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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.
rx are six months over lifetime, if I am reading this correctly:
https://mychristiancare.org/medi-share/what-is-medishare/how-medi-share-works/faqs/
so the christian w diabetes has a tough row to hoe, looks like. (maybe I am missing something.)
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Come on David,,, Richard Cohen(WaPo) July 23. You were quoting him,,,,, right?
https://mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/discussion/42465/a-second-gentle-reminder#latest
Richard Cohen in WaPo yesterday conveyed my broad half-century-culture-wars sentiment pithily:
... something beyond economics — and certainly not foreign policy — motivates Trump’s people. ... it’s a low-boil rage against a vague and threatening li…
He's actually not a notably conservative writer, economics or otherwise, although he has worked for some such publications. He also has no formal training in economics.
Also today Krugman pointed out that Samuelson here wrongly concludes that Amer…
and just to give further flavor of how much stupider, and fuller of straw, it gets:
"Though the 4% rule has its flaws, it is still a reasonable starting point for retirement planning. So rather than regard it as unassailable truth, ..."
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Sigh. The glue is resentment and rage against change and perceived loss, less econ than status, though it's risky to generalize. Many are the inputs. Skin color and land of origin are two of them, sure. But only two. Everyone has left out women's li…
>> don't bet that any Trumpy MAGA types today would identify with the Woodstock crowd
Huh? Yuh, that's the whole point.
MAGA types today, spirit and values and all else, derive directly from the worst of the Silent Majority. I emphasize wor…
You're missing the point entirely, but there's no reason to discuss further, is there.
>> The war on the Woodstock generation was just a blip in history.and that war was lost
If only. Nonsense to both assertions. But if you don't see the co…
@lB, you don't have to trot out your credentials to me or tell me to look anything up. I was fully there too, believe me. We disagree, deeply. You are certainly free not to see it as a long continuum of red meat and reaction then to red meat and rea…
Values and attitudes origins. I would suggest your view of that time is narrow and perhaps influenced by media stereotyping (Easy Rider is, simpleminded, feelgood).
Woodstock embodied the opposite of all this stuff today, which had its wider origins then, Silent Majority (later the Moral Majority), age divisions, Agnew and Buchanan, culture wars, all that. It is interesting to watch the movie today even skippin…
https://www.equities.com/news/what-happens-to-your-annuity-if-your-insurance-company-goes-under
I think the risk of annuity failure is a bit overblown. Not that I own or have owned any. Most of us have written guarantees from insurance companies fo…
I do not know the guy in any way other than many, but pinched here means strained, stressed, tense, with overlay of niggardly
As for your general question, re 'I have no doubt that we've always had, in our local and national communities, a wealth o…
good on you for the pension, yes
not only is nothing gained by waiting, but I think they send it to you automatically, if they can locate you
probably even if not
right, nothing needed other than being conservative; otoh, some would take that as …
it's getting good, funneling of dark foreign moneys, forget inflated real estate
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/opinion/republican-party-national-rifle-association-trump-russia.html
really good
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/andre…
@CB,
You have to take it before then, but alap does help enormously, and what I did.
Interesting you are so conservative.
I would say, rudely and unasked, that the odds of being able to do as you wish w SS would be highly influenced by your will…
It won't be quite like Kodak to the extent that it's not as based on dying tech.
I heard Immelt speak at one of my kids' grad school graduations (he'd gone there), and he was extremely sensible and impressive.
@CB,
That looks fascinatingly conservative. Are you in your 70s?
GE has got to be a steal for the nervy. (I was going to buy a bunch of BAC a week or three ago but quailed, and of course it has climbed nicely since then.)
@OJ, yes, Ted has post…
Assume everyone here knows LBJ's famous quote:
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
The last couple days I think PCI has crossed to the premium side, per M* graph, while PDI has an alltime high premium of 10% and PTY has remained near its alltime premium high >17%, which seems astounding. So while they are not comparable in many…
@Crash,
We just had a nonmassive, but large enough, angry wave, largely racially driven.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/opinion/voting-welfare-racism-republicans.html
Now what?
