Buyouts Occur When the Price of the Stock is Low

Macy’s receives $5.8 Billion buyout offer as sales slump. Shares now $17 compared to $21 in 1997 https://t.co/2YSlbGqQhK

— ChiBarb (@Dogsrul94605547) December 11, 2023

Home prices are contracting sharply. These levels were only seen in 2 times: 1970 and 2008. Both ended in deep recessions

Home prices are contracting sharply

These levels were only seen in 2 times:

- 1970
- 2008

Both ended in deep recessions pic.twitter.com/LQgB5wTrYO

— Game of Trades (@GameofTrades_) December 6, 2023

16-foot truck, $3,152

 

16-foot truck.

Arcadia, CA to Westminster, CO, $3,152.  Wow!

Stock Markets

Year-by-year annual returns for the DOW.

Year-by-year annual return for the S&P 500.  The 500.

Year-by-year annual return for the Nasdaq.

Russell 2000.

Bloomberg Marketplace.

Yahoo Finance.

MarketWatch.  A comparison of the three.

The best performing stocks in the S&P 500 over the last 5, 10, 15, and 20 years... pic.twitter.com/KW8RPCOuKn

— Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) December 5, 2023

Tri-State: Nevada, Arizona, & California

Las Vegas, Nevada

Laughlin, Nevada

Parker, Arizona

Lake Havasu City, Arizona

Bullhead City, Arizona

Blythe, CA

Needles, CA

TAXES

ARIZONA

from Tax Foundation: 

Arizona has a flat 2.50 percent individual income tax. Arizona has a 4.90 percent corporate income tax rate, a 5.60 percent state sales tax rate, a max local sales tax rate of 5.30 percent, and a 8.37 percent combined state and local sales tax rate.

Progressive tax systems have tiered tax rates that charge higher-income individuals higher percentages of their income and offer the lowest rates to those with the lowest incomes. Flat tax plans generally assign one tax rate to all taxpayers. No one pays more or less than anyone else under a flat tax system.  

Land Century

https://www.landcentury.com/.

https://www.landcentury.com/houses-and-buildings/cheap-houses#google_vignette.

Differences Between Cost of Living and Standard of Living

Key Differences.com explains that,

Cost of living implies the general level of prices of the goods and services which a common man can afford, for his regular needs. Standard of living refers to the level of money and well-being, that people enjoy in a particular country. How expensive it is to survive in one place, in comparison to another.Apr 30, 2019

U.S. cities with the highest standard of living.

1. New York (Manhattan): 222

2. Honolulu: 179

3. San Francisco: 169.9New York (Brooklyn): 159.1

4. Orange County, California: 150.3

5. Los Angeles (Long Beach): 149.1

6. Washington, D.C.: 148.7

7. Boston: 148.4

8. Seattle: 144.5

9. San Diego: 142.5

10. Arlington, Virginia: 140.1

11. Oakland, California: 140

12. New York (Queens): 136.3

13. Bethesda-Gaithersburg-Frederick, Maryland.: 135.8

14. Nassau County, New York: 135.2.