Bitcoin will soon End Investing | The NEW 60/40 Rule for all Investors (Part -III)

Which means the more acceptable it becomes and that just continues

bitcoin is definitely going to benefit from a network effect of growing

adoption across multiple industries and as it begins to solidify as an

alternative asset class its value should begin to stabilize and that has a chance 

to benefit those who use this as a store of value but unfortunately

the downside to all of this is that pretty soon tech stocks could be influenced by the price of bitcoin

because that's how these companies are now keeping their reserves

for example analysts now say that the price of tesla stock is tied to the

value of bitcoin so if bitcoin goes down and tesla owns bitcoin then tesla could

actually go down because of that the same could also be said about any other

company that holds its reserves in bitcoin and really as more companies in the s p

500 begin placing their reserves in bitcoin you'll probably have some exposure to bitcoin

inadvertently because of that whether you like it or not so given all of this and the potential

end to the 6040 portfolio here are my own thoughts and where we could go from here.

When it comes to creating a portfolio that allows you to one day retire and

live fully off your investments i agree there's actually room for

bitcoin as bond yields have just gotten lower and lower over time

it's made them considerably less appealing to invest in

my overall thinking though is this if you're within five to ten years of 

retirement it's not a horrible idea to keep some of your money in bonds

really just as a way to keep more money on hand in case the market goes down and

you need something to fall back on but if you're 20 years or more away

from retirement and you're looking to grow your money

as efficiently as possible then i do agree that bitcoin is a place in your

portfolio alongside stocks that's because when you're y oung you

have enough time to recover from any sort of market crash that you don't

necessarily have when you're older so you may as well use that to your

advantage now now as for myself i currently have about two percent of my

net worth held in bitcoin and i'm looking to probably bring that up closer

to five percent by the end of the year i see a lot of potential in holding this

just as a hedge against the us dollar and also with the expectation.

The Lion King- Movie Review (Part IV) and Last

The Lion King- Part IV and Last

If you're going to make a shot-for-shot remake why cut out that

like if you've already committed to doing every single thing including the

way the shots move and when they cut that the original film did why would you

cut out like one of the most important character moments Disney gets quite a

bit of hate online because they own so many different properties now and their

hands are in a lot of different thing and so a lot of people are expressing

themselves and sometimes they make good films but in the case of these

live-action remakes in particular they're starting to get very stale this

movie has none of the vitality of the  original story very little of the energy

and the emotion and humor seems to be stripped away in favor of a bland

retelling of a story that we all know and love but still you've got to hand it

to the people behind the scenes making this film the technical artists the

people behind the visual effects because it is stunning and it is potentially

game-changing in that way for what you can do with digital characters it's just

that it was in service of a copy and paste movie I'm gonna give the Lion King

a seat I think Disney has tapped into something here I think they know exactly

what they're doing and they are going to make so much money with this

movie because nostalgia nostalgia sells and people will go and see a movie where

they know exactly what's going to happen because they already loved that movie

and they will look at another movie just to see how that movie looks I don't know

what's happening but for some reason that was really funny to me so yeah like

if you want to put a blu-ray quote for this movie The Lion King 2019 was the

Lion King anyway guys thank you so much as always for watching look forward

 to a review of the HBO series Chernobyl I'm almost done

with it a lot of people have been asking me to watch it I will have that to you

by this weekend as well as Krall and I'm planning on seeing Stuber but that's

just a lot of stuff to do in like three days so I will try to get as much of

that out this weekend as possible thank you guys so much as always for reading

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Bitcoin will soon End Investing | The NEW 60/40 Rule for all Investors (Part -II)

As more money has entered the economy and that i believe is really eroding at

people's faith that the dollar they have today is always going to be worth a dollar now

if that sounds like i'm exaggerating here here's a chart that you should look

at as you can see throughout history we've always had a consistent increase in our

money supply as the population grows the gdp increases and we take on a

little bit more debt but in 2020 that changed entirely there's no shortage of 

 articles out there pointing out that one-fifth of all of our money ever printed was in 2020. 

Because of that people are looking for other places to put their money and

bitcoin has been perfectly positioned to fit into that spot now third bitcoin is also being called

an uncorrelated asset meaning it's not easily influenced by other investments

like stocks or real estate or bonds by being completely independent

from everything else it allows for a lot more diversification in a borderless

 space with a lot more opportunity and fourth i believe

in absence of other safe haven spots to put your money combined with a big push

of mainstream popularity bitcoin has just started to become the recent go-to

investment i definitely believe there's a safety in numbers here where the more institutions

buy bitcoin the more acceptable it becomes which

means the more institutions buy bitcoin.

The Lion King - Movie Review (Part III)

 Part III The Lion King

This is nothing like the original bobble so that's again I circle back to what's

the point it's unnecessary it should never have been done Lion King is a

classic a movie like The Jungle Book you can do a remake of that there's already

been tons of jungle book movies The Little Mermaid I could see that too to

be honest The Lion King though like that's that's top tier Disney there's no point to it

and I feel like Disney just thought well we're doing the live-action stuff now so

we have to do the Lion King right I mean we have to do you really have to Bob yes

Jeff yes another issue that presents itself when you have these characters

look like photorealistic lions is that they are not showing the level of

emotion that the facial expressions show in the original animation and you can

tell there was an attempt to make it look as real as possible so during the

Stampede sequence and Simba sees what he sees and he screams no it just looks

like a lion just opening his mouth and and there's commotion there there are

fight sequences as you may expect between characters and they just look

like lions fighting about halfway through the movie I realized they

were going to change basically nothing and it would be a shot-for-shot remake

and so I just found myself watching each scene thinking how will they do this oh

they did it just like the other one except without the personality and it

just felt kind of shameless you know like I I tend to give studios and people

the benefit of the doubt I do I might be a little naive in the case of this movie

I would like to think that they thought well we can make a new version of The

Lion King and people will like it and young kids who've never seen the

original will like it which is probably true I mean I came close to hating the

live-action Aladdin but people apparently liked that movie so what the

hell do I know Aladdin but the cynic in me wants to say this is

a cash grab because the movie has no soul it just feels like control-c

control-v there's your new Lion King in regards to Timon and Pumbaa they have

obviously retained a lot of their humor they didn't do too much to those

characters in regards to stripping that humor from them but they've done it with

just about every other character all of the subtleties and the nuances that were

in the performances and in the characters in the script and the

original film seemed to have been stripped away here especially with Rafiki

Rafiki was always my favorite character in the original film I've loved Rafiki forever

and they removed so much of his humor no longer do we have this great moment

oh geez what was that for it doesn't matter each in deposit how do you cut out like

one of the most important character building moments in the Lion King like I

get that you want to do something new which is what I'm asking so now I'm

complaining about something that did that was new even though they just cut

something out but I'm putting myself in the headspace of the people who made

this movie.

Bitcoin will soon End Investing | The NEW 60/40 Rule for all Investors (Part -I)

 Bitcoin will soon  End  Investing | The NEW 60/40 Rule for all Investors

When it comes to the 60 40 rule experts are now saying that bitcoin could

soon replace bonds in your retirement portfolio like just recently arc invest

kathy woods said that people should begin treating bitcoin like a new asset

class because it is large corporate and institutional investors are beginning

to use bitcoin as a hedge against the us dollar by buying up a lot of it like.

We just had tesla announced their one and a half billion dollar bitcoin 

investment earlier this year paypal announced that

they would enable cryptocurrency as a funding source for

26 million of its merchants they also just bought the crypto security company

curve for 200 million dollars the payment processing company square also

invested 170 million dollars into bitcoin and the analytics company microstrategy

has been keeping a significant amount of their cash reserves in bitcoin plus

they've continued to buy in even at all-time highs when it comes to

this kathy woods said that bitcoin represents insurance

against unhinged monetary policy and outright wealth segregation  in some 

countries other investors are also advocating for a small allocation

of bitcoin in any retirement portfolio and these aren't exactly small no-name

investors either like jp morgan who not so long ago called bitcoin a fraud that

will eventually blow up and who also said that they would fire

any trader who bought bitcoin because it's against our rules and they are

stupid and both are dangerous is now advocating three years later that

investors place one percent of their portfolio in the cryptocurrency and

they're even launching their own bitcoin exposure basket that gives

 access to 11 companies that hold bitcoin goldmansachs also analyzed

300 of their clients and found that 40 of them already have exposure to

cryptocurrency they say this run-up today is a lot different than the mania hype back in

2017 because today it's driven by large institutional

investors who are buying in as a reserve against the us dollar

not by speculation to me it's not exactly surprising either it seems as

though some of the big institutional investors behind bitcoin

are really worried about a few key points i think the first would be

inflation by keeping interest rates low in an effort to stimulate the economy there's

the expectation that at some point there's going to be some inflation as

more people begin spending their money that just means our dollar is going to

be worth less as more money is printed and more demand

pushes prices higher as a way to hedge against that bitcoin is starting to look

like an alternative to holding cash now number two the money supply has

increased exponentially throughout 2020

The Lion King - Movie Review (Part-II)

 I've loved just about every film he has made particularly Iron Man and chef and

I love the idea of him taking this and making it his own but he hasn't this

reminds me of when Gus Van Sant made psycho in 1998 and it was essentially a

shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock's film and he added weird

things like strange visions and you know some scenes here and there but for the

most part I watched Gus Van Sant's psycho and I wonder why what is the

point of that film why is this necessary psycho was already a classic it was

already good everybody loved it what's the point of doing it again if

you're not gonna add your own spin on it and that's exactly how I feel about

Disney's live-action Lion King remake because it's essentially the same movie

and I will always love that original film and I will always want to watch

that original film I guarantee that any day I will always want to watch that

original film over this and I know for a fact that there will be many people who

enjoy this movie and who just want to see exactly what this film offers the

same movie just with a different look and more realistic characters and if

that's all you want if that satisfies you you're gonna have a good time you're

going to enjoy this movie but if you want a filmmaker to actually take this

material and put a spin on it make it feel fresh or unique you're not

gonna get that at the same time doing that Favreau would risk hurting a lot of

people because oh my god you butchered.

Movie Review- The Lion King (Part-I)

           The Lion King was directed by Jon Favreau this time around this is the

adaptation I hesitate to say live-action there was a massive debate about this

online of the 1994 classic animated film and in case you somehow do not know the

plot of this movie Simba gets his right to the throne of Pride Rock challenged

when his evil uncle Scar causes tragedy to occur and banishes Simba from the

pride lands this is another live-action remake from Disney we already had

Aladdin this year and we've had  Cinderella in The Jungle Book and Beauty

and the Beast and Pete's dragon and Dumbo which I still haven't seen and

probably won't because I've heard rough things about it and I was never a

massive fan of the original number film anyway but when it comes to live-action

remakes the Jungle Book which was also directed by Favreau and I really enjoyed

that at least had a young actor in it who was surrounded by a digital

environment in the case of this film  though it's basically another form of

animation just not the traditional hand-drawn that the original Lion King

did so well and I'm not gonna get too hard into that debate here because I

think it's pointless and we really want to talk about the film in regards to

visuals and the technical achievement that this film shows us mind blowing no

matter what you think of this movie you must praise the artists that worked on

it they have created a beautiful world that absolutely looks photorealistic the

trees the sky the mountaintops the blades of grass insects all of the

animals everything looks incredible and it's impossible to deny the technical

brilliance that's on display constantly the voice cast is also really good James

Earl Jones once again as Mufasa is obviously music to my ears and seth

rogen as Pumbaa is essentially perfect casting he laughs as Pumbaa and I heard

Seth Rogen laugh as Pumbaa in a movie which was vastly satisfying to me and

that's about where I'm gonna stop at the praising the rest of the movie has some

great stuff too but it's all just stuff from the 94 film I mean Hans Zimmer score I

 got that on vinyl I love it I've always loved it  but this movie didn't create it the opening scene with the circle of

life song is an iconic scene that is recreated here

the story is emotionally affecting like it was in 1994 the characters are

entertaining like they were in 1994  Timon and Pumbaa bickering that's funny

just like it was in 1994 are you getting where I'm going with this this movie is

a shot-for-shot remake of The Lion King there's no personality of its own it's

completely predictable in every way there's no surprises there's very little

that's new and the things that are new are mostly things that have just been

removed or shortened like the be prepared song for instance is heavily

shortened there's a new song that's added and hilariously the song can you

feel the love tonight was originally featured in a scene that took place at

night but in this movie the scene is in broad daylight so the song title no

longer makes sense can you feel the love this afternoon I guess but what

disappointed me the most about this film is not that some songs have been

shortened or that some scenes have been removed but that the personality of the

original film is non-existent here this film is soulless much of the humor and

mysticism of the original film has been completely removed and replaced with an

overly serious attempt at an epic movie and it does not have to be I love Jon

Favreau he's one of my favorite filmmakers working today.