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by Paul Douglas Boyer

MMM-168: Carry Trade

Cramer’s 12 Stocks to Play in Recovery. Carry Trade and You. Wegman’s. Vitamin D3. Phil’s whiff.

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MMM-161 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • Cramer’s 12 Stocks to play in the Recovery. From his book Getting Back to Even and from his web site (google it). Follow the portfolio in Icarra.
  • Carry Trade. When dollar stops falling, watch out, says Roubini. Karl says there is a direct inverse correlation between the dollar index and the S&P 500 index.
  • Wegman’s
  • Vitamin D3
  • Phil’s Whiff.

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Wed, November 11 2009 » Podcasts » Comments Off on MMM-168: Carry Trade

MMM-167: Mad Golfing Machine

CNBC viewership plunges. Golf is like investing. Investing is like golf.  TOOLS I use daily. New China ETF. GURU Jim Rogers.

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MMM-161 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • CNBC Viewership PLUNGES y/o/y in October
  • Golf is like investing. Investing is like golf.
  • TOOLS: Bloomberg, Kitco Gold, Wunderground, PGA Tour, SportsTap, GolfShot all for iPhone and then the Dollar Index chart.
  • AlphaShares launches China All-Cap Index and Claymore announces a matching ETF with symbol YAO
  • GURU: Jim Rogers Bullish on China. Bearish on Bernanke. Bullish on Commodities. Bearish on the Dollar.

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Tue, November 3 2009 » Podcasts » Comments Off on MMM-167: Mad Golfing Machine

MMM-166: Excuses

A review of Lazy Portfolio performance. Excuses of why no show. Atlas Shrugged review and excerpt. Inclined to Liberty excerpt. Would they call Neo a kook? Is FRB evil?

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Wed, October 14 2009 » Podcasts » Comments Off on MMM-166: Excuses

MMM-165: It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature

Economic Revival! Spitzer says it is a Chumps Game. Trapster. GolfShot. $1 an hour? Along for the Ride. An update on the Lazy Portfolios.

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MMM-161 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • It’s all fun and games until someone gets their eye poked out.
  • GURU: Elliot Spitzer writes in Slate: Still A Chumps Game.
  • TOOL: Trapster for the iPhone
  • TOOL: GolfShot for the iPhone
  • Would you accept $1 an hour to work at a car wash?
  • It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!
  • Danny O’Keefe: Along for the Ride
  • Coastline covers it too.
  • Lazy Portfolios are on a tear for 2009!

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Mon, August 24 2009 » Podcasts » Comments Off on MMM-165: It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature

MMM-164: Inflated Stocks

Google Chrome OS. Golf, Tiger, PGA Championship, PGA iPhone App. Driver vs 3-wood. Back pain. Glen Echo Park. Why have stocks risen so much since March? I have the answer. Apple Mac Tablet.

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MMM-161 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • Google Chrome OS
  • Golf, Tiger Woods, PGA Championship and iPhone app
  • Water hazards, lateral water hazards, and where to drop. See rulesofgolf.com rule 26.
  • Driver vs. 3-Wood
  • Hitting driver off concrete sure hurt my back.
  • Visit Glen Echo Park. Neat Art Deco styles. Visit Paul at the glassblower building.
  • Why have stocks risen so much since March? I have the answer.
  • Apple’s new Mac Tablet computer.
  • Two iPhone Apps I wanted to write.

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Mon, August 10 2009 » Podcasts » Comments Off on MMM-164: Inflated Stocks

MMM-163: Twenty Lessons for the Next Generation

Wish you knew then what you know now? Wow, wish Tom would have won. Tiger injured? Don’t be a pigeon. Why gold is money. Mojo and Mystie.

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MMM-161 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • I sure wish Tom Watson had made that putt.
  • Did Tiger Woods have an injured hand?
  • I found my golf books.
  • The story of the Pigeons. Don’t be a pigeon.
  • DH podcast. Don’t they know why gold is money?
  • Our two new kittens. One is "Mojo." The other? "Mystie?" We’ll see…

Twenty Lessons for the next generation:

    1. Don’t listen to the media. In fact, make a habit of turning off the TV. And if you must watch, at least skip the ads. All TV is trying to sell you something. Doesn’t matter what it is… news, business, comedy, sports. And if you have to be sold something, it is usually something you shouldn’t want. Especially CNBC. Don’t listen to politicians for the same reasons.
    2. Learn to think from the perspective from the other person not just yourself all the time. Do they really have your best interest at heart? Be wary of anyone to whom you are paying money. Doctors, dentists, lawyers, accountants, financial planners, realtors. You have to assume they did not go to the trouble of setting up their professional career just to help you personally or to be your friend. Also, think about what they may actually be needing. How can you help supply it?
    3. Think for yourself. Don’t let your peers con you into thinking math is boring, for example. Recognize peer pressure and revel in your ability to thwart it without being obnoxious.
    4. Try to do the opposite of the first three. Try to help people at a reasonable fee, don’t get into a position of having to sell something to someone.
    5. Don’t worship people: celebrities, actors, musicians, athletes, or even their ideas. As for people, they do not possess godlike powers. They are not smarter than you. Maybe they just worked hard on something. They do not deserve your worship. Instead, pay attention to the people you actually come in contact with. As for ideas, you may later learn you were wrong. Hedge your bets.
    6. Be selective in your friendships. There are different levels of friends: brother or sister, close, proximity, acquaintance. Make sure you choose brotherly and close friends that are good people. Still, don’t be disappointed if they sometimes disappoint you.
    7. If someone is angry with you, take a break before trying to calm them. Time heals.
    8. Don’t wait to be educated. There is just about nothing that you cannot learn on your own with all the resources available today. Books everywhere, blogs, online video. Before you sign up for classes, think about self-training first.
    9. Work hard. Nothing comes easy. 10,000 hours to get great. Work on the important things. Work on things that will have a meaningful result. If you are going to spend you time anyway doing something anyway, why not spend it on something that in the end you’ll have something? Guitar, piano, painting, golf, volunteering, building. Anything worth doing is worth doing right.
    10. Everything in moderation, even moderation.
    11. Set yourself up for happiness by setting your expectations low, then be pleasantly surprised if they are exceeded. Every year before we go to the beach we say, "It sure is going to be stinky weather this year."
    12. Watch out for one-way functions. You can’t unbreak glass. Pause before you make a long term commitment. Time shares. Club memberships. New cars. Cell phone plans. Subscriptions. Cable TV. Then don’t make it.
    13. Optimize delayed gratification. Most money should be saved. Yet you do need to have some fun today. Try to have fun in inexpensive ways. This can help smooth out pain of not having enough money or time later on to have fun. The more you do early in life, the harder it is to exceed it later.
    14. Learn the difference between food and candy. Eat food. Go to your local farmer’s market. Plant an earth box.
    15. Buy used. Houses, cars, golf clubs. But make sure you know the real reason they are selling.
    16. Be alert to things that might not go the way you expect. Car breakdown. Power outage. Sickness. Then be prepared.
    17. Take pictures. Your first car, your kittens, your friends, that special moment. iPhone helps here. Copy exceptional ones to a special folder.
    18. Learn about the time value of money. Learn what money is. Learn how to use money efficiently to maximize your lifelong happiness. Don’t spend beyond your means.
    19. Check your assumptions. Consider alternatives. Just because something has always been done that way does not necessarily mean it is the right way. Feel free to innovate.
    20. Embrace the freedom you do have. Recognize that most jobs make you a slave to someone. Even if you own your own business you are enslaved to your customers. All people have to be enslaved to something in order to get food: either hunt it, farm it, or trade for it. Try to find an enslavement that you can make fun.

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Thu, July 23 2009 » Podcasts » Comments Off on MMM-163: Twenty Lessons for the Next Generation

MMM-162: Freedom in an Unfree World

Working at WalMart. Books. Carbohydrates are the bad thing. Your parent, the gobmint, bans bottled water. Myrtle Beach economic index. iPhone improvements. Loss aversion: in golf. Harry Browne.

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Sun, July 12 2009 » Podcasts » Comments Off on MMM-162: Freedom in an Unfree World

MMM-161: Liar Test

Liar test. Myrtle Beach. Golf simulator. Assetplay.net.

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MMM-161 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • Liar Test
  • Myrtle Beach
  • Martin’s PGA Tour Superstore golf simulators
  • TOOL: Assetplay.net

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Fri, July 3 2009 » Podcasts » Comments Off on MMM-161: Liar Test

Ping.

Hey folks, I’m still here. Been doing a lot of golfing, amusement park going, beach combing, etc. I love summer and hot weather and don’t want to waste it by being indoors. This is just a ping to let you know everything is fine and that you can expect a show 161 probably next week. It would help if we got a rain day or two.

Wed, June 24 2009 » Announcements, Blog » Comments Off on Ping.

MMM-160: Prosperity, Apocalypse, or Just Muddle Along?

Sell off in bonds. Hyperinflation is certain? Fat Head the movie. Word of the Week: Redoubtable. TOOL: Toodledo.com. REHAB: IFA Returns Matrix

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MMM-152 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • 10-yr bonds selling off. What is the impact?
  • Marc Faber is 100% sure of hyperinflation in US.
  • We don’t like deflation?
  • Watch Fat Head .
  • Gold up, Dollar down.
  • GM: Government Motors
  • Word of the Week: Redoubtable.
  • TOOL: Toodledo.com
  • Not TOOL: RecessionBlocker.com
  • REHAB: IFA Returns Matrix
  • Royksopp: What Else Is There?

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Fri, May 29 2009 » Podcasts » Comments Off on MMM-160: Prosperity, Apocalypse, or Just Muddle Along?

MMM-159: The Gone Fishin’ Portfolio

Outliers says you need to do something for 10,000 hours to be great at it. I’m up to 80. MMM Match Play Golf Classic.  Gold vending machine. Stock Pickin’ Blues

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MMM-152 Topics in this week’s show include:

  • Opening Music: Covert Operation by Deathgunn
  • Outliers says do something for 10,000 hours to be great.
  • MMM Match Play Golf Classic (From Feb 2007)
  • A Gold vending machine .
  • Someone restocked our Geocache!
  • Stock Pickin’ Blues
  • GURU: Alexander Green and his Gone Fishin’ Portfolio
  • REHAB: IFA’s amazing Flash charts.
  • Emails from Rob, Martin, and Kevin.

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Fri, May 22 2009 » Podcasts » Comments Off on MMM-159: The Gone Fishin’ Portfolio