on an employer being forced to raise wages after he's exhausted all other options...
http://economistsview.typepad.com/timdu ... onder.html

Wednesday.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/12/oil-part-2/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-0 ... ebate.html
It Aint Like We Didn't see It coming.... AGAIN!!!!!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plu ... economics/

Thursday...
There's an inevitabiliousness to the ineviability of it all...slippery slope an all that...
http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-ru ... ar-2014-12
http://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey- ... ar-2014-12

http://pragcap.com/can-a-debt-crisis-be ... -more-debt

http://vimeo.com/113649847





















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Jes' Anudder Ol' Broked Down Retahrd Pipefitter.... 

“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










http://thereformedbroker.com/2014/11/21 ... r-clients/
http://pragcap.com/3-no-brainer-policie ... -implement









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....



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?  

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.














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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