and I can live it destructively and I can live it constructively and anywhere inbetween, and I have. For a long time my opinion of myself has been: I am not right. As much as I do not want to--though sometimes (as the evidence shows) it seems I must want to, I too consistently have made poor choices. Had I had the vision, I would have lived both as I chose and as I did not choose. Have been a Brian and an anti-Brian. Examples: 1. As a writer I would have been both reclusive and highly visible. 2. As a purchaser of stocks, I would have traded aggressively and invested judiciously in growth stocks. 3. As a general consumer I would have allowed myself some excesses but would have found a residence I intended to remain in. 4. As a mind/body being I would not have favored my mind over my body. There's a current body story I am tempted to share but a voice within says: Don't. Share it with your doctors. As some of you know, my life here in Missouri is one of greater isolation than it was in Florida. This is not to say I can't make it less so, but I am more limited. Other blogger's write about books and journals they are purchasing or have received and about what they're reading out of their extensive libraries. I have a library, but little in it is contemporary, and presently my days are heavy with other concerns. Actually, I maybe shouldn't have a blog. Does it seem I'm confused? I am. However, it isn't just isolation, it's my lack of pertinent knowledge. It's my inability to keep up. So much of my time is spent visiting blogs and making my often difficult-to- compose comments. Besides, that I do not have a defined agenda to push as do certain bloggers in that I do not belong to a coterie and am not bound to a specific style makes me less interesting on the face of it. --- Am at the second chapter on Imagination and Fancy in Owen Barfield's What Coleridge Thought, and at the end of the first chapter Barfield presented the passage in which Coleridge defined the Primary and Secondary Imaginations. Barfield had stated Coleridge was at odds with most thinkers--oriented as they were toward scientific rationality--of his time. Thus, as I suspected, Coleridge assigned the Primary Imagination to the ". . . infinite I Am." This puts me in line with Coleridge. --- Events of late have been signalling to me I am in my last days. Yet there's no way of knowing. I could concentrate my weakened energies. Fanny Howe and Franz Wright? St. John of the Cross? The Age of Pisces is in its last days. Even so, it may be more than 300 years before the Age of Aquarius fully takes over, which some say St. Germain will rule. Others are expecting a new reign of Jesus and 1000 years of peace. Barring more miracles, I'm expecting to be dead. The Dow had a lackluster day. Read that President Obama said the government won't get into healthcare insuring unless Congress can figure out how to pay for it. GM is getting a second chance. They ought to help revitalize the railroads. For me tomorrow means another trip to my GP's office. Just remember: a good poem is one you like, even if you don't know why. rh00359
Thursday, July 9, 2009
It is my life
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Topical
Over at Money Rho are financial links. Two of the moment are J. H. Kunstler's post too stupid to survive in which he provides information about the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), an organization I had not heard of but plan to become familiar with. www.cnu.org - The other is Karl Denninger's post for today. Also, this evening President Obama is expected to announce the granting of some benefits to same-sex partners who are federally employed. bl00352
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
America as we have known it is dead
DEAD. The oil-based credit-is-good paradigm is over. Do not try to resurrect it, especially with dollars that do not exist. You will only make the future worse, President Obama. Just as when an individual, for whatever reasons, slips into bankruptcy, so should organizations of individuals be allowed to slip into bankruptcy. AIG wants to change its name or already has changed its name, probably to AIU Holdings, after its toxic financial waste unit is separated from the rest of the company. Don't know if it would make sense to, but a special entity for toxic financial waste could be created. Perhaps then computers could identify and classify that waste, and determine how best to eliminate it. Besides, a vast majority of this nation's citizens have on their own chosen saving over borrowing; and a further besides: If we don't immediately begin to reduce the toxins in Earth's atmosphere, the financial mess will be a moot concern, because we will lose our planet, and most likely our lives. 2009-03-26: See money.cnn.com/ and search colin barr truth about credit default swaps - Also: Treasury Secretary Geithner will be apprising Congress today. PM 1:11 -- ----------- Search Geithner March 26, 2009 financial system overhaul or Play Geithner testimony video here. PM 2:00 -- ----------- See this post by Mike Hewitt America's Forgotten War Against the Central Banks on his DollarDaze blog. One sentence from this long insightful post: "The more abundant the money, the lower its value." PM 2:45 -- See DollarDaze by Mike Hewitt ---------- in Unlike List in sidebar. rho00322
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Support These U.S. Financial Repairs
From James Howard Kunstler: Forget About Recovery From Karl Denninger: Heh Mr. President; How Ya Like This? .3:15 -- Or maybe the question: Time to Kill the Big Banks? isn't, as Paul R. La Monica suggests, an easy one to answer. rho00311
Saturday, January 31, 2009
31
Really ought to dedicate February to clearing out the clutter in this apartment. When the pressure rises to where I can't stand myself any longer, I will/ abandon these blogs until the pressure subsides to a tolerable level. - Sprintedon Migrasaurus, which now has 1021 posts, has a site map worth perusing and using. If you prefer more specific information, you will need to scroll to near the bottom of the page where the labels are. Guess I should put a link in to them, if I can. - Most of the comments at Money Rho are mine. Update stuff. Entered one at WCG, BAC, and CNO earlier. All of these companies are in trouble. Still, I wouldn't short them. A perfect upside trade situation developed at CNO beginning on November 20, 2008. That was a down day on the market. CNO closed at $1.78 that day. The stock was trading from just below $2.00 to just above $3.00 and so could be expected to move back to that price or higher. It's previous high above $3.00 was $3.16. It did move up, and when it did, it established a new trading range. On November 28, 2008, an up day on the market, it closed at $3.38. It was then the new trading range--above $2.50 and below $3.90--began. Analyst consensus had it rated a buy when it was in the old trading range, and that didn't change. In December a dividend was declared for holders of record as of December 31, 2008. Now, I had no idea how high CNO's stock would rise, but I knew dividends draw investors. I also knew that after December the price of the stock would decline. Circumstances have me sidelined. Surprisingly, and this is the salient fact, CNO rose to a high of $5.19 on December 31. Just do the math. Remember, here is a stock which is barely investment grade; yet it is outperforming the market by a huge margin. Say you bought a mere 50 shares at $2.00 a share on 11/20/08. Do you hold through December so you can get the dividend, or do you sell your 50 shares at, say, $5.00? Of course there will be a commission that will need to be paid upon the purshase and again upon the sale. Say $50.00 is that commission. The dividend was about 0.10 per share. 100 + 50 = 150. 250 - 50 = 200. 200 - 150 = 50, a gain of 25%; and 50 x 0.10 = 5, a gain of 5% ($5.00). The stock would have to be at $4.90 when you sold it in 2009 in order the get the $50.00 selling it at $5.00 on December 31 would have given you. On January 2, $4.71 was the closing price. Nonetheless, I say: Take it when you have it. - All the immediately above information should have been posted at Money Rho. Some of it is. But a surprise email arrived this morning, and it is what prompted me to make this disclosure. - At S M are the song lyrics for sl43, Dreams Edge. rho00276
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
20
In contrast to yesterday's Money Rho post, today On the other fingers contains links to four dark outlooks. - In keeping with what is at the destinations of the links above, this links to a poem in my Rooted Sky 2007: Dark Gazelle. - Obama was sworn in as the 44th U.S. President. - Chilly day, but tomorrow/ above fifty. - Posted a 7th CNO comment. The DJIA was down well over 300 points. rho00264
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Money Rho
is a new blog begun today. Have decided not to post money-related information in Rhodingeedaddee in 2009 and years beyond, though I may have only days beyond. Rho00252
about an AU ADR
from Tuesday December 30th, 2008 Money Morning By Horacio Marquez Contributing Editor Buy, Sell or Hold: NYSE ADR: BHP Rho00250
Friday, December 26, 2008
Downturn letter shapes
Here is a helpful article By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor Money Morning/Money Map Report Rho00247
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
In the latest from JHK
this: "What seems to spook people now is the possibility that everybody in charge of everything is a fraud or a crook." James Howard Kunstler's post for this week is entitled: Legitimacy Dwindles. Rho00245
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Using money rationally
Last night I said in a comment: - Down with debt addiction. Live simply. Save money. . . . In an email received today, Keith Fitz-Gerald wrote: - "In the next ten years, we will see a return of . . . · Savings and frugality · Personal responsibility: paying bills on time, not living beyond one's means · Risk management as central to investing · Stock market investing as a way to get ahead, not 'place bets' on 'lucky stocks'" Rho00244
Friday, December 19, 2008
Fitz-Gerald on Buying Stocks
By Keith Fitz-Gerald Investment Director Money Morning/The Money Map Report Friday December 19th, 2008 Stocks May Not be Cheap Enough, Yet -- And Here's Why Rho00242
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Gilani on Debt Rating Agencies
[ . . . . ] [ extra-note: Read today that Obama is prepared to go all the way back to the Civil War to correct financial errors made during various administrations. ] Rho00241
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
This article on sensible investing
By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor Money Morning is dated Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 and is entitled How to Avoid Madoff Mayhem. Rho00239
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Chicago Board Options Exchange
cboe - 2008-12-14 See this Wikipedia entry and check reference link. If you search the title of this entry, other explanatory sites will come up. As fascinating as all this is, it is really only useful for wealthy traders, people who have at least $25,000 and are able to purchase 100 to 1000 shares using options contracts. Even then the limit of what can be lost is more than the limit of what can be gained, so it was in one example anyway; but the Chicago Board Options Exchange does provide courses for beginners. Rho00238
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Big Three opinion article
"The Big Three Need a Shakeout, Not a Bailout" by Keith Fitz-Gerald ----- Investment Director Money Morning/The Money Map Report 2008-12-09 makes sense to me, but in it is a "would not" which, as I read it, was meant to be a "would now"-- it will be obvious. Got any horses? Rho00235
