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<\/a><\/p>\nThe chart comes from http:\/\/www.barchart.com\/stocks\/high.php<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Annaly is holding in.<\/strong> <\/span>It’s yielding 11%. And it’s selling about 15% below book value. Its latest earnings report was fine.\u00a0 Put a buy order in a t $10.50. You might snag some.<\/p>\n This is total nonsense:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n But I understand why the Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch published it — because their reporters are short of resources to do serious research. So they fill space with upcoming busts and the 15 stocks to rise 189% in the next year. Remember who owns Dow Jones — Rupert Murdoch. He’s originally Australian (like me). Australian journalism favors output, not in-depth research. Trust me on this one. I spent six years as a financial reporter for the Australian Financial Review. It was fun writing what I wanted — with no one to check.<\/p>\n The FCC rules on net neutrality. <\/strong>Net neutrality<\/span><\/span> sort of means we all should have equal access to the Internet. In reality,\u00a0it appears that the FCC has actually done nothing, yet (except a minor municipal ruling ina couple of towns). They\u2019re trying to appease both sides of the net neutrality issue\u2026. Yes, we\u2019ll regulate it. But, no, we won\u2019t enforce it.<\/p>\n The sad part is they didn’t address speed and cost. In the U.S. we get too little speed for too much cost.\u00a0 The New York Times has a piece “Why the U.S. Has Fallen Behind in Internet Speed and Affordability,<\/em>” which contains this fascinating chart:<\/p>\n What I’ve learned from working with Time Warner in California’s Coachella Valley:<\/p>\n 1. They don’t deliver what they promise — the first time. You have to keep calling back. It gives waste of time a whole new meaning.<\/p>\n 2. You have to check the speed they promised. They overpromise and under-deliver. Check your speed here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n 3. You have to check the equipment they sent. It’s usually wrong.<\/p>\n 4. They will give you an introductory deal if you call back — several times. I finally got my speed up to 32 megs\/second.<\/p>\n 5. They add spurious charges to your monthly bills — but they will erase them — if you beg.<\/p>\n In short, CHECK. CHECK. CHECK.<\/p>\n You have to waste your time dealing with this nonsense because there’s no other decent supplier. Verizon seems to have opted out.<\/p>\n You can read the entire NYTimes piece here. <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A real reason to subscribe to T-Mobile.<\/strong> <\/span>Start with two facts: First, it has the worst through-the-air cell phone service. Second, it’s the cheapest cell-phone provider.<\/p>\n Walk into our new Indian Wells, California house with a T-Mobile phone, you won’t get any service. None. Niente. No bars.<\/p>\n But turn on T-Mobile’s Wi-Fi service,\u00a0 suddenly you get crystal clear calling — in and out. It’s magic.<\/p>\n No other cell phone provider has Wi-Fi calling. I don’t know why. But T-Mobile has it and it’s the real McCoy. A real reason to get T-Mobile in places where cellphone service is awful\u00a0 — like Verizon service at our Indian Wells home (which drops every call.)<\/p>\n My three favorite technologies:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n + Waze. Best GPS system out. Finds places and addresses. Alerts you to police. Sends you on alternate routes when yours is blocked.<\/p>\n + Slingbox. Lets me watch TV captured on my Verizon FiOS PVR in New York, which Time Warner in California denies me.<\/p>\n + Mophie battery. Doubles the battery life on my iPhone. Best iPhone case.<\/p>\n Own your own business: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n + You are boss. You are in control.<\/p>\n + Your own business pays you double –a salary and when you sell the business. (You rarely get the double hit if you work for someone else.)<\/p>\n + There’s no business you can’t improve, with intelligence, hard work and attention to your customers. I dropped by a Radio Shack store last night. Amazing: They actually had stuff I wanted to buy. And did! First time in years.<\/p>\n The shock value sure gets attention. <\/strong>T<\/span><\/span>he theory is that anything that existed before Mohammed didn’t exist. So destroy it.ISIS just destroyed a museum in Mosul containing irreplaceable art from the ancient Assyrian empire. From today’s New York Times.<\/p>\n ISIS Onslaught Engulfs Assyrian Christians as Militants Destroy Ancient Art.<\/strong><\/p>\n ISTANBUL – The reports are like something out of a distant era of ancient conquests: entire villages emptied, with hundreds taken prisoner, others kept as slaves; the destruction of irreplaceable works of art; a tax on religious minorities, payable in gold.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n