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Nate said:
Congrats on the gains. I've been trying to cut corners with the groceries myself. While Im not canning, I managed to get a nice break with beef steaks. I've been buying x2 packs of london broil for about $14 & cutting this into about 10-14 seperate steaks (aka- "top round") & throw em on the grill. Mix that with like an x8 pack of chicken breats (filet in half = x16)& I've got meat for the month for around $25.

When you say "energy" near the 100 buck mark, are you saying you think the energy sector may be topping out - or?
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No, I’m just saying when oil hits 100 per barrel it’s a mark that we haven’t seen since the beginning of the last recession. Most of that oil wealth goes to the Middle East and it doesn't come back in any positive way. Oil drives our economy and when it spikes, so does food / inflation. Anything that reduces your take home pay is not good. Anything that removes wealth from our American Economy is especially bad. Its always a good thing to keep an eye on crude oil as an investor. I subscribe to one blog on here that tracks oil called, “Oil Slick Stuff” by NNUT.:blink::blink:

BTW, the last time oil hit 100, I think it was around 2007 and when it did, that’s when my wife and I decided to buy our Prius Golf Cart Car. I kept my good ole Gas Guzzler 4x4 FJ Cruiser, but the Prius became our primary get around car and we still have it.

I think it’s cool that you save money as you mentioned in your post. Many families are learning how to become more thrifty. My wife started a canning web site to teach people about pressure canning. I know it sounds crazy, especially doing here in Los Angeles, but she’s getting many followers and thinking about writing a book about it.

I’m taking a Sick Leave day today with the Flu (not from eating her canning!! LOL) and sitting here debating on should i go back into the market with my TSP account. Right now, I’m leaning toward moving back in. Anyway, have a great day and enjoy your MLK weekend Holiday!!:cool::cool:
 
I decided to move into stocks today utilizing my 1st IFT for 2011. I kept waiting for a dip or even the slightest hint for a correction, but haven’t seen it. I’m currently looking at over 500 members above me and most of those are in stocks, so here we go... :cool::cool:

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu:D:D
Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)
 
Apple stocks were down this morning on the news about Steve Jobs. Over the last couple of years I’m now a total convert to Apple Technology. It started with the iTouch and progressed to the iPad and the Mac Mini... My federal job deals with technology and Its very innovative... I’m saving up to replace all of my old Microsoft desktops with new Apple machines... Their computers remind me way back in the days IBM computers first came out... You turn them on and they boot up quickly and they work... I can turn on my Mac Mini and it only takes about 30 seconds to fully come alive from power off... If you leave it on and it goes into the sleep mode, it only takes about 10 seconds and only consumes about 6 watts of power!!! Steve Jobs has a great company, but I think the company will continue to innovate with him or without... If I was a person who purchases stock on the side, I would be buying Apple today on the their dip!!:cool::cool:
 
Aviator_Guy said:
Apple stocks were down this morning on the news about Steve Jobs. Over the last couple of years I’m now a total convert to Apple Technology. It started with the iTouch and progressed to the iPad and the Mac Mini... My federal job deals with technology and Its very innovative... I’m saving up to replace all of my old Microsoft desktops with new Apple machines... Their computers remind me way back in the days IBM computers first came out... You turn them on and they boot up quickly and they work... I can turn on my Mac Mini and it only takes about 30 seconds to fully come alive from power off... If you leave it on and it goes into the sleep mode, it only takes about 10 seconds and only consumes about 6 watts of power!!! Steve Jobs has a great company, but I think the company will continue to innovate with him or without... If I was a person who purchases stock on the side, I would be buying Apple today on the their dip!!:cool::cool:
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Plus, AAPL is not just hardware and software. They have monetized digital music and have become the biggest music store... they'll become one of the biggest book stores, they are the biggest app store. Everyone talks about GOOG and Facebook getting the crucial marketing info on consumers... but the data AAPL collects on its users is far more beneficial... the click through rate on thier iTunes for genius suggestions is high... compared to click through rates on Goog and facebook. The goods they have on their consumers is much more useful than what's in facebook for high net worth individuals. They know what apps or on peoples iPhones and iPads and how often they use them. I'm shopping for a Macbook pro for personal use even though you pay a premium. The UI just makes it fun. But, I think AAPL will lose some steam when Jobs passes -- Jobs and Buffett really ARE their respective companies. Check out Bloomberg's game changer series on Jobs... amazing.
 
When I left the Navy in 1981, I went to work for a few years in the private sector with a company tasked with modernizing heavy industry. One of the things we worked on was PLC’s (Programmable Logic Controllers) and these PLC’s controlled wide variety of heavy industrial equipment. It looks like the Iranian Nuke program was infected by a computer Worm which caused their PLC’s to destroy their equipment from within their plants in itself!!! This is something like out of a Tom Clancy novel...LOL:blink::blink:

BTW, I spent 1977 at the Naval Technical schools located in Millington Tennessee. My barracks shared a lobby with the barracks that held Iranian military technical personnel. The Iranian students attended the same classes, but separated from the U.S. Navy Technicians. I asked a couple of my Navy instructors about their technical skills and they usually made the comment that they need lots and I mean LOTS of help... LOL:cool::cool:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20017651-83.html
 
Hi AG - I've been snooping around this site and following you on the tracker for the last couple months. I just registered, and wanted to pay my respects. I've learned a lot from your account posts. Congrats on a big return last year, and good luck in this one!:)
 
FYI, the TSP Annual Participant Statements are now available on the TSP website. The TSPTALK website returns posted are very VERY close. Thanks TSPTALK for your outstanding website!!! :cool::cool:
 
I think they will protest in Saudi Arabia on Friday, but I also think the masses in that country support their government. The problem is it only takes a very small minority along with CNN to shock the market. I’m seriously thinking about pulling out prior to Friday as a defensive move. If you see just one burning tire in the street in Saudi Arabia or a little broken glass in one of their fancy mega malls, stand by... It will be a very interesting weekend!!!:blink::blink:

I think the Libya unrest has no short term solutions because Col Gaddafi is a true nut job. Gaddafi is not afraid to turn his guns on his own people. I’m really surprised the UN hans’t enacted a no fly zone. I guess we don’t have any “Congressman Charlie Wilson’s” in DC land...:cool::cool:
 
Aviator_Guy said:
I think they will protest in Saudi Arabia on Friday, but I also think the masses in that country support their government. The problem is it only takes a very small minority along with CNN to shock the market.
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Kinda like PSC Unions and their MSM enablers, huh?

:mad:
 
Woke up Saturday morning to the news of an explosion at the Fukushima Nuke Power Plant!!!... I slowed the explosion down by playing it back and you can clearly see a shock wave when it goes off (CNN)... It appears to be away from their reactor domes... This is the plant that is closest to epicenter... I pray for the Earthquake / Tsunami victims and for their Engineers who are trying to get their plants under control!!!:worried::worried:
 
I’m always amazed with my wife and her ability to stockpile all kinds of “legal” non prescription pills. I noticed she had some Potassium Iodine in stock. Who knows, It might come in Handy someday!! BTW, neither one of us take any prescriptions, just vitamins, etc... I snapped this photo using my cell phone camera. Thats one of my three parrots “Rico”...:cool::cool:
 
crws said:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_N-wNFSGyQ
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Thank God this explosion isn’t the Nuclear Steel Containment that covers the fuel rods... We have a large Nuke Plant between LA and San Diego and its only rated for a 7.0 Earthquake. So I’m thinking a 8.9 followed up by a 40 foot wave crashing into the facility might be bad news for So Cal... The Navy had detected some low level radiation NE of Japan, but so far it appears the Japanese Engineers have managed somehow to contain any massive release... We really wont know the full scale of it for weeks to come unless they have a full scale meltdown... I just think its amazing they have been able to hold the line to date.:worried::worried:
 
Its all about the Japanese Containment Structures now. Chernobyl didn’t have one and when it blew, it spewed about 10 times the amount of radiation of the Hiroshima bomb. I will probably join the “Panic” mob and bail on Tuesday since we’re now moving into uncharted waters... As of 9:10pm PST, the Japanese Market is about -14%
 
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