It requires discipline to avoid the noise. I don’t have it. I get caught up in it.the local government finance crisis is real. Should I sell all my muni bonds because of the upcoming disaster? I”m still mulling and examining each of the muni bonds I still own but the answer is likely to be to dump a few. But stick with the bulk.
Meanwhile the end of the year bubble continues in equities. I bought a little more yesterday.
Big speculation / tip of the week: AMRN.
Can you believe Tesla, the unprofitable car company?
15 Awesome Things We Learned From The (Awesome) 1985 Steve Jobs Playboy Interview.
Here’s one:
“My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs. Things changed in the fourth grade, though. One of the saints in my life is this woman named Imogene Hill, who was a fourth-grade teacher who taught this advanced class. She got hip to my whole situation in about a month and kindled a passion in me for learning things. I learned more that year than I think I learned in any year in school. They wanted to put me in high school after that year, but my parents very wisely wouldn’t let them.”
He’s a talented man. Read the others. Click here.
Children need to learn generosity. Why don’t kids hold doors? Why don’t kids say thank you? Why don’t kids help? Item: A young graduate begged a meeting from me for career advice. The meeting was at a local coffee shop He let me buy my own coffee and bagel. He me clean up after myself. In a later email exchange he asked “if I got something out of meeting?” I said I hadn’t. End of email exchange.
I suspect that kids learn from their parents. It’s our fault. It was a useful meeting (for him) but left a taste in my mouth that I’d been abused. He was stupid burning that bridge.
From now on, it’s gets longer.
Today marks the 2010 winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the shortest day of the year. From now until the summer solstice, which occurs on June 21 or 22, we can look forward to increasingly longer daylight. And maybe I’ll eventually get warm.
There, I finally brought some learning (and some sun) into your life.
It’s been cold in the North-East. But nothing like Russia.
This is sick, but funny. It’s entitled, “The Real Threat at San Francisco International Airport.”
Christmas approaches.
As George had a habit of giving his wife strange Christmas gifts, she was not surprised when he came one night carrying a tiny, branchless tree. Attached to a lone limb was a shotgun shell.
“All right, George,” said his wife, truly stumped this time.
“What is it?”
“Why, honey.” George smiled, “it’s a cartridge in a bare tree.”
Harry Newton thinks maybe Santa had the right idea. Visit people just once a year. This week, I’ll fill your stocking with the worst (i.e. best) Christmas “jokes.” I have started this morning. Even worse Christmas puns to come.
Superb blog post, I have book marked this internet site so ideally I’ll see much more on this subject in the foreseeable future!
Re: lunch. I'm retired, but sometimes substitute in the local high school. It's been my experience that gracious acts are seldom even acknowledged, let alone thanked. Oh, and here's a trophy my precious little one for simply occupying space and breathing the air.
The first thing to do in order to 'turn off the noise' is to turn off CNBC. Worthless dreck and drivel.
Yes. That's why I call it BubbleVision. I tend to leave the sound off and look at the pretty girls and the occasional numbers.
If he had offered to buy your bagel and coffee…would you have made him pay for it?
Yes. For $3. He had plenty of money and even more Chutzpah.