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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.
Several mates in Scotland are at the local bar. In the corner an old guy is passed out, face stuck to table. Presently he peels it off and stands and points his finger at one of the young men and says 'You, you, I know you, I shagged your mither.' T…
>> sure that George Soros and Hillary Clinton were as happy as one over the USSC ruling
Maurice is a master of bogus equivalence, but whatever could this silly assertion mean? Evidently you don't know what the Citizens United case was about. …
@rforno
>> the IRA contribution rules assume a person will always be at or greater than their present salary levels
Huh? I did not see that or think of it that way back when my on-staff salary was declining, nor when I was self-employed and …
Rightly or wrongly, we twice did large Roth conversions a long time ago, and paid a ton in taxes. It turns out to have been spectacularly beneficial, now and going forward, or seems to have. (Lifetime of chiefly bull markets.) Way down my TD list is…
No, I researched it, and knew about it already, which is why I think you mischaracterized it in your bald sentence about 'prevent a worker'. Whatever. I asked as neutrally as I could, so as not to set you off. 'Safely assume' all you wish; you don't…
One of the common bad investing ideas of all time, as well as a misquote
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/peter-lynch-25-years-later-its-not-just-invest-in-what-you-know-2015-12-28
If I invested only in what I know, I could not be retired, or even …
I was being facetious, but in the serious case, to keep incentive or at least the appearance thereof, you could do partial or graduated taxations at each end.
>> the Obama administration proposed in its budget to Congress to prevent a worker from making contributions to a 401k plan when the contributor had exceeded a cap.
Is 6 what you're talking about?
https://www.irahelp.com/slottreport/preside…
Not sure this is responsive, but if you bundle everything you hold using that yodlee engine offered at Fidelity (FullView) and ML (My Financial Picture), and I bet there is identical at other firms, you can easily see total change. If you make diffe…
All of the mfund prospectuses I have ever worked on, you have to include cash, though I don't know what the laws are (probably).
If you ever get tired of TRRIX, AOM is neck and neck with it, marginally outperforming the last few years.
yes, my badge and check said MV Ward Hill, iirc
What a wack movie to make even in 1959
Awesome music, hand-assembled I-beams, brickmasons
and that muxing explanation!
So white
Is there a point here about lack of competition?
Not a lot of kaizen u…
When I worked at Bell Labs at the WE plant in North Andover Mass. we were told it was or had been the lead manufacturing facility for Ma Bell, though I don't know that that meant most of these phone were made there, perhaps more switching hardware.
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It cannot be done piecemeal year by year, alas. Businesses (and governments) need to plan; also Carrier hires 500 people in order ultimately to shut a plant down and relocated in another country (something like that, I think that is technically inac…
>> He's relying on the fallacy that monopolies charge what the market will bear.
>> the appeal to wrongheaded common sense that I found disturbing.
Not seeing where he does this, but it's an astonishing thing to charge in any case, ra…
Ah. Thanks v much for specific example. Interesting. I bet that was not unique. That's a nontrivial bid-ask.
I just checked at ML and for AOR at the moment it's 44.24 and 44.28, 4 cents. ~1% if my arithmetic is good today. Vol 56k. I did not try a…
Pardon ignorance, but not following --- how does volume affect much of anything in this case? They are made up of a variety of other etfs ....
Ah, if you had a mil (20k sh) in AOA and wanted to sell it all at once, that would depress your price?
I…
Don't know about 'have to be', but a year ago I bought a Toyota-certified used Prius w/ a 1y / 12k warranty, and actually had to use it, which is pretty rare for a Prius in my experience of family owning a half-dozen. (Ends in another couple weeks.)
They can always be selective, like anyone anywhere on the web.
I cannot think where I have seen a question such as you pose above deteriorate badly, but maybe I skipped it when it did.
All welcome. I have a sib who's one of the contributing econs at PIIE (globalization is his expertise and academic gig) and he sends me occasional samples of colleagues' work. Although somehow I'd heard of this Cline view prior; I thought it was her…
