{"id":25775,"date":"2020-03-05T11:27:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T17:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25775"},"modified":"2020-03-05T11:27:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T17:27:56","slug":"investment-tips-from-brian-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/05\/investment-tips-from-brian-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Investment Tips from Brian J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I give you an investment tip, gentle reader, I&#8217;d recommend you short it.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/29\/investment-to-come-full-circle\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I mentioned<\/a>, I bought Limited Brands (L) when it brought Victoria&#8217;s Secret (Intimate Brands, Incorporated \/ IBI) back in house (and I had bought IBI because it produced a product I like).<\/p>\n<p>So when I learned that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/content\/news\/Springfields-Battlefield-Mall-announces-aerie-is-opening-soon-568483051.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new lingerie shop was opening in town<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Battlefield Mall announced a new lifestyle apparel retailer is coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>Aerie, owned by lifestyle clothing and accessories label American Eagle Outfitters, offers teens and young adult shoppers alike a wide variety of undergarments, active apparel, loungewear, swimsuits, accessories, sleepwear and more. Most recently, the brand has been applauded for promoting body positivity and female empowerment through its campaign #AerieREAL.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I bought a stake in AEO immediately.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve lost 10% on it already.<\/p>\n<p>I am such a child of the 1980s that I keep pouring small amounts of money into traditional brick-and-mortar mall stores, but it&#8217;s not worked out well for us.  For much of the last decade, I expected retail sales to take off when the economy rebounded.  However, it has not been so good to most of my holdings.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to take matters into my own hands and go to the shop to buys lots of product for my beautiful wife.<\/p>\n<p>Although my efforts to bolster JC Penney&#8217;s by actually shopping there has not worked out so well.  But, hey, I have bought some good shoes there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I give you an investment tip, gentle reader, I&#8217;d recommend you short it. As I mentioned, I bought Limited Brands (L) when it brought Victoria&#8217;s Secret (Intimate Brands, Incorporated \/ IBI) back in house (and I had bought IBI because it produced a product I like). So when I learned that a new lingerie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25777,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25775\/revisions\/25777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}