Now is NOT<\/strong> the time to jump in big-time.<\/p>\n There was a theory that the high-momentum, high P\/E stocks so much in favor last year are now thoroughly out of favor. Yet, look today at Nvidia. It sports a P\/E of 42.30. Today it’s up nearly 7%. Salesforce (CRM) sports a P\/E of 162.5. Yet today it’s up 4.6%.<\/p>\n The top six P\/Es in my Watch List — CRM, TSLA, AMZN, NVDA, and ZTS — are all up today.<\/p>\n My major holdings remain fourfold: a handful of individual stocks — AAPL, MSFT, NVDA and TSM, two big investments in two ETFS — VGT and VTI, assorted investments in real estate syndications — residential and office and finally treasuries\u00a0 — one and two year duration.<\/p>\n This afternoon I’m going to investigate buying and selling options — puts and calls. In this volatile market friends are doing well with options.<\/p>\n Some reading:<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0+ What past market crashes have looked like<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0+\u00a0The World Economy Is Imperiled by a Force Hiding in Plain Sight<\/strong> Inflation is one of our biggest problems. This chart shows where it’s coming from — largely from energy. If we can pump more, perhaps we can bring the price down:<\/p>\n The kids are visiting<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n They have a long time-frame. Hence they’re ideal for Dollar Cost Averaging.<\/p>\n $100 a month would be great education.<\/p>\n To start, buy them some ETFs, e.g. VGT and VTI.<\/p>\n And get them the stock of companies whose products they use, e.g. Apple, Microsoft, Nike.<\/p>\n Get them an online Fidelity account. I love their free add-on called Active Trader Pro.<\/p>\n I-Bonds are paying 9.62%<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n From the Fed govt:<\/p>\n + <\/strong>The initial interest rate on new Series I savings bonds is 9.62 percent. You can\u00a0buy<\/a>\u00a0I bonds at that rate through October 2022.<\/p>\n But you are limited to buying $10,000 of them every calendar year.\u00a0Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n There are also TIPS, which are\u00a0Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities. You can buy oodles of them.<\/p>\n TIPS are issued in terms of 5, 10, and 30 years.<\/p>\n TIPS can be held until maturity or sold before maturity.<\/p>\n TIPS seem to be yielding 6.6%, but their value — i.e. price on the market — has been steadily declining as interest rates have risen. Last November they were as high as $131. Now they’re $114. That’s a loss of 13% — in less than a year. Which is high for a fixed income security.<\/p>\n For more on TIPS, click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Airline travel tips<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Assume the worst. You won’t be disappointed.<\/p>\n + Don’t check luggage.<\/p>\n + Take the earliest flight of the day.<\/p>\n + Allow plenty of time for arriving and transferring (if you must)<\/p>\n + Use your airline’s phone app or website.<\/p>\n + Don’t buy discount fares. Buy directly from the airline.<\/p>\n The misery that is crypto<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n I can’t keep up with the accelerating misery in the crypto space.<\/p>\n Three crypto exchanges have gone broke. Coinbase fired 1,100 employees, cut its commission rates by 90%,<\/p>\n Thousands of crypto investors can’t get their money out. Wait there’s more. From the Atlantic:<\/p>\n For its many flaws, the world of cryptocurrency has bequeathed to the English language a vivid new verb:\u00a0rug-pulling<\/i><\/a>.<\/i>\u00a0As its idiom-derived name suggests, rug-pulling is when a crypto developer hypes up a new coin or new project, gets ordinary people to invest in it, and then\u2014all at once\u2014shuts it down in such a way that they take all of their investors\u2019 cash with them. It is a spectacular act of bad faith, a breach of trust so severe that it casts doubt on the entire cryptocurrency community, so-called.<\/p>\n Good reasons not to “upgrade” to Windows 11<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n These words popped up on my Windows 10 laptop. I give Microsoft top marks for their honesty and zero for their thoughtlessness. I can name at least three important softwares I use that don’t work on Windows 11. Go figure.<\/p>\n Everyone is getting Covid\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Everyone’s getting it. I’m now negative, after taking a five day regimen of Paxlovid, which seems to work. But depressingly, this morning I read this on CNN:<\/p>\n Nearly two-and-a-half years since the Covid-19 pandemic began, the most infectious and transmissible variant yet has arrived. The latest version of the shape-shifting BA.5 variant<\/a>, an offshoot of Omicron, is fueling a global surge in cases — illustrating how the virus has evolved<\/a> and can evade immunity provided by previous Covid-19 vaccines. In the US, BA.5 accounted for 65% of new infections last week, according to the CDC. The variant is also on the march in China, raising the fear that major cities there may soon reinstate strict lockdown measures<\/a> that were recently lifted. As for how to manage the new wave, Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House’s Covid-19 response coordinator, urged Americans aged 50 and older to get second booster shots. US health officials are urgently working on a plan to allow second Covid-19 boosters for all adults.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n In short, get boostered. Wear a mask in bad places. Don’t go to bad places. Keep away from anybody and anyone. I had it. It’s horrible.<\/p>\n This is really boring.<\/p>\n Ivana Trump, 73, dies of stair falling<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n One report says she fell down stairs.<\/p>\n Friends are emailing me. They’ve also fallen — not only\u00a0 on the dangerous last step going down. But on all steps.<\/strong><\/p>\n Please be careful. Several of my older friends have “face planted.”<\/p>\n What a funny language.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s the word hike. Let\u2019s go for a hike. And there’s Nike. I\u2019ll go for a hike in my Nike sneakers.<\/p>\n Should you buy the Apple Watch Series 7<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A reader tells me I’m nuts pushing the latest Apple Series 7 Watch, when a new version will be out in September.<\/p>\n Personally, I find the present series 7 watch so useful I wouldn’t wait for the newer one.<\/p>\n Power corrupts . Absolute power power corrupts absolutely<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Russia, Egypt, Turkey, China, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon\u2026.<\/p>\n They’re really depressing and all places never to invest in.<\/p>\n In 1966\u00a0I left Australia in 1966 to travel overland\u00a0 from Sydney Australia to London and then onto the U.S.<\/p>\n I went through all these countries (except Syria and Russia). It was fun in 1966.<\/p>\n I wouldn\u2019t go near any of these places today, though all of them have gorgeous vistas.<\/p>\n You can read almost daily articles on horrible things happening to citizens of these dictator-run countries, e.g.<\/p>\n +\u00a0Egypt\u2019s Revolving Jailhouse Door: One Pretrial Detention After Another.<\/em> Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u201cCapitulation\u201d, the last phase of a rout, can seem like a sort of mania.
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