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When I posted this story, I was wondering how unusual it was - parts unavailable at dealership service departments. To be blunt, how much of a shortage of auto parts is there in the U.S. ? Does anybody have real data on that?

I've owned this car for 4 years. This is the first time it has been in a Honda shop. When i was a kid I used to do all kinds of repairs. I even once purchased a car with the engine in the back seat. But 2 knee replacements and a cracked L4 have put a stop to that. The local auto repair man up...

My problem is bigger than getting an "OEM" part. The machine needed to charge the AC on my 2017 Honda costs $25K. It's called "1-2-3-4" refrigerant. This is already way more than I want to know about this stuff. But suffice it to say only Honda has the machine, and Honda only installs Honda...

I have a 2017 Honda CRV. Not a rare car. Not an old car. The Air Conditioning was not working very well, so called the Honda dealer near me, told the woman the problem, and dropped the car off 2 days ago. The woman called yesterday, told me it needed a so-and-so hose. But Honda can't locate one...

Greenspan once answered a question (paraphrased): "If you think you understand what I just said, you obviously misunderstood me". The FED used to be ground zero for obfuscation, and they were proud of that. They still are just as good at it, but they deny it. Same stuff, different day.

That's just hyperbole. Doesn't matter what FDR or anybody else says, bankruptcy is an legal action, not slogans or political rhetoric. "The United States government has never defaulted on its obligations to pay its debt. It has never, ever missed a payment."...

They are going to pay it back in useless dollars. Meaning that, people who depend on the value of the USD (bond holders, Sos security recipients, etc ), are going to have no purchasing power on the dollars remitted to them. It is called inflation. If you don't see it already, you don't get out...

You'd have to be crazy to go long stocks like BTU and forget about it. Back then, I had stuff like that, including 10K shares of Massey Energy (MEE). When the main Massey mine exploded (2010 ?), I was looking at the stock pre-market. It opened at 7:00am, I had all the shares sold by 7:20am. A...

Thanks for that. Although I used to be series 7 registered years ago, I just don't want any margin account positions (I assume futures automatically go in the margin account). But I do need to learn more about these ETF portfolios. ***I bought half of my corn shares in August. I got the idea...

Wow, Th1, that's quite a chemistry set you have in your basement. Obviously you've been at this a while. Do you have any price targets on CORN?

I like these ag commodities, along with other commodities. The ETF for $Corn has performed as one of the best. For daytraders and short term swing traders, obviously its trying to shake them out. Yesterday, looked like this, breaking down. Corn1 Today, looks like image 2, taking off. Corn2...

What does that mean? That it requires a minimum level of skill to draw a likely trendline. And that skill might take a long period of time with a small amount of emotional pain. Or a short period of time with a large amount of emotional pain. And I would define large amount of emotional pain as...

Of course trendlines work. Trendlines just represent a good guess where the consensus of traders on the opposite side of a trade may change their mind. And since most traders think in terms of percentage gain (and not total dollar gain), logrithmic charts work better than arithmetic charts.

State of NJ has NO tax loss carry-forward. As in "Heads I win, tails you loose."

When the FED (and Central Banks around the globe) are selling the "nuances and benefits" of massive debt monetization, best not to stand in front of the Crude Oil steamroller.

Incompetent. That's true. The Maginot Line was a total waste of money.

I think if more news about Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein comes out, that will affect the stock. Public school (teacher's pension money), stuff like that. A guy like Bill Gates has total FU money. He can have people smile at him forever, never run out of that. Why did he want to hang around...

By July 1942, Hitler's Kriegsmarine (U-Boats) had sunk a nearly 1,000 merchant marine vessels off the East Coast of U.S. FDR could not respond with a yawn. By D-Day, the die was cast for Hitler. On June 6, German troops at the fortifications were in disbelief of the size of the Armada sailing at...

I think that reference also has to do with the War Reparations laid onto the Germans. The French were really hot on that, thought it was a great idea. Treaty of Versailles. It was never even ratified in the U.S. Senate. Within a few decades, that would turn out to be the biggest exploding cigar...

Wow, too much spare time.