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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.
Know anyone whose child was killed in the Bush wars? Or indeed in the Nixon wars?
Do you think the Reagan huge deficit runup (forget the lies and senility and illegal clandestine dealings) had any lasting econ effects?
Get serious and substantive,…
>> Keeping commentary here free of unnecessarily inflammatory and gratuitous insults seems a reasonable tradeoff to insure maintenance of our rather long leash.
Not only wise but elegant !
just wait a few more weeks:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/12/12/the-republican-obamacare-repeal-plan-comes-into-terrifying-focus/
Gosh, capitalism is brutal, but the 'throw Americans out of work' thing is a small part of the story. Coal mining went across the Mississippi, just one example. But technology changes, skills acquisition, comparative advantage, all have been, as I s…
Edmond, you are quite mistaken in any number of ways, but you are completely persuasive that nothing is going to affect your thinking, from any source.
Most pertinent is that this actually has been studied to death and in great detail and quite so…
@Edmond ---
Huh? What's baloney? Everything he wrote is demonstrably true (evidence-based).
More important, what does offshoring have to do with trade, which is what he's writing about? Finance jobs to India is not trade. Your companies are cutti…
A v good article, actually, but you do have do define the slavery-facing EC as a 'technicality', and the approaching-3M popular-vote HRC margin is quite remarkable.
Talk about studying up on this subtle and complex issue:
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/01/06/do-immigrants-take-jobs-from-american-born-workers
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/us/immigrants-arent-taking-americans-jobs-new-study-finds…
Haha, pick a start date. This one was in the subject line.
I mean, you can start end 1992 also :) , to make Vanguard look especially comparatively paltry. As Groucho did not say, 'That is my timespan. If you don't like it, I have others.'
Yes, f…
Most interesting and also disturbing new analyses, but also a ref to Mankiw work that supports some of the earlier 'deserving' rightwing args here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/business/economy/a-bigger-economic-pie-but-a-smaller-slice-for-hal…
>> year-to-date return was reflected at 6.2%, 1 year return at 4.4%, 3 year return at 4.1%, 5 year return at 7.5% and the 10 year return was shown at 4.8%.
fwiw (not the identical mix, but a good mix), AOR is
5% ytd, 4.3% 1y, 4.15% 3y, 7.4…
Since empire decline and fall are an irregular topic here, this might be of interest:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-decline-and-fall-of-rome/2016/12/02/1c06ee5a-b682-11e6-a677-b608fbb3aaf6_story.html
I suppose it is possible that Gund's secret bond sauce may suffer and the fund may just track CAPE. Not sure.
But while it did slump last Jan, like everything else (still less than SP500), it was flat prior, through the last rate mini-hike, from m…
@kevindow, I agree and (of course) also hope you are right. DSEEX ytd has >doubled SP500, and I do not know whether to stick with it and its successful algorithmic LCV quasi-churn. Am inclined to stick.
This is pretty funny, actually:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/obamacare-republicans-repeal-replace-232025
Seems one big goal is to get the guy's name off it (which was their doing), so maybe just reverting to 'ACA' would help?
And this wi…
>> Nothing Trump could ever do would make a left-winger like you happy !!!
Haha, you hope it is only leftwingers, not all the chumps and marks who voted for him.
@Anna,
I imagine some here do actively work (volunteer) on social policy, and/or directly helping the poor, and like that.
It is true that such discussion is often rich people's luxury.
I do not think I had many 1960s' friends who said or wished t…
Har --- again, you didn't even read the article (and the link within), did you?
Fortune magazine (gasp), of all places, thought this was worth quoting from Mishel:
'The escalation in CEO pay was not accompanied by a corresponding increase in outp…
Jeez. Actually, no about the 'nonissue' assertion; moreover, no one has argued causation, have they? (That correlation cliche is becoming a new default defense stance.)
Worker wage stagnation problems certainly preceded 2007.
The article linked b…
@JC
>> Lame stream Media is under the heat lamp at the moment. I'll take it easy on ya.
'Instigating', lolz, funny.
>> the rest of us can stick to $$.
as if inequality is not about that.
Did you ever find out the facts about Califor…
