Subj : Re: Money To : JOE MACKEY From : NANCY BACKUS Date : Wed Nov 20 2019 10:54:00 -=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 11-11-19 07:49 <=- > Yup, I've seen that.... those in particular are the ones to try to ride > out, since almost inevitably the value will bounce back... One might > even want to buy when the stock has fallen some JM> There are some people who make money that way. JM> When their stock starts falling by natural or man made causes* they JM> sell and when it bottoms out they buy up a lot of shares at the lower JM> price. Exactly.... and then as the stock value increases again, they end up ahead... :) JM> (*There are stories of people deliberately dumping stocks to JM> make the value fall ("everyone's selling, there mu (You chopped again.. "must be something wrong with that stock"?) Yes, I've heard of such.... I suppose it's technically legal, but it seems somewhat wrong to me... :) JM> I've never been that good with money or math to fully understand how JM> to do/take advantage of something like that. Or how to keep a second JM> set of books. A lot of times in crime/drama/mysteries someone has two JM> sets of books, dummy companies, etc. That just seems like so much extra unnecessary work to me... > JM> Remember the toilet paper panic? Someone mentioned > JM> jokingly it was in short supply so people cleared the shelves and > JM> actually caused shortages. (It was been attributed to John > John who...? [g] JM> Johnny Carson. He made some remark in a monologue about a toilet JM> paper shortage and inadvertently actually caused a shortage when people JM> cleared the shelves of it in panic. JM> I have heard this actually happened and I have heard it was a urban JM> legend. But I do remember when there were shortages. Not empty JM> shelves but stores low on supply from a sudden large demand. Probably happened once, anyway... but probably also not a regular recurrence... A lot of things could play into low on supply... including rumors of storms.... :) > A lot of things, especially paper products like toilet paper and paper > towels, we tend to buy in bulk, even when we know we don't use them all > that fast, just because it's generally less expensive that way per roll > or whatever, and we'll have it in stock even if the store runs out... JM> I don't have a lot of room to store a lot of things. :) We find room.... JM> I had a cat with a delicate tummy who would throw up some foods she JM> ate (not all the time and not just that one kind of food). I brought a JM> three roll pack of paper towels in 2002. I still have most of one roll JM> left. (Molly died years ago). JM> Unless some particularly nasty spill/mess I use a rag and water. We do use paper towels a bit more often... not like some people, though... I don't buy paper napkins, as we'll use the paper towels instead... My sister made lots of cloth napkins and she just washes them over and over, but that's another choice that can cost in other ways... > JM> One thing I did do that I always wanted to do was stop and check > JM> things out. In the past it was always "the next time" I was in > JM> some area. > So this time you did the "next time" as part of the trip... :) Finally > found that round tuit.... ;) JM> Yep. :) And now you can use it for the next trip as well... ttyl neb .... Even the Borg won't assimilate Windows! ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140) .