{"id":54421,"date":"2021-05-06T09:55:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T13:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=54421"},"modified":"2021-05-06T09:55:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T13:55:42","slug":"here-are-good-news-thats-plural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=54421","title":{"rendered":"Here are good news (that&#8217;s plural)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This morning:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54423\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/unemployment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As the chart shows, unemployment claims are falling &#8212; as the economy picks up. Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/05\/06\/weekly-jobless-claims.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This morning in our front yard. Three Robins babies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54424\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bird-babies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"323\" \/><br \/>\nThese bright blue eggs was them on April 27, nine days ago. They&#8217;re squirming away, demanding food, which the mother diligently keeps flying in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Eggs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She doesn&#8217;t like me photographing her babies with my iPhone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>My Moderna stock fell 6.2% yesterday<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That was after Washington said it would share Moderna&#8217;s Covid patents with other countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are objectors &#8212; the pharma industry and Republicans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To my brain, we&#8217;re all in this together. A uncured pandemic in India or Africa will create more variants, which will come back to haunt us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ll hold my Moderna and my JnJ. There are silver linings. New improvements. New drugs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>How to make money in Amazon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My friend, Steve, the brilliant day-trader, sent me this,. Read his comments on a &#8220;steady paycheck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/amazon-dips-800x314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/amazon-dips.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/amazon-dips-768x301.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Progress in appliances<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Home Depot delivered, installed and tested two new LG Washers. They&#8217;re all a joy &#8212; Home Depot and LG.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That leaves Miele, the worst appliance company on the planet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We have a busted Miele dishwasher. I have to replace it with a Miele because our front wooden panel was designed for the Miele and Susan likes Mieles &#8212; when they work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Miele is backordered and none of its distributors will even guess when it might actually deliver a machine. There&#8217;s no information on Miele&#8217;s miserable web site and the company doesn&#8217;t answer its phones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Home Depot and Lowes, naturally, won&#8217;t touch Miele dishwashers. Do you blame them?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The only takeaway from all this is; You are your own worst enemy. No one can shoot yourself in the phone better and more accurately than you can.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The winner in the shooter game is Miele.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If anyone knows anyone in Miele, please send them my comments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>After three days of solid rain..<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The grass has gone brilliant green and leaves have popped here in Columbia County, New York.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just outside my office&#8217;s window &#8212; a total joy. Susan and I planted it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Tree234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"498\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>This year in investments<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Interest rates won&#8217;t rise, despite Janet Yellin&#8217;s musings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Friends are still refinancing their real estate at extraordinarily low interest rates &#8212; some under 3%. Refinancing is good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ The stockmarket is way high. If we get 10%-12% on our portfolio this year, I&#8217;d be way happy. I bet it will be more like 6% to 8%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ I&#8217;m guessing that FAANNG will spurt at some stage. I&#8217;m out of Netflix. Too much new competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ I keep buying &#8220;industrial&#8221; stocks. Last nibbles include RSG, CLF, OTTR, WM.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also added to my holdings of TSCO, LOGI, HD, MGA, LUV, NVDA, and TSM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">+ Bill Gates owns a broad array of stocks. Having more money than God helps. There&#8217;s a list of 23 of his holdings\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suredividend.com\/bill-gates-portfolio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Today opened badly for us. It hasn&#8217;t been a good week. Good time to play tennis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Silly but fun<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/issues-agai.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Actually, I miss people with issues. I&#8217;m with Jamie Dimon &#8212; I&#8217;m sick of Zoom and isolation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">See you tomorrow &#8212; <em>Harry Newton<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning: As the chart shows, unemployment claims are falling &#8212; as the economy picks up. Read more here. This morning in our front yard. Three Robins babies. These bright blue eggs was them on April 27, nine days ago. They&#8217;re squirming away, demanding food, which the mother diligently keeps flying in. 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