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<\/a><\/p>\nWhy? Another tulip bulb craze?<\/p>\n
With tulip bulbs you could grow valuable tulips. Tulip bulbs were a tulip “factory.”<\/p>\n
But bitcoin?\u00a0\u00a0There’s no “factory” value – no earnings, no cash flow, no brands, no iPhones, no designer clothes. No nothing. Just a way for people to gamble and for crooks to transfer money anonymously.<\/p>\n
I personally feel semi-stupid — as I always do when I eye huge appreciations I missed.<\/p>\n
But I did my “analysis” and figured bitcoin made no sense.<\/p>\n
Yet it keeps going up.<\/p>\n
I can’t figure it.<\/p>\n
What should I do?<\/p>\n
Buy a little bitcoin?<\/p>\n
Eat my frustration and concentrate on stuff I actually know something about?<\/p>\n
Years of investing suggests To Oneself Be True<\/em>.<\/p>\n Which means don’t touch anything until <\/strong>you understand its dynamics — and mostly importantly understand its gotchas.<\/p>\n Gotchas are events that come out of the blue and hurt your investment.<\/p>\n They’re events that you can’t find with due diligence. Even asking the question: “What’s the worst thing that could happen?”<\/p>\n They’re events that years in the industry only alert you to.<\/p>\n Credit Suisse raises Google and Amazon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n + Amazon is uppped from $1,000 to $1,350 with an Outperform rating.<\/p>\n + Google is up to $1,350 with an Outperform rating.<\/p>\n \u00a0There. That will give excitement a whole new meaning.<\/p>\n Good ideas<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n + Don’t leave batteries in flashlights, or watches, or whatever. Over time the batteries will corrode and wreck your gadget.<\/p>\n + Recharge your car’s AC unit at least once a year. Freon deteriorates, even in your car’s closed system.<\/p>\n + Don’t throw your boarding pass away. Its barcode has a lot of personal information on you — information valuable to crooks.<\/p>\n + Ctrl + makes many things bigger in Windows. Useful for tired eyes.<\/p>\n + Rightee Tightee, Leftee Loosie<\/em> just worked when I replaced my car’s busted front light bulb.<\/p>\n + Don’t put your emergency supplies in the basement where they can be flooded.<\/p>\n + Going down stairs, always hold the railing. Hold it all the way down. The last stair is the most dangerous.<\/p>\n +\u00a0+ EyeBuyDirect has the best glasses, the cheapest glasses and the best service. I cannot recommend them more highly. Here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Don’t even think about visiting Turkey — Part 2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Turkey just sentenced a Wall Street Journal reporter to jail because it didn’t like her story.<\/p>\n + Read the Journal’s story on her sentencing here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n + Read the story that got the reporter into hot water here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n If you visit Turkey, you are in serious danger of being arrested on made-up charges of assisting last year’s failed coup. You now become a pawn which Turkey needs to seek the extradition of\u00a0Fethullah G\u00fclen, 76, now living in\u00a0Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n A wise man once said, Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.\u00a0G\u00fclen is Turkey’s effective absolute boss. It’s sad. The country and its people are wonderful.<\/p>\n Facebook stock is doing well.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n This year, so far:<\/p>\n I don’t spend time on Facebook. Maybe I should? I love this:<\/p>\n 60Minutes<\/em> did an engrossing piece on how the Trump Campaign so successfully used Facebook and Twitter to target voters with pitches tailored to their beliefs. It was brilliant. Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Some of you are too young to remember where my today’s heading comes from. It’s from the first film I ever saw. I was five.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nHarry Newton, who believes that, one day, a smoke detector will save his life. Meantime, there’s one that’s driving him nuts with constant beeping. Time to get out and play tennis.<\/p>\n