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I wonder how much of a say the NFL had in it. Obviously, losing on purpose hurts the brand. Maybe they would have told the Eagles owner there would be an investigation and they could lose a draft pick, and that became the tipping point to firing him and avoiding all that.
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Bears are a good argument against expanding the playoffs.
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I'm way too jumpy and got out at $600. Maybe a good lesson to wait until things level off. I think it's valued at something like the second-biggest company in the US right now. Saw an internet post recently of a young kid who had $65 to his name and wanted to get into investing, so of course he bought Tesla. But it makes me wonder when there's eventually a hiccup, if all the fractional shares left at once, what sort of difference might that make. The EV explosion does make me think about becoming a nickel miner, though. Thinking about Vale right now. Debt, but they've spent a lot of it on environmental stuff, which is obviously more inviting to Tesla than that one big nickel company in Russia which turned a river red. There's one EV company in China that's getting huge, but I kinda also don't want anything to do with China.
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I don't think I ever really recognized the issue until I was in grad school rooming with undergrads.
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Yeah my father had told me to buy FCEL when it was at $3. But I did what all sons do when fathers give advice. So you think solar wont pick up? I already have Energy Transfer, so Im not looking to do more oil/gas. I picked up Intel on its dip a bit ago, but I have no real long-term hope for it and wouldnt mind moving it to something else.
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Would sure love to make a play on solar. One would figure Biden will eventually be throwing a lot of money at it along with Congress making sure subsidies are in every forthcoming stimulus bill like the last one. And hadn't Trump raised tariffs on Chinese solar? One would guess Biden will also repeal those and China makes more PV cells than anyone. I see that Jinko Solar is on the exchange, though I haven't really run its numbers yet. Any other recommendations folks here might have?
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Come on now, I think you know full well that will never be the case.
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Optimistic articles on bitcoin say that once bigger firms start to accept it as an investment its price will start to stabilize so much more than now. The ones buying now like the idea that they can get in before the big guys do and make a lot of money from it. There's a few select applications where you can pay in bitcoin, but of course with it being on fire lately nobody is going to. But even then the value of the dollar isn't going to turn into Zimbabwe in my lifetime, and so I have a hard time believing I'll be paying for gas with it anytime soon. A lot more firms are starting to get into it now. And I wonder how many firms have hated it so far specifically because Warren Buffet has been very vocal that he'll never buy it.
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Well, the stimulus part wasn't borrowed but just printed. The Fed recently changed their "aim for 2% inflation per year" to "aim for an average of 2%," which gives them a good bit more liberty to keep the printers humming if so desired. I don't see any cause to believe Democrats or Republicans will halt any of it. Too many votes out there to buy. Along with national debt there's also massive corporate debt. Probably also a good number of businesses which got blown up in March but will manage to hang on for a year+ before calling it quits. I see it as a matter of when, but that's still the hardest part. Not like I want to hold onto cash for two years or longer before anything finally happens. Buffett bought some interest in a gold mining company when before he's always hated gold. Granted, a company is a little different yet still kinda the same since their value directly relates to gold price. I also hear some folks recommending agriculture ETFs since poor and rich alike still have to eat. I also wonder about bargain places like Dollar General/Family Dollar, but I don't know much about them yet. I just put a buy in for Ethereum, largely because my bitcoin friend steered me the right way last time and he studies crypto pretty hard. But yeah, I keep trying to think of how a person is actually supposed to value that stuff and there's just no way. Total guessing game apart from its value seeming to be tied to the inverse strength of the dollar.
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The guy who caught the pass was one catch away from triggering a contract bonus. That one additional catch made him $500,000. I'd venture to guess Wilson takes a knee if he's not open and that a bigger brawl isn't started because many on SF probably knew the deal. I heard it was $100K, but I guess Wilson did it on his own and Pete didn't know about it. Either way, after hearing the full story I have no issue with it and I doubt the 49ers do either. Yeah it could well be that amount and not what I'd quoted. The story I heard it in listed off a good few players who hit or missed incentives, so it's more likely I mixed some of them up.
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I don't recall exactly what my folks charge for rent, but it definitely isn't some bargain. They bought it about three months before the market crashed and immediately lost 40%, but it's probably a $400,000 home at this point. You can walk to the Cardinals and Coyotes arenas, and the development they've done in that area has really helped. Maybe I'm wrong, but I tend to only think that being a landlord is good if you're able to offer any sort of value to that investment, like being able to do repairs yourself instead of hiring it out, or really knowing the real estate market in the area to pick out underpriced homes and know areas that are growing.
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The guy who caught the pass was one catch away from triggering a contract bonus. That one additional catch made him $500,000. I'd venture to guess Wilson takes a knee if he's not open and that a bigger brawl isn't started because many on SF probably knew the deal.
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I sold my bitcoin a couple days ago. The phrase "record high" frightens me in general. The entire history of it is big gains and big falls, not steady growth.
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I should have noted it's Glendale, Arizona. Can't get any warmer. Amazingly they were rented out through the summer this year. They won't rent to locals anymore. Locals are only there to party and end up making a mess and/or leave cigarette burns in leather couches. The last straw was when the cleaning lady came in and found 100# of marijuana in the bathroom. Guess the renters thought they had an extra day rented.
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My folks have a second house in Glendale that they rent out. They hire a cleaning lady, a landscaper and a rental agent. It pretty well pays the mortgage but not a money-maker. Pretty good number of folks who rent it for 2-4 weeks at a time. But certainly a better deal than leaving it empty for 10 months out of the year.
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Game 15: Titans @ Packers - Sunday, December 27th , 7:20PM CT
GAME05 replied to homer's topic in Other Sports
Wait, so DON'T fire Pettine? -
I've never read anything positive about Haskins' decision-making on the field or movement or even accuracy. By those accounts not an NFL player, but yeah, how many QBs (Darnold? Josh Rosen?) would have had long, successful careers if not for landing with bad coaching staffs. Haskins wasn't going to be with Washington next year, anyway. Probably best for team morale/chemistry to just cut him now. If he were worth a 7th rounder, he'd have been traded at the deadline already.
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Guess I learned something that high schools are indeed doing all that. Wish I had that class, too. Think we're gonna start a contest at work. Paper-trading (fake money) only, starting with $10k, who can be the first one to get their account under $1. Winner gets the pool.
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If the salary cap is cut, I wonder how that would effect things for teams like the Jets and Bengals, who presumably would have a lot of room under the cap due to having few stars, and could then pick up a lot of talent that other teams just couldn't afford.
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Game 15: Titans @ Packers - Sunday, December 27th , 7:20PM CT
GAME05 replied to homer's topic in Other Sports
With his balance and his tree-trunk legs it was taking two DBs and a LB to tackle him. -
If not for drafting a pass-catching RB, maybe Deguera would mitigate some of the pass-catching loss of Jones. Run more two-back formations and it's Dillon who stays in to pass-block but it's Deguera who does the catching.
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The opt-out option would be a lot smarter way of setting it up, kind of protecting people from themselves. And I wonder how many people don't opt-in just because they think the immediate $200 more in their paycheck is a better deal. A high-school class on investing and general life skills would be so much more valuable than AP Chemistry or some other senior-year class. Parents just aren't teaching their kids about these things anymore. I would think more young people are trying their hand at investing after Robinhood kicked off no trading fees. Although I'd guess if you're young and male and don't know what you're doing, you'd probably jump into options trading. Heard a story from not long ago that there's some kind of hedging options strategy, but Robinhood has it where it shows all your losses first and only later shows the profits. So a guy killed himself because he woke up to a -$750,000 account. Worse yet when the profits later rolled in he'd actually made a couple thousand dollars.
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Totally agree with that sentiment. There's a big value to having opposite-style backs whether that's going to be Jones or someone else.
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That's really surprising. Even when I was making $26k as an editor, I still had a 401k. Are there that many people simply declining the option, or is it just an extremely small number of jobs which offer retirement benefits? I mean, 18% of the workforce is employed by local/state/federal government. Even accepting that many are part-time, I still have a hard time with only 12% of median earners being invested.
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As bad as kickers have been the past few years I'll happily take an average kicker. Would much rather have a guy who's more consistent at 35 than a guy who's wild but can hit a few more at 50+. I'd actually love for the FG posts to be brought in by a couple feet to make it a little more of a gamble. And since kickers have also gotten stronger, maybe also raise the bottom bar a few feet, too. Puts more value on an offense getting into the Red Zone as well as increases the number of 4th down tries.
