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Today, many young people have become millionaires by working in high tech. The richest people in Kansas City where I live are not the old line families but the younger ones working for Cerner and Garmin.
 
The reason home prices are rising fast in places like San Francisco and Seattle and Austin are all these newly created millionaires in high tech creating a fast growing demand for housing.
 
Yes, you started out with a stable home; that is one if the keys to success in life. Family and education are two keys to ending poverty. No secret there. Those are two themes I have been posting about for years only to be attacked. Those are two areas where people need to take personal responsibility rather than blaming society for their failures.
 
Yes, social factors come into play as well. But often government hinders people rising from poverty. Think bad large city school systems that fail to reform themselves generation after generation. Think licensing requirements aimed to keep people out of professions and not to compete with those already in the field.
 
Success is a combination of luck, society’s factors and personal factors. Today, it seems fashionable for some presidential candidates to attack success due to hard work and intelligence. Love to see a debate between Oprah the billionaire and Sanders who thinks her wealth was not earned and deserved.

Same pics he used on Rentboy! I guess some might be 10 or 15 years old! 

It's quite sad to me that despite doing porn and sex work, he had so little to show for it. It's a powerful reminder to clients that providers are people; some who enjoy their work; others who feel that they have no choice. 

Hello gentlemen. I’m still very much active and working in the “business”. If any of you are interested in getting in touch with me text or email me directly. Please be patient with a response as I may be engaged or just busy. My ad will be expired until late December or early January. Happy holidays to all of you!
Best,    
AJ Irons
714-743-5652
ajirons09@yahoo.com

Big no no 😔!

Those pictures are maybe 10-15 years old if not older🥵.  I think GW Bush was President when they first appeared😱

Met him a couple of times several years ago.  Overall I must have had a very good time therefore the repeat.  Caveat, the pictures may be at least a decade old if not more.  Very nice guy, easy on the eyes (back then). 

Given the ad, if it’s only therapeutic I’d sue.

Don’t take it personally. A lot of guys on this board think it’s their god given right to hire escorts at whatever price they feel is a “fair” price, regardless of the supply and demand for said escorts. There are endless threads on this. You charge whatever price you can command, such that you maximize your profit. Basically, capitalism.

He & those photos have  been around for at least 300 years!

OMG, RUN Away from this one.  
He has been advertising for years (decades?) and is notorious for not delivering.  
Deposits, even $50, are red flags.  Not dispositive but they should make you think twice.  Search for Brett on this message board, and I am sure you will come up with more red flags.  Hard NO 
(Addendum:  I plugged Brett into the Search feature and got nothing beyond this thread.  That cannot be right.  I think "Brett" has been discussed, and dissed, before.) 

The original store on Madison Ave was for sportsmen and hunters.  There were mounted trophy animals heads all around the store.  It was the type of place that if you were going on an African safari, they could completely outfit you.
If memory serves me right, they sold hunting rifles.  They could custom made a rifle to your exact specifications.  I think that back in the 1960’s and 1970’s you could spend more than $20,00 on such rifles (that was REAL money at the time). 
 

Thank you for your noble efforts to help other clients!

It's always a roll of the dice when the escort doesn't show his face. Not only to confirm that he is handsome, but strong, juicy lips are important around this time of year.  One needs better-than-average oral skills to blow the shofar properly. The lips can't be too wet.... or too dry.
A good embouchure is a must!
BoZo

 

Another provider I should mention is Alec. He was so kind, sweet, and very very sexual. 😛

A company name.
Great products.  They have a “hotel line” sold to top hotels.  Great quality at a reduced price.  The wife of a friend was a rep for that line and I bought my sheets through her.
Highly recommended🥇🏆
 
 

Interesting article:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/jewish-men-of-onlyfans


 

Interesting video on inflation:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2875969319203371?fs=e&s=aEkTS0&mibextid=RgwyXk
 

The problem knowing that you shouldn’t have bought Coke in 1998 and that it would be 15 years before it reached that price level again is you are looking in a rear view mirror.  While it’s obvious now, it wasn’t then.  At any point in time with the knowledge of the time, decisions need to be made to buy and sell.
If you had bought Coke in 1998, looking at its past history, as it dropped the logical thought would have been that this is a temporary setback and will soon return to its upward path.  When you take the very long term Buffett view of holding a dividend paying, quality company it seems to work (a long life helps, too).  Market timing doesn’t work.
I agree with you about real estate.  Normally, it’s a great long term investment. 
One thing that needs to be considered: inflation.  To accurately measure any investment return, the return needs to be inflation adjusted.  Stocks, bonds and real estate returns to be accurate and to be compared over time must be inflation adjusted.  A 10% return now and a 10% return during the high inflation Jimmy Carter years are different.

Thoughts:
1- Buffett’s strategy includes stocks that pay huge dividends year after year: https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/stocks/best-warren-buffett-dividend-stocks#:~:text=And%20the%20best%20Warren%20Buffett,and%20%244.89%20billion%20in%202020.
Getting $6 billion in cash dividends adds value no matter what the market says Berkshire is worth.  (At some point, after Buffett dies, I would expect the company to payout some of this largesse.)
2-because many of the Buffett stocks are held decades and the dividends keep flowing, short term ups and downs in the market price of those stocks are not important.  Think: Coke.  As long as the dividend is “safe” year-to-year change in the stock’s price does not mean much.  
Buffett holds stocks like HP whose growth potential is limited and the printer machine business declines BUT the ink business is a cash cow and adds to Berkshire’s cash pile💵💰.  Instead of trying to “time the market,” the long term certainty has paid off well.  Rather than try to run after short term gains with “hot,” flavor of the month stocks, slow and steady has done well.
3-looking at Berkshire’s stock between carefully selected  time points is dangerous (and often can produce different results by changing the window) as well as looking in a rear view mirror.  A better approach is to be “neutral” and use arbitrary “windows” like 5, 10, 15 or 20 to see how effective an asset holding strategy is. 
 
For “seniors”:  No matter what theory one uses for buying stocks, personally I believe it is best to be diversified among asset classes and even within any asset class.  This will smooth out market ups and downs.
 For example in the asset class of stocks, I hold mostly great dividend paying stocks but also I hold some stocks that don’t pay dividends but are stocks with a great, long term future (El Pollo Loco- a profitable restaurant chain that’s expanding nationally) or a solid record that produces long term capital gains (O Reilly Automotive).

Thoughts:
1- Buffett’s strategy includes stocks that pay huge dividends year after year: https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/stocks/best-warren-buffett-dividend-stocks#:~:text=And%20the%20best%20Warren%20Buffett,and%20%244.89%20billion%20in%202020.
Getting $6 billion in cash dividends adds value no matter what the market says Berkshire is worth.  (At some point, after Buffett dies, I would expect the company to payout some of this largesse.)
2-because many of the Buffett stocks are held decades and the dividends keep flowing, short term ups and downs in the market price of those stocks are not important.  Think: Coke.  As long as the dividend is “safe” year-to-year change in the stock’s price does not mean much.  
Buffett holds stocks like HP whose growth potential is limited and the printer machine business declines BUT the ink business is a cash cow and adds to Berkshire’s cash pile💵💰.  Instead of trying to “time the market,” the long term certainty has paid off well.  Rather than try to run after short term gains with “hot,” flavor of the month stocks, slow and steady has done well.
3-looking at Berkshire’s stock between carefully selected  time points is dangerous (and often can produce different results by changing the window) as well as looking in a rear view mirror.  A better approach is to be “neutral” and use arbitrary “windows” like 5, 10, 15 or 20 to see how effective an asset holding strategy is. 
 
For “seniors”:  No matter what theory one uses for buying stocks, personally I believe it is best to be diversified among asset classes and even within any asset class.  This will smooth out market ups and downs.
 For example in the asset class of stocks, I hold mostly great dividend paying stocks but also I hold some stocks that don’t pay dividends but are stocks with a great, long term future (El Pollo Loco- a profitable restaurant chain that’s expanding nationally) or a solid record that produces long term capital gains (O Reilly Automotive).

The answer to the riddle is really easy.
The graphs and economic data you list are all aggregate data for an entire economy.  No matter what the investment asset purchased (real estate, a bond, a stock), you are buying a singular investment asset and not the aggregate (unless buying an index fund).
For buying a specific asset, information about the general economy is interesting but not terribly relevant in making a decision on a specific asset.  
 
Example: No matter the interest rate, inflation rate, GDP growth rate, unemployment rate, etc, a specific real estate piece’s value depends more on location, tenant, condition of building, length of lease, local and government policies, why the real estate is for sale, what purpose the buyer has in mind, etc.  Aggregate factors in the general economy like interest rates will impact the value to some extent but other factors may over ride the aggregate ones.
The same with bonds and stocks.  When the aggregate market is hitting new highs, there are usually a few stocks hitting new lows.  When stocks in the aggregate market are hitting new lows, there are often a few hitting new highs.
The “art” of investing in real estate, bonds or stocks is focusing on a specific asset.  Warren Buffett made his mark picking specific stocks and he often is buying when others are selling.  He is often buying when aggregate factors are sending sell signals.  He holds stocks for the long run and doesn’t sell when aggregate factors send sell signals that the market is going down.  
Finally, no matter the theory one uses to buy, sell or hold investments, there is a luck factor.  We need to acknowledge that no matter how skilled the investor is, luck plays a role.

The answer to the riddle is really easy.
The graphs and economic data you list are all aggregate data for an entire economy.  No matter what the investment asset purchased (real estate, a bond, a stock), you are buying a singular investment asset and not the aggregate (unless buying an index fund).
For buying a specific asset, information about the general economy is interesting but not terribly relevant in making a decision on a specific asset.  
 
Example: No matter the interest rate, inflation rate, GDP growth rate, unemployment rate, etc, a specific real estate piece’s value depends more on location, tenant, condition of building, length of lease, local and government policies, why the real estate is for sale, what purpose the buyer has in mind, etc.  Aggregate factors in the general economy like interest rates will impact the value to some extent but other factors may over ride the aggregate ones.
The same with bonds and stocks.  When the aggregate market is hitting new highs, there are usually a few stocks hitting new lows.  When stocks in the aggregate market are hitting new lows, there are often a few hitting new highs.
The “art” of investing in real estate, bonds or stocks is focusing on a specific asset.  Warren Buffett made his mark picking specific stocks and he often is buying when others are selling.  He is often buying when aggregate factors are sending sell signals.  He holds stocks for the long run and doesn’t sell when aggregate factors send sell signals that the market is going down.  
Finally, no matter the theory one uses to buy, sell or hold investments, there is a luck factor.  We need to acknowledge that no matter how skilled the investor is, luck plays a role.

Very true.  With this market, 70% of the S&P 500's gain this year is concentrated in just 8 stocks (Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, FB, Google, Tesla, etc.) which makes for a very narrow breadth, which is not a good sign.  We shall see.  

The answer to the riddle is really easy.
The graphs and economic data you list are all aggregate data for an entire economy.  No matter what the investment asset purchased (real estate, a bond, a stock), you are buying a singular investment asset and not the aggregate (unless buying an index fund).
For buying a specific asset, information about the general economy is interesting but not terribly relevant in making a decision on a specific asset.  
 
Example: No matter the interest rate, inflation rate, GDP growth rate, unemployment rate, etc, a specific real estate piece’s value depends more on location, tenant, condition of building, length of lease, local and government policies, why the real estate is for sale, what purpose the buyer has in mind, etc.  Aggregate factors in the general economy like interest rates will impact the value to some extent but other factors may over ride the aggregate ones.
The same with bonds and stocks.  When the aggregate market is hitting new highs, there are usually a few stocks hitting new lows.  When stocks in the aggregate market are hitting new lows, there are often a few hitting new highs.
The “art” of investing in real estate, bonds or stocks is focusing on a specific asset.  Warren Buffett made his mark picking specific stocks and he often is buying when others are selling.  He is often buying when aggregate factors are sending sell signals.  He holds stocks for the long run and doesn’t sell when aggregate factors send sell signals that the market is going down.  
Finally, no matter the theory one uses to buy, sell or hold investments, there is a luck factor.  We need to acknowledge that no matter how skilled the investor is, luck plays a role.