Chris Hardisty

Iowan. Recovering resident of the DC area. Interests: Foolish investing, personal finance, travel, WWII history, strategy games, space, Iowa State athletics.

[Chris Hardisty @chardisty]

Iowa is still Iowa sometimes.

[Brandon Stromer @BrandonStromer]

Shout out to the stranger who found my wallet in the Target parking lot this morning and drove to my house to return it. 👍 #GoodPeople

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan pays tribute to the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, recalling her 2010 confirmation hearing.

"Many people have talked about how funny Sen. Graham was ... but what I remember about that hearing was that somehow Sen. Graham made me look funny, which is a harder thing entirely," she said.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Self-driving cars kill jobs! So say politicians.

But new tech also CREATES jobs.

"There was opposition to every transportation technology that came along throughout history," explains @AdamThierer of @RSI.

"This is going to be a great helper to humanity."

[Chris Hardisty @chardisty]

@altcap @DrOz Mine was only $100. Thanks to you and the @theallinpod gang for making me aware of it. Peace of mind, in my case... Thank goodness.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

A US warship in the middle of a Chinese desert? Some things have to be seen to be believed and @willripleyCNN shows just that in his new report:

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

Idea: mandatory political retirement age at whatever the U.S. life expectancy is.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Ironically, being smart enough to realize this and wise enough to take it into account is a sign he would make a good president.

[3 Beards Media @3BeardsMedia]

Coach Walden was a natural on the air — sharp, lively, funny, and always respectful. Never tried to trip up coaches like Kirk Ferentz or Dan McCarney, even in tough times. He had real integrity and made every interview better. A broadcasting legend too. 💛
Full tribute in bio.
#JimWalden #GoState #ISU #Cyclones (214 characters)

[Chris Hassel @Hassel_Chris]

I thought about saying this is unbelievable but it’s absolutely 100% believable.

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

President Bush's message on America 250.

"One of the things about the 250th is the fact that you can worship freely without the government telling you how to worship, speak in a public square without being jailed, a press that's willing to hold the powerful to account.

If you don't like what's going on, vote. Be a citizen not a spectator. Participate in the process."

[Chris Hassel @Hassel_Chris]

We are back with a live show Sunday night at 6p CT — Happy 4th!!! 🇺🇸

[Brian Feroldi @BrianFeroldi]

How Investors Make Money 💰

Two primary ways:

[Brian Feroldi @BrianFeroldi]

The Intelligent Investor

Visual summary by @MnkeDaniel

[Brian Feroldi @BrianFeroldi]

Peter Lynch in a nutshell

Visual summary by @MnkeDaniel

[Brian Feroldi @BrianFeroldi]

What I was taught:
✍️Get good grades
🏢Get a safe job
💵Earn a good salary
🪜Climb the corporate ladder

What I’m teaching my kids:
📈Invest, invest, invest
👥Network with successful people
📚Never stop learning
🧠Think like an entrepreneur

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.

And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.

One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.

Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.

If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.

Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.

Alternatively

There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.

To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.

It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)

Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.

Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up

But

They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks

Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

CNN aired a montage of Trump’s past claims that the U.S. was on the cusp of a deal with Iran, with Anderson Cooper noting that today’s announcement marks the 39th time he’s made a similar claim.

[Szymanski @Szymansk_ii]

Next time you think of giving up, remember this photo of Elon in 2008.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Being an American isn't about your ancestry or ethnicity.

It's about fidelity to the meaning of this country - its revolutionary, threefold promise of political equality, economic opportunity, and personal liberty.

[Mike Murphy @murphymike]

So dishonest. Unconditional surrender was the clear and deliberately stated objective of the Allies in WW2, announced by FDR at Casablanca in 1943!

[Mark Schipper - 5th Down CFB @5thDownCFB]

Fact: Iowa DL Noah Shannon placed ONE $10 bet on an Iowa women's BB game, admitted it, and was suspended for the season by the NCAA. Iowa accepted the penalty

Fact: ISU QB Hunter Dekkers placed 366 bets for a grand total of $2,800; one on an ISU FB game. He was suspended for the season, criminally charged, & ISU accepted the penalty

Fact: Texas Tech is going above and beyond to reinstate a player who should be sitting out this season