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<\/a><\/p>\nI do need to start thinking out of the box — away from tech and away from FANG.<\/p>\n
My “problem” is that the stockmarket feels (at least to me) to be too much like gambling.<\/p>\n
I am attracted to real estate — because there are some genuine bargains around. I’ve bought into a couple of syndications this week.<\/p>\n
It’s a good time to look for multi-family apartment buildings. Offer a ridiculously low price and see if you can snag something by year end.<\/p>\n
Stupid me. I pushed the wrong money market fund<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n I pushed Fidelity’s SPAXX. Its seven day yield is 1.86%<\/p>\n Vanguard has VUSXX. Its seven day yield is 2.26%<\/p>\n Vanguard’s management fee is much lower, also.<\/p>\n Thank you, reader John Hinson, for pointing out my idiocy.<\/p>\n Meantime…<\/p>\n Read this review of Michelle Obama’s new book “Becoming”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n It’s the number one best-selling non-fiction book.<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/em> wrote a wonderful review. I cried. Please read it. Click here.<\/strong><\/a> You can buy the book here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n How the fight started. Totally tasteless “humor”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift.<\/p>\n The next year, I didn’t buy her a gift.<\/p>\n When she asked me why, I replied,<\/p>\n “Well, you still haven’t used the gift I bought you last year!”<\/p>\n ++++++++++++++++++++<\/p>\n My wife and I were sitting at a table at her high school reunion, and she kept staring at a drunken man swigging his drink as he sat alone at a nearby table.<\/p>\n I asked her, “Do you know him?”<\/p>\n “Yes”,she sighed,<\/p>\n “He’s my old boyfriend. I understand he took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear he hasn’t been sober since.”<\/p>\n “My Gosh!” I said, “Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?”<\/p>\n ++++++++++++++++++++<\/p>\n After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply for Social Security.<\/p>\n The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver’s license to verify my age.<\/p>\n I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home. I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later.<\/p>\n The woman said, ‘Unbutton your shirt’.<\/p>\n So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair.<\/p>\n She said, ‘That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me’ and she processed my Social Security application.<\/p>\n When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office.<\/p>\n She said, ‘You should have dropped your pants. You might have gotten disability too.’<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nHarry Newton. Here’s my favorite Christmas grandchild photo. They took Zoe to the Museum of Firefighting in Hudson New York. (Here.<\/strong><\/a>) Zoe loved it:<\/p>\n