We bring you the Best of Web links: a fantastic Libya Trip Report, warn you about the dark side of Miles and Points, warn you yet again about smartphone addiction, ponder how rural America is dying and a handful of awesome financial truths! I am doing this pretty much for free…so enjoy it while it lasts!
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Three Days In Libya
Incredible trip report from DanielW in Flyertalk! Must read. Awesome index with all his other trip reports in #1. Wow.
The Dark Side of Miles and Points
Ok, this is a repost. It made TBB then and it makes it again. Because…it is that good!
We are all addicted. These bloggers are addicted to the dinero from selling credit cards.
Short and Sweet
These are all great but I had to pick my favorites out of 41 of them…
- We get just one shot at making the journey from birth to retirement. Flirting with financial disaster is not advisable [looking at you contemplating going all in on Bitcoin crypto shit]
4. What’s the difference between an equity-indexed annuity and an index fund? One needs an army of salespeople. The other sells itself.
12. A boat is not your financial friend, but a friend with a boat is. [Oh man, sooooo true!]
22. Everybody’s a long-term investor when the market is going up.
35. We might retire from the workforce, but we should never retire from the pursuit of a fulfilling life.
Just read them all, you ‘ll be glad you did!
Your smartphone📱is making you👈 stupid, antisocial 🙅 and unhealthy 😷. So why can’t you put it down❔⁉️
I have been pounding on this theme for a while. We are undergoing a huge change. Look around you, everyone is glued to their damn phones! It was predicted in…1907 in this cartoon, sad!
…smartphones are causing real damage to our minds and relationships, measurable in seconds shaved off the average attention span, reduced brain power, declines in work-life balance and hours less of family time. They have impaired our ability to remember. They make it more difficult to daydream and think creatively. They make us more vulnerable to anxiety. They make parents ignore their children. And they are addictive…
But 10 years into this age of connectedness, we have learned something troubling: Being connected to everyone all the time makes us less attentive to the people we care about most. Nowhere is the alienating power of smartphones more troubling than in the relationship between parents and children. Put simply, smartphones are making mothers and fathers pay less attention to their kids and it could be causing emotional harm.
A Dying Town
Sobering article on how the lack of college education is becoming a public health crisis. Rural America is dying and we are witnesses to it. Their cry for help was…voting for Trump. It should be a wake up call to the Democrats to connect with them, they are not all deplorables. It’s like we are living in two different countries…
I am hungry, going to make me a sandwich next.
And I leave you with this…
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It is 8.21 am. Not even one comment.
As far as clicks go…I could make more money asking for quarter in the street.
Titans win.
The end is near…
Announcement coming Saturday.
Oh, hi Ingy!
Read it again carefully George. Read the “and I leave you with this sign”
Haters will hate but to the former circuit city manager (ironically reboot date just announced) I know who was screaming about bitcoin at $70 and took out a HELOC to invest in at $90, might disagree with your crypto thought. And yes I’m well aware for everyone one of him there are many others who went in after turkey dinner with their college educated kids advice setting them up on coinbase and paid 18k or more for something that less than a month later is now 13k. It’s a crazy world out there but ripple at 22 cents even at 1.75 today was a hell of a deal…
Among the best pieces on this topic
http://thereformedbroker.com/2018/01/07/the-fatal-mistake-crypto-investors-are-making-now/
“On that note, if you still want to invest in e-coins, I would like to invite you to buy my brand new UB coin for only $1 per coin. I don’t have blockchain up yet, but I’ll keep track of all your purchases in my Excel, and the second I hit 2K I’ll spend the the 2 days to get the blockchain up and running. It’s your opportunity to get in on the ground floor before it’s worth $10,000 per coin!”
It’s just nuts…
I think i said that before 🙂
The Libya trip report was great, thanks! That guy has a lot of other good trips linked there as well.
They are amazing!
Phil’s right-I just called my boss and said “Shove it, loser-I’m going all in on cryptos”.
Hell, why work when you can just buy stuff and watch it double?
I gotta go-I have to take a call from Christopher Maltisanti.
I had to google that guy’s name 🙂
Every time I look at the crypto stuff I shake my head.
Self doubt creeps in: Am I wrong? Am I old school?
Then I come to my senses and I feel for the suckers. And for the few who control their greed and make out…well, good for them!
My nephew Christopher…with the pump and dump shop.
Let me tell you about my cousin Vinny…
It’s larger problem. If you’re in the VC business, why would fund a company developing a cancer drug and wait for years to get ROI when you can fund a few new coins and get rich in a month or two?
Bingo!
I’d be extremely careful where you go here George I have never brought your family into this and would hope you are capable of the same
I don’t know who TBB Intern is, but I’m with Ingy on this one.
I killed a comment by a reader, you know who you are, not funny man.
I guess when I do that it kills the replies to it, sorry about that.
And we are back on track here…
Just took out my wife’s 401k and put it all on Ripple lol.
you should kill comments by people. Bots I get but dont let your euro flair allow you to succumb to removing comments you dont like
you shouldnt kill comments by people. Bots I get but dont let your euro flair allow you to succumb to removing comments you dont like
There are some comments that just don’t belong here…
Believe me 🙂
haha, it must be awful. I laughed out loud on that response.
Thank you George. Classy move
Hello from Santiago. Late to the party.
As in Chile? I was at that W with the familia years ago. Lucky/Ben at OMAAT was in the same hotel at the same time, never came out of his room to say hell (pre TBB days)…
Gary at VFTW was just wondering…
Should You Pay for Flights With Amex Platinum or Chase Sapphire Reserve?
I think this blog will turn soon into a once a week mega rant…
sorry guys
No one wants to come out from the basement it appears and step up lol.
Lets take one moment to respect the loss of my cherished Amex Hilton Surpass card.
I can’t wait to apply for the new Hilton cards here with my links #winning
If I don’t get the signup bonus I will blame MileageUpdate lol.
where is your sense of adventure and mystery? you are too tax accounty. take some chances and live a little.
I’m freaking all in on Bitcoin! $4.99 invested today! Too the moon Bitches!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTLjx9_5nGY
🙂
HILARIOUS…
I am sharing it here tomorrow.
LOL