Bastards, Boatyards, and Buy Points... Oh, and a Hot Waitress

Christian DeHaemer talks indicators like the hot waitress index and adds his own to the mix. Correlation does not equal causation, but you would be wise to pay attention to such things... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Energy and Capital. [Click here]( to manage your e-mail preferences. [Energy and Capital logo] Bastards, Boatyards, and Buy Points... Oh, and a Hot Waitress [Christian DeHaemer Photo] By [Christian DeHaemer]( Written Apr. 02, 2019 There is an old Wall Street indicator called the hot waitress economic index. According to Investopedia: The hot waitress economic index is an informal measure of the state of the economy that is compiled by counting the number of attractive people working as waiters/waitresses. According to the hot waitress index, the higher the number of good looking servers, the weaker the current state of the economy. It is assumed that attractive individuals do not tend to have trouble finding high-paying jobs during good economics times. During poor economic times, these jobs will be more difficult to find and therefore more attractive people will be forced to work in lower paying jobs such as being waiters/waitresses. The hot waitress index was first articulated by Hugo Lindgren in a piece for New York Magazine. I went out to eat twice over the weekend, and not only were the servers homely, but they were also slow and stupid — though, ironically, the food was fantastic. This indicator falls among those other Wall Street indicators such as Wharton School professor George Taylor’s hem length indicator, the skyscraper index, getting stock tips from shoeshine boys, and which team wins the Super Bowl. Make France Pay (For Your Retirement) CNBC says, “France has the longest retirement age.” It’s where retirees can clock the most time in retirement, and have a cushy one, too. But now there’s a way you can legally piggyback on “French Social Security” and collect thousands in extra income. [Click here]( to discover how. As anyone who suffered through a statistics class will tell you, correlation doesn't equal causation. [caus] That said, you should pay attention to such things, as they could equal profits. To these indicators, I will add the Christian DeHaemer overpriced, dilapidated boat index as an indicator of where we are in the boom and bust cycle. I am currently selling a 27-foot sailboat that I’ve owned for the better part of a decade. The boat has grown tired, and I’m selling below market value because I’ve grown tired of it as well. It was thus that I came across one of those old happy guys you find in a boatyard in the springtime. He was 70, with a mouth full of cantilevered teeth and ragged wisps of white hair that blew past his ball cap. There was a gale force wind slicing up the bay as he poked around the boat, telling stories of pulling two-stroke Volvos out of small engine compartments with nothing more than a “come-along” and an overhanging oak limb. He mentioned, as he tapped on the bilge with the backside of a scraper, that he bought a flooded house on the Choptank for $6,800 at auction and pulled it back 100 yards with his F-250 and some logs. He kept talking and inspecting, spilling the genoa out of the sail bag, the wind taking most of what he said: “building a new boat, but need something to sail while I’m at it...” “These are good sails.” All of this while a hundred metal halyards banged against a hundred aluminum masts in a 25-knot blow. “Well, there's nothing here that would cause me to say no. I’ll let you know by Wednesday,” he said with a firm handshake and a wave of a green flannel arm dancing off like a Chesapeake will-o-wisp. [Marijuana Has Gone Mainstream]( Cannabis is on its way to becoming a $200 billion industry... It’s disrupting beer and tobacco... it’s transforming medicine and agriculture... And that’s why Coca-Cola, Heineken, Molson, and dozens of the world’s largest mainstream companies are buying up all the cannabis stocks they can find. Famous investors like Warren Buffett, Peter Thiel, and Bill Gates are all piling in, too. I’ve done my boots-on-the-ground research... I have a list of five cannabis stocks that are prime targets for these billions... [you could easily make 1,000% or more if you get in now.]( The point of this is that I priced too low. All of the boats, the Tartans, Beneteaus, and Ericsons that have languished in the boatyard since the last recession, have sold. People have money to spend and are spending it. This correlates with tops, not bottoms. Of course, tops tend to go on much longer than one thinks. Prices get silly. Old Mustangs sell for $200K. Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi sells for $450 million. Pseudo-taxi cab companies that lose money and will always lose money IPO at $25 billion. Yes, the yield curve has inverted. We are late in the game, and the sun is setting over the western shore. In markets, it becomes the crazy time. People go all in. They say things like, “This time is different.” And anyone can get rich. For myself, I’m buying solid, high-growth dividend stocks, and after the next recession I’ll get my retirement sailboat at half the price. If you are looking for a recession-proof stock that pays near 10%, [click here](. All the best, [Christian DeHaemer Signature] Christian DeHaemer [[follow basic]@TheDailyHammer on Twitter]( Since 1995, Christian DeHaemer has specialized in frontier market opportunities. He has traveled extensively and invested in places as varied as Cuba, Mongolia, and Kenya. Chris believes the best way to make money is to get there first with the most. 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