9.1.2017

Nine. Yes it is month 9. I am actually having a hard time writing that. How on earth can it be September already. 2017 is still young, isn't it? Evidently not, because today is the first of September. Only 4 months left in this one. 

Wow.

8.4.2017

Another Friday. Yes, we've run into another Friday already. 

7.7.2017


Good morning all. 

I'm sorry about yesterday, there was no afternoon update. I had a meeting at noon, and I figured I'd be safe pushing the afternoon update out to 2 or 2:30. Ha, wrong!  Before I knew it, it was ten to three and I hadn't even left yet. 

Sorry about that.

7.3.2017

Good morning all, I hope you're enjoying your 4th of July Holiday period. As always I hope your weekend was a great one. 

The wife and I had a very cool experience Sunday. Because we're now in the rainy season, you can count on a thunderboomer almost every afternoon. So we didn't want to risk the beach, and decided to walk the Sky way fishing pier. About halfway out I saw some people looking very concerned, as they peered over the concrete rail. The skyway fishing pier is actually the old roadway of the original skyway bridge and made of concrete and steel. Anyway, we could see something going on and walked over.  The roadbed is about 15 feet above the water and down below was a 250 - 200 lb green sea turtle in trouble. 

Predictions

 

A prediction (Latin præ-, "before," and dicere, "to say"), or forecast, is a statement about an uncertain event. It is often, but not always, based upon experience or knowledge. There is no universal agreement about the exact difference between the two terms; different authors and disciplines ascribe different connotations.

6.5.2017

Good morning everyone, welcome back from your weekend. As I always do, I hope it was a good one for you all.  I won't bore you to tears with mine, since the weather sort of washed us out, and I have nothing fun to report. 

5.5.2017

Good morning all, welcome to the last day of the week. Wow, these Friday's just keep rolling on through, don't they?  There's no question that time has sped up the older I get. 

3.10.2017

Hi Friends, it's Friday and because of a strange anomaly, it's Jobs Friday despite it not being the first Friday of the month.  That doesn't happen very often for sure

1.5.2017

Good morning all, I hope the day finds you well....

They closed out yesterday with a pretty good showing. However like the day before it, there was a time or two where the DOW wasn't far away from going red. That shows us that as much as they're still deploying new money in areas, there are people heading for the exits. It will be interesting to see who wins in the longer term. 

Hi everyone, the newest free investing newsletter is posted here on the site. In this issue, I talk about a couple things that no matter who would be in the White House, they'd have to face. One of them is the rise of the robots. Automation is not going to stop and it is going to continue to take jobs away. What happens when 50% or more of the jobs are done by machines?  What do YOU do for a living?  

Then we poke a few sticks in the over Nanny state regulations we face. If you've ever tried to open a small business you know how bad they are. This week I stole a quote from a woman in New Town portion of Sarasota. It's stunning brilliant in its simplicity. I think you should check it out.