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With the new IRS rules about tips being tax-free (with certain limits), one can only imagine the gamesmanship that’s about to take place with people claiming certain types of income as just tips. Here’s an interesting breakdown on who gets tips. Bartenders, yeah, makes total sense. But…….locksmiths?!?!
For my entire adult life, I’ve heard about how overpriced Bay Area real estate is, and how one could get a place that was SO much bigger with SO much more land for the same price in Bumblefuck, Oklahoma instead of Palo Alto. That’s always been true, but the fact is that I’ve done better with real estate (by a country mile, even by Bumblefuck metrics) than anything else, and real estate around here seems to do nothing but go up.
Having said that, I must draw your attention to an ad in our local paper I just saw:
In my post on Tuesday last week I was looking at possibility that we might see a modest retracement on Crypto over the next few days into the end of September, during the last significantly bearish leaning period this year.
In my premarket videos over the rest of the week I was looking at the possibility that daily RSI 5 sell signals might form on Bitcoin (BTCUSD) and Solana (SOLUSD), and that Bitcoin and Ethereum (ETHUSD) might get another leg down within larger bull flags that might be forming from their last all time highs.
Looking at Bitcoin, that next leg down may now have started, and it has retraced to test the first big support level on the way at the backtest of the May (then) all time high at 112k, and the weekly middle band just below that currently at 111,738. The overnight low at the time of writing is at 112,121.
(more…)Since Europe has been in some kind of state of war since the Triassic Period of Earth’s history, here’s an interesting map showing how willing the present-day citizens are to fight for their country. Finland, at 74%, seems to be the most willing (and that long border with Russia might have something to do with it).
I am getting an uncharacteristically late start this morning (lots of tiring work this weekend!) so I’ll simply say I am most heavily short energy, so crude oil’s weakness is ideal……..
