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Paying Back the House
I bought my first block of ATYR while walking on a hiking trial atop Monteagle Mountain in September of 2023. All I had at the time was $300,000, and I knew that was going to have to not only last, but be enough to live off as well, because I …
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game🤑💰📚
Weekend homework…. Watch Moneyball before you read the book. It’ll make our August book-club pick a lot easier to understand if you aren’t familiar with baseball—and even if you are. To be decent at stock picking, this is the easiest and fastest way I know to help you start to …
BlackRock Takes 6.5% Stake in ATYR🚀💎🚀💎🚀
BlackRock snagged 5,763,606 shares of ATYR on 6/30 for a 6.5% stake in the company. BlackRock is a long-term investment firm with a low turnover rate, which essentially locks up more of ATYR’s float in the hands of folks who aren’t likely to sell on the back side of aTyr …
Are You Using These Tools⁉️
If you’re not using the Fear & Greed Index and the Buffett Indicator, and you’ve got money in the stock market, you’ve got to keep a check on the market’s temperature. These two readings are the easiest way to take a daily reading now that things are getting extremely frothy. …
Trump Spooks Bond Market, Dollar Plummets
TWEEDLE TIMES—President Trump tested the markets yesterday by floating rumors of firing Fed Chair Jerome Powell. The reaction was swift. The VIX (Fear Index) ripped over 10 percentage points, the dollar crashed 1 and long-term treasuries spiked toward the moon. Trump squashed the rumor about an hour later and markets …
Gramps: On Learning🧐📚💰
Graduating college during the middle of the Great Financial Crisis was not exactly the best time for a greenhorn journalist to be looking for a job. The streets were littered with Pulitzer-Prize-winning writers with 30 years or more of experience, so the chances of a dyslexic newbie cutting through all …
Camping with Jim Cramer
Last night I had one of the worst nightmares of my life. And if it EVER happens again, by god, I’m shutting this blog down. It’s the only safe thing to do, because when a retail investor starts to have midnight fantasies about camping on a secluded mountain with Jim …
How Macro Economics is Influencing Markets✅
The big fear is long-term interest rates will go up because of too much government debt/money printing, regardless if the Fed cuts short-term interest rates. In this scenario, the bond market will force the U.S. government to get its fiscal house in order, which would be very very painful. Think …
Will Bitcoin Reignite Ripping Rally?
TWEEDLE TIMES—Bitcoin continued to roar Monday morning as crypto-currency futures soared above $122,000 for the first time in history due wider adoption by institutions and European excitement over Robinhood’s “tokenization” of its new crypto blockchain. Robinhood’s tokenized equities now give foreign investors easier access to high-flying U.S. stocks such as …