Gil, please rest assured that I'd be very interested as well, if I had sufficient free funds. But with my minor investments down about 25% and my paltry fixed income sure to be impacted to the down side, while whatever is left will most certainly suffer from the staggering inflation that this unprecedented relief package, and all its cumulative add ons and riders, must cause. There is simply no practical way I could consider springing for anything at this juncture .... even such treasures as you are currently offering! Heck, two months ago, I was actually speaking with my financial advisor about starting to take some disbursements, to augment my meager fixed income, thinking that I'm at an age where it would make sense to start drawing on the trifles I'd managed to put away, and thus have a bit more funds with which to play. Now, two months hence, I'm actually wondering if I should be considering going back to work, if I could even find a job, as that market is going to be plenty tough going forward from here.
I could write this same message to Mr. Tom, in regards to his "unique" Jensen 50, that I'd be delighted to make my own .... under different circumstances.
But that day may never come for me again!
It has taken 12 years to get back even to this reduced level, from the 2009 bust, where I lost some significant "hern" to the Lehman Bros, and up to this point my other dividend investments had only recovered to about 1/4 their pre-09 payout. I'm sure this will give them all the excuse to retreat back to a penny a share for the next several years at least, and I rather doubt I'll live long enough to get back, even to the reduced level I was at, before this health and economic pandemic hit!!!
Sorry for posting such a downer, but this is the reality we seem to be looking at going forward .... or so I think!
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