{"id":15949,"date":"2012-11-09T09:06:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T14:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=15949"},"modified":"2012-11-09T13:56:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T18:56:56","slug":"im-fed-up-im-out-of-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=15949","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;m fed up. I&#8217;m out of here.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yass_top_edge_dummy\" style=\"width: 1px; height: 1px; padding: 0px; margin: -11px 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; display: block; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yass_top_edge\" style=\"background-image: url('chrome:\/\/yass\/content\/edgebgtop.png'); background-attachment: scroll; background-position: center bottom; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px -10px; border-width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; width: 1px; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; text-align: left;\">Pissed-off rich Republicans are dumping their stocks. They think Obama will crash the economy, nationalize their businesses and kill the stockmarket. Actually the stockmarket boomed in his first term &#8212; but then why let facts interfere with warm irrational fear?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; text-align: left;\">Meantime, the more legitimate reason to sell now is to lock in gains (if you have any) before taxes skyrocket next year &#8212; as they most assuredly will. Get out of big dividend-paying stocks as they will most assuredly crash when dividends get taxes at much higher rates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; text-align: left;\">One rich Republican. <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m outta the stockmarket. I&#8217;m gong back to\u00a0 dirt (real estate).&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Big (old) report on REITs from Cantor-Fitzgerald.<\/strong><\/span> The report covers multifamily housing self-storage, office, industrial and data centers &#8212; but not mortgage. The analyst remains &#8220;positive&#8221; but &#8220;only barely &#8212; as precious little has changed in the world to after our macro view, yet the stock has surged on yield and flow. Click <strong><a title=\"REITs BEAT from Cantor Fitzgerald\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/REITS-BEAT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">REITS BEAT<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u00a0How<em> Gangnan Style<\/em> went viral.<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This music video has been viewed 672 million times on YouTube &#8212; a record beyond all other records.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>All my friends are learning how to dance Gangnan Style.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9bZkp7q19f0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How Gangnan Style went viral. Click <a title=\"How Gangman Style went viral\" href=\"http:\/\/socialmediatoday.com\/laurahelen\/980476\/how-did-gangnam-style-go-viral?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Social+Media+Today+%28all+posts%29\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How to buy the clicks that go viral &#8211; a brilliant spoof. Click <a title=\"Buy clicks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buyral.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The best way to get a sharp digital photo:\u00a0 <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lower your ISO to 100, or less if you can. Your shots will look like they were taken with a camera ten times the price.<\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The best line from the election:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><em>&#8220;You know your party is in trouble when people ask did the rape guy win, and you have to ask which one?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>&#8220;The best of the shit that&#8217;s out there.<\/strong><\/span>&#8221; That&#8217;s how my broker described a muni bond that pays 1% to the call in 2015 and 4.35% to maturity in 2039 (if it doesn&#8217;t get called). Whoopee! That&#8217;s today&#8217;s <strong>big<\/strong> gamble. Will interest rates be higher in 2015? If Bernanke&#8217;s around, the answer is NO. But, fortunately,\u00a0 he won&#8217;t be around. He&#8217;s leaving in 2014. His theory is that low interest rates stimulates business to borrow and invest. My theory is business invests when the opportunity arises and then factors in the interest<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>I get phone calls.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><em>Do you remember me?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">No.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><em>No big deal. You are familiar with Wendys?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">Yes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><em>The symbol is WEN. It&#8217;s trading at $4.39 &#8212; We have a $7 number on it in the short term.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">OH.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><em>A Brooklyn billionaire called XXXX. You know him? He is chasing WEN after doing well on Dominoes. Wendys is doing what\u00a0 McDonalds has done:\u00a0 Expanding, going overseas, etc. Let me buy you some stock? You&#8217;ll be happy when it goes to $6.50? Correct?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Two engrossing movies:<\/strong><\/span> <em>Skyfal<\/em>l and <em>Flight.<\/em> Skyflall is James Bond 007 like you never saw him. Flight is Denzel Washington like you never seen him &#8212; an alcoholic airline pilot who saves passenger lives when he lands his stricken plane and becomes s dubious hero until they discover he was flying drunk. Nice review of Skyfall in <a title=\"Rolling Stone review of Skyfall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/reviews\/skyfall-20121108?utm_source=dailynewsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rolling Stone.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/HarryNewtonNewShot2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"HarryNewtonNewShot\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/HarryNewtonNewShot2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Harry Newton who says watch out for the states. They&#8217;re desperate for revenue. They&#8217;re making penalties and interest up. You need to have proof of when you mailed or onlined\u00a0 stuff in. It&#8217;s not only the money &#8212; though that&#8217;s annoying &#8212; it&#8217;s the aggravation of dealing with it all. The wasted time understanding their insane, inconsistent correspondence. Yuch!<\/p>\n<div id=\"yass_bottom_edge\" style=\"background-image: url('chrome:\/\/yass\/content\/edgebgbot.png'); background-position: 0px 0px; position: absolute; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; height: 0px; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 100%; display: block;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pissed-off rich Republicans are dumping their stocks. They think Obama will crash the economy, nationalize their businesses and kill the stockmarket. Actually the stockmarket boomed in his first term &#8212; but then why let facts interfere with warm irrational fear? 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