A strong rebound in spending was ushered in from fiscal stimulus and a better summer with the pandemic, making comparison growth harder to come by for October
Arrive at work feeling frazzled and scattered
These piecemeal solutions won't work
The Quest 2 has launched to a ‘mostly’ rapturous fanfare of positivity
Deliverance, when it arrives, will come in a small glass vial
As the nurse drops the used syringe into the bin with a clatter, it will be hard not to wonder how something so small can solve a problem so large.
That's a bit lopsided
Employers could simply ask all of their employees to get vaccinated, return to the office, and bid adieu to Zoom's 40-minute cutoff forever
Despite record-breaking, around-the-clock production, the disinfectant still vanishes from store shelves in a matter of hours.
Musk went out on the limb even further, as he had to borrow the money from Goldman Sachs to buy the shares
Hedge funds and other professional investors routinely use this information to get an edge on their trades.
While the media will trumpet huge insider buys like Elon Musk's $100 million purchase
The SEC vigorously pursues such insider trading cases in order to ensure that the capital market is a level playing field where no one has an unfair advantage
self-paced online course
Biden has cast himself as a moderate with sensible
Biden believes that American workers can out-compete anyone, but their government needs to fight for them
He does not buy for one second that the vitality of U.S. manufacturing is a thing of the past
Salesforce is often cited as the first entrant into the software-as-a-service (SaaS) domain
big-box retailer
The oil and gas company that is domiciled in France has seen its shares tumble 59% year-to-date, along with the rest of the sector.
The Lucky Country is the object of an unusual amount of bile
market is facing one of the best backdrops for sustained gains in years
Their love affair was played out against the backdrop of war.
Another way of looking at it is through the prism of the equity risk premium — the return that investing in the stock market provides over a risk-free rate like government bonds.
Defensive vs Enterprising
enterprising spirit
Some enterprising girls organized a sponsored walk.
the economy has been dislocated and is showing signs of slowing as the virus makes a vicious comeback.
I want to clue you in on a powerful discovery we've made over these past few decades of helping our members build long-lasting wealth through the stock market.
The market close early today in observance of the thanksgiving holiday
His work setup is meticulously thought out
Are you seriously shortchanging your retirement?
It's been an unbelievable 2020 as millions of people have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, which has devastated families and communities around the world. The economic hardship has been very real and debilitating for people in all countries and communities, but particularly for those with low incomes or who have lost their jobs and businesses. The damage is deep.
XXX has given us whiplash and turned so many investing premises upside down.
PoolSide FM for creating the right vibes for when we need to jam out.
He is an extremely astute political tactician
Between the car break-ins and attempted home invasion, it sounds like somebody was canvassing the neighborhood.
This study IMO sheds much more light on the process of trading than any other studies out there
One word may have discrete meanings
But despite the allure of quick profits, it's generally a good idea not to use options at least for your first year or two as an investor.
As Fools, we're willing to take risk when the potential reward justifies it
Over time, options exchanges realized that their biggest customers were short-term traders. They therefore made new products that catered to those top customers' needs
Get Your Sea Legs First
First and foremost, before you can use options effectively, you have to have an opinion on the fundamental business prospects of the underlying company
The item in question is currently out of stock and we do not have plans to replenish it
Expect e-commerce sales to go parabolic.
With Covid lockdowns sapping demand for chocolate, buyers are looking for cheaper options—like tapping the futures market to skirt the fees.
Obviously not as good as the Go or the Quest, but it’s not gimmicky at all
The duo of Mnuchin and Powell has earned praise for their all-hands-on-deck approach to steering the economy through the pandemic
But Thursday’s surprise announcement was one of the few times that politics may have weaseled into their relationship
He's now trying to weasel out of our agreement
recency bias
In 2020, the recession was based on an extraneous shock – the sudden and unexpected pandemic
And I think it behooves any man to toss all female troubles into the hands of a stranger
She gets very hyped up before a race.
Victorian men developed fetishes focusing on feet, shoes, and boots.
The shocking revelations caused quite a storm.
She took a dim view of my suggestion
spitball
The government is ducking the issue
arguing against the ordination of women.
earth excavation
rock excavation
they plan to excavate a large hole
manicurist
your heart will throb with the bass
It's the rhyme that made it popular
Canada's Gazette, Boston Gazette
I gave up my job because I felt I was stuck in a rut.
The farm carts have worn ruts in the lane
baseboard
mush potato
You can't jackhammer into the safe.
A passerby told me the time
he decided to loon around London
Stop the car, you crazy loon!
There is some consternation among business leaders.
I'm in mourning for my former life
the world is mourning my loss
you bring nothing but pain and sorrow
I had the plea in my hand
polyglot usage
no hardware affinity
Pollution can aggravate asthma
he is wiping snot all over his face
We ended up finding a trashed fixer-upper.
fine grained component
federated identity
interoperability
Brazil’s pink river dolphins have long gotten blamed for all sorts of heinous crimes. Why do the myths refuse to die?
The grandson of a Nazi who took over a Jewish family’s store tracked down the owner’s descendants to apologize. CNN
The SEC Modernizes the Accredited Investor Definition
A solution is a grand bargain, a resounding win, a comprehensive resolution expected to withstand the pressures of all unknown future challenges
But Amazon is something else entirely, isn’t it? Its amalgamation of businesses don’t seem to make sense
It defies norms of focus yet it executes faster than seems possible for an entity of its size, let alone scope
“a wide assortment of good quality merchandise” at “the lowest possible prices.”
not only did it provide zero value to the customer, it also robbed the customer of the opportunity to buy something that they did need
The advent of the internet – of online shopping – meant that an online retailer had infinite shelf space
Amazon would never be able to match Walmart’s hard-won skills in fighting on the customer’s behalf for better prices
It engineered intricate systems, aligned incentives, and built a culture of thinking small to stamp out inefficiencies wherever it could find them
Amazon had to find a way of abdicating responsibility for solving these problems altogether; with Marketplace, Amazon had begun to grasp at a solution that would do exactly that
And so, circa 2002, we start to see the emergence of a pattern
The canonical example here is the DMV
its customers cannot go elsewhere for service, and the DMV does not experience the pain of interacting with itself, and so the DMV will perpetually remain in stasis at best
I don’t mean to imply that using Retail Link is in any way analogous to the experience of visiting the DMV
In order to thrive at ‘internet scale,’ Amazon would need to open itself up at every facet to outside feedback loops
Jeff Bezos issued an edict
His first stroke of genius was in making it unbound
his second – the masterstroke – was devising a solution to the bureaucratic complexity that would have otherwise caused it to implode
It carried with it the tremendous added benefit of honing Amazon’s own rapidly-expanding fulfillment network, which were certainly at risk of bloat and slop, with the sharp edge of seller expectations
In the days before they were denizens of the White House, Kushner and Trump inhabited a rarified slice of New York society.
It eliminates pesky business charges on your personal credit card
It gives Walmart a rebate for almost every dollar spent on the card
Literally. Because people living near parks or gardens seem to have a leg up.
Perhaps it’s not you. Habits, by definition, are what is habitual. What you’re used to doing
So in order to change your routine, you have to create new habits that are just as ingrained as the old ones
That's tantalizingly close to its all-time high of nearly $20,000 set during the crypto frenzy of December 2017
Whereas in late 2017 you couldn't go two Morning Brew newsletters without seeing a bitcoin headline, the conversation this time around has been tamer.
Study participants who didn’t replace their toothbrushes on the 40th day of use experienced considerably more plaque buildup
But even the top competitors in their respective spheres inevitably fall short
it just means they're able to shrug off their failures and move on
Not everything is perfect, of course. Apple’s insistence on using dumpy webcams continues to be a bummer, and running iPad apps is a m
US prosecutors say he netted at least $2.8 million, which he used to buy a $160,000 Tesla and a $1.6 million waterfront home
his proceeds were less than the value of the stolen credit because he had to sell at a steep discount
He used throwaway email addresses and began using a virtual private networking service
Kvashuk reported the bitcoin windfall to the IRS but claimed the bitcoins had been a gift from his father
two counts of aggravated identity theft
access device fraud, and access to a protected computer in furtherance of fraud
(He took these actions purely in (the) furtherance of his own career)
Kvashuk has been ordered to pay $8.3 million in restitution, though it seems unlikely he'll ever be able to do that
These damn whippersnappers got it so easy with their online gift-cards and fancy cryptocurrency
Squelching the Sound
all the sound bouncing around inside and outside your house can make it tough to get some decent shut-eye
But the optimism from the anticipated vaccines, and new therapeutics is superseding those concerns
Investors have been forced to make an educated guess about which companies will recover first
I’m not going out on a limb to advocate significant patience
A spitball hit the principal on his nose
The ducklings plumped into the water
He was a plump, placid boy
She plumped up the pillow
roly-poly: being short and pudgy - rotund
Others have claimed that the lack of insoluble fiber in Soylent has significantly reduced the frequency of their bowel movements
U.S. election vote counts suggest that this U.S. election had the largest voter turnout in over 100 years, at 67%. That’s truly laudable voter engagement. (commendable)
The rest are mired in a deep decline with an uncertain path ahead.
By and large, they are prospering.
Third, we have an uber-dovish Fed. We have dovish central banks outside the USA.
2021 offers the possibility of strong snapbacks with upgrades to earnings and revenue growth rates
CEOs weren’t buying the euphoria, the way the stock markets did.
Consumer interest rates stay low, in particular, home mortgage rates. Auto and home purchases are atypically strong in a recession.
The Fed has provided immense liquidity across bond markets, in government, mortgage, and corporate.
For years, gold prices danced between $1200 to $1300 an ounce.
A replay of today's workshop is available for three days and then it will disappear into the ether
He received a paltry annuity of $100
Is that a sound strategy
As Warren Buffett quipped in an op-ed written during the heart of the 2008 financial crisis, "If you wait for the robins, spring will be over
Nobody has a functioning crystal ball and anyone who gives a prediction about where the economy or the stock market will be some time down the road is either deluding themselves or you, and probably both!
You can take solace in the knowledge that you'll make more when the market eventually goes up, as it will.
DoorDash was founded in 2013 by Stanford students, and it’s raised $2.5 billion since, from the likes of SoftBank and other heavy-hitter VCs
if DoorDash succeeds, it won’t remain a pure-play food delivery company.
According to the WSJ’s Eliot Brown, DoorDash has surged to the lead in use of the word “platform” in an IPO prospectus, pummeling WeWork by a count of 646 to 157.
We need an orderly transfer of power following the election.
lift-off
The pandemic has played a big role in Americans’ desire to sock away cash
Big technology stocks in the U.S. and China have been world-beaters all year
The company only made CA$300,000 in revenue last quarter, and lost CA$8.8 million, but managed to impress investors by turning a pro forma profit of CA$0.19 per share.
(These are pro forma questions I'm asking everyone)
Melt ups often precede melt downs.
These things, happen, they happen systematically, they happen predictably, they happen unavoidably
my drift that you should end up catching at the end of the answer probably applies for other endeavors in life in general
Your confidence skyrockets right there to 100% when you do the simplest thing
tic-tac-toe game
sit in a comfy chair, relax, and read, this will be on the longish side
the great coder accepts that they are going to be REAAAALLY frustrated with their past selves
(Eat up your fish and don’t be so finicky)
A great coder has learned that compiling is a finicky process especially if you are a member of a team
A good coder might feel flabbergasted by such occurrences
The reason is that the great-coder/best-programmer has accepted and made peace with the truism that theory and reality do not always agree
They do not ruminate on it because they know that quite often it is natural for a coder to find themselves in this position
I agree with it in principle but I doubt if it will happen in practice
Now the great coder is well aware that old code will contain bugs precisely because coders in the past did what is depicted above
Which more often than not it will be of the abstract art type. The great coder makes peace with the “it is what it is” truism
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
If you try to patch this thingamajig and that thingamabob that was introduced by the implementation of some TODO, you end up in situations like this
Miscommunication, misunderstandings and even antipathy may run rampant completely disrupting and hindering everything
keep that asinine opinion to yourself
(I'm sorry. I'm just so frazzled today)
Where do most of us draw the line
The Goals & Resistance Course will help you move past that stuckness
I had to concede that I'd overreacted.
Live under a rock
formative years
As such, I will retreat into the specious cry of "correlation is not causation"
I actually abhor this idea as it is broadly wrong except at the margin
An example of the idea that correlation is not causation is the correlation between levels of cheese consumption and people who die strangled by their bedsheets
It’s a darkly humorous example
No matter who you were pulling for, I think that's a funny and apt description
Never haphazardly sell your stocks on a strong feeling you might have about what "should" happen in a given larger circumstance
Try to avoid allowing the noise and short-term gyrations to convince you to do otherwise
If cloud-computing stocks go wobbly — and they will, because they already have been — it won't be because of the election or the economy
Zoom's ability to put up triple-digit revenue growth and then accelerate its gains has set a bar too high for others to reach, and that has consequences
Expectations for cloud stocks are too darn high.
I know it's weak sauce to just say, "Well, 2020," but to me, there is a much bigger thing going on, and Tim hit on it, kind of
Traders may as well be throwing darts at a board with no bullseye
So we end up looking for clues to the story for Fastly and others in exogenous data — like election returns
The intimidation game
The humbling of Jack Ma wasn’t a one-off. Xi Jinping is determined to assert the party’s authority over China’s glittering tech industry
Sony continues to be the hardware leader for die-hard gamers
The top global market since 2010 is woolly
It vaulted out of that following strict lockdowns over the summer and has been able to keep the virus relatively under control.
a concerted effort
More and more companies are using blockchain in their businesses as it provides an incorruptible digital ledger for all types of transactions and data transfers
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My finances were in a deplorable state of neglect.
We deplore the accident.
The stock market does not appear to be fazed by the ‘contested’ election, with the SThe stock market does not appear to be fazed by the ‘contested’ election, with the S&P 500 soaring +7.3% last week and jumping over +3% as I write my response to you - P 500 soaring +7.3% last week and jumping over +3% as I write my response to you
Investors may be wagering, in my view, that a Republican-controlled Senate may prevent the Biden administration from implementing sweeping changes to the tax code
I've never had pesto sauce before.
On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation
Europe seems to find itself in one predicament after another
The 2020 U.S. presidential election has been a slog for just about everyone, no matter what your political orientation
matte black
Wrapping the stems (the crown) in plastic wrap prevents the escape of ethylene from the stems
Throw a wrench to Ant's IPO
A lot of sectors are in harm's way
book value
He is a trustworthy and level-headed leader
maybe it's the word "date" that's throwing me off.
Just dabble with it every now and then, then just stop and then come back to it
the Fed will also continue flexing its quantitative easing muscles, buying assets like mortgage-backed securities and U.S
The bespectacled banker was appointed to the board by former President Barack Obama in 2012
The rat gnawed a hole in the wooden box
as everyone gnawed on pepperoni while watching Steve Kornacki defy the limits of human endurance
U.S. officials said they seized $1 billion worth of bitcoin that was linked to the dormant darknet marketplace Silk Road.
Hitler tried to liquidate the Jews in Germany
I'm trying to keep you from liquidation
barbarian
round robin
count me in, count me out
It's naff to say it, but it is amazing that the Americans can look at the last four years and be split 48-52 on whether they want more of it
To a lot of people in America, Democrats are smug college kids who regard them as untouchables
coal, charcoal
The pandemic smothered demand and the export market dried up
While very popular in the main developped countries such as the USA and China, some outliers such as Paraguay, have a very big relative user base
adverse effects
Trump and Biden blitz through swing states, the races that will decide the Senate
England announced a monthlong lockdown to stem a surge in coronavirus infections and prevent a “disaster” for the UK’s national health system. BBC NEWS
That is, until the baby was kidnapped and found dismembered.
If a guy isn't into you because you opt for the chocolate cake, he needs to be kicked to the curb pronto
The declines are evidence of wary traders and investors moving into “risk-off” mode and holding cash heading into Tuesday’s elections
The bigger the total turnout, the greater the chances will be that the results will be unassailable.
Please vote. We’ll all be better off for it.
More specifically, I've stumbled upon an under-the-radar stock I believe could be one of the greatest discoveries of my 27 years as a professional investor.
Los Angeles is rife with gossip about the stars' private lives
This is pure conjecture with no basis in fact.
It seems that no grave calamity has ever befallen any country without it being foretold by some seer, and Pompeo has put himself forward as the presager of coming disaster.
The cold shoulders Pompeo has met on his Asian tour have shown his anti-China soothsaying to be nothing but a self-directed and self-performed farce, as Wang Wenbin, spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry, described his trip.
once the US starts to mend its ties with China, they might be left high and dry, paying for their shortsightedness with real money.
But if it continues to try and sow discord in the region, it is liable to find it counterproductive.
Those traits didn't pop up in humans.
She has sworn off cigarettes
The poster had been nipped to pieces
If our feet are letting out too much heat, we may take longer to drop off.
About that girl, the one I let get away