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If I ever go out of business as a blogger, or go into business as a blogger, that will be my bane:  finishing stories.  RE the one below, I realized I am disappointed in her because I think she can do better.  I also realized disappointment is where my involvement ends.  I sure was hoping you were farther along with the moving-on process but that sounds more like changing someone than any other type of involvement.

First a correction:  no, you and I couldn’t get close and I certainly wasn’t a third husband.

Anyway, I stopped with the last email.  I didn’t read Walt’s end or contact anyone further.  And I never, ever checked blog stats to see who is reading what may be below.

Yes, it is “you” and it is written in the second person.  It is weird to see some of the things written in third person referring to “her.”  It was only because other methods failed.

This guy has a lot of problems.

http://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue2/1996/11/09/148749-broke-triano-kept-optimistic/

The car that was bombed and he died in wasn’t his, it was his construction executive partner’s.  Hickey declared bankruptcy four years before Triano.  Gary Triano sold the car to Hickey for $8000.

Someone on the internet wrote that she had tried to sell the story for a movie shortly before her arrest.  The book isn’t very good and it is not clear where she gets some of the wild, fictionalized scenes.

Triano’s is a story about a ponzi scheme until the end.  He had never been in jail and there was nothing suggesting he was close.  They were just civil judgments and debts, mostly to individuals.

The divorce was about money-grabbing but it was a situation so awful getting out was something anyone would do.  He managed to avoid formal bankruptcy for years all the while refusing to acknowledge it or change his lifestyle.  He had no real job–he didn’t create or build anything–or source of income.  Again, it was a matter of these people, the investors, who did business with him.  Obviously it was ludicrous to think that that wouldn’t dry up.

Like Bernie Madoff and the rest his life must have been lies, stress, and even violence.

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Jo Ann: [to Nick] Mr. McKussic, it seems, has been engaged in his business for purely romantic reasons, whilst you have been engaged in romance for purely business reasons.

That was easy.  You can find anything on the internet.

I listened and I heard, music in a word.

We’ll change the subject and talk about…  Bre-X.  The movie isn’t very good I’ve already avoided enough drunk, sloppy, loner Mathew McConaughey movies.  It’s not really about a mining swindle, it is about a stock scam.  David Walsh wasn’t a miner, he was a stock broker.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10602854930248621198&q=trina+wolf&hl=en&as_sdt=4,206

They say criminals want to be caught.  No.  It is more like they cannot connect the dots.  They cannot see the bigger picture.  It is too much a part of them.  It is bound to come out.

I don’t know what fake news is because nobody has to believe anything.  This is real, but is a summary so concise there has to be more to it.  It flows so logically, and it is so well-written, that you have to believe it.

There are different perspectives and individuals, some right, some wrong, and all human.  But do you really want it to come to that?  Filed forever:  four hours supervised custody every two weeks.

There’s another document and a different database that I will read too.  It is the heretofore losing perspective.

I wanted to check the dates.  January, 2014.  My time began in 2015 at the time another unmentioned life-changing event occurred.

Ten stitches and the abuse I have never been able to figure out, but she had full custody in the beginning because of it.  Then there’s the incident concisely summarized and “men’s rights” took over.  Over the course custody went from half to one third to this.  To me it seemed like there were plenty of opportunities for a be-there, compromising, loving parent that may not have been taken.

Bribes.  Conspiracies.  MLB in South Dakota.  Brainwashing.  The Bozeman Symphony.  And there was more scorn than I’d ever heard:  “I built that house,” $2,000 a month, prenuptial, and having to buy into the business.

Want to get caught?  No, just history repeating itself.  Remember Holly Howard Wolf?  It is a perch and a lifestyle that is hard to “divorce” yourself from.

There are two things I heard over and over:  1) It is because I left him and 2) I only have a two-year degree.  How those play in, or what they mean, I don’t know.  Pardon me, there are three things.  He is rich and powerful.  That one you can see a little bit.

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Just an update until some things are finished.  If you look for them there are many, bios about people who will grow old with very little savings.  The recent Wapo post put it bluntly and cruelly:  it will widen the divide between those who do and those who don’t, or those with or without.

The stock market is a way to keep in touch with things from North Korea to healthcare.  It is, when it falls, it will really put Trump behind the 8-ball.

For months now really smart and experienced people have been saying the U.S. stock market, with all its value and influence, is an overvalued bubble.  It is on a par with the worst recessions or depressions in history.  Then, over the past quarter or half a year, it went up farther.  There hasn’t been a meaningful correction in something like two years.

By valuations I mean, are these companies worth this much?  For the most part they’re the same companies from five, even ten years, ago.  Earnings and the economy are strong, but are they really worth two or three (or more) times what they were a few years ago?

For me, five, six, seven years of 17% returns, then 27% over the past year, is not sustainable.  It is also “wealth creatable.”  It is more than just savings.

“This is what we have been waiting for” one of the many, in the news analysts said maybe 6 or 9 months ago.  Specifically, the man was referring to low interest rates, strong profits, low inflation, and strong growth.  That is true.

It is not sustainable.  There are (at least) to components to stock pricing, 1) underlying fundamentals (profits, economy, etc.) and 2) market sentiment.  Right now they are both sky-high.

Trump is the least popular president in history.  He represents a lifestyle most people cannot relate to.  He is not going to change.  The next three years, beginning with the mid-term elections, may have a lot to do with his replacement.  Recently, lower corporate taxes, is perhaps his final–or just another–bubble.

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I am going to stupid you into submission.  I wonder if that phrase will catch on.

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Who’s been telling you about perfection.

And how did he get in here?

That’s the question.

Coffee meets bagel.  That is a terrible name.

Recent lessons?  Beware of anyone who sends PDFs, or even a lot of attachments.  Communicating through email subjects is strange too.