Also noticed Trader Joe’s raised their organic potato prices by $1.

It's a fun time to be in Japanese Real Estate.

The 2007 mostly global crash, and the early 1990s Japanese crash.  

Starbucks and Trader Joes could mean .....?

@Gene Hacker The Dollar Milkshake theory is from Brent Johnson, a macro trader.

I've been really good about improving my Japanese, staying fit and healthy, doing cool / fun / interesting stuff, etc.

:mrgreen: I'm a day trader and a real estate investor.

I am not high-frequency trader type by nature, with "balanced" risk/performance views if to be characterized by wall street terms... my goal to be equal or above 8% yield (really want to say 10% :)) while learning notes, hopefully getting into riskier assets with time (NPN) and getting into 15-18% territory within 3-5 years. 

Investing requires that you use your money and hold, mortgage investing is not like stocks with day traders.

Jesse Livermore: World's Greatest Stock Trader It's not a how-to book, but fascinating and filled with lessons.I'll also second any book written by William O'neil