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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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/09/09/everything-people-think-they-know-about-the-stimulus-is-wrong/
Gah, so easy to check rather than spout. Whether you think it was right or wrong or a good idea or bad, or enough. And this was th…
Better than perceived, yet also worse, and yes, training and actual cash supports:
https://piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/new-middling-us-labor-market
Also:
https://piie.com/blogs/trade-investment-policy-watch/misconceptions-campaign…
k, point taken, will try and find some data; not easy though with generalities like "our parents and families ... for a lifetime".
One grandfather of mine was a steel sales VP in the Midwest (the other an overseas missionary). My father worked at C…
and this difficult reality:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-largely-false-globalization-narrative/2016/08/07/7a095582-5b25-11e6-9aee-8075993d73a2_story.html
@Tony
>> double your money ever 5 years... At a 20% return per year, you would more than double your money every 4 years
Right; rule of 72 applies fairly closely except at the extremes (annual rate x years = ~72), and if you're unfamiliar wi…
They think that because it is. Worse than stupid: dangerous.
http://www.businessinsider.com/ben-bernanke-murders-the-gold-standard-2012-3
http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-gold-standard-is-still-stupid-idea.html
http://www.pkarchive.org/crank…
@catch, no, I do not, but I have lost touch w former brokers or indeed the kind of person who would do that for himself or his family in the first place.
As for ease of purchase, I do not know exactly how hard it was, but I bet if I told one of my …
How come we never hear from anyone who purchased lots of longterm T-bills 1988-1990? They are coming up pretty soon. Is this a case of 'investor returns'?
G-fund since April Fool's '87 to last xmas was ~5.3% annually on average; SP500 was ~7.1% an…
Meh. Not seeing what size has to do with it, pro or con. Chart it against PRBLX, SCHD, and DVY (say) the last 5/4/3/2/1y and compare: sometimes slightly better, sometimes slightly worse, nothing marked either way. Lower TTM yield too, for some reaso…
Annaly (NLY) is always interesting and has had hot streaks for sure, up almost 28% this year if you reinvested divs. Oddly, if you can back 19y, to its beginning, you've done only a bit better than if you'd stuck with the smoother and broader FREAX.
@msf:
>>The PIMCO prospectus gives the min as $1M. Brokerages generally have some flexibility in setting their own minimums.
Correct. Never seen this degree of flexibility.
Listed but unavail (to my accounts anyway) at ML.
Exact tracki…
At age 69, if I could refi my BoA mortgage for 40y to replace the 26y remaining, still in its 3%-3.5% range, I would do it in a jiffy.
Just applied for a BoA heloc supposedly (meaning if I can get it) at 2.67% fixed, except for scaling with fed fun…
your institution should be able to advise?
if not, if you feel the need to confirm Derf / Zack's response (sounds right to me), search within kitces or thomas (fairmark), probably kotlikoff has something on this too
If you like broader weighting (not a dividend play per se), I am finding it interesting to track RPG and RPV and how 50-50 they generally outperform RSP. Just something to keep in mind perhaps. You might like to track CAPE as well.
I still have a ton in it, yes. Have sold none and should have been clearer. What I did was bail out of most YACKX and YAFFX. I additionally hold PRBLX, FLPSX, some foreign, some REIT, and that's about it. (No small now, no notional growth, no emergi…
