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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.
That is one impressive wikip entry.
But you again need to dive deeper and farther back into actual history. Mandate, community rating, subsidy:
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2013/nov/15/ellen-qualls/aca-gop-health-care-plan-1993/…
>> Unless TRP is willing to absorb that cost,
Is this not invariably the case? In 45y I have never seen an NTF fund on Fido (or elsewhere) whose ER was not the same as buying directly from the fund family. OAKBX (say) through Fido same cost…
How about directly below that, what do you see?
Both lines under fundname have a blue mark.
It is hierarchical, I suppose. NTF is under Fidelity control and pretty much constant.
Load-waived is typically subject to agreement w/ fund company, wh…
@Maurice,
Wow. Go to Fidelity.com. You do not have to log in. Type hblax in the top search field, the only search field on the page.
That takes you to
https://fundresearch.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/summary/416648244
The first thing you see is …
The wooing of Republicans by Democrats over ACA was practically nonstop. Just for starters. No exclusion! Good grief. Talk about bizarro world.
As for the Pelosi quote, you have not been following the Trumpcare process at all, have you? Talk about …
Strategy sounds fine unless one simply wants to own that cef. Like paying a fee of some sort. Do I want to own it or not?
Not only do discounts persist unreasonably, but so do premiums, I read. Both conditions have obtained for PDI.
I once (long a…
@expatsp
For sure I have no smart or even particularly informed thoughts. I own both. Indeed, I just sold some brokerage PONDX for cashflow, but then sold more in rollover ira in order to buy PDI and PTY. Large-ish sums, for me. All are leveraged, y…
And it gets worse before any LTC:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/26/the-real-reason-republicans-to-pass-this-health-care-bill-so-much-has-little-to-do-with-health-care/
Big ultimate plan is to divide the states and undo the un…
'states under budgetary pressure', bwahaha, as if any aren't
make 'em all work again
big sunday piece somewhere today about how men generally will not do caregiving work no matter how desperate
and we all know that almost no one native-born will …
>> With this much leverage these funds are too risky for this retiree.
You may not be understanding it correctly. Not that I am capable of clarifying. Note risk rating in M*, also in MFO (and UI as well).
However, a sound decision probably …
ML updates earlier and more reliably than Fido, especially if you use that Yodlee aggregative feature ('My Financial Picture' and 'Fullview'). With the latter at Fido, you can actually see what an account is worth at 9p or whenever and then see, wit…
That would be a hard decision. Heebner turned $5k of ours into $172k or so from the 1980s on, but I eventually bailed too, yes. Forget what my success was w Berkowitz, but same separation eventually.
tnx, will look into both. Not really keen on foreign investment anymore except for EM spec moneys. Sold FOSFX, causing it to rise nicely, naturellement.
Must check how MOAT compares with CAPE (also NOBL, DVY, OUSA, SCHD, etc.).
to expand the discussion
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/26/the-race-to-solar-power-africa
and from a year before
https://www.pv-tech.org/news/bill-gates-solar-is-not-the-energy-solution-africa-needs
I guess I did not fully understand that the panels were not wholly 'adjunctive' to the grid, so to speak, but were made use of first by the house. I will doublecheck that that is how my SolarCity installation works, but the commingling certainly mak…
@AndyJ
>> Well, I've had a completely different experience, David. I spent $18.95 or some such on a long-handled broom/squeegee to clear off the snow -- a truly staggering maintenance bill.
Thanks. I completely forgot about that cost, plus …
Not for backup, OJ.
All that rooftop installations do (typically) is generate power and sell it to the local utility. Net metering. Nothing to do with home usage or supply into the house wiring or anything like that. In fact when there is a power …
@Ted
>> How much does it cost you to maintain the panels, and how often do they need to be cleaned ?
Huh?
Zero and never are the answers.
My 6kW installation is 6y old.
We do try and shovel or rake the snow off them, though it's usuall…
Once they start handwaving ("would make sense") mathematically like this, I give up and read elsewhere:
... Trees don’t grow to the sky, so it would make sense that a period of above-average returns would be followed by a period of below-average re…
Sigh. Please don't go citing IER Koch propaganda.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Energy_Research
Re the 'author':
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/331615-trump-picks-renewable-energy-policy-skeptic-to-lead-doe-offic…
ac power coming in from the street is pretty tightly regulated, filtered, close tolerances as to frequency and amperage and voltage, all that good stuff, for driving motors and safely distributing power throughout structures.
Overkill and wasteful …
>> in my view it was an attempt at punishment for not knuckling under to what the Obama administration found to be acceptable speech
Well, it's that view of yours which is underinformed, to put it politically correctly. Although it's clear al…
@dstone42
Yeah, I got email from Fido saying that if I consolidated in their direction I could get commissionfree trades of nn quantity, depending on amount.
Their interest in pleasing longterm HNW (so to speak) customer is notably lower than ML'…
