Dow continues to hike, for some strange reason that's beyond me.
It's stupid of me to even trade ETF, since any short term captal grain will result in 40% tax. It's like lose is on me, win is for the government.
Rather than betting my savings to feed Uncle Sam, I went to enjoy Roman art in another SAM, Seattle Art Museum, after having happy hours in Brasa.
From a historic point view, we are enjoying a material life that even Roman Emperors can't even imagine, thanks to industrialization. At the same time, the government and social structure deteriorated. Modern democracy is modeling Roman Empire in many ways: senator, congress, candidates, citizen, tax system, even immigration (free people of foreign nationality will sell themselves as Roman slaves in hope to one day be converted to Roman citizen. How similar is that to immigrates in US!)
Looking at the residue of the Roman empire, listening to US politicians comments in the audio guide, I can't help wondering, just when they mesmerize at the minor announcement of Emperor Nero becoming historic item after 2000 years, how do they know that their trivial comments wouldn't be put into the history in 4023 AD with a side-note "some US senator commented on Emperor Nero at the dawn of Empire US"?
Thank God, commodities rebound today!
ReplyDeleteCould have made more profit if I delay my buy-in by a day.
That teaches me to always be humble.