See the Model Porfolio page on the right of the menu bar. I am selling CVX @ $89.72 for a 15% profit of $3,000.
Model Porfolio now up to $103,000.
I will decide where to put our extra cash next week.
Reminder, this is a game, I am not making any recommendations, so you are warned not to follow them for legal reasons.
Found this on EPJ today. It’s Gerald Ford, blathering about literally nothing, using as many words as possible to convey the least amount of information he can manage.
The solution to inflation is very simple. It is to stop inflating. That means stop printing more money. That’s it. That’s the entire solution, and the only solution. There is nothing else to say. The end.
But here’s Gerald Ford on stopping inflation. Notice that he doesn’t actually ever say anything.
Bob also notes what Alan Greenspan said about the Whip Inflation Now campaign, which basically consisted of summits of politicians all over the country meeting and coming up with asinine suggestions like voluntary price freezes to stop inflation. And a bunch of buttons.
As it turns out, I actually own the book where Greenspan talks about this. He says it was “unbelievable stupidity” and almost had him running back to New York to get out of the White House. He should have run, but he became a central planner anyway and threw out his libertarian beliefs entirely.
I own the book, Greenspan’s memoirs called the Age of Turbulence. My brother suggested I buy it because it was interesting. (He’s not great on economics.) So I found it for $1.50 on Amazon or something and what-the-helled. I could never bring myself to read the trash though or touch the book fearing the evil would burn my skin, but I guess it does have nuggets of Greenspan’s long-ago neglected conscience in it.
Another stabbing just now in Afula. Fourth one today. This time private citizens caught the bastard and started bludgeoning him and beating him. They would have beaten him to death and gotten rid of the guy had not the State Police saved the attacker’s life by pepper spraying the defenders before they could kill him. So now we can all pay for his housing and food for the next few years until he gets out.
Long live the State security monopoly.
Well, he didn’t say Har Habayit. He said Al Aqsa. But this is starting to get interesting. Of course, Tibi will go up with the rest of the Arabs today or tomorrow and nobody will stop him.
Yesterday Netanyahu forbade any politician from going up to Har Habayit, first only Jewish ones, but then I guess he decided that was racist or something, so he figured he would apply it to Arab politicians too and just not enforce it equally.
Meanwhile Iran is invading Syria and Russian and US fighter planes are getting close to dogfights. Things are getting quite interesting out here.
I’m not going up any time soon. I don’t feel like getting stabbed or getting stuck in the middle of a riot. I’ve had rocks thrown at me on Har Habayit before. It’s not pleasant.
Well, that’s a start. What he means is, if someone tries to stab you and the government has said you can own a gun, shoot him. But the implication is, if someone tries to stab you and your gun is not “licensed”, then don’t shoot him. Or, if your gun is not licensed and we didn’t say you could have one (because your right to guns comes from Government, not God), remain unarmed, and let people stab you. Fine, you can fight back with your hands if you want.
Because the Word of Government is more important than your self defense. I’m waiting for the first murderer to be shot and killed with an unlicensed gun. See what happens then.
Another stabbing in Kiryat Gat just now. An Arab walks up to a soldier, takes his gun and stabs the soldier. The attempted murderer gets shot down by police. This time I won’t have to pay for his medical bills.
You know what all these shootings prove? We need more gun control. And knife control. It should be illegal for people to just go up to a soldier and steal his gun. We need a law against that. Call the politicians. It should be worded very very very very firmly, so as to discourage this kind of behavior.
If nobody had guns, then the Arab wouldn’t try to steal one, would he?
I’m a genius. Somebody call the Knesset and tell them to pass a few laws.
(I’m joking. What would actually happen is the Arabs would ignore the new very very very very firmly worded laws, get guns, and shoot the unarmed Jews.)
An 18 year old Arab woman stabbed a 36 year old Jewish man in the back this morning at Sha’ar Arayot in Jerusalem in an attempted murder. The Jew was armed and shot her. She is now critically wounded. The government hospital is now trying to save her life. The Jew is OK.
The hospital should just finish the job, let her die, and then cremate or dump the body on the Mediterranean. I don’t feel like paying to save the life of an attempted murderer just to have her released in the next prisoner exchange.
If someone stabs you or attempts to stab you, shoot to kill.
Wow!
Shock and awe!
I checked Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz’s facebook page for I don’t know what reason. I almost never do that. I don’t know why I did just now. And THIS is what I find! Shmuly Yanklowitz now supports a market for human organs! My God. I’m so happy my eyes are welling up. As you’ll see in this paragraph, he also hints he would support the legalization of sex work, which would ALSO save many many lives. Who knows how many. The article is titled “We Badly Need More Donated Kidneys. Let’s Start Paying For Them”. It fills me with hope.
In this worst of all possible worlds, only black-market incentives are offered. Since underground organ sales are happening en masse, we must look deep inside and ask vital questions: how can we re-channel this exploitative industry to one that ensures the health of the donor? How can these people be adequately protected in the procedure in such a way that non-coercive consent is ensured? How can exorbitant profit opportunities for organ brokers be eliminated? How do we ensure a level playing field to ensure fair distribution of donated organs? Those who support the prohibition of offering incentives think it will prevent the enormous ills of this abusive black market. But like the prohibition of sex work, it has failed. Miserably.
I now ask his forgiveness publicly. And I hope that my incessant, and admittedly vicious attacks against him were part of the calculus that inspired this reversal.
He still needs to reverse his positions on equal work equal pay, sweat shops, minimum wage and general infatuation with government, but organ sales are much more important than any of that.
The next most important issue is his warmongering and encouragement of weapons trafficking to terrorists. Maybe he’ll reverse that as well at some point, but I’m done attacking him. Mission accomplished.
Even the most ardent Statists can change for the better. There is hope for the world.
Two Jews were murdered on a government road by Itamar last night. There are two basic responses. One is anger and hope. Anger against Arabs and hope that the government will punish them and “deal justice” to the murderers. The other is despair.
Anger and hope are misplaced. Well, not so much the anger. Mostly the hope and trust that the government will somehow remedy the situation for the future. Politicians love this hope and trust. Every time Jews are murdered, they grow stronger. They give their mindless idiotic soundbites about how we must not stop in the face of terror, or the dead will not have died in vain, or the State of Israel will do everything in its power to blah blah blah, and all the angry and hopeful people cheer and fall in love with Netanyahu once again. And the beaten wife that is the people of Israel go running back to their abuser politician leaders to be smashed in the face for the umpteenth time.
They love their Netanyahu for saying angry sounding things and shaking his fists to the point that his combover gets slightly shifted in the hot air of his own self-righteous breath.
The government will not do anything about this that matters. They will find the gunman and stick him in free housing until the next prisoner exchange, where you and I will pay to have him clothed and fed and watch TV.
The truth is I’d rather he not get caught. It’s a waste of resources. The two Jews died in vain and their kids are orphans for nothing. We should all accept that and move on.
From there, we need to join those, including myself, who respond the second way. With despair and hatred, not against Arabs, but against the State of Israel. It is their road that this happened on, on which they have monopolized security but have not provided it. They will not lose money from this, or control of the road.
They have a monopoly on justice in the whole country but will not provide it by killing this murderer, so therefore we cannot expect justice to be done.
I don’t know how this will ever happen, but if eventually enough people become disgusted with the government who is responsible for this, they can be overthrown nonviolently.
For now, it is important to understand that nothing will change, because the government grows stronger when Jews die. People support it more. It becomes “unpatriotic” to yell at Netanyahu when his slaves are murdered. People say “it’s not the time.”
It’s exactly the time. This is the State’s fault. And they should lose their monopoly on security, justice, and roads, because they cannot deal out justice and they cannot secure their roads. The road should be privatized and the job of finding, trying, and killing the murderer should be in the hands of the private insurance company of the road.
But since that will not happen, the more people realize that these people died for nothing, the better. The more people that realize it, the more that can direct their wrath against those responsible. Not Arabs. The State.
The Jewish Libertarian 