Monday, December 19, 2022

S&P Annual Returns ~ 1928 – 2022

Not a good year for equity investors, particularly in high-tech company holdings.

Think green . . . and long-term! 




Sunday, December 18, 2022

Resolution: Get More Sleep

The Wall Street Journal's 12 Holiday Gifts Tailored to New Year's Resolutions is a head-scratcher. 

I get the resolution to drink less alcohol and the WSJ's recommendation to choose French Bloom's alcohol-free sparkling wine.

And I'm intrigued by the resolution to get more sleep. That said, at $40,000, Tiffany & Co's bedside table race car clock would give this pinchpenny nightmares.


Thursday, December 8, 2022

Basketball Trades

It's good news Brittney Griner is coming home to America and her family. But America is in a deadly proxy war over Ukraine with an increasingly desperate Russia and Vladimir Putin.

A prisoner exchange trading convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor "Merchant of Death and Sanctions Buster" Bout doesn't bode well.

The swap on the tarmac in the United Arab Emirates was surreal.

And what about Paul Whelan?