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Coach Jimmy (story story)

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Coach Jimmy While I stood staring at the rows of empty bunk beds down the long, narrow room, a rusted iron door straight ahead of me suddenly popped open.   Randy took a leap toward me, stopped, and brought out a stuffed white bag.   He gave me a mischievous grin. “Hey!   There you are, Philip!   I’ve got another surprise for you here in this bag,” he said as he looked into the bag.   “We’ve got a lot of Snickers, Hundred Grand, Butterfingers, Twinkies, a bunch of cakes, and a whole mess of other sweet stuff!” “Wow, you got free candy from that minimarket owner again?” I asked.   The minimarket owner near our guitar camp enjoyed the buzzing sound of rock music in our rehearsals, so he often generously donated free candy and other junk foods. “Yeah, that nice store owner gave me this big ol’ bag when I bought a pack of gum just right now.   Problem is, Coach Jimmy hates us eating all that junk food ‘cause it hurts our guitar playing.” Coach Jimmy ...

My new about.me page

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 I made a new about.me page : https://about.me/philzhou Check it out!

Philosophical thoughts on welfare

  The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty estimates that at least 3 million American men, women, and children will be homeless for at least some part of each year [1] . Record numbers of people sleep on the streets because they cannot keep up with the rising cost of living in the growing economy. Despite this growing economy, homelessness and poverty has actually grown in the past 20 years [2] and will accelerate as Iraqi War veterans join the ranks of the homeless. The American community suffers because the homeless consume a disproportionate amount of public resources, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars per person. They also often wreak havoc upon commercial areas and residential neighborhoods and damage property. A possible solution to America ’s homeless problem is for the government to engage in a massive welfare program to feed and shelter the homeless, but this money has to come from somewhere, in this case the taxpayers. It would be a burden on the ...

Buy the Invasion Dip

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Why the stock market is fine in 2022

The S&P 500 is only up 30% since pre-COVID early 2020. This is basically the normal returns in a 2 year period. If you take out the FANNG stocks, the S&P 500 is only up 0%. Adjusted for inflation, the stock market really hasn't done that well. There's still a ton of cash sitting on the sidelines ready to buy dips. I'd say 2022 is fine. We might get a 10-15% correction, but by the end of 2022, we should still be up 10%. It's 2023 that is more worrisome. The Fed will likely taper and hike rates too much, we get a yield curve inversion, and the economy can't tolerate it. A 10 year treasury yield of just 2% will be enough to give a lot of pain. Even a recession is possible. But we are talking about 2022. Good places to invest is Facebook, Amazon, and Google. BABA has been oversold and ready to rally again. I also like small caps and biotech (which already corrected and very cheap). My picks are APPS (Digital Turbine) and $SAVA. VIX derivatives are a good hedge i...

New SAVA fansite SAVA-AD.COM

I submitted an article for https://www.sava-ad.com/ Please check it out. The peeps there are such good writers. I really believe in this company and their Alzheimer's drug. My grandma passed away from this. It's deeply personal. Looking at the amazing data, this drug probably could have helped her.

Calling All SAVAge Apes!

This is a guest post by Internal_Ad_1091. Listen up! Im about to present a once-in-a-generation opportunity to 75x your money**.** Too much, or too good to be true? Im being conservative. Hear me out. First, I shall Flex: I am an MD and a Professor. To spell out the obvious, I have insight into what matters in the medical world. Many pure researchers lack this (cough cough Elisabeth Bik). In addition, As medical school faculty, If I can't figure it out, I know who to ask. I started investing (profitably) before most of you were born. Why flex? To make it abundantly clear, my opinion on biotech investing matters just a little. With that said, once more, listen up! The Pickle: You youngins haven't noticed, but Alzheimer's is the 6th leading cause of death in the US. Currently, Alzheimer's is an epidemic. The kicker is, there is NO effective treatment. The FDA needed a drug so desperately they approved Aduhelm. This drug has significant adverse events. The ri...