My nephew took this picture of a couple scorpions performing ‘Cirque du Soleil’ from the light fixtures the other day: I love the old scorpion tale. It is playing out in Washington right now and the Scorpion is Trump and the ‘con’ is the ‘sting’. As the calendar turns to June I wanted to dive …

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An upfront disclosure – Social Leverage (our fund) is the first check/angel investor in Civic.com. We outlined the thesis and our investment back in January 2016. Ok onward to the exciting and risky bleeding edge… Today I am diving into our portfolio company Civic.com. Their vision is to create a truly decentralized identity ecosystem. To …

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I like to keep track of awesome stock market quotes and truisms about the stock market. I created a #markettruths hashtag on Stocktwits if you want to check in once in a while. A couple that recently made the list are that ‘statistics provided rather bloodless answers’ and ‘losers average losers. I got the first …

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For all the talk of ETF’s …the right individual stocks sure have been working well. I asked Ivan to share this week’s market update from our paid service so here it is. Ivan titled it the relentless market of stocks. What has worked in 2017? So far 2017 has been the year of large caps …

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This got my head spinning today (from Balaji): I totally agree with Balaji (and invested a lot of our fund capital in this theme) that millions of new people will become amateur investors. I can also hear the snark from the Wall Street Journal. So what’s a ‘token’? I’m getting asked about tokens by a …

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Other than the airlines and Verizon, Best Buy is my least favorite brand.  I spent tens of thousands of dollars at the stores in my 20’s. They owned me.  Once I started to make a few dollars and paid off my bait and switch Best Buy credit line, I swore them off.  This week the …

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Picasso said this: ‘Without great solitude no serious work is possible’ (thanks Sean) If I only had the time! I have been struggling of late. Part low energy Jeb Bush and Angry Donald Trump. Not a good combo for being the best Howie. Ellen is basically running the Lindzon household, Rachel and Max are low …

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I’m banging out today’s blog post from my iPhone which sums up why the Nasdaq keeps hitting new highs.  The index of global stocks is also at all-time highs today: It’s so easy right now that millennials can use a fidget spinner to pick stocks and beat the market: Bitcoins are changing hands at $2500 …

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Today our son Max graduated from High School.  Max loves everything about school other than the school part.  This year it was a lot less golf and a lot more school. We are proud of him. Now get out of my house. 

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Here is my latest and best explanations: It really is how I feel right now as I study and experiment in the world of ICO’s, cryptocurrencies and blockchains. A couple links to get you started on all this if it interests you… ICO explained The Blockchain.

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