Best Of

History will remember the 2 week trade war that shook foundations of Buck's portfolio

Worst investment: Been in 20 weddings over my life. Best man in 10 of them. I blew enough on bachelor parties to put a kid through two years of college at UGA or GA Tech. I keep in touch with only about 6 of the grooms.

Best investment: Real estate. Bought my mother a house for 84K some years ago. Sold it last year for almost 700K. Not the best return but a great savings plan. We have owned 8 homes and made money on all of them.

Second Best: Invested in a company called Machismo Mouse a 100 years ago. $1500 turned into $15,000 in two days. Pulled my money out and promptly got a call a year later from the SEC investigating me and several others of insider trading. I hadn't and it went nowhere.

Second worst: Loaned an old girlfriend $2,200 bucks for stripper tits. Motor boated those things for about 6 months before she started banging her ski instructor at Snoqualmie Summit and never paid me back. I think she is on husband #4 so I dodged a bullet there. I am sure those tits have been a landing spot for many a guy.

Worst- "loaning" money to acquaintances for business upgrades. That money won't ever come back

Best- Giving my mother-in-law the down payment for her condo after she got out of an abusive relationship with her second husband. Built in baby-sitter three miles from the house, Sunday dinner for nearly 15 years.

When she passed, she gifted it to our daughter who will graduate with no debt and will have a paid off 2/2 condo as she begins her career.