If you don’t like picking individual tech stocks, a good bet is the tech EFT called VGT. Here’s it compared with the S&P500\u00a0 over the past ten years. Big difference.<\/p>\n
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Useful<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n + It’s always the cable. It’s the handset cord on your phone or the cord that charges your iPhone.<\/p>\n + Don’t carry a debit card with you. If stolen, it’s easy to hack. It gives a thief direct access to your bank account. Transactions can’t be reversed and you can’t appeal them — as you can with a credit card. Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n + The biggest bargain in overseas travel is twofers in business class. You can negotiate them with your airline. Some credit cards have them also. More on which ones tomorrow.<\/p>\n + If you’re in business or first class, you can get easily get away carrying on a 25″ roll-on bag — which holds much more than the 22″ “legal” carry-on bag.<\/p>\n + YouTubeTV at $50 a month is not cheap. But it has a huge array of live and recorded<\/strong> shows, and movies. You can watch CNBC shows any time. They’re recorded. I can’t describe YouTube TV adequately. Best to play with it and see if it suits you. I like watching stuff — like live tennis — on a laptop in bed. YouTube TV is focused more on TV, while Netflix is more home-grown series and movies.<\/p>\n Really frightening reading from the weekend<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong<\/strong> Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Alcohol breath tests, a linchpin of the criminal justice system, are often unreliable,<\/strong> a New York Times investigation found.<\/p>\n Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The Truth About Income Inequality<\/strong> …\u00a0Unfortunately, official measures of income inequality, the numbers being debated, are profoundly distorted by what the Census Bureau chooses to count as household income.<\/p>\n Once you factor in taxes and Federal social welfare programs, you get a very different view of the gruesomeness of income equality. It’s not as skewed as much as you think. From the Wall Street Journal<\/em>,\u00a0 Written by Phil Gramm and John F. Early. Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A tiny pharmacy is identifying big problems with common drugs, including Zantac<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n NEW HAVEN, Conn. \u2014 The escalating global recall of Zantac, the heartburn pill that once ranked as the world\u2019s\u00a0best-selling drug<\/a>, has its roots not in government oversight or a high-profile lawsuit, but in a tiny online pharmacy here whose founders feared that U.S. drugs might not be as safe as people think.<\/p>\n For the Washington Post article, click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Bernie’s Fear<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n From The Week:<\/em><\/p>\n Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) directly\u00a0challenged<\/a>\u00a0the billionaire Michael Bloomberg during a Democratic campaign speech Saturday in Iowa. “Our campaign is going to end the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality which exists in America today,”<\/p>\n
\nFew thought it would arrive so quickly. Now we’re facing consequences once viewed as fringe scenarios. (Like many of our cities under water.)<\/p>\n
\nThe census fails to account for taxes and most welfare payments, painting a distorted picture.<\/p>\n
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