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<\/p>\nI recent days I’ve bought more Zoom, Square, Livongo, Chipotle, Apple, Qualcomm, Danaher, Generac and Roku.<\/p>\n
I sold Gilead. I’m no good with covid gambles.<\/p>\n
I’m still hanging onto Alteryx, which is climbing back, ever so slowly. I’ve listened to its conference call and studied the company. I believe it will climb back. Here’s year to date.<\/p>\n
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More ransomware<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n If you buy something, don’t let the vendor store your credit card.<\/p>\n News:<\/p>\n Carnival says ransomware hackers were able to access personal data of cruise ship guests and workers. The cruise operator said it had launched an investigation into a ransomware attack on one of its brand’s IT systems.<\/p>\n I wrote recently how to protect yourself from ransomware. Most importantly, don’t open attachments to email — even if they’re from your boss or your best friend. Call and check.<\/p>\n Rats Nest investing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n You can now buy nursing homes cheap. I kid you not. They have “a little hair” on them. But nothing that a serious\u00a0real estate investor couldn’t fix. I’m being inundated with investment opportunities in nursing and old age homes.<\/p>\n I think the best opportunity is a Ghost Buster service for nursing homes. You could charge by the ghost to be\u00a0removed. Some homes could be an annuity.<\/p>\n One email this morning:<\/p>\n Compelling demographics, advanced care technology, and the moratorium on market-crowding construction offer sizable benefits to investors and owners.<\/p>\n The “big” investment pitch is we’re all getting older — whatever your political persuasion.<\/p>\n Steve Bannon is arrested. This is bizarre<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n As reported by The Week magazine:<\/p>\n Stephen Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist,\u00a0was arrested on Thursday\u00a0on fraud charges after he allegedly put money from an online fundraiser to build a wall along the southern border to personal use. More details are starting to emerge about Bannon’s arrest, including the fact that, according to\u00a0CBS News, he was “taken into custody by agents from the U.S. Postal Service.”<\/p>\n This bizarre development comes amid an ongoing battle over controversial changes to the Postal Service, and the United States Postal Inspection Service, the USPS’\u00a0law enforcement arm, assisted in the investigation that led to Bannon’s indictment,\u00a0according to CNBC.<\/p>\n Making things even wilder, as\u00a0CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports, Bannon was arrested by these Postal Service agents “on a boat Thursday morning off the Eastern coast of Connecticut,” which he had been on “for the last several weeks” while telling people he was “at sea.”\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0adds\u00a0that it was “someone else’s 150-foot yacht” that Bannon was on when he was arrested.<\/p>\n But wait, there’s more:\u00a0according to\u00a0The New York Times’ Evan Hill, the indictment mentions that one of the defendants used allegedly defrauded money to buy a boat \u2014\u00a0apparently the same boat\u00a0defendant Brian Kolfage used in a Fourth of July Trump boat parade.<\/p>\n If you’d like to read the indictment, click here:\u00a0u.s._v._brian_kolfage_stephen_bannon_et_al._indictment_20-cr-412_0<\/a><\/p>\n Here’s a link to the impressive recent Trump Boat rally:<\/p>\n