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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.
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'…
\\\ Constitution doesn't prevent our ruling elites from trampling on our rights. And sometimes it gets corrected. This week the US Supreme Court overturned by 8-0 an Obama administration trademark ruling against a music group. The Trademark Office …
I so wish someone would hit that rule with a bus and dump it in the river. Such bullshit. If you really believe it (no one does), you never invest, period.
So is this the beginning of a time of testing for CAPE?
Ten days ago it diverged significantly downward from SP500 quality indexes: SPHQ, SCHDH, DVY, NOBL, OUSA, and similar. RPS is in the middle of these since midweek last week.
What does this …
:)
History primer review today from PK twitter:
The key to what's going on goes back to the origins and logic of that conservative solution Romneycare. It was an attempt to make healthcare available to people with preexisting conditions.
One answ…
@msf
>> Something I've been meaning to post on is what strikes me as unappreciated risk profiles of non-vanilla investments. Leverage, embedded options (MBS), other forms of investment "engineering" can enhance performance on average. But IST…
@msf
>> If I wanted to be sure I still had the $100K in six months I'd put it all in PTIAX.
That is what I was responding to, with unclear mapping.
As for 'many bond funds', maybe, but compare shorter recovery of FSICX and nonexistent dip, …
Sure, except for its nontrivial dip starting last November which took till mid-Feb to recover from!
GABCX might be a better bet, maybe, in the mostly-nonbond space, and there are others of course
not following
rocklike ? --- some good short-term-bond etf
homer swing? --- CGMFX
or an individual stock. Barnes. Some biopharm. A fang, or all of them.
Come on, a wack question.
It may be all over soon but the actual on-the-ground catastrophe.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/06/obamacare-is-not-collapsing-unless-republicans-kill-it.html
https://www.vox.com/health-care/2017/6/15/15807986/obamacare-lies-obstructio…
Fortunate 'I've got mine' Ted hasn't kept up with the new ACA sabotage, without which it would not be anybody's idea of failing.
Not to worry, it will all be over soon, and ACA will be looked back at with the most intense longing.
12-24x salary, depending, and this after factoring in SS or equivalent.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewbiggs/2016/07/21/how-much-retirement/#7500aa4a4d28
I am a big believer in cheap debt in retirement, but that is a minority take to many, an…
