Kevin Slater

Fiscal Service Announces New Savings Bonds Rates, Series I to Earn 4.30%, Series EE to Earn 2.50% — TreasuryDirect WWW.TREASURYDIRECT.GOV The new rate will be 4.3% (down from 5.27%), with a .9% fixed rate (down from 1.3). Kevin Slater

I don't like holding very much gold. It produces no income and in fact takes money to store and secure (even if in the form of an etf). Kevin Slater

... cuz if I can't have it, I don't want anyone else to get it? Kevin Slater

I suspect he'd be much more concerned with what percentage that was of what he took home that week. Kevin Slater

but they're no longer going to have a monopoly, either. (Ok, not 6% cheaper, but most analysis I've read suggests fees may drop to 2 - 3%.) Kevin Slater.

And today we finally hit it. Kevin Slater

Paying attention to PE is a good idea. Interestingly, NVDA's PE has gown down drastically recently. The stock has soared, but earnings have soared even more. It actually has a lower PE than most its peers. Its largest supplier is TSMC, based in Taiwan. Kevin Slater

The Nasdaq is flirting with its own record high close, which last happened over two years ago. (Although as of this post, we've dipped below the record.) Kevin Slater

This thread has veered way off the topic of personal finance. Giving it a break.

...And today the S&P closed above 5k for the first time. Also, MSFT set a record for the biggest market cap ever achieved. Kevin Slater

S&P hit 5000 intraday for the first time today; closed slightly under. Kevin Slater

If Meta's gains hold til the close, it'll be the largest single-day market cap gain in history. Kevin Slater

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Work with his often. Nicest guy there is. Kevin Slater

Moderator's note: let's give this restaurant tally a break.

I only advertise on Rentmen anymore. Then some guys know who I am and hit me up on Grindr, Scruff or Sniffies. There's the occasional random text or even email (throwback) from god knows where. But at this point the bulk is from an established client base. Oh, and I keep my website up, for what that's worth. If I traveled through Europe, I'd have to explore other advertising venues. Kevin Slater

I wasn't aware that A4A was still around. The vast majority of new clients came from Rentmen, but most of the revenue was from legacy clients (and them mostly from rentboy). Kevin Slater

Quite a bit, but it's more how much they spend each time. Kevin Slater

Per annual tradition: 2023 revenue was down 12% from year prior. 44% of 2023 revenue came from the year’s top three clients, up from 36% in 2022. Kevin Slater

Let's not stray too far from the topic of this thread: is a recession coming? Kevin Slater

All of that, and the moronic way it weighs the components (by ticker price rather than the far more rational market cap). So if a stock splits say four-for-one, it loses three quarters of its weighting in the DJIA. And many stocks simply cannot be added to the index because their nominal stock price would override all other components of the index. Apple was excluded from the Dow until it issued a seven-for-one split which just happened to put make it eligible for the index. Kevin Slater

I hate the Dow as a metric. How 'bout the S&P at 5,000? Kevin Slater

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Sex Workers Have Been Shunned by Banks, Even When Their Work Is Legal - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM Financial service companies often avoid what they deem high-risk industries like adult entertainment. When workers lose their accounts, they are left with... I've seen this happen a bit. Kevin Slater

Stop the personal barbs and stick to the subject at hand. Several posts edited.