As I write this the markets are off their all time high this morning. But they are still up for the session. I got cold feet as I got closer to retirement to get back into the market. I think it was the uneasiness I felt from the Obama economy along with my forthcoming retirement. I was terrified of timing the market wrong and then end up like a lot of my friends whose 401K's and IRA's were at a loss at the time they wanted to retire because they didn't look ahead to their retirement date. I, on the other hand went waaaaaay overboard and went to cash/CD's far too soon. Stoopid, hindsight 20/20, regret..... 

I had $300 or $400 lying in a dormant account and bought the S&P 500 ETF and I am up well over 25% in a year or two. 

SNIP

I just switched financial guys and consolidated some of my old/stray accounts.  I had a 401k from my previous job that I had rolled over.  But then I started getting notices and invoices from it.  I was super busy at the time and didn't pay much attention.  There were a number of folks who had left the company prior to them being fully vested, so I was getting distributions of their non-vested balances.  I should have been watching as the account had some awesome gains.   Too bad the figures were in the thousands of dollars. . .   

There is a monitor of the co2 levels being released by the crematoriums in Wuhan.  The amount of gas it's expelling is no where near a 800 person death toll.  But being run round the clock, Auschwitz style.

I had not heard about Foxconn but I heard they reopened 10% of the Tesla plant and Apple (I think).

So the couch cover I ordered is coming out of Shenzhen.  Which is the same city that Foxconn is supposed to open in.  600 miles from Wuhan.  As of yesterday, they were told to go back to work.

So the couch cover I ordered is coming out of Shenzhen.  Which is the same city that Foxconn is supposed to open in.  600 miles from Wuhan.  As of yesterday, they were told to go back to work.

Be SUPER careful if what you orders comes with bubble wrap.  The air in the bubbles is likely from a factory in China. . .

#somethingsaretinfoil

#beafraidveryafraid

I am not surprised by the updated numbers from "intel".  A close friend is part of the State of Hawaii health emergency response-something-or-other and while no immediate alarm locally, the general message to me was the whole situation is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.  Mostly because the spread to poorer countries in the region (Vietnam, Thailand, etc) that have little to no resources for this quickly escalating virus.

sounds like it's in NK too
it could spread like wildfire there...

sounds like it's in NK too
it could spread like wildfire there...

Them too.  And we all know the info coming out of NK is super duper ultra reliable.  They would never hide anything from the US, would they? 

Be SUPER careful if what you orders comes with bubble wrap.  The air in the bubbles is likely from a factory in China. . .

#somethingsaretinfoil

#beafraidveryafraid

Don't pop the bubble wrap.  Super hard to resist.

Headlines on HNN would read "Man orders stuff from China and gets coronavirus because he couldn't resist the temptation not to pop bubble wrap"

Them too.  And we all know the info coming out of NK is super duper ultra reliable.  They would never hide anything from the US, would they?

NK already grabs many of it's citizens and puts them in the gulag.  So no diff if they do the same with Corona.

I just switched financial guys and consolidated some of my old/stray accounts.  I had a 401k from my previous job that I had rolled over.  But then I started getting notices and invoices from it.  I was super busy at the time and didn't pay much attention.  There were a number of folks who had left the company prior to them being fully vested, so I was getting distributions of their non-vested balances.  I should have been watching as the account had some awesome gains.   Too bad the figures were in the thousands of dollars. . . 

I won't mention the company. But one of the company's I worked for here kept taking my 401K contributions out of my paycheck and did not deposit them into my 401K account. I found this out when my quarterly statement came in the mail. Now, mind you, there were 25 or 30 employees there and I called almost everyone and asked them if the company was doing the same thing to them. And you know what they told me? "I don't know." "How do I check?" Do you know that no one ever checked nor even seem to care. It was quite the coincidence that the entire owner's family (Approx. 12 people) also went on a big overseas vacation right before I figured it out. I wrote the owner a nasty e-mail and threatened to turn the company in to the AG if he didn't put the money back into my account ASAP. Which he didn't do ASAP. He did it in two or three payments. Which was obvious to me that big vacation was taken on my 401K money. I finally got all my money minus the earnings I would have had. I left right after I got all my money back. BTW, the total amount he owed me was $900. I can't tell you how angry I was.

I won't mention the company. But one of the company's I worked for here kept taking my 401K contributions out of my paycheck and did not deposit them into my 401K account. I found this out when my quarterly statement came in the mail. Now, mind you, there were 25 or 30 employees there and I called almost everyone and asked them if the company was doing the same thing to them. And you know what they told me? "I don't know." "How do I check?" Do you know that no one ever checked nor even seem to care. It was quite the coincidence that the entire owner's family (Approx. 12 people) also went on a big overseas vacation right before I figured it out. I wrote the owner a nasty e-mail and threatened to turn the company in to the AG if he didn't put the money back into my account ASAP. Which he didn't do ASAP. He did it in two or three payments. Which was obvious to me that big vacation was taken on my 401K money. I finally got all my money minus the earnings I would have had. I left right after I got all my money back. BTW, the total amount he owed me was $900. I can't tell you how angry I was.

Damn, that sucks! 

Suitcase of dead birds from China intercepted at Virginia airport

https://www.dailywire.com/news/suitcase-full-of-dead-birds-from-china-intercepted-at-virginia-airport?itm_source=parsely-api%3Futm_content%3Dnews&utm_campaign=daily_shapiro&utm_medium=email&utm_source=housefile&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--l-mfanmSc2FjHU1CgX06E2dn_2ce_QwnaNn8dqWP4Zul6s177ZRI1gemkqfiHavkUfYK-jX__EkVZ66yDMH0fNDmU8Q&_hsmi=83233051

Check out Brian kolfage IG. He has some vids from china.

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Corona Virus? Corona Virus? What Corona Virus?

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/us-stocks-feb-12-2020

Watching KHON2 this morning and they reported for 2 days in a row, the number of people/new cases have dropped.  Take with a grain of salt.

Still keeping my order from China, Shenztsu Provence.  Virus can only live for a few hours with no host.  So item takes at least 2 weeks once in the box is sealed.  But I'm still gonna lysol the shit out of it when it arrives.  Rubber gloves and all.

Watching KHON2 this morning and they reported for 2 days in a row, the number of people/new cases have dropped.  Take with a grain of salt.

Still keeping my order from China, Shenztsu Provence.  Virus can only live for a few hours with no host.  So item takes at least 2 weeks once in the box is sealed.  But I'm still gonna lysol the shit out of it when it arrives.  Rubber gloves and all.

They said on the radio this morning that they think they virus can live as long as 9 days now. Who knows?

well, looks like the "slowing down" of the viral spread is over...

So mail order brides no longer 75% off?

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well, looks like the "slowing down" of the viral spread is over...

Watch the markets are not going to like that.

Watch the markets are not going to like that.

uh...
yeah

that means a 33% increase in infected cases and almost 20% deaths in one day
and even if you take into account the "slowing" over the last day, it's still a huge increase over 2 days

uh...
yeah

that means a 33% increase in infected cases and almost 20% deaths in one day
and even if you take into account the "slowing" over the last day, it's still a huge increase over 2 days

Depending on how the markets react and for how long, you could be looking like a genius for going into cash when you did.