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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.
Thought you said you were a problem-solver. So ... pensions for all?
Do you have anything else genuinely thoughtful and realistic to say? It can be written in all caps, sure.
Looks like just hokum solutions in fact. But you got Ted's attention.
And to think that ACA was the conservative compromise, in origin and detail, emphasizing individual responsibility and all that. And now the death of principled conservatism.
And more on the double counting (savings AND revenue) and innumeracy:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/trump-budget-director-denies-making-childish-math-error.html
Yet another rightwing fantasy ('just get a job') will meet reality:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/upshot/why-work-requirement-became-a-theme-of-the-trump-budget.html
Mulvaney says it's from the viewpoint of the taxpayer, not those moochers!
Massive gov support for the (undeserving) rich, the rest can die.
This is comical:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/trump-budget-based-on-usd2-trillion-math-e…
Savvy, tnx.
I knew it was a paid teaser / solicitation; I just meant his sense of premium, risk and rarity, which concurred with mine re PDI historically; I have been in it for a long time.
I shall investigate further per your guidances. Yes, equit…
Thanks and sorry, yes, I thought it must've been mentioned, but did not see it on a search.
Yeah, this is the whole deal, looks like. He is looking for feedback, btw.
@BenWP, I put in a large (for me) trade for DLEUX at Fido, thought I would simply eat the large fee, but then later in the day canceled it. Part of the walkback was reading yet another piece about no need for foreign funds. I also doublechecked whet…
Just put more into DSEEX at the last 'big' dip (eventually, first it has to go into DSENX); just sold some PONDX for cashflow and am switching the rest into PDI; will sell FREAX and maybe even VNQ as soon as I can figure out what to do for true dive…
She was most gracious with this snippy reader:
\\\ Thanks for your note. I appreciate all feedback -- even critical feedback!
My job here at The Journal involves programming in Python and doing database analysis in SQL for stories on the investigat…
She is a complete amateur in this realm, as was plain from her response to me when I crabbed to her. She admitted as much but did tell me how much positive response she has gotten from co-workers who are in the same pickle. Oi. And it coulda been a …
What a complete nonstory this is, and she's a data investigator?? And yet another misleading hed.
Her management fee is low. Her fund fees are low. Her total is lowish.
Not to defend this sort of thing, but seriously.
And she coulda found all …
The Bloomberg case and data look completely compelling, meaning irrefutable and properly argued. I am surprised at the other cites. The FT article is modulated to some extent and gets into student loans. But some editors are dimwits. It's their job …
Exactly.
I do have some, perhaps many, holdings where there has been just the one initial investment, and I like to be see more quickly and easily how it has done in toto. I sense that many here are like that.
Concur in the Fidelity take.
Their c/s told me to go to Accounts, Holdings, Unrealized Gain / Loss, and then scroll right ... and then you can see the new columns Cumul Inv Return x 2 and Total Client Investment, which must be the initial amount you put in. See if you can do t…
see below for ML daily display
gah, bad formating, sorry
Symbol
Description
Quantity
Price
Day's Price
$ Chg% Chg
Value
Day's Value
Change $
Unrealized Gain/Loss
$ Chg % Chg
PDI
PIMCO DYNAMIC INCOME FD
4,341.6510 $29.05 -$0.23-0.79% $126,124.96 -…
What an interesting story. Thanks. That fifo override thing is wild.
I do not use an adviser anywhere.
I like ML a lot and like Fido a lot. I was just pretty duh about what I was seeing in the columns without drilldown, and I even posted here ab…
I like the way Fido does it, as I said, and was thrown by ML. Also, I use a software program to do my taxes, which draws in all of this stuff automatically, very handy and less laborious, so have not kept my own records for decades. Anyway, live and…
Interesting. I am chiefly interested in display, column wording, and my quickness (haha) of visual understanding. I have always got what Fido was showing me, and the opposite w ML, I never quite got what they were showing me. (My duh.) A nomenclatur…
tnx for these data.
I myself just want (always) to see what I am used to from the $10k-growth charts. I put in $10k and what happens. I pay taxes every bloody year on cg / div reinvested when the accounts are taxable, so I know that part. With tax…
Absolutely right, the skills biases and skills gaps
community colleges and the like should be high on everyone's agenda
nonetheless, as you also read,
This Policy Brief ... concludes that the payoff to the United States from trade
expansion—stemm…
Its chief strength, or a chief strength anyway, has been bear performance, yes.
It usually has done better than it is doing now, but its method and decisionmaking and philosophies are not as suited today as in the past.
