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I myself see a big pullback coming in the next six months but I don’t know that I have ever been correct over 45 years. I will put a lot of money in if a 10% pullback comes. I expect you r being prudent depending on how old you are. The thing is, if you’re young, you might as well stick it out and not try to time. He said.
I certainly appreciate her spunk, but what a slender reed to lean on to save us from moral and financial disaster. We now depend upon one lonely woman to restrain Congress and the "president'? Six members of the judicial branch have insured no help …
+1 again, OJ
Oh, and here is a handy-dandy thing to memorize for these days:
How hard is this to understand? Socialism is NOT Communism:
Capitalism – anybody can be rich
Communism – nobody can be rich
Socialism – anybody can be rich but nobod…
I guess if someone thinks Trump is the center (!) then these bald lies are not also ignorant wingnut Fox fantasies:
The following are all "legel"....
1) Let millions illegal, including criminals, into the country
2) Hire based on DEI instead of mer…
Even if real Iran program setbacks were achieved --- latest intel indicates not at all --- it is now fully clear that this evil sickfuck spent many millions (quite aside from inflicted deaths) on this PR stunt also if not chiefly because he:
- was…
The bill is sick with evil, but here is an interesting bit of context
https://x.com/david_charts/status/1936221877891952910?s=46&t=eFdV3_Ee_q0dJcUiWgzIfA
>> 'Fidelity told me it would pull the money “pro rata”—or proportionately—out of all my investment holdings in the 401(k) plan. ... In a March letter, the company wrote: “We apologize that you were misinformed regarding plan rules for this wi…
>>>. I am will to call it a wash (at best) and be deeply suspicious of all involved. The myth of partisan superiority by anyone is now decimated.
https://www.facebook.com/share/16pMigPkDC/?mibextid=wwXIfr
What the hell is this both-parties false equivalence nonsense? Anyone can look at the history of deficits and the debt since World War II, Democrat vs Republican.
Good read. My conclusion over decades is that good funds will continue to be top funds
in the future until markets change and why I started investing this way in 2000.
sounds as though you have done some backtesting.
I held a lot of tweix, cgmfx…
The following article provides several suggestions on how to secure your retirement portfolio
when market anxiety is high.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/top-stocks/market-anxiety-is-running-high-how-to-secure-your-retirement-portfolio/ar-AA1Fk9bO
…
These are many tempting ideas to read for one who has 95% of his egg in FIGXX earning 4.17%
Normally chasing a few basis points isn't worth the effort, but ...
Or you could roll short maturity Treasuries. ... About the same as VUSXX and you don't …
I suppose many saw this already:
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-barry-ritholtz?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=277517&post_id=164274091&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=tcpky&…
PRWCX is available in Merrill accounts. I dip-bought a bunch a month ago and it's up 7% --- luck.
These are many tempting ideas to read for one who has 95% of his egg in FIGXX earning 4.17%.
direr than the usual:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-22-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=20533&post_id=164216050&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=tcpky&triedRedirect=true&ut…
Dunno.
Probably not farmland.
Possibly: smarts, information, education, curiosity, tolerance and intolerance of intolerance?
I just spent a long weekend in Flushing (funeral, receptions): Jews, Asians, some African-Americans; schoolteachers, c…
You are assuming that his “who we are now“ means diverse. Or something. Hard to tell exactly what your argument is against what he actually wrote. But you have always had a thing about him for some reason.
Anent the fantasy of US "reindustrialization," Krugman today:
The economy changes over time, and so do the industries in which people work. A century and a half ago, despite rising industry, America was still largely a nation of farmers; today hard…
Howdy folks,
The military could have one the war, but the politicians didn't have the balls.
Alas and alack,
And so it goes,
Rono S/Sgt, CoA 1stReconBn 1stMarDiv Mar68-Nov69
Nope
History is clear
Also, by now, about the massive lying
…
Several people have pointed out, whether they are conservative or liberal 2A types, Just wait until they bust into a household where there are one or two AR15s
>> a large plurality voted him into office
huh ?
His vote count did not quite get him to a majority of the total votes cast. He came in just a hair under 50%.
Your 'hair' was 1.142M voters. The number needed plus one to reach majority. Abo…
Made a few hundred bucks dip-buying and today selling TCAF and JQUA. Foolish in hindsight, and hardly worth it. Everything in 4.2% MM now except for modest positions in long-underwater BSV and CCOR.
krug on 'sudden stop' of foreign capital
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/stop-in-the-name-of-trump?img=https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/116f69f1-d6cb-497a-94a6-08a22e02145f_2210x928.png&open=false
