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Will You Marry These Stocks (Please)

Will You Marry These Stocks (Please)

Tim Melvin, everyone.

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Garrett Baldwin
Dec 20, 2024
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Dear Fellow Expat:

When I asked Tim Melvin if I could marry his daughter…

My voice cracked.

That had never happened before… at least post-puberty.

It was this time of year… 2013.

I had a plan. It just didn’t manifest.

Everything in my head - all the words I’d practiced- just went quiet.

Tim knew what was happening. He offered mercy.

“Are you asking if you can marry my daughter, Garrett?” he asked.

Yes.

He shook my hand. He saved me a lunch bill.

He then started talking about Janet Yellen and regional banks...

More than a decade has passed since then…

But I return to the theme of my first conversation with him.

The conversation that followed after he accepted my proposal…

And the conversation that I had with him at 10 am today.

You could make a fortune just following his favorite trend.

Papa Stocks

Do you know “Papa?”

That’s the name my daughter calls Tim Melvin, her grandfather.

Tim and I dilly-dally. We get after it.

The best conversations I had on Money Morning Live were “boring-ass” chats abou…

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