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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.
@Maurice, your post began as a response to Mark, but then got so incoherent I thought to let it slide by. But since you mention me, I would say only that the NFL has no idea what true patriotism is, it's all base-pandering and faux valentines to sal…
Why post this bogus Fox crap? Oh, right, patriotism.
Unworthy of this weekend.
Like the militarization of the opening of sports events. Come on.
No company would not love to hire more vets when they can do the work, or close enough.
This equ…
in any browser punch f5 a few times,
or use a different browser,
or launch a private / incognito session
go to fidelity.com
in the search field enter ponax
voila
Huh. When I go to Fido via private / incog browser session and also am not logged in, the result of search for PONAX says, as has been already reported:
This fund is now available NTF (No Transaction Fee) and offered load-waived through Fidelity
…
>> The writers you cite are ... just focused on bits and pieces.
So you have studied all of those articles and that's your conclusion: it's trees not forest?
I will send you all my money if you can invest at 8% without fail.
SS can, and will, in a manner of speaking.
Take it when you absolutely need it, sure, and delay if you have any choice about it at all.
As for odds-playing, do you have earlyish …
>> those who are able to take SS, take it as early as you can.
I suggest, those who are able to take SS, take it as late as you can afford to. It does take inflation into account --- huh? "Just statistics" is a wonderful. msf and others have …
that usage of early SS moneys may turn out to be lastingly smart (sending luck vibes your way)
I delayed SS amap myself, but maybe 20y ago (can it be?) we converted all (I think) trad iras to roths, paid the taxes, and in my retirement the last few…
Still more of the best-quality and most instructive wriggling I have ever experienced. But you will have to do your battles with the analysts and commentators. I am not as sharp as they, or as you. And sure, maybe they too are all mistaken and misgu…
Some more correlation, then.
Have not reexamined all of the sublinks since the analyses first appeared.
I bet they don't parse costs properly either.
Of course you know Price's comment:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/05/01/tru…
Was not rehashing the full and tortuous history, of course. Adopted secure 2-factor had to be stronger than a static PIN or password plus the token, and so the first factor became dynamic and unknowable, the result of pseudorandom-number (PRN) gener…
Totally dumbfounding that 2-factor authentication (one factor you know in your mind, the other you possess but is pseudorandomly changing in synch w the server) took so long to catch on and is still not widespread.
I went to work at its inventor 2…
Tom Lehrer, or perhaps it was Kissinger in his later years, once quipped during the Vietnam war that that country should study the export economies of Germany and Japan to see what happens when you lost a war w/ the US. And lo and behold, 4y ago I b…
Premiere muckraker Kurt Eichenwald:
Here is Trump theory on drug prices:
1. We demand foreign countries abandon their policies that hold down their citizens' drug prices, and expect no foreign voter revolt.
2. Drug companies make more $.
3. To be n…
yeah, I am in the middle of trying (yearly exercise parsing the various providers, like viridian and the many many others) to decide how and in what direction to make 'different decisions'.
one green friend suggested simply sticking w the main prov…
consumer and shareholder willingness to make different decisions:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/05/04/ain-easy-being-green/GxmhX5wJDTbcwPSds2JNxL/story.html
? - maybe the math and daily reconciliation are somehow easier (just idly speculating)
non-pdf list:
https://sponsor.fidelity.com/pspublic/pca/psw/public/library/designbenefits/Fidelity_funds_undergo_share_splits.html
certainly it looks cooler to…
@VF, I bet you know this already:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
This aspires to be the private version of that, it seems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency
Actually, that was a consulted elder-law attorney's real answer; "kicks" was my feeble attempt to be rhetorical. Maybe the response was written in the spirit of the Margolis "and don't report them" quote; dunno. I could have more specifically asked …
I have a friend who used to work for Paul Singer (frat bro of mine!), and should ask them --- surely there is another rape opportunity here. Or perhaps I have not kept up Elliott Management's latest.
Wriggle, wriggle.
I encourage everyone to return to amounts reality, where this thread started, and read the Forbes article, particularly after the quote here.
>> Also, funding a child's IRA is no different from funding a UGMA - it's a gift…
My daughter's in-laws there continue to live and work and go about their normal daily lives as best they can, with yes, 'off-market' and bartering activity, I suppose. They hope to leave, like so many. Many there have dual citizenship with Spain or …
Great IRS memo. But did you look at the cites, and what they cover ?
I am pleased to have violated this sort of thing for decades. Child funds Roth ira, you give increased allowance as a reward for child's discipline. Something like that.
Or not.…
Child funds Roth with all of his or her earned moneys (up to Roth limit) while you give the child equivalent amount to make up for it, if not more, as you usually do in supporting a child, up to $5M+ lifetime gift exemption. No?
Obviously the nice thing is that it's possible for them to keep / spend the earned money while you are the Roth funder, if you can afford it,
so they don't have to do the work being told 'you will see this summer money in a half-century and boy wi…
