In other news (apolitical thread)...

[bayareabadger]

Need more granular

[847badgerfan]

In my experiences, I'd say Spain is about 50-50 beer wine.

[Cincydawg]

We chatted about this a while back,  this office building is being converted to residential in ATL.  It seems to be slow going, probably for a number of reasons, but ostensibly it is going to happen.  I still wonder if this is really viable broadly, but hopefully it is.

[FearlessF]

any chance it will be affordable?

what would be affordable in that area?
$1000/month for one bedroom?
$1250/month for two bedrooms?

[Cincydawg]

It ostensibly is to be "affordable housing".  The Georgia Pacific building is "slated" to do the same, conversion to apartments, in part.  Both are smack downtown.  I'm a bit dubious but wish them well.  As for rents, your guess is as good as mine.

A two bedroom around us will easily get $3,000 a month in a new building, but this area is far more desirable as a place to live than downtown.

[FearlessF]

I've wondered about a place in downtown Lincoln that is walkable from many bars, restaurants, other shops like you describe your area.
I checked prices and $1250/month for one bedroom is available.
Not what I'd call affordable for most in Nebraska.  But, perhaps in Atlanta it would be.

[Cincydawg]

It always depends on location.

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There are still a number of older houses near us that have been subdivided into apartments that are pretty cheap.  I figure the houses are not too long for this world because they are on prime property.

[Cincydawg]

The riskiest way to trade hottest tech stocks is not well understood

Over the last few years, a new class of big-cap stocks have stolen the attention of investors and day-traders. Nvidia, Tesla and Palantir often lead the market’s daily trading volume. Exchange-traded funds that give investors the opportunity to double, or even triple, bets on these stocks have also grown into a larger share of the market. In 2016, leveraged and inverse ETFs were 2% of the ETF market. Now, they represent almost 8% of ETF assets, and like the hot tech stocks they track, they are often among the most traded ETFs, placing in the top 20, sometimes even top 10, in daily trading dollar volume.

With three-quarters of the trading action in these ETFs coming from retail investors, investing experts worry about the risks not being understood well enough. “You get explosive upside but also explosive downside,” as index fund legend Charley Ellis recently put it during an appearance on CNBC’s “ETF Edge.”

[FearlessF]

like the craps table

[Cincydawg]

If I were into it, I'd play the options game rather than leveraged ETFs.  But, it is guesswork and craps.

[Gigem]

The riskiest way to trade hottest tech stocks is not well understood

Over the last few years, a new class of big-cap stocks have stolen the attention of investors and day-traders. Nvidia, Tesla and Palantir often lead the market’s daily trading volume. Exchange-traded funds that give investors the opportunity to double, or even triple, bets on these stocks have also grown into a larger share of the market. In 2016, leveraged and inverse ETFs were 2% of the ETF market. Now, they represent almost 8% of ETF assets, and like the hot tech stocks they track, they are often among the most traded ETFs, placing in the top 20, sometimes even top 10, in daily trading dollar volume.

With three-quarters of the trading action in these ETFs coming from retail investors, investing experts worry about the risks not being understood well enough. “You get explosive upside but also explosive downside,” as index fund legend Charley Ellis recently put it during an appearance on CNBC’s “ETF Edge.”

I don't even know what Palantir is/does or whatever.  I never even heard of them until maybe the last year or so.  And without looking them up, do you know what they are?  

[MikeDeTiger]

Scotland is wine and not beer?  I don't believe it.  

[Cincydawg]

I know a bit about Palantir, not nearly enough to invest in them directly.

[FearlessF]

I don't know nearly enough about any company to invest in them directly

not even the company I work for