jouni1

Agreed. Continuing the old thread rather than starting a new one is interesting for perspective. this. much better to have one thread for one topic.

there's an extraordinary amount of leverage in at least finnish real estate investing right now. Condos are being sold with 30% money down, and the debt is at the "building" level, not personal debt of the investors. the credit-worthiness of the buyers is not really checked at all if they can manage the down payment. first few years you pay only the interest on these loans. sound familiar? nordea was the first to introduce some limits to these loans given to the housing coops(? not sure about the term) a week or so ago.

The stock or the product? ;) Both, actually 8)

bought some BUD today

Guess you mean 97.6% :)

i wonder if these hedge fund bots are making the cannabis stocks pumped in investment ideas go up ::)

i took a small position in supervalu today

looks great! as morningstar updated their site it went to shit. i might actually start using this.

some SRG. :-\

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Rinkeby_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Stockholm_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_social_unrest_in_Sweden etc etc

sweden has been going downhill safety-wise. it's been happening for at least 5 years now. i'm not going to speculate what's causing it.

yes or no. optimism.

either you don't know much about european history or i have misunderstood the european union.

BAM

BAM

QSR and FCAU

bought some more CFX yesterday

CFX

i have bought some ibm last week 8)

LNG 8)

In the latest numbers I saw there was no sign of deleveraging in the EU. On the contrary, overall debts vs GDP numbers kept increasing. And imo it all boils down to this: how will the EU cope with a debt which is 460% its GDP? Will it invert its trend towards the US level, 334% of GDP? Or will it proceed towards the Japan level, 655% of GDP? Until I don’t see enough evidence we are making good progress in this regard, I think any recovery will be based on very shaky fundamentals. Gio People keep saying europe as if it is one entity. Northern Europe is in pretty good shape. Especially germany. They are in a better shape then the US as a whole with lower debt levels. Southern Europe is what is keeping the average down. You can't really compare the average greek to the average german. And it seems this new QE program where each country has to take 80% of the risk is not going to do much, it is basicly more debt to solve a debt problem. I read that various african countries have a better business climate then Italy! That is something that needs to change if Europe has to get out of this slump. But that will only change after countries have been zombies for years and shit hits the fan. Im curious what will happen to Italy as they are basicly in a debt trap at this point. And if germany is not going to cough up money to keep them afloat, who is? Especially if there is no way they could pay back that debt. It is very interesting to watch for sure, I dont think this situation has ever occured before. who do you think italy owes the money to?

the thing is, english isn't an official language in switzerland. most of the people there speak german or french.

thank god, i was getting a bit worried!

i'm not sure if it's nostalgia but i feel like the board has been going downhill for a while. started around the time i registered ::)

i like TE's live voltage connectors a lot. much better than competitors' connectors that are available down here. i don't think amphenol offers a lot of stuff to the grid building industry.