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Thirty Steaks – Burp
Burp (figuratively.) A while ago I celebrated finances that were good enough that I could take advantage of a sale on bulk meat – Thirty Steaks. You can probably imagine my doctor’s carefully tempered reaction. Polite and professional, but I … Continue reading
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Tagged frugal, frugal folk, frugality, personal finance, real estate
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Parabola Hyperbola Hyperbole – MVIS
Whee!!! Whoa. Wha? MicroVision’s stock, MVIS, has been doing some crazy stuff, lately. MicroVision has always been a story stock, but usually there was only a small audience listening. Something changed. A year ago it looked possible that a new … Continue reading
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Tagged AAPL, Dream. Invest. Live., HoloLens, individual investing, Individual investor, irrational market, LiDAR, LTBH, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, reddit, stocks
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Super Bowl Ads 2021
I feel sorry for the people who had to produce ads for the 2021 Super Bowl, and yet, maybe not too sorry. We’re in a pandemic that’s mutating. The US is so not-united that one of the ads was wise … Continue reading
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Tagged advertisers, advertising, electric cars, Great Recession, Microvision, MVIS, pandemic, personal finance, Second Great Depression, stocks, Super Bowl
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Gamestop And Moving Smaller Stocks
Oh dear. Some financial institutions are upset that some individual stockholders figured out how to play the market taking advantage of the institutions’ techniques. The big players are upset that others have begun beating them at their old game. Simply … Continue reading
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Tagged collusion, Dream. Invest. Live., Gamestop, GME, invest, investing, LCTX, MVIS, personal finance, shorts, stocks
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Go West Or Somewhere
Things are changing. Ha! That and other gross understatements are provided at no charge (so far). “Go west, young man.” was advice delivered to people (men) struggling to escape terrible conditions on the east coast of the US. Gold rushes … Continue reading
Semi Annual Exercise EOY 2020
While the wide world and my private world were in turmoil, something unexpectedly positive happened in 2020. In the last six months since my mid-year semi-annual portfolio review and exercise my portfolio rose by a factor of 2.7. Since the … Continue reading
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Tagged GERN, Geron, investing, Investor Village, LCTX, Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, NeoPhotonics, NPTN, personal finance, reddit, Silicon Investor, stocks
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Cratchit Is Not Scrooge
Cratchit is not Scrooge. That seems like a silly thing to write. The two main characters in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol are known well. Scrooge, of course, is the better known. He is the wealthy character that is dragged … Continue reading
Lessons With LTBH Via MVIS
A stock goes up over fifty percent in a week, and people get curious about it. Why? What happened? Should I do anything about it? Well, I’m not a certified or professional financial advisor so I won’t answer what you … Continue reading
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Tagged dilution, Dream. Invest. Live., early retirement, frugal, investing, LTBH, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, Retirement, speculating, stocks
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Fascinating Realities
I’m surprised I haven’t told this story before; or maybe I have, but even I can’t find it in the hundreds of thousands of words that comprise this blog. A friend told me a story about his road rage and … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Covid 19, economy, finance, injustice, pandemic, personal finance, politics, revolution, social injustice
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Spending Time On Social Media
Posts making your crazy? Folks on Facebook revealing a bit too much about the values behind their facade? Tweets flittering by as if there can’t be content in a few dozen characters? LinkedIn seeming to be so dull that it … Continue reading
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Tagged advocacy, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Facebook, frugality, LinkedIn, personal finance, PNTP, social media, Twitter
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