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davidrmoran
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.
@Derf
You need to study up, too. It all depends, man. It all depends on what we add. And whether we pay. No one with the power wants to do it right.
Debt is not bad till high as a percentage of GDP, but yeah, it is getting there, and this latest c…
haha, just data and analysis here. Somehow I sense you did not study them.
Is automatically charging confirmation bias the new counter?
My God, we can afford all sorts of things, easily. But sure, the new proposals are wack.
You need to read up, I'd suggest. Except for the third, these are somewhat changed in the context of newly irresponsible budget proposals, but the analyses and thinking behind them might be helpful:
https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/the-…
>> I heard tax cuts to rich people and corporations pay for themselves.
Good one. Bogus then, bogus since, bogus now, and more bogus because there has been actual testing of the notion --- Kansas. Not to mention all the graphs of US econ pe…
Haha, roll back the New Deal. I imagine you have no memory of what elderly life was like before SS (I don't), but I wonder if you have memories of what healthcare life was like before Medicare and Medicaid (that I do).
Arithmetic is the (unsuccessful) enemy of regressive policy.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/10/26/the-gop-greatest-enemy-taxes-math/mNTeRavM6EVlpeQUkwSxEM/story.html
Unrelated, 'entitlement reform' often means making plumbers and servi…
For sure civil forfeiture is incredible, an unbelievably bad thing, though does not seem to me to quite fit what you are or were talking about. But I shoulda thought of it, thanks.
haha, libertarians align for regs:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-are-propping-up-scammers-and-cheaters/2017/10/26/16f54058-ba85-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html
a gruesome portrayal of alleged market forces amok
In 1982 either Forbes or Fortune listed, with savvy-for-the-time analyses, the best, most solid equity funds for the long haul, and Magellan was not on that last or even close. Still, many familiar names: Century Shares Trust (insurance), Contrafun…
Medigap and supplement are the same thing, are they not?
No need to make this more confusing than it is.
So yes, you want medigap-supp (you can see any docs), along w pdp (drug plan) unless you take no rx meds at all and anticipate never doing s…
It was commonly (and I guess possibly incorrectly) understood, back when the Browns won what was considered the world championship w/ a QB who had his doctorate in math and I was playing HS football in northern Ohio, that the name came from the owne…
MFO is getting way too political. smh
Tax cuts and 401k cap discussion (and all else, from warming to healthcare) are invariably political and sure have personal-finance consequences. You can always skip.
oi!
Yeah, I see I spoke too soon, since it is not avail at ML and is TF @ Fido, so there. Sorry.
Now have to research volatility of PFF and FPE and AOK and others and see if I could live with them. Also MUB, MUNI, then BND and BOND.
With the bull ongoing, am thinking of selling a little even in roth accounts and letting it sit as cash, or in, like, GABCX. Have gone above yet another 'total investments' line, feel I should conserve. Hmm, what to do.
Nah. The data show that the benefits to all American workers are overwhelmingly high (much of it low prices). But it also is clearer than ever that the harms are quite a bit above zero. This was known and acknowledged, but not widely enough, and the…
also tnx
"Many investors cannot stomach the volatility. If that is the case, they shouldn't be invested in closed-end funds in the first place. However, this low-yield environment and equity market valuations have forced investors out on the risk s…
Clearly an impostor, since not one lesson conveyed through any of his prophets, not a single one, and not one image of his children, only of his natural glory. Wow.
http://www.theonion.com/article/god-announces-plans-shift-majority-resources-tied-…
The past-facing nostalgic Sasse feels and thinks and espouses all the right decent values, without question, but he's a weakling and wimp thus far politically, master of false equivalence re the candidates, factually wrong praising us supposedly mor…
The substance is worse than just the lies:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-led-congress-is-on-a-ruinous-course/2017/10/17/2d1428d4-b27b-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html
