The Nineteenth Day by Chestnut + Hazel # 4

 

Five more days of this nineteen day nightmare. The student loan stuff doesn't really end, it just kind of. I kind of just downshift i guess. temporarily. I'm trying to do this using only new money, and not existing assets, and not depleting existing assets.

There are several overlapping nightmares that I'm dealing with over these next few weeks. and. i don't know. this is all a headache and a nightmare.

as of 5/29/2026 the nineteen day nightmare is dealt with. i kind of had to re-strategize, but this is dealt with. what a nightmare.

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Kenneth Larot Yamat: I don't really follow politics, but there was an article I read where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was denouncing dividend payments to REIT holders, and I just thought? "How are dividend payments to shareholders any different from interest payments to bond holders?" 

Marko Rickert: The difference is dividends are paid usually quarterly, biannually, or annually, while interest is collected after the bond is sold. 

Kenneth Larot Yamat: I'm familiar with the mechanical differences between the two, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was denouncing dividends from, I guess, a social justice standpoint, and I just don't see how, from a social justice standpoint, there is a difference between dividends paid to shareholders and interest payments to bond holders. The other thing I think that your thinking about are discount bonds, where the market rate of a bond is at a discount to the par value of bonds. The savings bonds that the Treasury sells work this way, and many other bonds do to, but there are bonds that have coupon payments every six months, and these coupon payments are, in my mind, similar to dividend payments.

[ old conversation: end]

these were posted on Archived Content 07/17/2020 11:21 PM. this is an old conversation with an old roommate. I guess at this point it has been forever. Marko was my roommate while I was still living in San Jose, California. at the time of this conversation in 2020, it had already been years since we had been roommates. I remember before leaving San Jose, I think I took classes at the community college, San Jose City College. It was close to where I was living at the time. I really don't want to take any more classes, and I really don't want to take any classes for the Fall 2026 semester. I'm too

discouraged. I'm not really accomplishing what I want to accomplish. I'm not really getting what I want to get out of all of this.