Pop a Pill, Drop the Pounds

Grandpa always said the best way to lose weight is to keep the fork away from your mouth.  Now, they are popping pills!

Obesity rampant, gym memberships galore, the health of America dwindles.

This is a good read.

Fat fanishing via PILLS!

My take is fairly simple.  FWIW from where I sit.  Obesity is NOT a disease. It is a symptom. So are type 2 diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, and chronic inflammation.

All are SYMPTOMS of severe metabolic dysfunction brought on by diet.

You can end them by changing your diet. Eliminate all added sugar, scale back your carbohydrate intake to a trickle, and eat lots of vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, and dairy. You will be healthy within a year with almost no other effort.  Curb your booze while you are at it.

Now, there is one other catch; eat NOTHING processed. If it comes in a box, bag, bottle, or tub don't eat it. After two weeks you will feel better than you have in years.

Virtually EVERYTHING you have been told about diet in the last 50 years has not only been wrong, it has been a deliberate LIE. Solely to enrich a few powerful industrial lobbies and individuals. Never believe ANYTHING that the government or large industries tell you about diet. That includes dietitians and nutritionists.    

Biden Labor Department (update on 4-9-2024, Bureau of Lies and Subterfuge)

I can't think of a Biden agency that puts out more lies.  

Fabrication.  Lies.  Distortion.  Dishonesty. Disinformation.  Tales.  Evasion.

Take your pick.

It's all on display in the Biden Labor Department.

Read this and weep.   For America.

Lies and More Lies

UPDATE:  Well look at this!  Imagine Dean Parisian being right once again!

Read this and weep boys and girls.   The ooze and slime are thick!

Advance Information: FOR SALE

Looking back years later........................

I don't like to play the LOOK BACK game and say I told you so.   Doesn't make me look as smart as I am.  Better to just keep quiet.   Most people live in the rearview mirror and say "I shoulda done this" "I shoulda bought that" "I knew that was going to be huge" or "I knew that was going to be a great investment".  Those people aren't living, only existing.   They don't know risk and the value of time and have no clue about the 8th Wonder of the World, compounding returns, whether in interest or in the stock market.

This post looks back at my prognostications on the finances of the United States.

With a background in economics and enough common sense derived from being in the markets for 30  years, I decided, on a hot summer day in Atlanta, Buckhead actually, to go down and stage a one-man protest.  Ben Bernanke was staying across the street at the Ritz Carleton and he had his government minions guarding him from seeing my poster.   What do you think of my poster-making skills?  

I called it.  Everything has come true.  Trillions upon trillions in debt, devaluation of the currency, inflation, lies, it just doesn't end with these crooks and shysters in government.  

  

Never. Ever. Forget.

If you have a couple of minutes out of your busy life watching social media reels and perusing your META life of those you love and hate, just do this.  Read.  This. 

NEVER. EVER. FORGET

Wall Street Journal

 They lost me when they went "WOKE".

It's coming. The sky is falling. "R" is here!

The dreaded "R" word!  Recession!    I will say it again, you read it here first, the recession will start the day after Trump takes office.   The liberal media loons will go crazy blaming the Trump presidency on policy causing a recession.

Today, the stock market goes on its merry way.  Again, another day of ATH's.

All.  Time.  Highs.    Buy RSP or SPY, preferably a combination of the two names, and just do nothing.    Just. Do. Nothing.  Just sit.

Here is a precursor of what is happening due to Bidenomics.  America's penchant for eating out is drying up.   

I took this off of ZeroHedge today.

"Darden Restaurants, a top full-service US restaurant group with 1,914 locations across 50 states under its eight brands—Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Cheddar's, Yard House, Ruth's Chris, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Bahama Breeze, and Eddie V's—warned on Thursday that lower-income customers are pulling back on spending. 

"Transactions from incomes below $75,000 were much lower than last year, and at every brand, transactions fell from incomes below $50,000. Similar to Q2, this shift was most pronounced in our Fine Dining segment," Chief Executive Officer Rick Cardenas told investors on an earnings call.

A pinched low- and middle-income consumer comes as no surprise given elevated credit-card balances and rising delinquencies, as well as depleted personal savings. Furthermore, negative real wage growth has been a disaster for the working poor in the era of failed Bidenomics."  

It still amazes me that most people involved in the stock market think that day trading or buying and selling is the way to make money.   The big money is doing the work in bad times and doing what I call, "winnowing" down the names I want to own.  As a cowboy, there is only so much room at the water trough.  You want to keep your best livestock well-fed and watered.  You want to own the best horses and give them plenty to drink.  If lucky, they will produce for you year after year.  I was fortunately very ready when the market began to roll back in November.  There was a silver lining to having had COVID back then and being in front of the computer day and night.  I didn't have the strength to be hunting, fishing, or trapping full-time last fall.  So, I was ready.  The big money is made by sitting.  I wish I knew 40 years ago what I know now.  A big shout-out to the million charts, scans, and screens I have been able to learn from via the William O'Neil database, now called MarketSurge, formerly called MarketSmith, and to the blue and green Daily Graphs books I had Federal Expressed overnight to review each and every weekend.  It was an expensive investment at the time, but now it's an investment I couldn't operate without.  Human emotions haven't changed in 10,000 years.  Fear and greed are in ultimate control of stock prices.  I am forever grateful.  

They changed my life.     

   

  

ELON MUSK. He says it best...........

"The woke hide their evil in a moral cloak."

"This is a battle to the death with the anti-civilizational woke mind virus.

My positions are centrist:

- Secure borders

- Safe & clean cities

- Don’t bankrupt America with spending

- Racism against any race is wrong

- No sterilization below age of consent.

Is this right-wing?"

Think DISASTER! Think TITANIC!

 

In the markets as in life, remind yourself of your boundaries.  Never think it can't happen to you.   I keep this beautifully framed picture on an office wall, easy to see, obviously to remind me daily.   Don't think it can't happen to you.

There is no reason to be stupid in the markets and kill yourself and your trading equity.   Yes, I experienced some tremendous drawdowns which didn't put me out of business but the worst one came at the absolute worst possible time when my Mother passed away.   It was about 25 years ago this week.

It was bad news on top of bad news on top of bad news.

Never believe it can't happen to you.