Shortly after I was “released” from my job in electronics manufacturing , AARP came out with an article titled “Workplace Age Discrimination Still Flourishes in America”. At the time of my employment release, I was 57 years old. During my employment, I never experienced any age discrimination. It was only
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-$10,000 Six Times
I was looking at a year-to-date chart of my investments today. I counted six times where the value of my account dropped by over $10,000. This has occurred over a 3 or 4 day period every 5 or 6 weeks. But, each time the investments have bounced back to a
Continue readingJuly 2021 Update
The DOW has recovered from my last post a few weeks ago. Back then, the DOW was at 33,800. Today it is at 34,838, about 1000 points higher. It was as high as 35,144 on July 26th, but pandemic worries and unemployment concerns have pushed it down. My portfolio gained
Continue readingThe Summer Heat
The summer of 2021 has been a hot one. I haven’t had to cut the lawn since May. On the negative side, the air conditioner has been running non-stop for that long too. The electric bill has been averaging about $90 per month. That’s not too bad. My house has
Continue readingCOVID Market Crash
Here we go again. The stock market is dropping today as a result of all the scary news reports over the weekend that another wave of COVID is starting to gain momentum. Yet, here in Minnesota, the mnhealth Twitter account just announced that COVID-19 cases are down dramatically and that
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We are halfway through 2021 and I have knocked two items off of my wish list for this year. In January, I acquired an Xbox One X for $255 from a local seller on Ebay. That was a little bit more than I wanted to pay, but after losing bids
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