Author: CD Damitio
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BALDER AIEAS The Market Crash Test Balloon – This Week in Investing
I know this week in the stock and crypto markets has been difficult for many people. I’m not one of them. My stock portfolio and my crypto portfolio both lost…
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Flashback Friday: 2008 PhotoEssay: Urban Hiking in Hawaii – Chinatown Honolulu
This was a very fun day which I am reposting from a decade ago back on July 3, 2008. The photos were taken with my old Motorola Razor. Total time:…
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The Hitachi Tree in Honolulu’s Moanalua Gardens
On the west side of Honolulu, just near the big pink building (Tripler Army Hospital) – just on the edge of the Salt Lake Neighborhood but before you reach Aloha…
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Kapena Falls – Free, Beautiful, Not Crowded, Easy Oahu Walk with Petroglyphs
Heading to O’ahu? There’s also a free book at the bottom of this post — 200 real, strange news stories from the weirdest decade of the internet. Email only, no…
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Honolulu Biki Bikes – A fun and reasonable bikeshare program for Hawai’i
The Biki-Bike (https://gobiki.org) program in Honolulu is a winer. Getting around by bicycle is the best way to get around Honolulu and the Biki-Bike program opened that up to everyone.…
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Sea Life Park – Oahu, Hawaii – Dolphins, Sea Lions, and Sharks – Oh My!
Sea Life Park on the island of Oahu in Hawaii is a must see destination for families with young children. We loved it. Open 7 days a week with tickets…
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Jurassic Park Movie Tour at Kualoa Ranch on Oahu
People seem surprised that when we have time off, we choose to do tourist activities in Hawaii. People expect I want to get away from tourism but the truth…
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Hawai’i is the True Center of the World
Travel is so easy in our world. People get on planes, they watch movies, eat, sleep, use the bathroom…and then they get off the plane and enjoy the next spot.…
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Top 5 Reasons Hawai’i is Still the Best Vacation Destination
A friend from Oregon told me “We keep thinking about taking a trip to Hawai’i but Cancun always wins because it just seems to be a better value for our…
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10 Free Things to do in Honolulu
While I love being a world traveler, most of the time, I’m just happy to live in Hawaii and do the amazing things you can do for free here. Honolulu,…
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5 Free Things To Do In Hawaii That Should Cost a Fortune
They say that in life the best things are free, but we all know that usually is a crock of malarky. Food, housing, travel, clothing, family, medicine, eductaion – all…
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Aloha World!
After several years off the internet – Vagobond is back. I started Vagobond back in 2008 after graduating from the University of Hawaii. Vagobond and I travelled all over the…
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The Age of Irrational Exuberance – Equity Markets in a Time of Chaos
First – let’s get the facts out of the way: Fact 1: Share prices keep climbing and indexes keep hitting new all time highs Fact 2: Past results do not…
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Industrial Automation, Gene Editing, Electric Cars, Cryptocurrency and Marijuana Stocks
I’m excited about a couple of sectors right now…I think that a couple of them are going to change our world before we even notice that our world has changed.…
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That Which Builds Us – Our Fondational Core
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about who I am and why I’m that person. While it would be nice to say that I was born the person I am…
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These Markets Make Me Nervous – But I Still Don’t Want to Miss Them
I read something the other day that was very interesting. It was talking about how the trade war and tariffs and political scandals that should be rocking the market daily…
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Time Preferance and Actuary Tables
Recently, from several different sources, I have become aware of a flaw in my thinking. Ultimately, this flaw comes down to something economists call ‘Time Preference’. My own revelation came…
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Crypto and Nasdaq Bloodbaths and Trump Whitehouse Meltdown
We have officially entered a September that no one saw coming. The entire cryptocurrency market is in a serious bloodbath with Ethereum taking the hardest hits. The Tech sector of…
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The New Great Depression – Coming Soon
In the middle of October of 1929 – the stock markets of the United States reached impressive new all time highs. Investors were giddy and one of the leading economists…
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The Bitcoin Bubble – Explained
First of all – let me make it clear – Bitcoin is good money. What I mean by that is that it can be used for purchases, it is a…
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Is Donald Trump Good for the American Economy? An Honest Review
Is Donald Trump, President of the United States, good for the American Economy? I’ve asked myself this question quite a few times and it’s an incredibly difficult one for me…
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John McAfee’s Bitfi Wallet – The “Unhackable” “Hardware” Wallet – An Honest Review
For the past year, I have wanted to buy a cryptocurrency hardware wallet . I haven’t bought a Ledger or a Tresor wallet yet because when I looked into buying one…
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Cryptocurrency and Blockchain
It’s my opinion that the most insidious institutions on the planet are banks, lenders, mortgage companies, and the governments that profit from them and allow them to prey on individuals…
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Keeping Your Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Safe – An Introduction to Crypto Wallets
Congratulations! You’ve bought some crypto! Maybe you bought a piece of a bitcoin, a whole bitcoin, a litecoin, some XRP, a Lumen, some Ethereum, or Digibyte…it doesn’t really matter. The…
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Who are the 4%? Will you be part of the new Bitcoin elite?
A lot has been made int he past ten years about the 1%. The ultra-rich who control more wealth than the other 99% of us. I’m not going to get…
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