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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.
oh, sure, grift, graft, possible bribery:
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-has-trump-gone-soft-on-china
"Could China have, in effect, bought itself lower tariffs by enriching Trump personally?"
the end of North America, as (the data-driven; pace FD1k) PK puts it in today's substack column:
U.S. trade law gives the president huge discretion to impose tariffs, but only for a specific set of reasons: economic injury from import surges (Secti…
Deportation agreement! How much per head is this costing the tax payer?
Far less than one single life taken by one of them!
you do know about immigrant crime rates, yes?
@BaluBalu, I have had fentanyl and it is heavenly. This was a year ago, after getting hit by a car, full of shakes and chills and worse. It worked so well I told the nurse I would crawl back out in the parking lot and get hit again if I could have m…
Rick,
In TDS, I assumed D stands for Daddy. As in, Trump fills the Daddy void in real life for some people.
God the father aside, you of course have read the recent belt and spank fantasies of sundry rightwingnuts like MelG et alia.
Every day I dive into Salon, Slate, DailyBeast, TNR, Atlantic, NewYorker, NYReview of Books, Vox, Politico, NYmag, Guardian, the Times and WaPo, BostonGlobe, and a few other sites and blogs (not bragging, just a compulsive retired editor/writer). AP…
oh, indeed --- he is the very fucking definition, which I was not going to say
fortunately here fur die goyim means "before (in front of) the nations"
of the bloody world
I could almost swear I've seen Miller as a Gestapo officer in some WWII movie.
Oh, sure, you have, we all have.
But a first for someone Jewish, I expect.
Think of how to resist, in even the tiniest of ways. Don't give in to despair. Beyond the…
@msf
While unconditional pardons are allowed by the Constitution, this does not mean that pardoning the nation’s enemies does not violate his oath of office “ to faithfully execute the Office of the United States …”. I think a strong argument can…
About Biden and his record, and about extremism, you fully do not know what you are talking about, and as I said before, I am really, really surprised to see this from you
"I am having trouble understanding how a member of the bar could state unequivocally that this order is constitutional," the judge told a U.S. Justice Department lawyer defending Trump's [birthright] order. "It just boggles my mind."
Krugman, what a joke. He is a politically opinionated economist.
(https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/krugman-trump-global-recession-2016-231055)
Christ, is this really all you got? Nothin substantive. So weak. Remind me to stop defending your …
NYTimes.com
Here ya go, hopefully
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/opinion/trump-tariffs-trade.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q04.kVWH.dRwJR9xMJ_RO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The whole thing is a high-level tit-…
David, NYT articles are behind paywall for me. If you are able to, pl include / share your short summary.
I’ll try and get a gift share. Meanwhile, if you can afford to invest, get a damn subscription to the nytimes. It’s 2025 and the country is …
tariffs amount to a tax on domestic consumption and a subsidy to domestic production.
And they don't balance out. Consumers lose more than domestic producers and the government (tariff revenue) gain. Economists call this deadweight loss.
Here's…
OJ,
I can hardly tell you how heartening to have a 'colleague' who reads all of these publications.
I don't know what to make of the Guardian interviews. Are there actual (effective, doable) recommendations in there? Gaza?? Seriously? Don't gest…
:)
me too
have (barely) enough in retirement (expensive state and town), not all that many years left (mid-70s), concur in all the takes re ultrahigh P/Es, etc.
my greed needs to be strongly managed, though
I did some dip-buying recently (JQUA, TCAF, SPHQ) and now that I have made a few thou from them I may bail out of everything tomorrow or Fri, meaning that the only equity I will hold will be the accursed CCOR.
I am not expecting 800-pt days after M…
@BenWP,
Yeah, they yank you off fentanyl as soon as they can, alas, as it was bliss --- completely cloaking the system and thwarting/relaxing the shakes and chills and rotating pain from the big cortisol and adrenaline dump of getting hit and frac…
I understand it's about minimizing Insurance Cost $/Yr but
What about Umbrella Insurance on top of Auto Liability coverage ?
If due to Old age or any unknown reason you or spouse hit someone else? …
