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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.
I and my wife use our Fido Visa card too for about everything, and can't be bothered to do the labor of using / tracking our sundry BoA cards. (We also use dedicated Amazon- and LLBean-related cards for shopping at those sites.)
But here's a PSA, o…
I listened to a very tiny little bit of it. They were talking about how the 2014 predictions said small cap were going to do better than large cap over the next 10 years LOL. I then closed it.
backtesting is so often comical
Correct about all of the Fido ops and sequences, but the 'they' in the 'do not draw on one's margin account' was referring to ML (perhaps unclear, sorry) --- a new (I believe!) development. No Vanguard-style warning, iirc.
for me at schwab, i can place an order for anything even if i don't have the funds to pay for it immediately. i am told, before placing the order, that i'll need to have the necessary funds in my account within two or three days (can't remember wh…
For a boomer couple consistently earning high salaries over their careers, the SS annual benefit for next year, MC paid for = ~$120k.
A good system after all, and a (partial) triumph for socialist democracy.
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Sure, I got it.
Trump had low inflation + high increase of real wages + the borders were tight + Putin did not attack Ukraine + the Middle East was quiet and 4 Muslim countries sign peace agreement with Israel because Trump killed Sulimani, destr…
>> punishing tariffs would encourage companies to set up factories in the United States
it is just so offensively stupid that he does not know how complex things are, and are made, how much skill and training (and robots) it takes, and how lo…
Fiat, bogus "sadistics" used as the measure by which the amount of the COLA gets decided. Imaginary reality on the part of the gummint. "Lies, damned lies, and statistics."
You don't know what you're talking about, and the evidentiary background for…
@msf Appreciate the detailed explanation. All of the gory details and granular ins-and-outs and contingencies and add-ons and options, etc. only show what a broken non-system we have. Thanks for the corrections, too. Yes, Single-Payer, gummint-oper…
The 'loveliest smile' phrase appears in a poem by WC's brother John H Bryant:
https://www.comfortspringstation.com/2021/09/29/autumn-years-loveliest-smile-printable/
Frost said he wrote it to tease an overthinking indecisive friend ....
And:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misread-poem-in-america/
Maybe you are too young for this saying:
Hypocrisy
The idiom “the pot calling the kettle black” is used to point out hypocrisy12. It means that someone is criticizing another person for a fault they have even though the criticizer is also guilty o…
FD said: This is no different than what some posters do on investment sites.
They regurgitate essentially the same information (with minor intermediate changes) ad nauseam.
Wow. If that isn't the pot calling the kettle black, I don't know what is.
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@davidrmoran: does “ffs” contain a vulgarity?
I understand the “lede” of a paragraph, but what is a “lede article?” Is the reference to Snowball’s article?
yes to all
@FD1000
reading comp, man, reading comp (study my hed)
2022 is 2y ago
As for:
>> Since 1980, no other president except Trump has achieved above 10% real wage growth.
cite?
Are you thinking fig 3 of this supports your assertion?
https:/…
I have done more than that and never lost more than 1% from any last top since retiring in 2018.
The "secrets" are 1) Mostly owning 2-3 bond funds at a huge % 2) switching bond fund = good timing 3) avoiding market losses.
There's no easy way to …
sold several positions of JQUA at ML, tired of not being to able to auto-reinvest there
on next significant dip will buy TCAF in lieu
ditto selling rest of recent VONG dip buy at Fido
