‘I’ve got a great system. I just pick the same stocks Ed does.’
It’s Friday again and time to look back on the week. It has been a good one except for the stock market concerns over the lower price of oil. I can never figure that one out. A lower price of oil means lower cost of manufacturing and travel. A lower cost of manufacturing and travel means more income. More income means more discretionary spending. More discretionary spending means better profits. Better profits mean a healthy economy. OH, I GET IT NOW! The street is worried about rising interest rates. So yeah, let’s sell off all our stock because we are worried about a .25% increase in interest rates. Investing in the market should be called gambling on the market. Today’s JohnKu talks to a gamble and the market.
The Market by John W. Howell © 2016
Take your earned money,
Throw it hard against the wall. . .
Yours to keep has stuck.
Fiction Favorites 
I couldn’t have said it better, John. Happy Friday!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks, Jill. Have a super day. 🙂
LikeLike
Got to be able to laugh about it, thanks for the Johnku! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes. we all need to laugh more. I think I’ll open a mutual laugh fund. :-). Thanks, Gwen
LikeLike
Stocks make my head hurt. Some days I think it’s proof that humans could be the dumbest creature on the planet.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I have to agree. 🙂
LikeLike
I hope that wall has been freshly painted John.
Hugs
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ha ha ha. Thanks, David. 😀
LikeLike
I have to agree with Charles — stocks make my head hurt too… And I agree with you, John that they are a gamble — and I always lose. So I gamble as little as possible. I put what my employer calls my “retirement” fund (what an evil sense of humor — as if I’ll be able to retire, stocks or no) into the “safest” options.
TGIF! Have a fabulous Friday. Mega hugs.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks, Teagan. it is always a risk no matter how “safe” Have a ferocious Friday. 🙂
LikeLike
LOL. As “Lychnis” would say, “Mer-rawr!” 🐱
LikeLiked by 1 person
😀 HUGS
LikeLike
I played that game when I was younger. Not too much stuck. Love the cartoon.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks, Craig. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hard-hitting stuff John! 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks, Jan. 🙂
LikeLike
Stocks give me a headache! I’ll see what sticks to the wall!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Go for it, Lynn.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Well… I tried it… nothing stuck to the wall… that’s why I stay well away from the stock market!
LikeLiked by 1 person
There you go.
LikeLike
Gah, all this interest rate collusion with Wall Street has been killing my savings account for the past decade. They just want us to spend, spend, spend…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes no saving allowed.
LikeLike
My IRA money is in a fund since retirement and I don’t worry about it. Maybe I should as it’s in a Wells Fargo account. So are all my accounts.
— Suzanne
LikeLiked by 1 person
Don’t worry.
LikeLike
A finance person told me the other day that another housing crisis is about to hit the US. Hopefully he’s mistaken. At least you’ll have your book sales to keep you going through any potential lean times. The pound is down again today.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes. My book sales. Of course. 😀
LikeLike
You know what else sticks
Especially to a blanket
It’s what bankers talk.
(This only works if you allow for lazy pronunciation of “especially”, I know, but it came to me and made me giggle)
LikeLiked by 1 person
You are excused for the lazy pronunciation and the giggle.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I wish I had your keen insight into markets and the economy, John.
LikeLike
ggll..so true. I needed that laugh.
May you win the lottery this weekend.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Have to have a ticket to win even though the odds of winning are the same with or without a ticket. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
If I was asked to go into a convenience store to purchase one I wouldn’t even know what to say.
LikeLike