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Steve heard an interesting story on how a woman’s parents met. The year was about 1967, the setting is Kentucky Eastern State Hospital in Lexington, which is the second oldest psychiatric hospital in the US. Her mother was a nursing student, performing practicum at Eastern State.Her father was an orderly at Eastern State. The nursing […]
This story relayed from Bob to Steve 5/13/2021Bob, Claude Jr, and another friend went to the movies on Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, CA in 1948. Because they were being noisy and rambunctious they were asked to leave. The theater required them to sign their names in order to get refunds for their tickets. Claude Jr […]
This article is on Medium at https://spzwart.medium.com/what-if-republicans-had-more-to-say-than-no-576764c53338 The Republican party has no coherent response to Democrats’ ideas except to vote against them. A simple vision is needed to unify the party going forward: Republicans will promote government policies that lead to long-term opportunity and success across our population. Opportunity has to be available across the whole […]
Supreme Court justice Brandeis was born in Louisville and had tremendous intellect and character. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Brandeis : Justice William O. Douglas later wrote, “Brandeis was a militant crusader for social justice whoever his opponent might be. He was dangerous not only because of his brilliance, his arithmetic, his courage. He was dangerous because he was […]
In February 2021 we had a polar vortex. In Kentucky we had 3 successive snow/ice storms in one week. In Hastings, Nebraska, it got down to -30 degrees F. But the real mayhem was in Texas: Kaeti’s neighbors left 2 small dogs on their back porch and went to Minnesota. It got down to 10 […]
Steve took a class from the Charter for Compassion called Our Shared Humanity in January 2021. The class author and teacher is Gudjon Bergmann, and there were about 20 people in the class. The course asked regular questions to which we responded. We could comment on each others’ thoughts. I think that this class has […]
Steve took a discovery flight from Nexgen aviation on 2/2/2021. Weather was 27 degrees, clear with winds 12 to 20 knots, which is the maximum allowed for training flights. The plane was a Diamond DA40, 4 seat light training plane with Lycoming motor. Michael the flight instructor let me fly the plane over Lexington for […]
The Passive Portfolio is meant to give good long-term returns with low effort. I wrote Steve’s Stock Trading Method that is geared for making short-term gains in stocks through value investing. It is labor-intensive and gives no consideration to asset allocation. Slow and steady wins the race Dollar-cost averaging is a technique investors use to […]
One of my favorite country songs from 2007 – a funny story Lyrics:I work down at the Pizza PitAnd I drive an old HyundaiI still live with my mom and dadI’m 5’3 and overweight I’m a sci-fi fanaticMild asthmaticNever been to 2nd baseBut there’s a whole another meThat you need to seeGo check out MySpace […]
This is a method of value investing. It isn’t day trading, where one seeks to make a profit on price movements in a single day. Studies show that less than 10% of day traders are successful. I’m comfortable holding shares as long as they represent a solid investment. Overview Make these investments with pods of […]