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In this hobby, for many years, we have had the opportunity to enroll Amex Membership Rewards points to its Payment Over Time feature (which of course we never use as we ALWAYS pay the full balances EVERY month). So, here you have another several shots at this, try each link and you may get lucky. At the same link we also get a short state of the hobby address by the one and only Mile Nerd who is leaving the blogging world at the end of the year.
More info on the biggest cruise ship: 5 things to love about new world’s largest cruise ship Symphony of the Seas. Wow…it’s huge!
Symphony boasts three main pool areas, a water slide complex, an adults-only solarium, an ice skating rink, two rock climbing walls, a basketball court and a mall-like indoor promenade with shops, bars and eateries. Like Harmony, it also has an open-air, tree-lined area called Central Park with restaurants, bars and upscale shops such as Bulgari.
Holy crap, very disturbing! How Hackers Are Stealing High-Profile Instagram Accounts.
SNL trolls Jeff Bezos who trolls Trump, love it!
Fascinating in depth story about the Sharper Image store founder: How one man built The Sharper Image into the world’s wackiest gadget store.
This video is by a hedge fund dude announcing that his fund blew up and all clients lost their money. Actually, they may have even lost even more. This dude was marketing his fund as a retirement strategy which was just phucking ABSURD! Anyway, I feel bad for him but then again…looking at his office and expensive watch…I don’t. Be careful out there folks! I may have posted this before…still quite a spectacle.
Sometimes you read something and can not stop shaking your head, sad! Catholic exorcisms Are Gaining Popularity in the US.
These are kind of mesmerizing! A photographer captured the surreal beauty of Hong Kong’s bamboo scaffolding.
Well, Doha in Qatar has a new art addition: “The Miraculous Journey” By Damien Hirst. And, you know, it is kind of weird… A series of fourteen monumental bronze sculptures chronicling the gestation of a fetus inside a womb, from conception to birth, is one of the most daring sculptures ever to be commissioned and installed in a region that’s historically known for his archaic laws and the suppression of women.
Pretty cool if you ask me. I know you didn’t, just saying! Map of average years of schooling in Europe.
The inhabitants of Nordic countries rank among those most educated, with people attending school in Sweden, Norway, and Iceland for an average of 12-13 years. Finland comes in at number one with an average of 14-15 years, sharing the spot with Germany. Switzerland and Latvia also rank highly, with 13-14 years of schooling. Turkey, Iran, and Portugal are among the countries with the fewest years of schooling, with an average of 8-9 years, with Morocco bringing up the rear at 4-5 years. Mediterranean nations like Italy and Greece share an educational similarity with Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Azerbaijan — they all have an average schooling level of 10-11 years.
The Lazy Traveler continues his series on them casino hotel programs and matching away: My Atlantic City Status Match Adventure — Part 3: MGM M life Gold Benefits IN DEPTH!
You may want to consider holding off on these transfers! Amex to Lifemiles Transfers Time – Definitely Not Instant…Or At All.
The hobby has changed. Long gone are the apporama days. These days I am trying to cycle through all these cards before canceling most of them at eleven months in. Trying to appease the banks that I am a good boy or something like that, sad!
And I leave you with this…Well, if you put it this way…
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Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving!
Black Friday silver. Tarnished silver?
Bronze again! Yay!
I know what you mean about letting go of cards, but I am still trying to get another that gives with a free hotel room a year. Those come in handy so many times a year! Even at $95 or so, a free room is usually a bargain!
Hello to all,
I had the privilege of doing 3 Thanksgiving dinners and I managed not to over eat!
Thanks for the cc conversions, we are up to 9 this month so far. I can see 10 from here #hope
Blogosphere has been over taken by bloggers pushing their Black Friday related affiliate links. Wife is out shopping since 6 am. I am against this madness. Being out there with the crazies is absolutely the LAST thing in my priority list…which is a long one and guarantees I never it!
Phucking Obama is ruining the stock market again!
Do your exercise, go out there and RAKE with enthusiasm!
Just to clarify because this is in my wheelhouse…. that guy was not running a hedge fund. I won’t get into the merits of hedge fund investing here because they’re more complicated than most people think IMHO. But in general you can’t lose more than what you put in a hedge fund because the mechanism for investing involves purchasing a limited partnership stake in the fund. In bankruptcy there really isn’t a way for creditors to reach the Limited Partners. They could reach the General Partner in theory, but they’re not structured to really make recovery from the GP a worthwhile pursuit.
All that guy had was Power of Attorney over accounts for ~300 clients, titled in the clients’ names at their broker/FCM. So the clients have total exposure to the losses (of a very high leverage strategy). I would never presume to tell anyone how to run their finances, but the last two sentences I wrote just seem like a terrible idea to me personally.
Thanks for the feedback!
You are probably right on. But the media has already called him a “hedge fund” manager.
https://nypost.com/2018/11/20/tearful-hedgie-apologizes-on-video-for-losing-clients-money/
I wanted here to make joke about how this all applies to TPG as well but it may not come of…positively.
I am still speechless about the whole video…especially the part that he would cherish the times he spent fishing with Joe or whatever the name of that one client was.
Someone asks for a POA over a brokerage account. I would ask-why do you want that? They’d respond ‘Just in case’. In case of what? ‘Unexpected events’. Like what? ‘You never know’. No I don’t- so call us if those happen and we’ll discuss it.
And loses never exceeded agreed investment.
And I never got asked to the Christmas party.
I wonder if Ramsey will give the POA to Jim Cramer? Maybe it comes in with a FREE one year additional subscription to the Alert Service!
My crystal ball is…cloudy. Actually, I am just trying really hard to make it through the weekend!
George please pay your fines for using other peoples content here on your blog, ASAP……My wife want a new Benz for Christmas and they are holding up my “FINDERS FEE” checks for ratting you out. So chop, chop get that check in the mail.
Classy move…like your leader, sad!
Still HODLing?