78F and 97%RH. It rained on me in various parts of town all afternoon yesterday. It was like a black cloud followed me around and wanted my auction items to be wet. My wife said she wasn’t aware of any rain. Must have been little cells and I just happened to drive through a bunch of them. Stuff in the back of the truck didn’t get too wet, as long as you keep moving the airflow keeps most of it out of the bed.<\/p>\n
Couple of interesting things in this story — https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-07-16\/ex-fox-friends-co-host-flees-us-amid-ponzi-scheme-allegations<\/a> And then there is this– https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-07-16\/despite-best-first-half-decade-hedge-funds-fees-continue-fall-0<\/a> Hedge funds are supposed to be the smartest guys, Wall Street players. If you were a conspiracy theorist, it might look suspicious that the market is so high, yet all the smart guys are doing so poorly… <\/p>\n “Years of underperforming the market as a result of the Fed’s rigged stock environment where fundamentals no longer matter<\/strong> has led many investors to seek out less expensive alternatives, especially since central banks no longer allow even a modest drop in the market. But hedge funds reported their best first half in a decade this year as managers capitalized on the surge in stocks after their plunge late last year.<\/p>\n Even still, the 5.7% gain across the hedge fund industry paled in comparison to the S&P 500, which returned almost 19% over the same course of time. This came after hedge funds delivered their worst performance since 2011 last year.<\/strong>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And another big fund is calling it quits — https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-07-17\/woodfords-once-iconic-fund-begins-forced-liquidations-vows-no-big-discounts<\/a> <\/p>\n “Woodford has left thousands of investors without access to their savings<\/strong> after suspending its flagship $4.63 billion equity income fund about a month and a half ago after overwhelming redemption requests.”<\/strong><\/p>\n — I wonder why those ‘sophisticated investors’ want their money back? They need it to cover something else? They need it for current expenses? They’ve lost faith in the fund? <\/p>\n I’m convinced more than ever that it’s a casino. Rule number one is “if you look around and can’t see the patsy, the patsy is YOU.” If you stayed in, take your gains and get out for a while. If you ‘let it ride’ you are going to leave the table busted.* <\/p>\n In politics, maybe now some chickens will come home to roost– <\/p>\n “Is Somalian-born far-left ‘squad’ member Ilhan Omar ‘married to her brother’? Trump makes extraordinary suggestion about one of his Democrat tormentors<\/p>\n President Donald Trump suggested Rep. Ilhan Omar was ‘married to her brother’
\nFirst, note that a guy who hosts on Fox is married to a woman who is a former news anchor with MSNBC. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. Then look at what the arrangement in question tried to do- profit by flipping and renting houses. Then the last line of the article – “As to why Clayton, Natali, and Whalen thought they could become stupid rich in flipping homes and renting them out for investors during a hiking cycle by the Federal Reserve and the eventual turning point in the economy that started in the summer of 2018 — is beyond us. All schemes tend to come undone at the end part of a business cycle.<\/strong> ” –Umm, they thought they could shear a few sheep before the bubble popped, or they thought they were too smart to get caught short when the bubble popped, or they didn’t believe it was a bubble. Bubbles always pop. I love how the author just casually mentions the end though, like everyone knows that’s what happened. Easy enough in hind sight.<\/p>\n
\n Reignited an explosive rumor that first emerged during Omar’s 2016 campaign
\n He made the outlandish claim to the press before heading to a rally in NC
\n Omar has failed to fully disprove the claims of bigamy and fraternal marriage
\n She has called the rumors ‘baseless, absurd’ and amounting to Islamophobia”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n