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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.
>> don't know what they wanted him to say new.
maybe lie less?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/02/28/fact-checking-president-trumps-address-to-congress
(@DH, please skip)
See what "the common people", or some of them, think about the tax credit, and more:
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/27/14745210/obamacare-enrollees-repeal-plans
The WaPo lede summarizes 2w ago, w my emphases:
The Trump administration is taking its first steps to put its imprint on the Affordable Care Act, reversing plans to withhold tax refunds this year from Americans who flout an insurance requirement in…
such a common charge, pubs favor neatness, discipline, care / respect for possessions and other things too, some OCD about such matters, blah blah
libtards the opposite
yaaaawn
yup
'more like the IRS wanting to maintain plausible deniability'
https://reason.com/blog/2017/02/14/irs-blow-to-obamacare-individual-mandate
so looks effectively like what I wrote, but maybe it will turn out somewhat different.
Do American-car drivers drive foreign-brand vehicles made in their or neighboring states?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_assembly_plants_in_the_United_States
Don't myself have a lot of Republican friends who drive Priuses, like …
A fine summary for another rough week:
... health reform has been a hugely liberating experience for millions. It means that workers don’t have to fear that quitting a job with a large company will mean loss of health coverage, and that entrepreneu…
@Art,
>> I also wonder how much of what the new administration is doing is different than past presidencies
Seriously? It genuinely is different, in every respect, not just in trying to roll back so many decades of progress but in the cynic…
@VF, jeez, such a testy night. All I meant was you could do the Parnassus of your choice and add a third of whatever your favored bond fund was, Fidelity or Pimco or D&C etc.
In other words I would not necessarily trust Parnassus to come up wi…
@JC
>> start these threads just to get responses from the conservatives.
Interesting that we non-conservatives typically include data and citations or analysis for substantiation while the conservatives, or whatever they claim to be, just a…
@OJ, sorry, I understood you to mean either side as in left/right - liberal/'conservative' (shd be 'destructive'). I inferred totally false equivalence, not know what you meant 'on either side.'
@JC, CNN a hate party? omg, bwahahaha. And then you …
pretty funny:
'Just to be clear, Republicans are asking the court to delay their own lawsuit pretty much indefinitely, because they’ve become terrified of what would happen if they succeed.'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/0…
@Maurice,
Cambridge is so expensive now, generally, and Harvard Square so changed, that Red Liners listen to their worker periodicals over their iPhones on their way through.
@rono,
You better do an ipo for that extinguisher product; it is gonna be yuge.
Yeah, '68-'74 was worse than this, with the assassinations and authority murders of protesters.
And what do we, and are we to, conclude from anticipating change? That it's going to be different? (Everything to bonds!) That it's going to continue the same? (US LC for all.) That it's going to be something different or in between? (50-50 SC and R…
Right. Now that the new prez has made me so much money in the market, I am going to do the same, and start paying for what I mostly hitherto mooched.
OT, I bet a nickel that DT is going eventually to really regret being so kneejerk / rabble-rousin…
We are in a golden age of longform investigative journalism, so much of it free or close. I read, not all every day but much too much, WSJ, Marketwatch, NYT, WaPo, HuffPo, politico, vox, some aggregators like aol just for kicks, thehill, talkingpoin…
@OJ, and everyone else,
Please just open Chrome or Firefox or Edge in incognito or private or inprivate mode, and paste the link in there.
You can read a few like that.
After that, considering sending them some money.
I can send or post PK's …
nah, not fantasy like this, really
I posted this in another discussion but can't recall
https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/trumps-rosy-scenario
