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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.
This is wild, totally wild, so many of the usual tropes and allegations about ACA, listed now, without any specifics, yet at the same time strongly advocating for the poor, whom ACA actually helps just enormously.
(And yet again --- this is like a…
@expatsp
Because I am reliably told that it is a solvent and productive and extremely cheap company. I was affirmed in this at 61 cents, and a longer while ago at multiples higher, and today it's 43 cents. So it's for gambling moneys, without questi…
You pay that fee for their advice / guidance / allocative thoughts / reassurance during tough times / withdrawal number-crunching perhaps, etc etc. Not defending, just pointing out to compare apples only. You can do cheaper, sure. But if he is good …
I disagree, fwiw. And not only w/ Edmond's #3 and the likelihood of an adviser "sniffing around for business." You could go to Vanguard and everyone here would cheer yay for you and not impugn --- and you might well get identical advice.
It all de…
Actually, anyone who knows ER docs or nurses know that there are a lot of, if not sniffles, low-urgency usage, and much worse, repeat business, also opiate seekers. Primary / preventive helps this considerably.
Pharma does gouge, sure, but there ar…
Way to redirect / indirect and ignoratio elenchi ! Awesome work.
Many if not most of us die while 'waiting for care.' A deeper and subtler analysis of the facts, for the nonjudgmental (indeed):
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/20…
DH, did you read the four links I posted?
A good overview today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/opinion/obamacare-hits-a-pothole.html
Health reform had two big goals: to cover the uninsured and to rein in the overall growth of health care costs…
some good news, sort of:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvyFz_MXgAA_GzK.jpg:large
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/higher-health-insurance-premiums-dont-mean-the-affordable-care-act-is-a-disaster/2016/10/26/1b7f7ce0-9b84-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5…
For a good up-to-date higher-level view, see also
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/obamacare-is-a-policy-triumph-and-a-political-failure.html
@Sven, yes indeed, most of our nut is there. And now that I have bailed from the Yackts and Parnassus, even more.
I have never owned CAPE on its own. I just track it irregularly, and am always (a little, but decreasingly) surprised to see it outper…
Fwiw, CAPE has seriously outperformed SPLV (also SCHD and similar) the last 4/3/2/1y/ytd, and if you track closely during drops, much less jumps, you give up effectively nothing in terms of 'volatility.'
I myself ended flirtation w/ low-vol etfs s…
A weak article for Rekenthaler, very weak, for the reasons given at top, and some of the comments, chiefly Darwinian's (he or she is almost always astute and sometimes brilliant, as here) are spot-on.
>> ACA gave states a lot more flexibility in designing programs like this than I think many people realize.
If they made use of it and did not abandon or fight it tooth and nail. Just google
ACA red states
to see some real horror analys…
Don't judge me, or others, pious dude; you post junk, often, not always, but then always always always attempt the high-road tone. Cite the survey. Be substantive. Stay on message.
I don't mind being foolishly condescended to by any elder, I am pl…
>> Perhaps these documents might soften your strong opinion. I hope so. Neither Jaffe nor Natixis deserve your BS judgment. You may not believe the survey results, but they are the results.
MJG, I just know you are gonna say you read the dura…
@rforno
Totally agree re their excellence, but have been so satisfied with DSENX / DSEEX outperformance persistence that I am not missing Parnassus yet.
(Was reading recently about DOD, SDOG, RDIV, DTD and others in the uncovered-value space, and C…
Here are some deeper and subtler analyses I found instructive:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/problems-obamacare-misunderstanding-healthcare-reform-214364
http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/10/7/13191250/obamacare-exchanges-crisis-…
we need grandma to unretire
http://www.circopedia.org/Barry_Lubin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lubin
A great outfit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/nyregion/can-the-big-apple-circus-be-saved.html
