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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.
Sigh, Skeet, it is not my chart. You can track down the Atlantic article for yourself. Ah, someone did. And you can dive and wade through all of the wallet data. As can others. For sure it is NOT who receives the most federal aid --- reading compreh…
yeah; PK today:
He’s selected a cabinet of plutocrats, with a labor secretary bitterly opposed to minimum wage hikes. He talks about infrastructure, but the only thing that passes for a plan is a document proposing some tax credits for private inves…
More lolz from you --- who (other than you know who) would lie about something so easily checked?
I really should leave it to you to google and seriously instruct yourself.
But wallethub has the data parsed every which way; wikipedia keeps up; and…
>> keep the free lunch crowd form populating the state.
Haha, you do know that the Palmetto state is like this huge moocher and taker, right?
Some years > $7 federal moneys in for every federal tax dollar paid.
Talk about free-lunch c…
>> highly regarded by both aisles.
Uh. Gotta wonder:
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/jimmy-williams/2014/03/04/south-carolina-gov-nikki-haley-is-clueless-about-her-state
For the longer term I imagine it will have chugged along fine, but I recently read somewhere (something trustable, it seemed) that advised against EM bonds for the shorter terms. I would hold for diversification unless these are moneys you are going…
sorry, my bad; I must've slipped in momentarily (and uniquely) b/w cookie cracks...
So do an incognito-google of this, in quotes:
Mario Gabelli offer investment picks for the new year
Generally this sort of thing works, as others here know; find …
@BenWP, open a different browser and try, also open one you regularly use in stealth mode ('incognito' etc. -- check the Alt-F dropdown choices)
@hank, you know you can block their promotions easily, labeling as spam, or asking to unsubscribe, etc.
No, again, no problems; REIT and foreign do not let you go as far back as might be desirable. Odd.
I ran different Return (and other) variables, sure.
Always get well above 95% no matter what I do.
The Vanguard site is less optimistic, but (and…
@MJG, no, appeared to be the defaults, no EM --- LCV, MCV, REIT, foreign, general bond, cash...
I have played with it many times and for a very long time. Prefer some of the others, I think.
Keep in mind John Waggoner's pointers about the low need for international equity investing:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/01/16/investing-international-funds/21825245/
>> He would much prefer to receive 1% from a much larger account balance ... hence the real reason for his answer.
@bee,
If your cynicism and imputation of bad faith / fee grubbing were the case, it seems to me Edelman probably would not ha…
Sold FOSFX, may move it into DLEUX as available.
Sold DVY in rollover (= shorter horizon) IRA following this latest runup; may put into PDI and PONDX in some combo, perhaps in combo w FRIFX.
SP500 p/e now ~26; can't help thinking retrenchment soon …
>> the best time to consider Roth conversions is after of market pullback
Or never:
http://www.edelmanfinancial.com/education-center/articles/q/qa-roth-ira-conversions-and-taxes
@msf,
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
... nearly all people still think each of the two unopened doors has an equal probability and conclude that switching does not matter.... This "equal probability" assumption is a de…
May what's-his-name have Reaganlike luck:
http://ei.marketwatch.com//Multimedia/2017/01/23/Photos/NS/MW-FE221_DJIAPe_20170123083501_NS.png?uuid=bdc35c2e-e170-11e6-90cc-001cc448aede
Farm. Not house.
Rand, a laughable writer and thinker. For "misunderstood" teenagers. Herself profoundly misrepresents both capitalism or altruism.
Which books starts off w/ a rape? (In her own dreams.)
I can't recall who said "Anyone who think…
I once (back when working a few years ago) googled
HSA for dummies
and found some of the results clarifying
e.g., this rudimentary thing
http://www.dummies.com/personal-finance/insurance/health-insurance/10-reasons-to-start-a-health-savings-ac…
@bee,
now in distribution and also RMD stages (my wife hits the latter in 2y), I think and calculate along the same lines as you.
I have Roth and trad (rollover) and brokerage and SS.
Brokerage has currently unusable losses (meaning there are s…
Understood, but not sure that's the right way to think of it, at least how I try not to think of it. I want to get in, period. I do avoid TFs where possible. But I still hold a lot of DSENX because Merrill simply doesn't offer DSEEX.
Cool
http://www.doublelinefunds.com/shiller-enhanced-international-cape/
M* has it right, apparently:
http://financials.morningstar.com/fund/purchase-info.html?t=DSEUX&Country=usa
Did not hear from Fidelity yet about purchasing DLEUX, but same thing at Merrill: in the database, with detail, but closed to current purchasing.
Will apprise as I discover further info.
I supposedly am getting a callback from Fido to discuss how to purchase DLEUX, since it does not come up with a search, but does come up for a trade ... except when you go to execute you get 'The security you are trying to buy cannot be traded. '
Nah, they all do bad things, when you go by this sort of action; WF was just the most egregiously and gratuitously deceitful by far, in a way worse (a little) than discrimination gouging.
@msf,
As always this is a fine piece of analysis and context, and you really should post it as a comment, but you're hairsplitting over my diction.
See
https://weatherhead.case.edu/faculty/j-b-silvers
This individual certainly appears about as …
MJG is helpless and clueless about his condescension, so yeah, let it pass by unremarked wherever possible. Engaging is futile cuz you get only more of the same tiresome finger-wagging.
Krug this afternoon, pithy:
' GOP health plans are one long attempt to evade reality that covering everyone has to cost healthy and/or wealthy *something* '
