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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.
ha and yes
I find gold almost completely uninteresting myself, but always want to see what Arends thinks (also like how equivocal he is much of the time)
good grief, reading comp
It is NOT an ad.
Brett Arends has been a v smart financial writer for decades
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Arends
The article:
Brett Arends's ROI
This ‘crazy’ retirement portfolio has just beaten Wall Street f…
But all you can come up with now is a mortgage fund and a one-day inverse gov ETF?
Weren’t you whingeing on about BSV months ago?
Do you have any nonwacky thoughts?
@FD1000
>> You can make several % more in managed bond fund, this is where they shine.
go on, please (as always)
DODIX was down just under 10% for the year, a few percent better (yes) than FTBFX, FBND, AGG, BOND, and the others, not as good…
PK twitter thread today (historical-facing):
... one way to think about inflation is that it's like a sports event where everyone stands up to get a better view of the action — which is collectively self-defeating.
Controlling inflation by induci…
@Old_Joe, thick question:
>> We don't really need income in addition to our pensions and SS
If this is the case and seems to be reliably so for you going forward, why not put half or more of whatever remains into SCHD, perhaps dip-buying o…
The 'miracle' of compounding works in all ways and can mislead the eye-closed wishful (moi?) who do not run the numbers.
In early 2009 we bought a modest house and land (with spectacular view) in one of the pricier suburbs in the country: a town w…
I like Levitz but am not persuaded
did not follow crash's anecdata at all
here is PK today:
The average national price of regular gasoline this Christmas was almost 20 cents a gallon lower than it was a year earlier. Prices at the pump are still…
Go on.
I do really wish that he and Furman would devise some prudent realistic reality-tested baseline range or ranges (by area) which includes food prices! --- since where I live that is all anyone knows firsthand and talks about and complains a…
Sigh
I don’t think you even read the zero-click article, which is about compromised devices. You don’t just keep moving goalposts , you jump fields and stadiums and sports, when once upon a time you were talking about drained accounts, drained magi…
Come on, don't deflect, and don't project. Email and sim hacks and all that are trivially easy to prevent. Send me $500 and I will explain. I will post the explanation here, too.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/14/brokerage-log-ins-for-sale-on-dark-w…
omg, so weak; are you actually like a teen newby scarifier? From a year ago?
Come on, @stayCalm.
Nothing you list contributes to a "hack" (whatever you think that means) resulting in account draining.
Now. If I aid and abet; am gulled; permi…
I am the opposite of uninformed in this area, actually, and again I ask you to spell out exactly how the account depletion would go. Step by step. Not a matter of belief.
You don't have to be diplomatic.
If you like, after you are done enlighten…
A hack of Yodlee is no different than a hack of LastPass.
Using stolen credentials the attacker can liquidate your portfolio and move money out of the brokerage account.
For example if your Robinhood account got hacked, an attacker can buy crypto a…
krug today
A quick note about "core" inflation. I'm aware of at least 6 measures:
Traditional
Median
Trimmed mean
Supercore (traditional ex shelter)
Superdupercore (super also ex used cars)
Furman core (use market rents for shelter)
(using Zillo…
>> Yodlee can be hacked directly
What I am asking (as of all imagined harms) is how would this work? what would happen? what are the steps and the mechanism? and if a bad actor "gets into" yodlee systems, then what? what are the consequences…
great work
ProPub is one of a half-dozen or more lower-level, deep-dive sites that are just indispensable if we are to get out of this current predicament
lawfareblog, abovethelaw, vice, rawstory, and many others
plus the usual numerous non-ne…
More, and by income class
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=116&emc=edit_pk_20221129&instance_id=78809&nl=paul-krugman&productCode=PK&regi_id=22268089&segmen…
see if you can get to this
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=116&emc=edit_pk_20221122&instance_id=78282&nl=paul-krugman&productCode=PK&regi_id=22268089&segme…
“I am devastated by my failings,” Elizabeth Holmes said. “I have felt deep pain for what people went through because I failed them.”
'Failings'??
Still privileged and clueless, even now:
And, already with a toddler, she decided to get pregnant w…
