Aaron Murdock

@trentjhughes Interesting, I think there is a desire to disconnect from your screen. Key is the events.

Local club business idea: Singles social club in your city $99 a month Curated events Dinners Hiking trips Holiday parties 200 members $19,800 a month Dating apps are broken People want real life connection Nobody is building this locally...

@ianlopuch I sold puts, frequent customer, as housing turnover increases they will benefit. Also a lot of people will need to make energy efficient upgrades with rising electric rates.

The Home Depot ($HD) is a long-time favorite of mine. Their stock has been under pressure, reaching a new 52-week low today. 📉 Anyone buying $HD stock yet? (Disc: I’m long $HD. Not investment advice.)

@Kristinartz 4-10s is a better schedule for a lot of white color jobs, it allows longer blocks of time to actually get stuff done and reduces burnout. 9 days every two weeks could work better as well.

Work weeks should be 4 days, not 5. People deserve balance, not burnout. Agree or disagree?

@askslim Facts... Problem is no one rings a bell at the top.

I started trading in May 1974 on the CBOE. In those 52 years, I’ve navigated exactly 10 major bull markets and 10 major bear markets. Every single time, the investor sentiment does a perfect 180: 1. "I wish I had bought them" at unbelievable highs. 2. "I wish I had sold them" at shocking lows. Right now, the air is thick with the first one. Without fail, many of the same people are still on board when the train pulls into Panic Central. Phase 21 is coming; it always does. 📉📈 #Trading #MarketCycle #Investing

@SidKhurana3607 And I would say that houses would have to be built after about 1970 to be considered at all modern or made for today's lifestyles. Also a ton of those houses in the NE have heating oil & could have septic systems or wells or both... All potentially outdated equipment.

Top large cities (min. 100k) by % of housing units built before 1939: Buffalo, NY (61%) St. Louis, MO (58%) Providence, RI (55%) Rochester, NY (54%) New Bedford, MA (52%) Cleveland, OH (49%) Pittsburgh, PA (48%) Cambridge, MA (47%) Boston, MA (47%) Berkeley, CA (46%)

@shawngorham Do it!

talk me out of it - 1991 - diesel

@GrindeOptions Tulip bulbs 😆

What was life truly like back in the day when the stock market didn’t even exist?

@jwhittenbergK5 Facts... Wish he was more involved in governor

Here's the full Howard Schultz op-ed to avoid the paywall.. Seattle Turns Hostile to the Great Businesses It Made Starbucks is moving jobs from Washington state to Tennessee, and it isn’t alone in looking elsewhere. Washington state has been my home for more than four decades. I arrived in Seattle with dreams and ambition and ended up building Starbucks into a company known around the world. Many Pacific Northwesterners joined me in shaping the culture, benefits and brand of Starbucks—contributing not only to a business, but also the civic and entrepreneurial life of the area. I am no longer a resident of Washington. My decision to leave had much to do with family choices and my stage of life. Still, I feel a responsibility to speak up about the business and job climate in a city and state that gave me so many opportunities. Washington’s economic story over the past half century is extraordinary. Microsoft, Amazon, Costco and a host of other new companies transformed the state into a global center of technology, innovation and logistics. Entrepreneurs exported ideas worldwide. Capital flowed. Wages rose. Imported and homegrown talent flourished. That ecosystem worked because risk‑taking was rewarded, growth was possible, and civic leadership—while imperfect—understood that private enterprise wasn’t the adversary of the public good. It was one engine for improving the public sphere. That ecosystem is fractured today. Seattle and much of Washington face serious problems: chronic homelessness, disorder in core business districts, persistent budget deficits, declining public-school outcomes and a slowing technology hiring cycle. These challenges aren’t unique to the state—but Washington’s response to them is. Seattle’s mayor, Katie Wilson, has chosen to cast business as a foil rather than a partner. Her socialist rhetoric vilifies employers, even while she continues to rely on them for revenue. She has encouraged residents who disagree with her policies to leave. In the state capital, the Legislature and governor have confronted difficult fiscal trade-offs by emphasizing taxation rather than reform or performance management. The theory appears to be that prosperity can be mandated through redistribution rather than generated through growth. Washington has a broken tax system. The reliance on sales taxes—10.55% in Seattle—is deeply regressive. The state needs to rewrite its tax code across the board in a way that ensures people and businesses alike pay their share. But instead of reform, those in power have opted to increase the burden on businesses and successful entrepreneurs in ways that discourage them from growing within the state—at a moment when Washington’s economic situation is growing more fragile. Microsoft and Amazon—once hiring engines—have slowed recruitment and reduced head counts as they race to build data-center capacity and compete globally. Starbucks recently announced it will shift hundreds of corporate roles to Tennessee. These companies imported global talent at scale for decades, anchoring an interconnected system of suppliers and startups. As those businesses reduce their local role, Seattle has no clear answer to the question of what will provide the next set of jobs and revenue growth. Cities and states don’t decline overnight. They drift when public safety, fiscal stability and economic vitality deteriorate together. Downtown vacancies reduce foot traffic. Declining foot traffic weakens small businesses. Employment falls. Revenue shrinks. Services erode. Confidence—something that’s hard to build and easy to lose—begins to evaporate. Entrepreneurs are accustomed to accountability: If we fail to deliver value, we lose customers. If we misallocate capital, we absorb the loss. Government, too, should be judged by results, not intentions. In Washington, steadily increasing government spending hasn’t delivered commensurate results on a range of issues, from addressing homelessness and drug addiction to poor prospects for new high-school graduates. Entrepreneurs take risks others won’t. We build before certainty exists. We hire before revenue is guaranteed. We invest locally, pay taxes and support civic institutions. When our companies succeed, entire regions benefit. America can’t afford to forget that. Leaving doesn’t mean abandoning. My family foundation remains invested in Washington’s future, seeking to help the next generation achieve economic mobility and prosperity. But that future is linked to economic growth and job creation. Across the country, other states are competing for capital and talent by simplifying regulation, reforming tax systems and investing in workforce development. One important initiative comes from the bipartisan National Governors Association, helping states craft pro-entrepreneurship policies. I hope Washington’s leaders will embrace these policies and forge a new compact—one grounded in job creation, sensible taxation and accountable public spending. Washington once embodied the future of the U.S. economy, and it can again. But the current government needs to learn that future entrepreneurs won’t be attracted by ineffective public systems, especially when joined with policy and political rhetoric that demonize businesses. Mr. Schultz is a former CEO and chairman emeritus of Starbucks.

@SelfMadeMastery It has been weak for two years, waiting to see some kind of bottom first.

$ELF hit a new 52 week low today. Anyone in this name? Are you thinking of adding here?

@womenoptionswin Nice, ready for $ASTS to get some love.

This $AMD position is easing the pain of ASTS dropping- sort of.

@askjussi 👍

Rayonier looks like a missed opportunity to me. The market is focused on short term housing and economic concerns, but the stock trades at a large discount to NAV even as timberland still benefits from housing undersupply, aging housing stock, and land conversion upside. $RYN

@marcuslemonis Yes!

Will you come work with me?

@GrindeOptions $SOFI

If I could only invest in one stock for the next 5+ years, I’d pick $SOFI and $TSLA.

@GrindeOptions I need more

How many of you have at least 2+ income streams? 🤔

@GrindeOptions Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Be honest, how many times per day do you think about retiring early? 👀

@Codie_Sanchez With the number of car washes now in my town I should be looking at car painting businesses... No way you can wash your car ten times a day and have any paint left. But otherwise I agree, however expanding technology to these businesses is a huge opportunity.

Every time Anthropic ships something new I get more bullish on owning the car wash, the porta-potty business, the waste management company. The assets AI can't eat are the ones where someone has to show up, roll up their sleeves, and do something with their hands.

@marcuslemonis Love it!

Going to be a great week.

@mistressdivy Speaking the truth

Costco should have an Awareness of My Surroundings test before approving memberships

@unusual_whales It is hard to explain to an AI every aspect of a company and how this one task or assignment fits into that. It gets better with time, but culture, values and goals are unique to each organization and take time to learn. Add that with employees giving AI 1 sentence prompts.

AI use in offices is reportedly producing “workslop” that is taking more time to fix than to create from scratch, per BetterUp Labs

@mistressdivy Best ones to look at? Goals of career growth or improving investing.

FYI - Harvard has 142 free courses you can enroll in online right now. Wide range of topics. Most are 4-6 weeks, self-paced. And at the end you can pay ~$150 to get a verified certificate that looks great on your resume or LinkedIn. 😉