 relevant and vibrant and valid.
Heroin was the poison in the machine of alternative rock in the early ‘90’s. And while the music probably liberated millions of people, the drug took many others into really dark places. You are certainly one of the survivors. What was the secret to keeping the band together thru it all? I don’t know that there’s a secret. A lot of different things need to happen. First of all, you have to not die. As far as the band goes, when people burn that brightly and that intensely, it’s nearly impossible to maintain over a long period of time. How are you going to get along with two or three or four other people for years on end when everyone has an ego and an agenda? So rarely do people in bands just stop to say, “Hey, this is the best job on earth. How can I put my ego aside just enough to make this blend and be sustainable?” Then you also have outside forces and you have marriages and you have kids. I guess the secret is that I’m excited every day that I get to go to work. I get to rehears later on today, and I could just stay there for hours, playing with Flea and John [Frusciante] and Chad [Smith].
Of all the songs you’ve written and recorded, when you die, the one you’ll be remembered for is “Under the Bridge.” I never had a problem with that until the backlash of the late ‘90s.  At the time, a lot of people who were posturing to be hard were putting us down for “Under the Bridge,” and it game me pause to go, “Eh, I don’t know [about this song].” But after that passed, I realized it was one of the best songs we’ve ever written.
Next week subscribers to my recommendation service will get access to 'My Top 7 Stocks to Buy' report delivered fresh to their inboxes.
These are the stocks I have high hopes on to deliver great returns over the next 1-2 years. In fact, I expect majority of them to earn 50%-100% returns over that time.
Now this doesn't mean that they won't go down, especially when another big market correction comes knocking on the doors. In such a scenario, many of these stocks may fall 30%, 40% and even 50% for that matter.
'What kind of an analysis is this?', you may wonder.
Why even recommend any stocks when I'm not confident on how the returns will pan out over the next 1-2 years?
You see, it has been many years now I've made peace with the fact that investing is all about probabilities. There is no place for certainty in this endeavour.
In fact, let me tell you a story around why I'm recommending these 7 stocks even though I strongly expect, but I'm not 100% certain, these stocks will do well over the next 1-2 years.
So, it was March 2014.
I reached my office, and as I usually do, picked up a load of magazines and newspapers to gauge the market sentiment, before I got down to crunching the numbers.
Now, I can't blame them for putting up such a gloomy picture.
After all, it was certainly the worst Lok Sabha session in Indian history where they worked the least and spent the most money.
The stock market wasn't any different. It had been almost stagnant for 3 years since the highs of December 2010.
And on top of it, there were elections right around the corner, adding to the market uncertainty.
However, even as the world was gloomy, scared, and even pessimistic, I saw an opportunity...
I went to my desk to double-check the number and yes, the market was definitely cheap.
Sensex was trading below its long-term average P/E...
There was fear and uncertainty in the market...
And the smallcap index, the one I'm most interested in, had never actually recovered from the blow it received during the 2008 crisis.
So, against the market sentiments, and based on my stock-picking system, I recommended my subscribers to consider taking MAXIMUM exposure to stocks.
The index returned 43% over the following 12 months and many individual stocks went up significantly more.
Four stocks I recommended generated 170%, 150%, 170%, and even 545% in just 12 months.
In fact, out of the 18 stocks I recommended that year, 14 were closed in the positive with an average gain of 85% and an average holding period of 16 months.
I would be lying if I said I was 100% certain these stocks would end up doing well over the next year or two. I was certainly not. But I felt that the probability is on the higher side and hence, took the chance.
Truth be told, in my more than 8 years of running this service, I have never been 100% certain even once and yet, it has notched up market beating performance.
The last time I checked the performance, the service was up 4.5x since inception vis-a-vis the Sensex, which was up only 2.6x during the same time period.
That's a significant outperformance whichever way you look at it and that too, by using a probabilistic approach to investing.
You see, the service doesn't believe in staying 100% invested in stocks all the time as a lot of gurus might have you believe.
Even when the markets have crashed and have hit rock bottom, the service will always insist on being at least 25% in cash at all the times.
Likewise, even if the market has reached an all-time high and is looking significantly overvalued, you are not allowed to move completely out of stocks. You need to have at least 25% exposure to stocks at all times.
This strategy is about being aggressive and yet not being 100% confident or certain. And this is exactly how it should be in my view.
One should position oneself to take advantage of the stock market's swings between fear and greed and still, not be arrogant enough to bet everything on one outcome.
The downside of betting everything on one outcome is that your rewards are going to be big in case you are right. However, you may lose big time if you turn out to be wrong.
My approach on the other hand believes in ensuring survival first and only then targeting the rewards or the upside.
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1 Responses to "Why I'm Recommending 7 Stocks in this Market"<issue_start><issue_comment>Title: Broken link: manpage of caffeinate
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For reference, it’s this.<issue_closed>WAS THE DEFAMATION LAWSUIT ONLY A PUBLICITY STUNT?
Back in March 2021, through a story first reported by the NJ Globe and then immediately picked up by The Lakewood Scoop, the Lakewood community was shocked to learn that an Asbury Park Press (APP) reporter regretfully used a highly inappropriate caption under a photo of a nurse at CHEMED.
The photo was taken a month earlier during Governor Phil Murphy's visit to the COVID vaccination clinic at CHEMED.
Senator Vin Gopal was first to blast the incident. Rep. Christopher Smith, Assembly Human Services Committee Chair Joann Downey, and Senator Robert Singer published statements denouncing the offensive caption. Governor Murphy's press secretary, Alyana Alfaro also tweeted about it. Governor Murphy blasted the story during his COVID press conference the next day.
The incident was also blasted by Scott Richman, the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for New York and New Jersey.
The reporter was almost immediately fired by the APP.
Over the course of a mere few days, The Lakewood Scoop continued to keep the issue front and center with numerous "breaking news" articles on the story, including quoting the statements from the elected officials, and that, in response to the story, the reporter was fired, and the Township of Lakewood and the Lakewood Board of Education had cancelled their legal advertising contracts with the APP.
One year later in March 2022, the frum nurse filed a defamation lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit filed in Ocean County Superior Court, the nurse was employed as a Pediatric Floor Nurse since December 2018, and she was highly and respected for her response during the COVID pandemic. In February 2021 she was advised that she was being considered for a leadership position in CHEMED. On March 10, 2021 she met with the CHEMED administration to discuss her transition to a leadership position. 11 days later the fateful photo was published to the APP website. Subsequently, on April 8, 2021 the nurse was informed that she "was no longer being considered for the leadership position, in part, due to the APP posting".
The lawsuit names as defendants the reporter, his editor, APP and its parent company, and is suing for defamation and tortious interference with her prospective economic advantage.
The lawsuit does not name CHEMED.
The Lakewood Scoop was the first to report on the filing of the lawsuit, topped off with the caption "Lakewood woman targeted in APP racist photo sues paper".
One very small issue was that, the defendants were never actually served with the complaint.
In the legal