2014 records

Last yeat was an all time high for medical spending by americans and an all time high for foreigners applying for tech visas to work here.

The data shows that nationwide spending on medicine hit the highest level since 2001, up 13% in 2014 from the year before.

A record 233,000 foreign workers applied for visas to work in the U.S. tech, science and engineering industries in 2016, Reuters reports.

Most of those tech hopefuls will be upset with the answer they receive — just 85,000 of these H-1B visas can be approved each year, with 20,000 of those set aside for applicants with masters degrees.

Etf's are hot

At every market top, you get the dumbest of the dumb buying because they don’t want to miss out. Yes, even pros can be dumb — especially if their peers are doing better than they are.

ETF's have been attracting these geniuses.  Over $1.25 trillion is currently in etf's.  That's what all those tv commercials are for.

The basic tricks are not working

WASHINGTON — Steady hiring is supposed to fire up economic growth.

Cheap gasoline is supposed to power consumer spending.

Falling unemployment is supposed to boost wages.

Low mortgage rates are supposed to spur home buying.

America's economic might is supposed to benefit its workers.

Yet all those common assumptions about how an economy thrives appear to have broken down during the first three months of 2015.

Luxury cars

Luxury car sales are up.

The stock market is basically trading opposite of oil, so that should lead to a rise in my cameron stock with a decline in the stock market.  Exactly what I want. Maybe a year and a half rom now I will be selling cameron and buying the market, we'll see.

Other 401k's

The median 401k account is about $18.5k. And that is right now after a 5 year bull market, so half of that could be gone in a year.

I plan on having that much after the first 2 years but most of these other people must have accounts older than that.  To me, its crazy how people invest so poorly.  Im putting $5k in my account each year.  But thats easy for me to say.  I have been really interested in trading for almost 8 years now.  Most never learn more than what I learned in my first few months.

Some people may not put in as much as I do or they may put in much more.  Percentage gain is best to compare, if it were possible.  But if I can grow my account larger than the median within a few years, then that means my account could double every 3 years or so.  My account growth would be steep.

Competition is not fierce, its scarce.

German Union

After two world wars Germany learned they should take over europe economically...is that a word?  The EU is basically a half-ass version of the united states of europe.  But its half-ass on purpose.  Germany got  everyone to buy more german goods while germany produces more goods.  The overall efficiency of this has kept and or created wealth in europe but most of the benefit is felt in Deutschland.   The eu is keeping countries like spain, greece and eastern europe in a stagnant recession permanently.  Either the eu will fade away over time or it will become the united states of europe, an actual nation.  It cant stay the same.  Once eastern europeans who remember communism die, the people will more likely understand how the germans are screwing them over.