Christian Pipe Smokers

Year To Date: SPX is up 6.8%. My IRA is up 17.0% I am beating SPX by 10.2%. Trading Account Performance: Up 53.7% This is profit that I pay tax on. Trading Account Balance: Up 41.4%. This is my measure of compounding growth. I draw $1400 per month for current enjoyment. Last year I drew more than I ...

Other news..... CAVA freaking exploded in growth on Thursday/Friday. Closed Wed at 60.41. Closed Friday at 69.16. 14.5% Volume was extraordinary on Friday. I'm not clear why. One new thing is that they opened another store in Chicago, heralding new growth into the Midwest. The other is just that a b...

Biden severely bitch-slapped our energy sector. Oil companies aren't going to let that happen again. Companies aren't going to invest in American pipelines and refineries without taxpayers putting some skin in the game. Which means that eventually there will be government subsidies to rebuild our a...

+JMJ+ Unfortunately, she's not alone. There's a whole crop of young adults who think gender/sex is a fluid thing. […] Seems to me that the problem isn't so much that Gender is fluid — Gender is always in-process of cultural renegotiation and cross-pollinization — but rather, whether Gender's fluidi...

I suggested that maybe he was hard-wired that way. Nature, not nurture. She dismissed that and thought they'd done something wrong when he was a kitten. Curious thing about humans -- we are the only earthly animal that is capable of adopting habits that are contrary to our nature and yet somehow co...

This morning, I asked my wife if she will be going into the office today... or complaining from home.

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XLE is falling in the pre-market this morning. And I'm seeing articles that suggest now is the time to sell oil stocks. I sold mine at the highs a year or so ago; but I'm still looking at natural gas and LNG, although Biden is doing his best to stop its' production and use. The overall market (SPY)...

Hovannes is sharing something that must be very personal to him.... - A beautiful Armenian-American woman - From Fresno, California, - named Ani Hovannisian - has made a documentary about the hidden ruins of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Turkey, - about how these ruins and relics are still being sys...

It was a wild day today (Thurs, 2/25). 1) GDP was less than expected. 1.6% annual growth rate, based on Q1 data. Market expected a nice, average 2.5% Inflation rate calculated on the entire GDP was slightly higher than expected (3.1% vs. 3.0%). Slow GDP growth is "stagnation." Slow growth ...