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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.
Wake up to Bloomberg's morning radio production which is far more interesting than their morning TV. Gravel-voiced Tom Keen anchors the program. Usually sounds hungover. Read headline articles in the WSJ & on Bloomberg's website. (Subscripti…
jeez,
there generally is no such thing as a tipping point, as we geezer oldsters know from recent history
it's only chipping away ! (resist!)
did Kent State have an outcome? not really.
yes, there were hearings and more.
the bloody war wen…
I got a highly reviewed Ninja and it's great; you just have to get used to have this nonsmall oven on your countertop with interior oven-style messes.
I use the 'basket' for about everything. I did chicken breasts untreated and while the outside w…
When you show up to a riot with a loaded gun, you could get shot and killed. Just common sense.
The Minnesota governor and mayor have spent months fueling tensions with hours of daily riots.
It's time to execute the Insurrection Act.
you are stupid…
my 83yo sister in st paul is involved in this, for tomorrow, just fyi, and go for it if so inclined
https://www.iceoutnowmn.com/
fwiw
(it is okay and helpful, I am told, for out-of-staters to sign as Minnesotans)
I just signed as Winston Smith…
my 83yo sister in st paul is involved in this, for tomorrow, just fyi, and go for it if so inclined
https://www.iceoutnowmn.com/
fwiw
(it is okay and helpful, I am told, for out-of-staters to sign as Minnesotans)
[edited to fix mistaken assertion re FPACX at ML]
Romick has really done something over his decades, and the complaint about his cash levels has been similarly steady
Whew, finally this one got mentioned:
And I hope that you die
And your death will come soon
I'll follow your casket
By the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
Till I'm sure that yo…
Gradually then suddenly applies to a huge number of processes and events and even as a teenager I was surprised that Hemingway was thought clever because of it
Oh, yeah! Great find.
Did you guys know that Gary Trudeau (of Doonesbury) predicted a trump run for POTUS, back in the 1980's?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/06/23/how-doonesbury-predicted-donald-trumps-presidential-run-2…
HCR summary is also solid and precise:
\\ The video shows Ross getting out of a vehicle and walking toward a red SUV where Good sits in the driver’s seat. Sirens blare as he walks toward her. She smiles at him and says: “That’s fine, dude. I’m not …
krug tonight
You may have heard that Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves — 300 billion barrels. You probably don’t know that Venezuela’s reported oil reserves tripled while Hugo Chavez was president. This increase, from roughly 100 billi…
Krugman today
// I’m not going to talk today about how we got here and strategies for getting out. All I want to do right now is to say that we should be clear about what is happening. American fascism is on the march, and anyone who balks at sayi…
Krug today:
Given Trump’s belief that he can always outdeal, outbully and outcheat everyone else, it’s easy to see how he interpreted some conciliatory conversations with Rodriguez as a signal that she would be his obedient puppet.
Trump’s self-im…
always so much Auden
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
N…
Statistics show that the S&P 500 has been positive in over 80% of the years since 1980. Despite this, most, or even all so called “experts” have been wrong repeatedly (see link). The takeaway is simple: being consistently bearish is a losing str…
now you've gone completely to straw and off-point and all falsehoody
some engineer you must be
Trump's execution actually is about half-occult
the Dems are the same centrists they have been for 90 years, including long stretches when the GOP we…
nice wrap (kswearingen salon-medium)
'Lifelong conman, conjurer of distractions, juggler of multiple grifts at a time, Trump is himself the hoax he so often speaks of. He was a hocus-pocus real-estate developer, using the public dole, [whom] actual…
Great explanation below. As expected DDD=deny diminish downplay everything.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/12/23/treasury-official-joe-lavorgna-talks-robust-q3-gdp-numbers.html
Who can trust one of the most biased economists, Krugman.
https://…
maybe wrong, but maybe not wrong
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/an-a-economy-my-a
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lies-damned-lies-and-trump-speeches
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-new-k-in-america
I don't know how many years ago I decided to exchange my large (for me) positions in Contra and Ponax (too big, too risky, too something else) for more-conservative ETFs. Sigh.
