Happy 2020 to all!!! Live long and prosper for this new decade too :t_up:
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Happy 2020 to all!!! Live long and prosper for this new decade too :t_up:
Just want to add my best wishes to everyone for the New Year & appreciation for all the posts, esp some of the great analysis & insight, but also the humorous & flippant.
Special call out for Beagle for sharing such in depth analysis, always highly interesting & informative.
The last few years been a fantastic ride, lets hope it continues.
Wishing everyone a v happy & healthy 2020.
I most certainly did not get it wrong. Of course a decade ends after year 10 full years. Not at the beginning. There is no year nought, so 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and 10 are the years, or the 3651 or 3652 days, of a decade, (normally every 4th years has 366 days, except every 400th year only has 365 days). However the majority of countries chose to celebrate decades and the millennium with years ending in nought - supposedly for convenience and common practise of referring to decades as 'the thirties', 'the fifties' etc. AFAIK the only country that refused to do-so, and stick to the correct labels, is Cuba. The rest of us jump the gun. https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/02/w...will-wait.html
The way we name decades is, strictly speaking, incorrect, although many would argue it is sensible or practical. https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-beginning-of/
You are correct about property shares. I am simply a collector. I do not trade, or own anything else other than direct investment in commercial property, because it all looks too hard and/or risky to me. I like LPTs because of the simplicity and the tax advantage. My philosophy is to collect up things which increase my income, and keep them, adding more as I go (the exception was, as soon as I was out of my training nappies, was to dump all residential property.) I make no claims about the benefits of this - other than to say I have built a very healthy income over the years.
Have good new year, or as others (possibly those who do not understand what a decade is) say 'have a good new years'.
Never argue or disagree with the Fungus!! :t_up: