lsuconnman

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There are Doge cuts?

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People’s heads will explode when they learn the money from the doge cuts were just redirected to the new incumbent spending…and once they’re reinstated, DOGE savings actually doubled government spending.

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A mechanic is paid hourly to work on jobs, why does a mechanic care if he does 4 jobs that take 2 hours each or 8 jobs that take 1 hour each?

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That’s the reason mechanics say Farley is FOS. Ford pays a set rate for every repair, and the only way to make the salary he claimed is available is to consistently beat the OEM time charts for repairs, and experience no down time…which is about as likely as running at the top of an MLM pyramid.

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If you don’t need the cash and have a 3% interest rate, it would be crazy to sell it. Get a property manager and ride the cheap loan.

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This sounds great until you discover the property manager will charge you 1 month rent to advertise your property and another month to manage it.

By the end of the second or third quarter you’ll begin dreaming about setting him ablaze after viewing invoices for the most expensive maintenance people in the city for mundane complaints.

You were fortunate enough to time it perfectly. I Have an old USAA metals fund that I bought in 2017 for $4k. By around 2022, it was only worth about $3k…now it’s up to $17k.

I’ve always been interested in WWI and wanted to own something historic. The Luger artillery pieces are both iconic and kind of magical, which led me to see what’s out there, and I have been casually browsing for the last year.

I recently found this: LINK

I won’t lie, it’s substantially outside the price range I envisioned. But, it also seems like it would check every other box, making it a better choice.

Is there any website that tracks historical sale prices for something like this?

More importantly, what kind of maintenance am I looking at to ensure it doesn’t deteriorate if I buy it?

His rant would’ve been far more effective if he just condensed it to …”look how complicated they make things, it took thirty minutes just to remove this part before I can start the process. Since Ford pays mechanics a set rate for each job, nobody is turning a profit that doesn’t bill hourly.”

Aren’t proof coins always priced 2-3X over spot?

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not speculative tobacco stocks.

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With all due respect, those “speculative” tobacco stocks have been the greatest wealth creator in the market for more than a century.

“ A $1,000 investment in US tobacco shares in 1900 would be worth over $8 million today (specifically, by 2020)”

“ A $1,000 face value in 1900 silver coins (like Morgan Dollars) would contain a substantial amount of silver, roughly 715 troy ounces, making its value today highly dependent on current silver spot prices (around $90/oz as of Jan 2026), placing it well over $60,000”

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If silver can do that over the past 10 years, why can't it do it again over the next 20-25?

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Those charts seem to show exactly why you shouldn’t expect this dance to last. It looks like silver underperformed everything else 27/30 years. It just happens when it does it erases years of antipathy.

The silver quarter meme is another one that is overplayed. Now do a chart that compares shares of US tobacco to silver or gold equivalent starting100, 50, or even thirty years ago. I’ll take the cigarette shares or almost any other dinosaur company.

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The Heir is the new Shah. Case closed

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OK, a guy that’s never had a job and has been supported his entire life by stolen Iranian wealth (which was the reason his father was so easily overthrown) and CIA protection.

We’re better off letting the Mullah’s VP take over.