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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.
>> ... make only [4%-]4.5% including inflation ... average annually to sustain our standard of living. But I still want to make 6% with the lowest volatility (SD < 3) and never lose more than 3% from any last top.
Wow.
I am sure many of…
Biden and Clinton for vp 2020
Somehow I assume you are being sarcastic, but if not, to God's ear.
Fwiw, I have a sib who heads an academic global econ / trade program in WDC and has served in two State depts (Carter and Clinton) in that capacity, a…
not a big bernie fan, but this sure makes my moral compass jiggle bad
https://www.axios.com/ceo-salaries-growing-unprecedented-pace-8b0562ff-717a-4c81-8dc7-c0a88568ff48.html
plus we will have to let the market work its magic, again
Alex Azar, Donald Trump's health secretary, has told politicians he cannot guarantee that a coronavirus vaccine will be affordable to everyone once it has been developed.
Giving evidence to …
and of course they work only against bacterial pneumonia, nothing to do w viruses
vaccine will be as expedited as possible, so perhaps a matter of (many) months
mortality thus far seems mostly dependent on response of own immune system, whose overreaction appears to be what does the killing, chiefly, lung lesions and so on.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/19/how-coronavirus-kills/
pneumonia…
@Gary1952
>> What happened to patriotism and loyalty?
Huh?
>> The Nixon era GOP would have recognized this and put country first.
This sounds like you're high, and/or weren't paying attention then.
Love watching the Lib media. 24/7 of madness, anger and hysteria
yes, owing us progtards is a productive, socially healthy, constructive way to live one's adult life, and love is such a fine term for it
loyalty is stronger than ever, narrowed; other stuff is long gone, nothing matters anymore to so many;
we will see the extent of thug sliming's power over the next half-year
does not feel yet like 1968 to me only because no public murders
these statements oppose or cancel each other, imo
>> Trump will win no matter who is the Dem selection.
>> HC(health care) in the US is outrageous and there is no solution.
ML is great if you are all diy (which presumably is not the case for many readers) and your OCD can bear that all fractional sales / sweeps take a month if not more
Plus they have some omissions, things with derivatives alleged and other, which the…
@davfor, one of the reasons that I am 40 percent equity is that my advisor recommends only a 10 percent weighting to high yield and aggressive income ... .
Sorry for ignorant question, but you who for years have listed vast and detailed holdings u…
@hank,
Yeah, with the 2020 runup in DSEEX I went and looked at total egg proportions and thought about dialing it back from 64% toward 60%.
But since I have ~5y' worth of bondy things, I then thought 'Why? Why not leave alone, what does it matter?…
Yeah, I worked a couple years at Bell Labs 1989-'90 and the vibe was the strangest combination of bitter breakup resentment, nostalgia, smug self-satisfaction, vanity and deep engineering smarts I have ever experienced. A sib is on a Huawei council …
yes, that's right, I did miss your sarcasm in
>> Republican senator Tom Cotton believes it, and the the ccn story writer says Cotton may be right
and as my granddaughters can attest, I call everyone that.
