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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.
The brilliant Matt Levine
Outrageous, like the inverse of naked shorting
And voluntary
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-acquisitions/matt-levines-money-stuff-bed-bath-moves-into-the-beyond
all sorts of good news, with some clouds as well
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=116&emc=edit_pk_20230421&instance_id=90765&nl=paul-krugman&productCode=PK&regi_id=…
The Fund is currently invested in a total of 22 leading U.S. corporations. The Fund is a passively managed grantor trust registered with the SEC as a unit investment trust.
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/fund/lexcx
a third of of the links i…
I was thinking of the nice F Asset Manager set, but have not kept up. I was thinking they were less rote and formulaic back when, but may well be mistaken
I concur in the take about distant-date Vang and Fidelity target funds.
As for TWEIX, yes and no. See
https://www.morningstar.com/funds/xnas/tweix/chart
Compare it since 1994 w/ DODGX, FXAIX, FCNTX, and FBGRX. Okay.
But who among us would hold…
Today is the 32nd anniversary of my purchase of DODGX. It was neck and neck with SPY up until the dot com bust. From then on, SPY never caught up. What happened the last 1-3-5-10-15-20 years doesn't make any difference.
Good for you.
I read some…
Thank you. This is extremely helpful news and I have been wondering about it (unable to find this detail at ML) ever since Fido began to offer actually usable MM funds.
I just put a thou into FIGXX in my ML brokerage account and it seems to have g…
My BSV, BND, STIP, VGIT etc. are all down so much I am holding, but I sure do get bummed every time my eyes glance past them looking to see how VONG or QQQ has been.
My more depressing problem is that I have to take an RMD sometime this year out of…
staying steady in the fog
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=116&emc=edit_pk_20230321&instance_id=88295&nl=paul-krugman&productCode=PK&regi_id=22268089&segmen…
and
'The bank was using an incorrect model as it assessed its own risks amid rising interest rates, and spent much of 2022 under a supervisory review.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/business/economy/fed-silicon-valley-bank.html
krugman, smartly argued piece, is not much in alignment w my fussy thinking:
... there are good reasons to feel uncomfortable about this bailout. And yes, it was a bailout. The fact that the funds will come from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corpo…
Surprised at the simpleness of so many responses.
What do most midsized businesses do? Spread their money around in quarter-mil chunks and still meet operating expenses and payroll? Honest question --- maybe someone here who has had to business-b…
this provided significant clarity to me
https://slate.com/technology/2023/03/silicon-valley-bank-rescue-venture-capital-calacanis-sacks-ackman-tantrum.html
@LewisBraham
Why did you jump subjects? Local news never did longform journalism of the sort we're discussing, at least not small papers, even in their postwar heyday (to the 1990s or a bit before). Newsday maybe, if we call that 'local'.
Roger a…
I would say you are right, David, if you insert the word “online” between “long form” and “journalism.” The opposite is the case in print journalism.
Hmm. I dunno. I read the New Yorker and NYRBooks in paper form, and I expect that if I took the Atl…
proposals for what is needed down the road
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=116&emc=edit_pk_20230310&instance_id=87416&nl=paul-krugman&productCode=PK&regi_id=222680…
@sma - this is supposedly a free link
So far as I can tell it, it in fact is.
One thing to know is that when you get instant ‘Subscribe here / subscribe now’ popups or similar , just click x and close them; I had more than one, but when I got rid …
yeah, the FHA thing is really something to contemplate now
https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america
Yeah.
I grew up in a Leave It to Beaver family (not really) and city in SW Ohio starting 76y ago, middle-class if not upper-middle-class, but thank goodness had liberally educated, progressive, allocentric parents who knew what freedom is for and…
