This morning I read More car buyers stretching out their auto loans—but longer terms come with trade-offs on CNBC. Let’s take a look at why I believe we’ll be unhappy. Vehicles New vehicle prices are insane. Per the CNBC article, new vehicle prices are above $50,000. And since Americans love big trucks and SUVs, the […]
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Is there really a season? Probably not, but who wants a nice hot meatball sub when it’s 90˚ out? Yesterday it was 41˚. Now we’re talking. I’ve been on the quest for the greatest meatball sandwich for a while. Read my first post here. It’s a really good post so I won’t try and improve
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If you’re expecting a headline that the president and congress are meeting daily in an attempt to solve the budget crisis and re-open the government for the American people, sorry. You may be disappointed. The headline that makes me optimistic is from CNBC. Why? Are we on Day 40??? Somewhere around that. And if healthcare
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I’ve written quite a few posts on hearing aids. As we age, many of us develop hearing loss. Hearing is tightly linked to brain health. It’s important for us to maintain our hearing to prevent brain deterioration. So, yes, it’s important. Hearing aids are expensive. My first pair in 2016 cost over $4,000 and the
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I touched on this in my earlier post on mixed feelings amount amazon. I spent a lovely late fall morning and early afternoon on the golf course and had some time to think some more about our current political situation. I think that explains my horrific front-nine score. I rallied on the back-nine. Interesting How?
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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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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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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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Can we really trust the people we elect to represent us? I wrote about this earlier today in Government Spending. Reading the news just now, I came upon another example where I’m somewhat stunned. Flock This is from Boston 25 news. Read the story here. Wait, What? Read that headline again. Why does the city
It’s almost November. It’s sunny and 41 degrees and looks like we’ll hit the mid 50’s this afternoon. Pretty nice for New England. The government shut down continues. This is significant and unfortunate on so many levels, but that’s all I have to say on that today. Crazy shit is going on. I have a
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