{"id":48696,"date":"2019-12-09T09:16:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T14:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=48696"},"modified":"2019-12-09T09:16:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T14:16:41","slug":"what-its-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=48696","title":{"rendered":"What it’s all about"},"content":{"rendered":"

What it’s all about: Taking Sophie to the Nutcracker. <\/em>That’s why we work so hard.<\/p>\n

This is her outside The Nutcracker<\/em> at New York’s Lincoln Center on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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The Nutcracker<\/em> is playing until January 5. Tickets here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t buy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

+ Dyson vacuum cleaners. They’re poorly made, way overpriced and way over-hyped. We have two broken ones, no longer covered by warranty. I bought into the hype. I was stupid.<\/p>\n

+ My Pillow. Terrible pillows. And horrible lack-of-return policy, despite the ads.<\/p>\n

+ “Trial” free subscriptions that turn out to be impossible to cancel.<\/p>\n

+ Second and third houses. You can Airbnb and VRBO much cheaper. On leaving you hand the key back, along with a note: The toilet is not working.<\/p>\n

+ Overhyped. easily replicated investments, e.g. Peloton, marijuana and virtual reality companies.<\/p>\n

+ Retailers who don’t understand that the consumer wants entertainment and proprietary decent products, e.g. Lululemon (LULU).<\/p>\n

+ Prevagen, the brain “enchancing” dietary supplement. Which only enhances the pocketbooks of the promoters.<\/p>\n

+ Probiotics.\u00a0\u201cThe current evidence does not convince me to recommend probiotics for any of my healthy patients,\u201d said Dr. Pieter Cohen, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and an internist at Cambridge Health Alliance. For more, read\u00a0Facts, fiction and probiotics.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Probiotics sold as dietary\u00a0supplements are not disease-treating drugs. If companies want to market their probiotics as medical treatments, they have to pursue a\u00a0form<\/a>\u00a0of Food and Drug Administration approval to market them as live biotherapeutic products. Thus far, no probiotics\u00a0have been given<\/a>\u00a0this designation.<\/p>\n

Click here.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Harry’s view: All dietary supplements are marketing hype. Healthy people don’t need them. You’ll do a lot better playing tennis, eating less and napping.<\/p>\n

Favorite Buys<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

+ The Say NO<\/em> Pen. Your kids and grandkids will be endlessly amused with the Say NO<\/em>\u00a0pen.<\/p>\n

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\nIt says NO in a million ways. It teaches kids the hardest word\u00a0 to say in the English language — NO. $17.99 for three at Amazon. Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

+ 50% off at LandsEnd. I love their $20 flannel pajama pants and their $32 Thermacheck 200 Fleece Jacket in tall. Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

+ Easiest way to find your luggage on the carousel:<\/p>\n

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\nTags for Bags, click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

God bless inventors.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This thing shoots ketchup and mustard on your food.<\/p>\n

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\nThis thing “locks” your ice cream.<\/p>\n

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How the Democrats think they have a prayer?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Remember last week’s quotes:<\/p>\n

Vox<\/em>\u00a0asked the democratic candidates seven questions on technology. Here are two candidates\u2019 insanity:<\/p>\n

Should Facebook, Google, Apple, and\/or Amazon be broken up? Why or why not?<\/em><\/p>\n

Bernie Sanders:<\/strong>\u00a0A few massive corporations have control over vast swaths of Americans\u2019 lives. Facebook harvests the data of 228 million Americans and uses this sensitive information in dangerous ways. They have endangered our democracy and enabled the spread of disinformation and hatred on their platform. Amazon has amassed control over the e-commerce industry, capturing a full 50 percent of the market and using its power to drive down wages for workers and prices for suppliers.<\/p>\n

When [I am] in the White House, [I] will reinvigorate the FTC and appoint an Attorney General who will aggressively investigate and break up these tech giants and other conglomerates that have monopolized nearly every sector of our economy. These corporate giants control too much of what we see, hear, and read online and must be subjected to regulation and antitrust authority.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Warren:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes. I introduced my plan for this back in March. Today\u2019s big tech companies have too much power over our economy, our society, and our democracy. They\u2019ve bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field against everyone else. And in the process, they have hurt small businesses and stifled innovation.<\/p>\n

To make our government and our economy work, we need to stop big tech companies from throwing around their political power to shape the rules in their favor and throwing around their economic power to snuff out or buy up every potential competitor. That means breaking up Big Tech.<\/p>\n

For the rest of their madness, click\u00a0here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

I spent some time with Biden the first time he ran for president. I was not impressed then. And I’m not impressed now. He was on CNBC recently. I wasn’t listening. Here’s what I saw:<\/p>\n

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Just what the world needs; More taxes. And more idiots in government to spend my money.<\/p>\n

About the Democrats and about life in general:<\/p>\n

No one can shoot yourself in the foot more accurately than you can. Not your competitors. Not your enemies. Just you. YOU are your own worst enemy.<\/p>\n

Don’t do stupid<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

+ Don’t let your car drive itself. It WILL crash itself. Another Tesla just did.<\/p>\n

+ Don’t rush down steps. You’ll fall on the last one.<\/p>\n

+ Don’t buy a stock because your neighbor (or your broker) told you to.<\/p>\n

This weekend<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A friend turned me onto SkipLagged.com<\/strong><\/a> — cheap airline tickets, courtesy “hidden cities.” For example, buy NYC to New Orleans. Get off in Dallas. Cheaper than buying a ticket NYC to Dallas.<\/p>\n

I suspect that trade with China will get worse and overhang our markets for much of 2020. For example, the Financial Times reports that China has ordered all non-Chinese PCs and software to be removed from government offices within the next three years. Click here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Nice employment numbers Friday. Nice pop in share prices. But higher tariffs are coming and there’ll be pressures. Trump is stubborn and omniscient. Xi is stubborn and omniscient.\u00a0 Both are stable geniuses. Both don’t care about you and me.<\/p>\n

Welcome to a new week. — Harry Newton<\/p>\n

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