I’ve written quite a bit about Amazon. It was one of my first stock picks and it’s been a wild ride. More on that later, but I’ve been thinking about Amazon because it captured headlines twice in the past week. While not unusual, it seemed to me to be 2 very different stories. Layoffs October […]
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Today’s stock news on CNBC is quite a mixed bag. First thing we notice is how concerned our professional trader is. Look at the tension. He looks worried. We should be too. The S&P 500 futures are down (so are the Dow and the NASDAQ). He’s right to be worried. And he’s worried about tech
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We’re beginning month 2 of the government shut down. And to remind all of us how we got here, the US congress – our representatives in the house and the senate, have failed to come up with a budget in order to run the government. So the US can’t pay some of its bills or
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After yesterday’s post on how to begin using our 401k, I started to think more about choosing investments. For many of us, the first question when choosing an investment is “is it safe?“ What Does Safe Mean to You? I’m serious. Safe can mean different things to different people and it can mean different things
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I’m not thrilled with the title. Luckily most of my friends don’t read the posts else they might be concerned that I’m trying to take advantage of them. The point is that AI can be extremely helpful and today we’ll take a look at some examples. Artificial Intelligence I wrote a brief post here. It
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Congratulations! You have a new job. At some point early on at our new company, we’re invited to a new hire orientation session where one of the key topics is benefits. One of the best benefits that is often not given enough focus in these sessions is the 401k plan. Today we’ll go through the
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I’ll ruin the surprise and tell you right now that they’re not. As much as we’ve seen Nvidia’s price sky-rocket in the past few years, I can’t tell you if it will be worth more next week than today. Some folks were pretty happy with airline stocks. And then 9/11 happened. We really don’t know.
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But not a good one. The US national debt has now surpassed $38 trillion. I know. That’s too big a number to fathom. Today, let’s try and put that in perspective. Look to the right of the big number. If you’re a tax payer, your share is $327,507. That’s a lot. My grandson is 4
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So, I read this today in a very informative post on clark.com. The post is called Clark and I are on the same page. I had a similar thought in Why is The Market Going Up? Clark did a nice job of explaining what overvalued means and giving some commentary that is a bit more
We all want to be part of the next big thing. In the 90s it was internet stocks. Today it’s AI. But how do we get in early? How do we spot the opportunity before it becomes (here’s the dreaded term…) overbought? Investing v. Gambling It’s important to understand the distinction. Let’s look at an
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