{"id":16027,"date":"2012-11-14T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T14:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=16027"},"modified":"2012-11-14T13:01:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T18:01:53","slug":"the-economy-is-mending-big-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=16027","title":{"rendered":"The economy is mending, big time."},"content":{"rendered":"
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When stocks fall from favor, they really fall in today’s yuchy stockmarket.
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And the lesson? Our inviolate Stop Loss Rule.<\/p>\n

Now this is a receipt: <\/strong>And what a receipt! You want a limo. You open the\u00a0app on your iPhone. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“You want a pick up where you are?”\u00a0 It asks.<\/p>\n

It knows exactly\u00a0 where you are because of the iPhone’s GPS. You say “Yes.” Two minutes later a nice fellow calls me and tells me he’s driving the big black limo that’s flashing its lights in the JetBlue Arrivals spot, about 50 feet from where I’m standing. Two seconds later I’m out of there, on my way back to civilization (Manhattan).. I arrive at home, leave the limo. An hour later I receive Uber’s wonderful receipt by email:<\/p>\n

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Not cheap. But, oh, such great service! Price includes the tip. The driver is happy with the price.<\/p>\n

\u00a0New Flying tips.<\/span><\/strong> From yesterday’s one-day New York to Fort Lauderdale trip:<\/p>\n

+ Bring a double power adapter along. All the outlets in the\u00a0 terminal are being used. A double adapter will let you charge your iPhone and run your laptop.<\/p>\n

+ Take as little luggage as possible. Between grotesquely obese passengers and the huge luggage they wheel on, there is no space in the overhead compartments. My favorite conversation from last night’s flight:<\/p>\n

Harry: Would you mind not banging me every time you walk by?<\/p>\n

Fat passenger: Move your arm.<\/p>\n

+ Don’t sit in the front row. There’s nowhere to put your luggage.<\/p>\n

+ Every flight is late. The delays get longer as the day wears on. The minute you have a delay, go look for another flight. Never ever book on the last flight of the day.<\/p>\n

+ Free WiFi is agonizingly slow. Take your own.\u00a0 My Verizon 4G MiFi unit played slow at the Fort Lauderdale airport, but much faster than the free airport WiFi.<\/p>\n

+ Cheap $2 plastic ear plugs are wonderful. They aren’t perfect. But they cut the babble from the antique Russian babushka sitting next to me.<\/p>\n

+ Take a Kindle. An escapist junk book — like Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em> — makes time fly.<\/p>\n

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Harry Newton who sees the signs of an improving economy: Jammed planes. Construction boom in Boston. My daughter tells me her builder is suddenly waiting for building permits. A little while back, you put in an applicaiton. It came back the next day. Now “the Boston Building Department is insane. It’s swamped.” You can easily wait a week.<\/p>\n

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When stocks fall from favor, they really fall in today’s yuchy stockmarket. And the lesson? Our inviolate Stop Loss Rule. Now this is a receipt: And what a receipt! You want a limo. You open the\u00a0app on your iPhone. “You want a pick up where you are?”\u00a0 It asks. It knows exactly\u00a0 where you are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}