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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.
Hybrid vehicles have improved considerably in the last 15 years. They are now in the 5th or 6th generation with improved battery life and reliability. My neighbor has a Prius that gets over 40 miles per gallon on average and it is so quite while op…
DS:
The purpose of MSTR [[ in-house synonym: 'MSTR seeks to invest in “non-market sources of return,” that is, returns that can be delivered whether the market rises or not. That’s possible by choosing investments that are intrinsically uncorrelated…
no 'possibly mistaken' to it :)
That DS link is over a year and a half old, although he too lists the two managers only.
Suggest going to the TRP source.
Why are you selling? Its 3y return is 'comparable'. It is kinda expensive.
https://w…
>> the 5-manager setup that’s partially to blame. Perhaps there’s little coordination among the competing members? And (just a guess) they’re probably relatively inexperienced people.
You really think these are plausible conditions in a sho…
What, not whom.
Sure about the personnel. I just wonder ... what content? Such odd phrasing. Someone totally devoted to the belief that things are actually horrible?
Wow! I'm so impressed by you elite bunch of arrogant pricks that I don't think I deserve to share the same pages with you. Enjoy BS..ing each other. I'm out.
What is this in response to ?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/opinion/biden-economy-inflation-jobs.html
According to the long-running Michigan Surveys of Consumers, a plurality of Americans say that their personal financial situation is better than it was a year ago. This i…
THANKS for the responses. :)
fyi, general state of US play as of some years ago (from an expert who has repaired to Europe), so perhaps things have changed, but I thought it a good summary:
The entire thing can be explained in a few words:
- In US…
got it
still unclear on the concept, except for the obvious political hot opining and such
but why would this have wound up there?
https://mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/discussion/55/houston-we-have-breakout#latest
record jobs added, layoffs at record low, so this is dumbfounding:
https://www.axios.com/voters-arent-feeling-the-record-job-gains-polling-finds-1dea3049-c8ea-48d1-9bfa-e8be47099a9c.html
You’re welcome, also a liar
My op, so to speak
\\\ It would depend on your investing beliefs (is this diversified enough? etc etc) about holding chiefly LCB-LCG in the form of "only"
well, not in writing, but it is long understood even beyond what you write about corruption (which has been waning significantly)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-02-05/explainer-ukraine-not-joining-nato-so-why-does-putin-worry
his…
That's from 2015, mind you...
This is dismaying reading from a few weeks ago:
"Mearsheimer said that the U.S. had led Ukrainians 'down the primrose path,' angering the Russians and giving Moscow 'all sorts of incentives to wreck Ukraine as a countr…
>> 1619 project, CRT etc...I'll just say I disagree with your leftist progressive thinking and posted articles
Har. You literally do not know what you're talking about with respect to my "thinking," but haven't we had this ignorant exchange …
>> a special place where ideologies could co-exist and clash
Well, sure. The complete opposite of Hillsdale.
>> Westmoreland debated with an audience of antiwar protesters and Vietnam Vets
Yup. Those were the days.
For all the goo…
+1 david Good point on Giroux - if a Michigan native he could have attended any of the numerous state universities, including UM, MSU and WMU that would have easily met his academic needs including a lower tuition !
But would it have met his spiritu…
hot demand or skewed demand?
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=116&emc=edit_pk_20220225&instance_id=54275&nl=paul-krugman&productCode=PK&regi_id=22268089&seg…
>> the Market should at some point revert back to historical norms.
Dow 21,000 !! A new book idea.
Made 4% trading QQQ today. If only it had a huge amount for this war profiteer.
I suppose for some readers the switch to gerunds is helpful and maybe more immediate and less abstracted. All seems handwavy if not frankly dim. Worse, creating is not the same as synthesizing, nor remembering like knowledge. Analyzing should be spe…