Posted on 03/28/2015 3:17:44 PM PDT by expat_panama
Sounds dreamy! This year’s visit will just be a one night stop as we’re quick hopping around seeing all the kids. Would dearly love to relive my hometown longer sometime...
Sounds beautiful —having grown up w/ snow but learned driving a car in L.A... Somehow to me “heavy snowfall” still just means “no school”.
Envy causes cancer, and they always die a horribly lonely and painful death.
Snow is beautiful when you live in Panama, not so much close-up. : )
Maybe not, my wife was raised in Galveston & has absolutely no desire to live in snow, but somehow all I can remember emotionally is the magic and fun. When I think about it I have to admit that most of the time snow was grey and black with dirt and slush, and sidewalks were icy while the ground was soggy. Doesn't matter, I still miss it.
The markets are shrugging off the 0% GDP. Here is a tidbit. My BIL is starting a new company. He was meeting up with the big cruise lines. Because of the strong dollar, the switched 40% of food purchases from the US to Europe.
Never saw that study but I believe it. Envy is not only a sick hateful perversion but it's an evil pride before our Creator. I'd comment on how much the left likes to indulge in it but I need to breath into a paper bag for a bit first...
Been hearing that but last week's report from the BEA had the final number at 2.2%, same as was reported last month. Many people are talking about more slowing down but today's factory orders are up +2.2% (market expected -0.5%) and before that consumer confidence lept to 101.3% when analysts were expecting it to fall to 96.4%.
It's taken 8 years but things really are improving in places.
A worthwhile read.
http://blogs.wsj.com/totalreturn/2015/04/02/are-you-overlooking-big-threats-to-your-finances/
Apr 2, 2015
Are You Overlooking Big Threats to Your Finances?
By Jonathan Clements
There are two ways that wealth can slip away: slowly and quickly.
Today, many folks are well aware of the slow erosion caused by high fund expenses, hefty advisory fees and big investment-related tax bills, as evidenced by the growing enthusiasm for exchange-traded funds, robo advisers and tax-loss harvesting.
My fear: While investors are focusing on these relatively modest drags on their annual investment returns, they may be overlooking big gaps in their financial plan that could quickly destroy the savings they have accumulated.
We are talking here about mistakes such as failing to buy life, health and disability insurance; holding a badly diversified investment portfolio; wagering on one or two heavily mortgaged rental properties; or betting big on stocks when you don’t really have the stomach for it.
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Not to worry, everyone can go back to bed because the markets are closed for Good Friday. I know, this year the federal government's ignoring it and the Unemployment rate's coming out (as if anyone could care) but for the rest of us it's a 3 day weekend.
Wishing everyone a very special Easter!
Back to bed!?!?!? Doncha know MONEY NEVER SLEEPS, PAL!!
lol!!!
jeesh...
glad it is closed today. with the jobs report today it would have probably been another down day.
hard to say; futures had started upbeat and my take is that serious people have long since given up on the headline unempl. rate. As it is we added 34M jobs and 277M to the “not in the labor force”. That has to mean something.
“Wishing everyone a very special Easter!”
Thank you Expat, and same to you.
What are your thoughts about the fallout from the probable Iran ‘deal’? In particular oil, the US Dollar, and defense contractors like Lockheed and Raytheon?
Seems to me the ME just got a lot more dangerous, especially for Israel.
imho it’s a total wild card —probably amounting to nothing but HUGE downside potential all over the place. That’s also what I’m getting from the pundit/analysts too, that nobody’s got a clue here —but one thing for sure is it’s important and I’ll have to include it in the next week’s tread —tx!
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