In Search of the Perfect Investment

I shop Apple

The local Palm Desert Apple Store is mobbed at 6:30 PM last night. Geriatrics and their children are lapping up iPhone X like there was no tomorrow.

One ancient geyser insisted on instant service, “since I might not be alive to return tomorrow.”

I’m trying to buy a Apple Watch. They tell me I’m young enough to come back tomorrow morning. Or better, order it online and pick it up in the morning. Which I did.

I don’t understand the excitement with the iPhone X. I really like my iPhone 7 plus. It doesn’t recognize my wizened face, but it does recognize my intelligent thumb.

I’m figuring Apple will hit $200 soon.

I buy some GE

I harken to 2009. Big companies were selling for pennies and later came roaring back. Now GE is selling for pennies.

Several insiders have made large share purchases.

GE’s business is a mess, largely messed up by previous management.

Now GE has new management. There’s enough salvageable big businesses inside GE for the new guys to make something really good with it. A doubling of the GE share price in two years is not out of the question.

That’s my entire reason. Here’s five years of GE. Buy when there’s blood flowing in the streets:

Why you need three browsers

+ Some don’t work on some web sites — like bank or credit card sites. Especially after the bank fiddles with them (also called “updating”). I use Google Chrome, but I also keep Firefox and Internet Explorer on my machine. Last Thursday night, Citibank didn’t work with Chrome, but did with Firefox. Go figure!

Courtesy

+ If you visit Harry looking for venture money, send harry a “Thank you for seeing us” email. And keep Harry informed. Harry will not give you money because of your pretty PowerPoint deck. He likes to see something more substantive, perhaps something resembling a private placement memorandum (PPM). And references and logic!

+ If you go away, don’t do this:

Check your emails regularly and reply to your poor suffering clients — like me.

+ Don’t tell your potential customers that the reason you won’t bargain is because “We have to keep the lights on.”

I have a pile of 25 WATT bulbs. I give one to each vendor who won’t cut his prices.

You’d have to be nuts to reply to this

How to get Harry to open your spam email

The photos weren’t that good.

The 50 most beautiful places to visit in the U.S. , courtesy Conde Nast Traveler

Here are some of my favorite places in the U.S.

For all 50, click here.

Poetic Justice

That’s a parking ticket on the windshield.

Harry Newton, who was a bit worried about Square yesterday, But it’s come back a little. I doubt I’d buy it at these airy levels.

Yes, we did have satellites in 1967, when I first arrived in the U.S. But we didn’t have all the other stuff I talked about in yesterday’s column, when I was trying to figure out what technology might look like soon and hence, which stocks to buy now.

Next time you bring me grandchildren, make sure they’re healthy. I am sicker than my dog.