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Post by sd51555 on Jan 13, 2018 16:34:26 GMT -6
^. You could always buy things that hold value for the long term ......and things you need anyway. Put up a pole shed, buy a tractor, buy guns you always wanted. Those things have lasting value (ok- the tractor may be somewhat of a stretch) and increase your bottom line too. It's just re-allocating your assets when you buy things OF LASTING VALUE that are easy to sell again. edit: Actually I think my tractor performs more work for me than it costs to own it.......and thus far......I believe I could always get my money back after owning it for several years. Not a bad "investment" actually. Same goes for my used implements......they are worth as much or more than the money I paid for them.......and are quite easy to sell again if I dont need 'em. Craigs list is your friend. Guns! I have a friend who has made a small fortune from guns. A $450 AR will never be worth less than $450... but once the next presidential campaign roles around and a Dem starts to look strong that AR will jump to $650. If the Dem gets elected it will jump to $1100... even if they don't make any significant changes to gun laws. Fear drives that market very well. My buddies problem is that you have to be willing to sell to make money and certain % of his guns never hit the market again. He just uses the profit of the one's he does sell to buy more. If I could go back in time one of my side investments would have been .22 ammo. I cleared $3000 profit at the Mankato gun show after Sandy Hook. I sold an AR I had about $900 in for $2100, and sold the same guy 400 rounds of steel core 5.56 for $1/round. I had about 30 cents in that. Not bad for 6 hours of talking guns. I even made a big neon sign on a pole that said: Ammo 9mm .223/5.56 .22LR Every person there came straight to me.
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Post by Catscratch on Jan 13, 2018 16:48:31 GMT -6
^. You could always buy things that hold value for the long term ......and things you need anyway. Put up a pole shed, buy a tractor, buy guns you always wanted. Those things have lasting value (ok- the tractor may be somewhat of a stretch) and increase your bottom line too. It's just re-allocating your assets when you buy things OF LASTING VALUE that are easy to sell again. edit: Actually I think my tractor performs more work for me than it costs to own it.......and thus far......I believe I could always get my money back after owning it for several years. Not a bad "investment" actually. Same goes for my used implements......they are worth as much or more than the money I paid for them.......and are quite easy to sell again if I dont need 'em. Craigs list is your friend. I am actually getting a 100k. I am building a "shed" at my house and paying off a basement refinish we just did. 15k will be in cash and is off the books. I have a couple tractor implements I am looking at. Wife wants a chunk for savings. Investing is a way to save half from our horrible spendin habits. I've made a ton of money from keeping it out of reach! CD's, retirement, health savings plans, etc. I figure any money tied up that I can't spend and can't loose value is money ahead. Sometimes I have to protect myself from myself.
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Post by Catscratch on Jan 13, 2018 16:56:17 GMT -6
Guns! I have a friend who has made a small fortune from guns. A $450 AR will never be worth less than $450... but once the next presidential campaign roles around and a Dem starts to look strong that AR will jump to $650. If the Dem gets elected it will jump to $1100... even if they don't make any significant changes to gun laws. Fear drives that market very well. My buddies problem is that you have to be willing to sell to make money and certain % of his guns never hit the market again. He just uses the profit of the one's he does sell to buy more. If I could go back in time one of my side investments would have been .22 ammo. I cleared $3000 profit at the Mankato gun show after Sandy Hook. I sold an AR I had about $900 in for $2100, and sold the same guy 400 rounds of steel core 5.56 for $1/round. I had about 30 cents in that. Not bad for 6 hours of talking guns. I even made a big neon sign on a pole that said: Ammo 9mm .223/5.56 .22LR Every person there came straight to me. Good profit right there. Not a lot that's more fun than goofing with guns AND making money at it. And as long as we have guns but have fear of loosing them there will be huge upswings in the market. When I made my .50 I checked with the ATF and they said I could make "x" number of guns a yr and still not be a manufacture. I started making spare parts so that I could complete that many guns a yr to sale but lost interest when I started thinking of what a person could possible use a 50 for. At the time Barrett 50's were selling for good money and I could have made very decent cash at it.
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Post by sd51555 on Jan 13, 2018 17:33:09 GMT -6
I cleared $3000 profit at the Mankato gun show after Sandy Hook. I sold an AR I had about $900 in for $2100, and sold the same guy 400 rounds of steel core 5.56 for $1/round. I had about 30 cents in that. Not bad for 6 hours of talking guns. I even made a big neon sign on a pole that said: Ammo 9mm .223/5.56 .22LR Every person there came straight to me. Good profit right there. Not a lot that's more fun than goofing with guns AND making money at it. And as long as we have guns but have fear of loosing them there will be huge upswings in the market. When I made my .50 I checked with the ATF and they said I could make "x" number of guns a yr and still not be a manufacture. I started making spare parts so that I could complete that many guns a yr to sale but lost interest when I started thinking of what a person could possible use a 50 for. At the time Barrett 50's were selling for good money and I could have made very decent cash at it. I got the bug for a .50 cal for a while. Thank goodness I never acted on it because I have no use for one, and could use that $3500 elsewhere.
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Post by Catscratch on Jan 13, 2018 19:48:25 GMT -6
Good profit right there. Not a lot that's more fun than goofing with guns AND making money at it. And as long as we have guns but have fear of loosing them there will be huge upswings in the market. When I made my .50 I checked with the ATF and they said I could make "x" number of guns a yr and still not be a manufacture. I started making spare parts so that I could complete that many guns a yr to sale but lost interest when I started thinking of what a person could possible use a 50 for. At the time Barrett 50's were selling for good money and I could have made very decent cash at it. I got the bug for a .50 cal for a while. Thank goodness I never acted on it because I have no use for one, and could use that $3500 elsewhere. Cost less than $100 to build, but the real expense is in shooting the damn thing. $5+ per trigger pull makes an afternoon of plinking expensive.
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Post by daydreamer on Jan 14, 2018 8:26:15 GMT -6
;[/quote]I've made a ton of money from keeping it out of reach! CD's, retirement, health savings plans, etc. I figure any money tied up that I can't spend and can't loose value is money ahead. Sometimes I have to protect myself from myself. [/quote]
This!!!
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Post by sd51555 on Jan 14, 2018 21:30:44 GMT -6
Took your advice Mo. I put in an order to buy some downside protection. May $32 call options on SH are dirt cheap right now. I hope they expire worthless.
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Post by sd51555 on Jan 19, 2018 6:06:32 GMT -6
Real life lesson in the Laffer Curve here. When the corporate tax was 35%, Apple paid $0 in taxes on their foreign earnings. The rate has been chopped down to around 15% and new revenue from Apple alone will be $38 billion dollars as they bring home years of foreign profits that sat idle overseas. finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-inc-aapl-pay-38b-085737537.html
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Post by Reagan on Jan 19, 2018 9:20:56 GMT -6
20,000 new jobs.
And people say trickle down doesn’t work.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Jan 19, 2018 9:49:36 GMT -6
Took your advice Mo. I put in an order to buy some downside protection. May $32 call options on SH are dirt cheap right now. I hope they expire worthless. Most options do expire worthless, whether you want them too or not! Edit: but you buy insurance for your car truck or house and you hope you don't use that either!
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Post by daydreamer on Jan 19, 2018 9:51:36 GMT -6
20,000 new jobs. And people say trickle down doesn’t work. I'm surprised Donny isn't tweeting the hell out of this?! Especially since the Gub't is about to shut down.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Jan 19, 2018 9:53:30 GMT -6
20,000 new jobs. And people say trickle down doesn’t work. I'm surprised Donny isn't tweeting the hell out of this?! Especially since the Gub't is about to shut down. All your Senators still get paid with a shut down.......just not the common government working stiff.
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Post by wildfire123 on Jan 19, 2018 11:28:40 GMT -6
The senate could come with a government spending bill, by having a 2/3 majority, OUR president could not veto it!!!
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Post by Catscratch on Jan 19, 2018 11:39:21 GMT -6
I was never a fan of Apple. I always felt their lack of removable storage, replaceable batteries, and proprietary app system was a play to monopolize their customers. I like the free market concept of Android a lot better. BUT, them bringing their money back to the US, building a new campus, giving their employee's bonus's, and creating new jobs just may change my mind about them. Rock on! This is a great example of trickledown working!
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Jan 19, 2018 11:43:25 GMT -6
The senate could come with a government spending bill, by having a 2/3 majority, OUR president could not veto it!!! So why don’t they come up with one and get it done.....
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