{"id":50779,"date":"2020-05-29T14:36:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T18:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=50779"},"modified":"2020-05-29T14:36:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T18:36:37","slug":"define-your-own-milieu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=50779","title":{"rendered":"Define your own milieu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Own hotels, restaurants and retail stores. you&#8217;re probably not a happy camper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Own residential buildings, you&#8217;re collecting rents &#8212; for now. Better in some places than others. You&#8217;re happy, but anxious.<\/p>\n<p>Own student housing. Who knows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Own bonds, you&#8217;re collecting a little interest now. But you&#8217;re eyeing a capital loss &#8212; unless you hold them to maturity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Own anything, you might be surprised how much of your stuff is appealing to buyers who have cash, a long horizon and who believe we&#8217;ll be through this eventually. (We will.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Plan a huge development project &#8212; ready in five years. You&#8217;ll be surprised how many of your friends, family, investors and banks want in. People want to buy a thrilling Vision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">CRM&#8217;s buoyant earnings weren&#8217;t well received last night. The stock plunged. I bought some this morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/CRMTWODAYS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m already up enough to buy a new tennis racket, some new shoes and Wilson balls. (The best.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The stocks I mentioned yesterday are mostly doing well today:\u00a0\u00a0AAPL, SHOP, GOOG, TTD, BABA, FB, JNJ, UNH, SQ, NFLX, LLY, CSCO and the nice safe VTI ETF from Vanguard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>T<\/strong>here&#8217;s a ghastly word &#8212; opportunistic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It means keep looking. Don&#8217;t get too frustrated if you don&#8217;t find anything. The Yiddish word is metziah &#8212; a bargain. But it&#8217;s a bigger bargain in Yiddish than in English.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This morning I played my 76th game of tennis this virus Spring. I lost. But I hit a few winners. That made me feel good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This weekend &#8212; it is the weekend. I just checked &#8212; call the kids on FaceTime and Zoom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ask them what they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You&#8217;ll surprised at how talented your grandkids have become without you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">See you soon. <em>Harry Newton.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Own hotels, restaurants and retail stores. you&#8217;re probably not a happy camper. Own residential buildings, you&#8217;re collecting rents &#8212; for now. Better in some places than others. You&#8217;re happy, but anxious. Own student housing. Who knows. Own bonds, you&#8217;re collecting a little interest now. 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