And no I’m not talking about the next generation playstation, and I’m not talking about trading in your vehicle the moment you pay it off and starting a new car loan all over again (what sort of bullshit is that anyway). 

I make money because other people engage in that superficial and trashy consumer behavior. If everyone took my advice, I wouldn’t stand to make any money. However I know very few will take my advice anyway, because most people are addicted to instant gratification. Consumerism is like masturbation— ten minutes of work with a two second payoff. You exerted effort to earn that money, and then blew it frivolously.

That fucking thing you bought on an impulse because it filled some sort of gratification, perhaps was used once and has sat forever since? That’s what I’m talking about. You could have been smarter than that.

People say that time is money, but really—is it? People dine out because they don’t want to take the time to learn how to prepare meals, and take the time to actually prepare them. But were you making money with that time anyway? No, you probably weren’t. 

The money you’ll save by not eating out is well worth the time. As the old saying goes, a penny saved is a penny earned. So if that time were unproductive/unpaid time anyhow, then using that time to save money is in fact, getting paid. You’re paying more for convenience in exchange for not being productive. As my grandfather would say, “Get with the program,” or as I would say, “Stop being a pussy and do it.”

I understand that there are different readers in different stages of life, so I can’t preach to everyone based on my situation today. But I was once well worse off than where I am now. As of now, I have an average income in my market. An average single income, but I support a family of five on that average single income. People tell me that’s impossible these days, but I’m doing it. I was also once well below the average income when I started building my family and making my goals, and getting smart with money.

For those of you who are unmarried, if you get married, for crying out loud do it cheap. I’m not saying have a shitty wedding, I’m just saying do it cheap and control your expenses. First off, don’t have a wedding planner. Wedding planners cost money, and they tend to network in their buddies in the business to perform services, who also cost a good deal of money. They also pay each other to refer each other, at your expense.

Yes, the “stop buying lattes” phrase that Leftists hate legitimately works. I used to drink 2 or 3 tall vanilla lattes from Starbucks everyday. I switched to home brewed black coffee. I’m just saying $280 a month adds up when you’re saving. These days I drink water instead of coffee (from the tap, because I’m not a pussy). 

I got married for the cost of a license and an officiant. Of course, that wasn’t the wedding, but already being married when we had the “for show” wedding took off a whole lot of pressure. We were able to put in the work for it to be fun, without being bent on having it be perfect. This easily saved us thousands. Starting a marriage in debt is pretty fucked up. An expensive and lavish honeymoon is also pretty dumb when you can literally have sex anywhere.

My wife and I found a small two bedroom duplex where we moved into, where we lived when all three of our kids were born. At the time we moved in, my income was only half my market average. Yet, it was still a single income. We sought out and found a good deal where rent was kept low in exchange for myself doing a good deal of maintenance. It’s amazing what happens when you can reset a water heater (and the neighbor’s), and dehumidifying spaces yourself to keep mold away in a humid environment. Keeping your landlord’s expenses low is a good way to see your rent not jump as high. Imagine that.

We were not only able to get by on my income, but we were also able to set aside money to invest. Because we’re badasses.

Economics isn’t a mathematical science. It’s a behavioral science. So put on your badass behavior. The badasses benefit and the pussies get left in debt. That’s how it goes. The pussies whine and complain about badasses like me while they spend their money on streaming subscriptions, video games, going to sports games, dining out constantly, attending concerts, etc. Shut up pussies.

Couple the money I invested with the new job opportunities I took from working my ass off (no college degree) and now we’re at the very end of 2019. I’m making about 80% of the average income in my market, but I have some badass money set aside, like a badass. COVID was breaking out in China. I decided now was the time to own my own place, as I anticipated COVID making it to America. Though, I had no idea it would turn into the bullshit fiasco it has. Also little did I know that the first COVID cases would be in my state. The feeling was in my gut that it was time to be a homeowner.

I did evening blitzkrieg tours with my realtor, visiting several homes on the market every evening. We found a good starter home that fit our immediate needs for a good price, and made an offer. They accepted our offer, but the roof was at the end of its life (we even had to nail a few new shingles up before moving in, before it started snowing). Ultimately, we asked the seller to leave money from the sale into escrow to pay for the roof as a condition of closing, and they did. They also got a little of that money back, because we got it done for cheaper than what they left. This is what being a badass looks like.

Today, I’m still supporting a family of five on my single income, right at the average single income level. We own our home. We own our cars. We have very little debt. I have an investment account, my kids have investment accounts that I contribute to every payday. Why? Because paying yourself first is badass. Spending your money and then complaining about not having as much money is for pussies.

My investment strategy relies on the fact most people won’t take my advice, which is a safe bet. McDonald’s is never going away. Walmart is never going away. People are always going to buy whatever gives them a sense of status, no matter how temporary or trivial. People will continue spending their money on frivolous shit that makes money for big companies. People who look at their paycheck and wonder how much they can spend instead of how much they can save/invest are pussies.

For those of you who want to be badasses, own a piece of those companies the pussies spend all their money on. Take money from the pussies. They weren’t missing it anyway.

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UPDATE: THE TRADING APP ROBINHOOD PREVIOUSLY RESISTED PUTTING LIMITATIONS ON STOCKS. HOWEVER ROBINHOOD REVERSED COURSE AND IS NOW LIMITING TRANSACTIONS OF CERTAIN STOCKS INVOLVED IN COORDINATED BUY EFFORTS.

If you’ve spent any amount of time on any social media platform in the last 2 days, you’ve likely seen a rising tide of posts laughing at short sellers and hedge fund managers.

Regular people like yourself have seemingly joined forces to decimate some of the least liked people in the financial industry, and make a quick buck themselves doing it.

Most people have been using the trading app Robinhood, which you can download here, and get a free share of stock from a random company, just for signing up.

So what’s all the rage about? In a nutshell, people are upset about short sellers who are making money off the collapse of companies that have been forced to close, largely by local governments, due to the pandemic.

Yes, you can make money off of stock going down. It’s a risky transaction that is executed by the vampires, vultures and leeches of the financial industry, the banking hive of scum and villainy. 

For our readers who are unfamiliar with short sell trading, we’ll begin with a normal buy transaction. If you buy a share of stock from a company, for say $20, the most you can possibly lose is the $20 you invested if the company were to go out of business. The upside however does not have a ceiling. That $20 can continue to go up and up forever if it is a good performing stock.

If you buy a stock for $20, it goes up to $30, and then down to $15, you did not lose $15. You ultimately lost $5 based on your initial investment.

A short sale is a polar reverse of a natural buy most people engage in. It relies on a stock to go down, rather than up.

With the short sale, you lock in the current value with a contract obligating you to pay a future price for it. You would only do this if you expect the price to go down, to pay a lower price for the current value. This is a way that short sellers and hedge fund managers profit off of a failing company.

This is a risky transaction to the mentioned potential unlimited upside to a natural buy if a stock does well. This means that if you short a stock, you had better be right; because the downside is unlimited. 

In the case of GameStop, short sellers were taking out contracts at $20 per share, committing themselves to paying a future price for that $20. They were likely expecting to pay pennies for that $20 based on their projected demise of Gamestop. The same momentum is now picking up with AMC Theaters.

In this case, the Reddit community and memers internet wide purchased the stock in massive waves on purpose, driving the price up to (at the time of this writing) to $292 per share. AMC Theaters is starting to pick up the same momentum, and increased from $4.70 per share to $14.61 share on Wednesday with people now seemingly looking to push that stock price way up.

In other words, at the time of this writing, those who are profiting from the government destroying industries are currently committed to paying $292 and receiving $20 for it. These short sellers tend to take out a lot of these contracts at a time, and within 48hrs the damage to them is in the billions. With the unlimited downside potential, these hedge fund managers have not just lost their investment, but have found themselves suddenly to be in a great deal of debt…. to the tune of billions collectively.

Those who have closely followed Tesla are familiar with the war against short sellers who continually bet on Tesla to fail. In the year 2020, Tesla short sellers lost more money than the entire airline industry did the year of the pandemic due to Tesla”s impressive growth.

Elon Musk released a limited edition offering of Tesla “short shorts” on Tesla’s website to mock the losses of Tesla short sellers. The shorts sold out almost instantly.

Elon Musk on Twitter promoted the legion of memers driving Gamestop’s stock price to hurt short sellers with his “Gamestonk” tweet where he linked the Reddit thread.

Stock Brokers like TD Ameritrade have attempted to squash the momentum by disabling trading of stocks like Gamestop and AMC. However Robinhood, the free trading app which has been favored by Millennials and Gen Z, has not made any move to disable trading. 

Folks on Twitter appear to be enjoying this new ride.

Disclosure: Referral link to Robinhood provided by the author

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The talk of Wall Street is Tesla, just recently added to the S&P 500 Index, that has far surpassed their share price prior to the pandemic selloff. 

Bitcoin as well has re-emerged in 2020 as a heavyweight. Bitcoin’s rally of 2017 ended just shy of $20,000 and collapsed back down to $3,000. Bitcoin began gaining some momentum again in 2019, and in 2020 bounded to new record highs as cryptocurrency has become popular again, this time with corporate investors taking interest who now hold $30 billion in Bitcoin. 

Tesla CEO Elon Musk himself tends to make nods to cryptocurrency, at times Tweeting memes that promote DogeCoin that have caused Doge buying frenzies.

Both Tesla and Bitcoin have had an excellent run in 2020, but which came out on top for the year?

To answer this question, I will be using the 1 year history view from Robinhood, a free trading app that allows you to invest in both stocks and cryptocurrency. 

Robinhood also gives new users 1 free share of random stock from their inventory to get started when you join using this referral link.

NOTE: As Bitcoin trading never closes for the day like stocks do, and the value fluctuates by the second 24 hours a day, the price of Bitcoin at the time of the article publishing will likely differ from the current price at the time you read this. By a little or a lot. Who knows.

We’ll do a couple rounds here between Tesla and Bitcoin. We’ll see who won the day for New Year’s Eve, who won the week, who won the month, who won the last three months, and finally who was the overall winner of 2020.

ROUND 1: NEW YEAR’S EVE

Tesla closed at a record high today of $705.67, but drifted slightly to $704.80 in after hours trading, ending at about 1.5% up for the day.

Bitcoin, which I stamped when after hours trading ended, finished the day about 0.6% down. But I suppose with Bitcoin there’s still time to catch up as it never stops trading.

But for the sake of fairness since Tesla had to stop trading, Tesla is hereby the New Years Eve winner.

ROUND 2: THE WEEK

For the last trading week, Tesla is a healthy 4.5% up. 

Bitcoin for the week has seen even larger increases, seeing a 22.47% growth.

Bitcoin is the clear winner of the week.

ROUND 3: THE MONTH

For the last month, Tesla is up a roaring 17.94%.

For that same time period, Bitcoin is up a whopping 47.31%.

Bitcoin clearly wins for the month.

ROUND 4: THREE MONTHS

During the 4th Quarter of 2020, Tesla is up an astounding 67.26%

For the same Quarter, Bitcoin has climbed a phenomenal 172.85%

Bitcoin was the undisputed champion for Q4.

ROUND 5: THE YEAR 2020

For the entire year of 2020, Tesla has climbed a supreme 770.12%.

For the entire year of 2020, Bitcoin has climbed a cool 305.1%.

While Bitcoin has made some great strides, particularly during the last Quarter, it was relatively static during those first nine months of the year whereas Tesla was constantly rising.

Tesla has dominated the overall year in growth, and Tesla is hereby the Champion of 2020.

However if Bitcoin can keep up the current rate of growth, 2021 may have a different winner.

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Someone who owns a single share of Tesla right now, valued around $1,500 per share, will instead hold 5 shares of Tesla worth about $300 per share. So it’s an even ratio and you’re not losing or making any new money.

But to put this into perspective, I purchased a share of Tesla for $299.96 back on October 24th of 2019. In less than a year, Tesla grew from $300 to $1500. But also note that rate of growth will be nowhere near as fast per share with the total market cap divided by five times the number of shares. 

But with five times the number of shares, if Tesla were to maintain its current growth, in 10 months time we would see the value of that $300 share increase to $540. That’s still incredibly good, and I certainly won’t be selling any of my new shares from the split. Especially since Elon has more steps yet to unlock in his compensation plan based on growth and performance, which I believe he can do.

Since Tesla has reported four consecutive quarterly profits now for the first time, Tesla is officially eligible to be added to the S&P 500 Index, and it’s speculated they will be.

I’m personally speculating that these events of the split and the S&P 500 inclusion are likely to be very close together. The combination of being in the S&P 500 and having a smaller share price due to the split will make Tesla a very attractive option for index, hedge and retirement funds.

If $300 is still a lot of money for you, but you don’t want to miss the boat, the free trading app Robinhood allows you to purchase Fractional Shares. You can purchase a fraction of the share, and piece by piece you can accumulate an entire share by investing what you can afford at any given time.

Robinhood even gives you a free random share of stock just for joining. You can sell that and put it towards your first Tesla fraction.

Click here to be redirected to your App Store and download Robinhood.

The information and views expressed are the author’s opinion. Please see a qualified financial advisor for investment advice.

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A Twitter thread celebrating the market cap brought up the question if Elon Musk would ever consider a split of the rapid growing stock. Tesla has gained 113% in the 2nd Quarter, surpassing their pre-COVID high. 

What is a stock split? A standard 2 for 1 split reduces the stock price in half, but doubles the shares. So if Tesla split 2 for 1 at the price of $1080, that would bring the share price down to $540. Shareholders would receive a duplicate share for each one they held. So it all evens out.

The only real benefit to this is to attract new shareholders by making the share price more affordable. Comcast does this somewhat often, generally every few years. Amazon has only split three times, all of which took place between June of 1998 and September of 1999. These splits were before Amazon gained steam, and they’ve never split since.

Some people seem to be under the mistaken impression that stock splits are a magic money maker. If that were true, Amazon would have split far more times than three, and much more recently than 1999. A split still keeps an even ratio, as the value of a share is the market cap divided by the total number of shares. If your stock price increases by a dollar, under a split your two shares increase by 50 cents.

However, just on March 18th of this year, at the bottom of the COVID era low, Tesla stock closed at just $361.22, and only began to rise forward rapidly after April 2nd when Tesla closed at $454.47. In other words, Tesla Stock was at a very attractive low price in very recent history, likely lower than the price that a split would provide new investors. Perhaps it’s Woulda Coulda Shoulda for a lot of folks… But I sure did.

However, there is a trading method that allows you to invest what ever amount you would like into a particular stock. It’s called Fractional Shares. 

The same way you can buy a fraction of a Bitcoin, you can buy a fraction of a stock share, whether Tesla, Amazon, or whichever. If you put a $100 into a fractional share of Tesla, then your $100 doubles when the Tesla stock price doubles. You can do it with $1 if you please and maybe buy a McDouble with your earnings. 

The popular and free trading app Robinhood allows for purchasing Fractional Shares. Click on this link to be redirected to your App Store to download Robinhood, and receive a free share of random stock for joining.

Update: Prior to the release of this article in Wednesday morning trading, Tesla’s market cap grew to $207 billion, exceeding Toyota’s $202 billion. Tesla is now the world’s most valuable automaker.

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The lucky ones already got this lesson in high school one way or another, but to the uninitiated this will be a critical lesson, and it applies to millennials with excess capital as well. This stock market is at an extremely low place, having almost wiped away all of the gains seen during the last three-and-a-half years of President Trump. But it will go back up. The stock market always bounces back from a crisis like this. That means there is a critical window for us to buy into the stock market. Best case scenario, you have a few hundred bucks sitting in your bank account that you can dump into stock, which is extremely easy to do online in the modern digital world. In fact, right now electronic trading is going to become the norm amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Where there is crisis, there is profit to be made. The dividends will pay out to you, quite literally as many companies with high-paying dividends are at some incredibly deep lows. You may have heard that in times of crisis when stocks plummet, the smart ones buy. It is in your best interest to start building up a good portfolio. I recommend diversifying your stock, meaning that you purchase from multiple different industries and companies so as to avoid putting all your eggs in one basket. If you don’t feel comfortable investing directly yourself, the option exists for mutual funds, a mass-investing opportunity that will seek out opportunistic stocks using the collective resources of its participants.

For those of you willing to partake more directly and diversify your own stock options, the following will be an analysis of the market at the time of this writing of the current state of stocks that ought to be invested in. For starters, airlines are currently suffering massively in stock prices, and are generally a safe bet as they are unlikely to all close without some government assistance. This choice is great for those of you wanting to get something at a very cheap value right now: UAL, AAL, LUV.

The next option is banks, as at this current point in time they are seeing stocks drop, and are usually the first ones to be bailed out. Bank of America (BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC), and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) are all doing terribly right now, and are in perfect picking positions. From there, the final recommendation I will give is to invest in restaurants, with McDonald’s (MCD), Chipotle (CMG), and Wendy’s (WEN) all dropping like flies and thus all wonderful buying options.

If anything, please take from this article that if there ever was a time for zoomers to invest in the stock market, this is that time. With the world in the tumultuous state it’s in, a bunch of zoomers buying into the market would likely help to stabilize it as people realize we are still looking to the future. Regardless, it’s time for this generation to take its shot and make like bandits, because any one of you could strike it big in a few years when the market comes back – and it will.

Even as future crises come and go, I highly doubt there will be any more chances to buy in at this stage of the market and at these levels. It could  happen again, but as it stands, this could be a once in a lifetime opportunity. Best not to squander it. Save up every last penny you can, buy as much as you can, and start developing your future at one of the best points for it. Heck, the government might even make it easy for us, with the talks of handing $1000 checks to every adult American. At any rate, take heed of my warning and invest while the getting is good.

Disclaimer: I am by no means a financial expert and this should not be considered professional advice. This is only my personal opinion based on a rudimentary analysis of the stock market.

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Bitcoin has once again risen above the $5,000 mark. This is a 35% increase in the last three months.

Crypto is known for its volatility and wild swings, but the good news is that this growth has been on a consistent rise over the last quarter rather than being the product of sudden swings.

While this is great news for Bitcoin, there is even better news for Litecoin. It’s leading the way, and it’s not even close.

Litecoin has risen 170% in the last three months.

Even better news is that Litecoin has created a much clearer plot chart. It has risen above two cliffs in the last year, making a much better case for a continuous upward momentum. This is a pretty positive indicator that Litecoin is going to continue to rally.

The struggle, though, is that there are very few good ways to to transfer dollars to crypto without using a site like Coinbase, which charges fees for transactions. Although once you have traded for crypto, you can then send it to whatever wallet you want. But to change it back to dollars, you’re stuck going back through a site like Coinbase again.

The App Robin Hood however allows you to buy Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum and a small assortment of Alt Coins with no fee. It’s also the same App that I use for trading stocks, which has no trading fees as well. I think it’s an easy app to use for diversifying investments. However Robin Hood does NOT allow you to send to a wallet outside of their App at this time.

When you sign up for Robin Hood through this link, you’ll get a free share of a random stock as a reward to get you started. Either keep it as a stock, or sell it and put it in crypto.

Keep Calm and Hodl.

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Comcast is seemingly plagued by a running poor customer service stereotype. Amazon on the other hand has a better customer service reputation overall. I don’t need sources for either of these claims. You know it and I know it.

However these two companies exist in two completely different industries, so they’re not competing against each other on customer service scores. Ultimately you need an internet service provider as a gateway to do business with Amazon.

Of course, there is some overlap in regards to Amazon Prime Video being a factor in Cord Cutting away from Cable TV. I myself have cut the Cable TV cord, though I do not subscribe to Amazon Prime, Netflix, or Hulu. As it turns out, I just don’t watch much television.

I do still have Comcast Xfinity Internet though. 99 times out of 100, slow internet is caused by an issue in your home WiFi Network rather than by the incoming provider signal. Unlike many of you, I know how to maintain my home network and have the foresight to reboot it before calling Comcast. I always do this before I call and wait on hold to speak with the supposedly worst customer service provider in America. I also never have to call.

So what’s my metric? Money. Of course it’s money. Specifically with the feasibility to invest money.

Let’s get one thing out of the way. Yes, the top priority of a corporation is to make a profit, and return it to their shareholders. Many people lament this, so I ask, why don’t you become a shareholder?

It’s always the same old answer. People are concerned about what happens to their money during a recession, despite the fact we always come out of recessions higher than we were before. What it boils down to, is that people want all of the upside with none of the risk.

Instead, they call for Capital Gains taxes, oblivious to the fact what they’re actually asking for is to have the Government take more money out of their 401k’s when they retire. And for what? To fund whatever war we’ll be in 40 years from now? Social Security is insolvent. It probably won’t be around when you retire, and you want the Government to take more from your 401k? Great thinking!

In regards to investing, Comcast has gone well out of their way to make investing accessible to the Middle Class, where Amazon has not.

First, let’s take a look at the most recent closing prices for shares of their stock. On January 9th (the most recent trading day as of authoring this article), Amazon closed at $1,654 per share while Comcast closed at $36.06 per share.

You might look at this numbers and think Amazon is quite the powerhouse compared to Comcast, but you would be wrong.

Comcast’s stock price is kept within reach to the average American through Stock Splits. This is where a company, for example, doubles your shares but cuts the stock price in half (2 for 1 split). Mathematically you see no difference in your value, but a lower stock price can attract new investors.

To put this in perspective, Amazon has split their stock 3 times (last split in 1999) while Comcast has split their stock 12 times (last split in 2017).

The majority of Comcast’s splits have been 3 for 2 (a shareholder is issued a third share for every two they own, and the stock price drops 33.3%).

So, what would Amazon’s stock look like if they had done an equal number of splits as Comcast through January 9th’s closing price?

The below table will outline splits on a basis for 3 for 2 (generally favored by Comcast) and show the number of shares someone would have, and the price per share for each split. This will be done showing what someone who owns 100 shares today would look like if their stock had been split 9 additional times to match Comcast’s splits.

At the closing price of $1654.00 per share, and individual who owned 100 shares today would have a value of $165,400.00. So we simply divide by 2, then multiply by 3 to get the number of shares someone would own in a 2 for 3 split. We then divide those number of shares by the current stock value to get the price per share for that split.

Split 1: 150 Shares / $1,102.66 per share.

Split 2: 225 Shares / $735.11 per share.

Split 3: 337 Shares / $490.80 per share.

Split 4: 506 Shares / $326.87 per share.

Split 5: 759 Shares / $217.91 per share.

Split 6: 1,139 Shares / $145.21 per share.

Split 7: 1,708 Shares / $96.83 per share.

Split 8: 2,562 Shares / $64.55 per share.

Split 9: 3,844 Shares / $43.02 per share.

The math is off slightly because I did not decimalize the shares in the division. This is practical for easy understanding, as you will likely never own fractions of share. Those are generally only available under a specific condition like an Employee Stock Purchase Program. You otherwise cannot purchase a fraction of a share. The point is well within the ballpark.

Likewise, if we removed nine of Comcast’s 3 for 2 splits, their stock price would be $1,386.26 per share.

Amazon is one of those stocks we look at and wish we had bought years ago. January of 2015 was the last time Amazon’s stock was (slightly) under $300. Comparatively to their current price, that seems cheap. But still, most of us could not afford to be dropping $300 per share.

That’s why a share price in the $30 range right now is much more attractive to every day people. It’s something many of us can afford, and it captures the same rate of growth proportionately. We can collect more of these over time.

Comcast also yields a quarterly dividend, while Amazon offers no dividend. This makes Comcast much more friendly to a middle class American trying to invest for the future than Amazon, who is all but out of reach to many of us.

If you have never invested before, I recommend an App called Robin Hood. There are no trading fees, and it links to your bank account.

If you have never used Robin Hood before, you can download it to your phone or tablet by clicking here (which will redirect you to your App Store) and award you with a free random share to get you started for using the referral link in this article.

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The Tokyo 2020 Olympics will bring a huge economic boom to Japan’s tourism industry. This is something you can start investing in now.

Which industries will make money? Almost any industry related to tourism. Airlines that fly to Japan will see increased revenue. Hotels in Japan will see increased revenue. Restaurants in Japan will see increased revenue.

The problem is there are so many varieties of these, and tourism dollars will be pretty evenly spread through all these competing businesses.

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was some singular business whose patronage could not be escaped? Well it turns out there is. The Tokyo rail system.

People will be converging not only from all over Japan, but also the world, to attend the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. It’s also nearly impossible to navigate Tokyo without using their trains unless you’re passing through. If you’ve been there, you know. And if you’re there for the Olympics, you probably won’t be driving.

The rail company that operates Tokyo is East Japan Rail Company (East JR) and is listed on the stock exchange as EJPRY.

Yes, East JR is a monopoly for Tokyo rail transportation. Regardless of how you feel about monopolies, I fail to see how a Japanese rail monopoly operating in Eastern Japan is your problem here in America.

As you can see, their stock price is not that expensive, and really not all that volatile (as people steadily rely on train transportation in Tokyo daily).

East JR’s 3rd Quarter in 2020 will likely be their best 3rd quarter in their history. It will also likely be their best quarter in their history, period. East JR does not operate in Nagano, where the Olympics were previously held in 1998.

You can easily buy shares of EJPRY using the stock exchange app called Robin Hood, which has no trading fees. If you do not have Robin Hood already, you can get it through this referral link here, which will direct you to the download on your app store, as well as reward you with a free random stock share to get you started for using the referral link.

Remember, no trading fees is great for people like me who don’t have large sums of money to invest all at once. But trading fees also discourage impulsive buying/selling, which is a great way to lose money.

But get in on that bump. You have about a year and a half to do it.

Disclosure: I am not employed by nor affiliated with the East Japan Rail Company. I don’t live in Japan. I am, however, a new shareholder. I chose to purchase EJPRY shares for the exact reasons stated in the article.

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I’m not some super smart investor with a big portfolio. In fact I don’t hold that much, which is why you probably shouldn’t be listening to me. But you’re probably going to hear me out anyway.

Still here? Cool!

This isn’t a Motley Fool article so I’m going to get to the point without any teasing or forcing you to subscribe to The Libertarian Republic’s mailing list, which I’m not even sure we have.

I’m buying shares of PG&E (Stock Symbol: PCG); a California-based electricity and natural gas provider. I have no affiliation with them or otherwise interest in them, and this is not sponsored content. I don’t even live in California, and there’s no way in hell I would.

The cause of the deadly California wildfire known as the Camp Fire has been tied to PG&E’s equipment.

From NBC Bay Area:

“NBC Bay Area has learned that authorities investigating the deadly Camp Fire have tied its origin to the failure of a single steel hook that held up a high voltage line on a nearly 100-year-old PG&E transmission tower.

The fire began at the base of a transposition tower, which serves to redistribute the electricity on the system to balance the load and assure safety. The tower has two arms holding out the “jumper,” a part of the line that’s being shifted to another point at the top of the tower.”

PG&E’s stock value has been punished on Wall Street. At the time of this article, the stock price is at $23.60 per share, down from. $45.43 per share. This is up from its low of $17.90 per share at the bottom of the plummet.

This current stock price is based on speculation, which is a short-term force. Eventually, reality sets in with a market correction that reflects the actual value.

In other words, this price reflects panicked traders jumping ship. Right now might be a good time to start picking up those pieces.

Sure, PG&E will probably have some hefty lawsuits on their hands which will cut into their profits. This is what the price driven down by speculation is currently designed to reflect. PG&E hasn’t actually lost money at this point, however.

PG&E is preparing for the coming lawsuits by asking state regulators to approve rate hikes. A rate hike amounting to $8.5 billion has already been approved for 2019, but PG&E is asking now for a larger 3 year rate hike plan.

In other words, Californians who don’t have a choice of utility providers will be shouldering a major part of this burden. Insurance will be shouldering some as well.

And of course, shareholders of PG&E will be expected to shoulder some. But will shareholders be asked to shoulder half the company’s overall value as their portion, which the stock price currently reflects?

My money is on no.

If that is the case, this would then make the price per share artificially low at its current price, or known as undervalued.

If you don’t have a trading account, I recommend Robin Hood. It’s a free app and there are no trading fees. Just remember that stocks are a long game and trading fees discourage impulsive buying and selling. So don’t be impulsive.

You can download Robin Hood to your mobile device or tablet through this link (which will direct you to the app’s location in your app store), where you’ll be rewarded with a free share of a random stock just for signing up.

As the above link is my referral link, I will get one too, and that’s my only angle. You’re certainly more than welcome to not use this link and go to your app store on your own, but you won’t get a bonus share. And more power to you if you would prefer to use something else and pay trading fees, I guess.

Neither the author nor The Libertarian Republic assume any risk or responsibility for your finances. Like I said, you probably shouldn’t listen to me.

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